US inflation jumps to 31-year high amid global supply chain crisis
I've mentioned before [1] but these prices still don't seem that serious. Most prices have still not beat their highs made in 2008-2014 (crude oil, global energy price, eggs, milk, sugar, rice, chicken, pork chops). Ground beef is an outlier, however. And US price per kwh is back at its peak, though it declined in these October numbers to be below... 2014 numbers again. [2]So while the climb up is bad, the prices themselves aren't even unprecedented. In lieu of an extraordinary global supply chain crisis, these numbers actually seem impressively low. We cocked up everything for a year and prices finally shot back to... prices from 7 years ago?If fed policy has any effect at all, I think we owe them one for being so cool-headed and non-drastic these past two years. They're doing much better than politicians or the media, at least.[1] I have some commentary here, and more in a reply to user `anm89` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29114086[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610