President Biden and his cohorts in Congress and at the Federal Reserve have delivered an early Christmas present. They’ve given Americans the gift of raging price inflation. The cost of just about everything has gone through the roof.
Consumer prices, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), have increased 6.8 percent over the last year. This marks the largest 12 month surge since the period ending June 1982. In truth, the CPI is rising at more than double the rate of what’s officially reported.
Can the Fed stop raging price inflation without triggering a deep recession?
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers doesn’t think so.
Summers, if you didn’t know, has an axe to grind. He always fancied he’d be Federal Reserve chairman one day. But he’s too much of a dirty fellow to ever get the job.
Summers is better suited to the ivory tower of Harvard academia. There, sequestered from public life, he can play Fed chairman from the ease of his lounger. He’s good at it.
Summers is also a paid contributor to Bloomberg. For entertainment purposes, Bloomberg makes a habit of dripping out utterance from Summers when the time is right. Continue reading






