{"id":10072,"date":"2023-02-23T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2023-02-23T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:11:08","slug":"covid-stimulus-spending-played-sizable-role-in-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10072","title":{"rendered":"COVID Stimulus Spending Played ‘Sizable Role’ in Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“”We find that excess inflation is significantly correlated to each country’s own domestic stimulus and to various exposures of foreign stimulus,” concluded a trio of economists at the St. Louis Federal Reserve in a report<\/a> published last month. In the U.S., they found that “fiscal stimulus during the pandemic contributed to an increase in inflation of about 2.6 percentage points.”
That’s a significant increase, even if it doesn’t account for the full run-up of inflation that took place during the past 18 months. Price increases accelerated in late 2021<\/a> and throughout 2022, ultimately peaking at an annualized rate of 9.1 percent<\/a> in June.
…
“Other recent reviews of COVID-era stimulus bills have come to a similar conclusion. In a paper<\/a> published in September, economists at Johns Hopkins University and the Chicago Federal Reserve said “fiscal inflation” accounted for “approximately half” of the recent price increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s troubling, they added, because “fiscal inflation tends to be highly
persistent\u2026When inflation has a fiscal nature, monetary policy alone may not provide an effective response.”So far, the chief response to inflation has been a monetary one.””
https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/02\/02\/covid-stimulus-spending-played-sizable-role-in-inflation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“”We find that excess inflation is significantly correlated to each country’s own domestic stimulus and to various exposures of foreign stimulus,” concluded a trio of economists at the St. Louis Federal Reserve in a report published last month. In the U.S., they found that “fiscal stimulus during the pandemic contributed to an increase in inflation of about 2.6 percentage points.”<\/p>\n

That’s a significant increase, even if it doesn’t account for the full run-up of inflation that took place during the past 18 months. Price increases accelerated in late 2021 and throughout 2022, ultimately peaking at an annualized rate of 9.1 percent in June.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Other recent reviews of COVID-era stimulus bills have come to a similar conclusion. In a paper published in September, economists at Johns Hopkins University and the Chicago Federal Reserve said “fiscal inflation” accounted for “approximately half” of the recent price increases.
\nThat’s troubling, they added, because “fiscal inflation tends to be highly
\npersistent\u2026When inflation has a fiscal nature, monetary policy alone may not provide an effective response.”<\/p>\n

So far, the chief response to inflation has been a monetary one.””<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,217,165,1469,1316,1407,624],"class_list":["post-10072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-government-intervention","tag-inflation","tag-prices","tag-stimulus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10073,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}