U.S. Treasury Secretary Says She Was Wrong About Inflation
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The Center Square [By Richie Malouf] –
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted this week she was wrong and underestimated inflation, which continues to soar.
During an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Tuesday, Yellen said that she failed to anticipate that inflation would become such a significant problem.
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“I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take,” she said, referencing a statement she made at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Summit in May of last year.
“I don’t think there’s going to be an inflationary problem,” Yellen said at the time. “But if there is, the Fed will be counted on to address it.”
Yellen’s concession comes as Americans face record high gas prices with a national average of $4.67 per gallon of unleaded gas as of Wednesday, according to AAA. That average has risen every day this week. Food prices have risen by 9.4% since April of last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Yellen defended her previous comments during the CNN interview, though, saying, “there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices, and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly, that, I didn’t at the time, didn’t fully understand, but we recognize that now.”
What did she think would happen when Biden opened the border floodgates, shutdown the oil pipeline, cancelled existing leases and then shut down the whole economy. A blind man could see what was going to happen. She probably doesn’t see the very policy’s she endorsed in the past will inevitably bring on another recession. As that great philosopher, Forrest Gump said, ” Stupid is as stupid does.