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The deeper anxieties of inflation hawks
In a recent commentary for The Washington Post, former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H Summers stated that “the consumer price index rose at a 7.5% annual rate” in the first quarter of 2021. I could not reproduce this number from the Bureau of Labour Statistics CPI-U website, which reports a year-on-year increase (April 2020-April 2021) of 4.2%, driven largely by a sharp 49.6% rebound in gasoline prices from their pandemic crash. When food and energy prices are excluded, the inflation rate over the past year comes to just 3%. Odder still is Summers’s rationale for projecting future inflation risks: “Inflationary pressures are mounting from the boost in demand created by the $2 trill

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