Why the Fed Keeps Denying Its Role in Increasing Inequality

According to Chairman Powell, inequality has nothing to do with Fed policy On this episode, NLW recaps the above and dives deeper on two of the points: Net inflation stats gloss over specifics, including food prices that have been rising at an annual rate of 17.5% The Fed’s pronounced role in exacerbating inequality by propping up artificially high asset prices, effectively locking low and middle income households out of the mechanism for economic advancement 

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A daily analysis of macroeconomics, bitcoin, geopolitics and big picture power shifts, hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore @nlw. The Breakdown is part of The Breakdown Network.