U.S. inflation is at its highest rate in nearly four decades this fall, reaching 6.8% in November from a year ago. Why do prices keep going up and what's the cause? The reasons are myriad—the pandemic is one.
this fall, reaching 6.8% in November from a year ago. Consumers are seeing prices rise sharply for a variety of goods and services because of persistent supply and labor shortages and strong demand.
Stoked by imbalances in the economy created by the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation is one of the most vexing problems facing economists and government policy makers—from Federal Reserve officials, who set interest rates, to the Biden administration and Congress. The causes are myriad, and the tools that are usually deployed can, in some scenarios, push the economy into a recession as a way of taming price pressures.
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