Democrat inflation

 Washington Examiner:

As Democratic leaders fiddle, inflation keeps burning more and more destructively. By now, they almost seem to be relishing the conflagration.

Four days after the Labor Department reported the highest retail price hikes in 39 years, at 6.8% annually, the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Dec. 14 said wholesale prices for the last year rose even faster, by 9.6%. In a sane political world, statistics this devastating to average-income people would make political leaders and central bankers act aggressively to douse the flames. Instead, President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell are all pouring turpentine into the fire.

Simple common sense, backed by long experience, teaches that in the aggregate, two main policy choices strongly tend to exacerbate inflation. The first, big federal spending combined with high deficits and debt, is a surefire way to place upward pressure on prices. The second, extremely loose monetary policy by central bankers, devalues the currency and thus causes each dollar to buy less than it formerly did.

Granted, if unemployment is high, the economy sometimes can absorb the added stimulus through job growth. But when the unemployment is low, as it is now, prices rise when lawmakers overspend and bankers keep priming the pump.

Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and their Democratic congressional majorities don't seem to care. They keep binge spending as if drunk, while threatening to spend even more. On top of a regular federal budget of what was roughly $4 trillion just three years ago, lawmakers have approved $6.8 trillion in additional spending in just 21 months. And now, Democratic leaders are threatening to spend $4.75 trillion more in the form of Biden’s Build Back Boondoggle bill.

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The interest rate also remains low, but it is near zero in other countries where inflation is not nearly as bad.  This is a case of Democrat spending sprees driving inflation and they can't seem to stop themselves.  They have convinced themselves that if they just keep spending voters will reelect them.  Polls suggest that is not the case. 

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