Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xton Show podcast.

Welcome in Clay Travis, Bucks Xton Show, hour number two, rolling through the Thursday edition

of the program. Appreciate all of you listening out there live. Encourage you to go grab the podcast.

So, I'd like to have my name Clay Travis. She goes out, but Bucks Xton's name as well.

And you'll be well on your way to be able to make sure that you never miss an interview,

such as the one that we're just about to begin right now with Monica Crowley. She's a former

assistant treasury secretary under Donald Trump. Just a column up about the idea of a Hillary Clinton

comeback. We'll get into that and more, but I want to start Monica. First, thanks for coming on.

Second, inflation yesterday hit 7%. The highest rate it's been since 1982. How do we get back to

the Fed's targeted goal of around 2% inflation? And what's the time frame that that might require?

Well, hi guys. Thank you so much for having me back. It's always a pleasure. And it is an

excellent question. You know, there were some of us last year who were screaming that inflation

was going to become a huge problem. I remember being on Fox business. I was all over radio. I was

I was not the only one, but I was certainly saying that inflation looks like it is going to be far

more persistent than what we were being told by the powers that be, including President Biden,

Vice President Harris, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and the Fed chair, your own pal.

They were all telling us last year, listen, there is some inflation, but it's going to be transitory.

It's all associated with opening the economy back up. And all of this,

Pens of demand, the once that dot settled, come the fall last year. They expected inflation to

subside. What we have seen the exact opposite. And what we all knew that they either didn't know

or ignored is the fact that there was so much money that has been pumped down into the system

over the last two years. That of course, there is there's this excess cash just rolling around

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