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Inflation Continues to Clobber Us. Can the Fed Help?

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Americans continue to suffer from sky-high inflation. In an attempt to avert some of the worst consequences, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell raised interest rates by .75%. But is this enough? And what else can the Biden administration be doing to curb inflation? Dave Brat, dean at the Liberty University School of Business and a former Virginia congressman, thinks this is a good start, but that officials must do more. Brat, whose doctorate is in economics, also says it's mostly the Fed's fault anyway for getting us into this situation in the first place. "The Fed's had 0% interest rate for 10 years and created this everything bubble," Brat says. "So now it's not just real estate, it's stocks, bonds, commodities. Everything's overvalued and it's going to pop. And that's a disaster. So the Fed's walking a tight rope." Brat joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the intricate workings of the U.S. economy and what the Fed and the Biden administration can be doing to fix it. We also cover these stories: The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety tells state senators that law enforcement's response to the Uvalde school shooting was an "abject failure." Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor accuses the court's conservative members of eroding the barrier between church and state. Twitter’s board recommends to shareholders that they go ahead with selling the company to entrepreneur Elon Musk for $44 billion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Cycle Podcast for Wednesday, June 22, I'm Virginia Allen.

0:11.0

And I'm Doug Blair.

0:12.7

Americans continue to suffer from sky high inflation.

0:16.3

In an attempt to avert some of the worst consequences, federal reserve chair Jerome Powell raised

0:20.7

interest rates 0.75%.

0:21.7

But is this enough?

0:24.1

And what else can the administration be doing to curb inflation?

0:27.1

A Brat dean at the Liberty University School of Business and a former Virginia congressman

0:31.8

joins the show today to discuss the intricate workings of the U.S. economy and what the

0:35.7

Fed and administration can and should be doing to fix it.

0:38.8

But before we get to Doug's conversation with Dave Brat, let's hit our top news stories

0:42.8

of the day.

0:54.9

New details have emerged in the Uvalde, Texas shooting.

0:58.6

At a special Texas Senate committee hearing Tuesday, the director of the Texas Department

1:03.3

of Public Safety, Colonel Steve McCraw, said the law enforcement response to the school

1:08.9

shooting was an object failure per 11 news Houston.

1:13.4

Three minutes after the subject entered the West Building, there was sufficient number

1:18.4

of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject.

1:25.7

The only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from any room 111 and 112 was

1:32.6

the on scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.

1:38.9

McCraw's comments were directed at the Uvalde school district police chief, Peter Ardondo.

1:44.8

McCraw says the chief of police waited for about an hour for a radio, guns, shields

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