If you look at BLS statistics inflation is incredibly low and trending lower. No rational, peer recognized Economist would make the case that inflation is a core problem in the US economy at present.
Inflation is just an increase in money supply... And Deflation is a decrease in money supply Sky rocketing RE prices is a symptom of Inflation, not the cause. There is only so much Wage increase private owners can afford, Monetary Policy is broken... I hope Central Banks realize it is and pressure governments to look into Fiscal Policy, so rates can slowly reach back 3-4 % in Advanced Economies. ZIRP or NIRP aren't the answers
There is general economic condition and there is condition specific to me. Reagan once said: Recession is when your neighbor loses his job, depression is when you lose your. Inflation depends on how they count, whether they use substitution, the % of each category in counting, where I live, what I purchase, etc.
LOL we are forced to negative interest rates because we keep printing dollars to fund what Congress and the Prez (current boob and prior ones) want - to keep them in office. Instead of making the hard choices of cutting what both left AND right want. Game over.
Middle class and below spend on essentials. Food and energy. Ya know the stuff The Fed could care less about. Can't eat a a buck seventy nine flat screen TV. 2% my azz. Anyhow 2% is about y/y wage growth Spinning your wheels is the new America Dream turned into MAGA-it.
Every spending project puts a few bucks in a few pockets & buys a few more votes. A buck for you.....a buck for you.....EVERYONE gets a buck!!! Just put the bill on the card as we won't be around when the bill comes due. Rand Paul is one of the few in congress that cares about debt.
There is a lot of money to be made with Poverty. Look at Cummings........Baltimore received $1.6BN in aid from Obama, but it does not appear that much was done with the money. Cumming's wife is in charge of a non profit organization that profited from the aid. Perhaps that is how they could afford all that art in one of the most poverty stricken neighborhoods in the country. The Clintons raised 50MN for Haiti and the money was never used for the intended purpose. All, (not all, but many) of the poverty programs initiated by Congress are designed to aid the program directors and the congressional representatives. Not to benefit the ones that need it.
war making (which both parties are guilty of). Waaaaaaaaaay more. Fighting a drug war too that can NEVER be won and they all know it. And a trade war that only hurts each countries citizens. But hey corporate welfare is a ok huh? "Everyone gets a piece." Yet everyone is outraged about the other getting some.
I am curious. Why do you consider returning Iran's money that we had impounded in exchange for Iran's agreeing to halt their fissionable material enrichment program as "radical."