Over the last two decades, inflation has been largely a non-issue. Sure, there were times when inflation crept up a little over 5%, but even that is a far cry from 12% we saw in the late '70s. You may ask, why has inflation been tame as of late? I can tell you one thing, it is certainly not hawkish sentiment from the Fed. Over the last three years alone the Fed's balance sheet has more than tripled to over $2.8 trillion! Not to mention that the benchmark interest rate has been below 1% for four years and is currently at 0.25%.
So why have prices of goods not risen?
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