Altho the “inflation numbers” released today are encouraging, 7.1% is a LONG way from 2% rate of inflation. It is important to understand that $$ costs something and the last 15 years or so of doctored / artificial low interest rates comes with a very high price tag. Ever since the mid-1980’s the government has concerned itself with policies to “heat up” the economy artificially ( tax laws, ' rates, interfering with the Fed with monetary policy, etc). Don’t know what is going to happen in the near term but it seems to me that this current Fed/Treasury team seems to have a good idea of what needs to be done. Just how patient can “we the people” be for a good, long term “fix”?