>They should have been raising interest rates well before the pandemic. The Fed in fact tried to tighten during the 2015 - 2018 period but in 2018, politics in

>They should have been raising interest rates well before the pandemic. The Fed in fact tried to tighten during the 2015 - 2018 period but in 2018, politics interferred. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Federal_Open_Market_Committee_actions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Federal_Open_Mark...