The president should be more worried about inflation, and government responsibility for it, than he’s acting.
by Brian Doherty
Reason.com
President Joe Biden gave a speech this afternoon on the state of the economy. According to its billing, it would address “lowering prices for the American people.” Yet Biden seemingly wants us all to forget about price inflation as an economic issue.
In his half-hour or so of jawboning, Biden mostly crowed about his alleged achievements and almost entirely avoided the topic of large-scale price inflation. He did acknowledge such inflation in the world of gasoline, yet, as Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey reported today, the Biden administration continues to pursue policies that restrict supply and thus goose up gas prices, despite his new sleight-of-hand about opening up strategic petroleum reserves.
Biden apparently wants us to believe that only the genius and strength of his government telling ports to stay open longer and stores to stock their shelves more frequently are behind any turnaround in the much-worried supply chain crisis of the season.