White House Blames "Putin's Price Hike" For Biden's Inflation Bonanza

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Apr. 11, 2022

The White House on Monday warned that headline inflation in March's Consumer Price Index (CPI) report will likely be "extraordinarily elevated" as a result of what they called "Putin's price hike."

NOW - White House warns of "extraordinarily elevated" inflation data.pic.twitter.com/3ZDqpHFgoc
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 11, 2022

"We expect March CPI headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin's price hike," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. "We expect a large difference between core and headline inflation, reflecting the global disruptions in energy and food markets."

From Yahoo Finance, "Upcoming CPI report 'will not be pretty,' analyst says":

Estimates support an increase in inflation at a rate greater than last month. While February recorded an average increase in prices of 7.9%, driven mostly by higher energy prices, March is expected to show somewhere around 8.5%, according to UBS economists' estimates.

[...] "Robust pay increases have been no match for the higher costs households are facing on rent, food, electricity, gasoline, and a pervasive list of both goods and services," [Greg McBride, senior vice president and chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com] explained. "The buying power of Americans is being squeezed more and more each day, and you see this reality reflected in the dour consumer sentiment readings."

The White House and Democratic senators said just a few weeks ago while intentionally crashing the global economy that it needed to be done to fight Putin.

President Biden announces U.S. ban on Russian oil imports:

"Today I'm announcing the United States is targeting the main artery of Russia's economy...The American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin's war machine." pic.twitter.com/3HtvXxEWfR
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 8, 2022

As Senator Chris Coons said, paying double for gas is "the cost of standing up for freedom."

Senator Chris Coons expects the Biden administration to announce it's banning Russian oil as soon as today.

Russia warns oil prices could more than double. Coons agrees.

"That's the cost of standing up for freedom." pic.twitter.com/nYLiRdJnV2
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) March 8, 2022

Though the inflation wave we've been experiencing had its origins in the covid bailouts/shutdowns, the White House has been actively making the situation worse on the daily with endless sanctions aimed at shutting down Russia's energy exports.

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