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Wealthion · Monday, September 14, 2026

Critique of current Federal Reserve policy tied to outdated CPI averages

There is a strong critique of the Federal Reserve's current policy, which is described as absurd and tied to a formula increasingly showing a lagged three, four, or five-year average on CPI. This approach is seen as encouraging the same behavior that led to past policy errors.

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“It basically was created to prevent the Federal Reserve from doing something as stupid as it did.”
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“And yet, here we are again with people encouraging the same behavior from the Federal Reserve tied to a formula that now increasingly shows a lagged three, four, five year average on CPI.”
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“It's just absurd.”
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Heard on Wealthion — “Inflation Is Still a Problem. Is the Fed Fighting the Wrong War?”, published Monday, September 14, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Critique of current Federal Reserve policy tied to outdated CPI averages — Heardvine