If we are trying to describe the nature of the real constraints that the economy has been facing over the past 6-12 months, we need a richer economic vocabulary than one that reduces every inflationary constraint to a domestic labor constraint.
This is meant to be a quick "micropost" and may be light on linking & original charts I was recently quoted saying that oil prices surging...
The recently-announced SPR release is the first step in a broader program to address oil price volatility in today's geopolitical environment.
Many economists and commentators disfavor reasoning about inflation from individual price increases, yet still use "core inflation" metrics, which embed reasoning about inflation from individual price increases.
