Inflation by Design: Fed Insider Warns Tariffs Will Keep Prices Soaring—And That’s Exactly How They Want It

Tariffs Are Just the Excuse—Your Shrinking Dollar Is the Objective Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic took the stage in Frankfurt to deliver a carefully scripted confession: tariffs and “geopolitical developments” are going to keep inflation elevated beyond what any “standard textbook” predicts. In plain English: prices aren’t coming down anytime soon, and they damn well know it. Instead of calling it what it is—a prolonged assault on your savings—Bostic framed it as a mere byproduct of trade policy. He insisted this wasn’t a one-time spike in costs but rather a drawn-out inflationary slog that could last “a year or more.” That’s convenient timing, given the upcoming expiration of Trump’s 90-day tariff pause. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is already bragging…