A Fast and Furious Year by the Fed That Blindsided Everyone

Jerome Powell

Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg
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It was March 16, 2022, when Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues finally began to take on the surge in inflation they had thought would fade, eventually moving faster and more furiously than anybody expected.

It was a slow start with a quarter-point hike.