U.S. producer prices increased more than expected in June, suggesting inflation could remain high as robust demand fueled by the economy's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic continues to strain the supply chain.
Powell has long maintained that high inflation is transitory, a view shared my most economists and the White House. In a report to Congress last week the U.S. central bank said that as the "extraordinary circumstances" of the reopening subside, "supply and demand should become better aligned, and inflation is widely expected to move down."
"Once prices get back toward pre-pandemic levels presumably the upside becomes more limited as consumers become price-sensitive as they were in normal times," said Alexander Lin, a U.S. economist at Bank of America Securities in New York.
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