{"id":5407,"date":"2024-03-27T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparksfg.com\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2024-03-27T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:02:10","slug":"protect-yourself-from-the-dangers-of-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparksfg.com\/protect-yourself-from-the-dangers-of-inflation","title":{"rendered":"Protect Yourself from the Dangers of Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After more than a decade of hovering at normal-to-below-average levels, inflation became a hot topic again in 2021 when it rose to over 4%. By March 2022, it had hit a 40-year high of 8.5%. This prompted the Federal Reserve to take its usual course of action to combat inflation: raising short-term interest rates. Over the next 18 months, the Fed hiked rates at a historically aggressive pace. As usual, this created extreme volatility in the financial markets, but ultimately inflation did come down again to just over 3% by late 2023. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After more than a decade of hovering at normal-to-below-average levels, inflation became a hot topic again in 2021 when it rose to over 4%. By March 2022, it had hit a 40-year high of 8.5%. This prompted the Federal Reserve to take its usual course of action to combat inflation: raising short-term interest rates. Over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n