Experts say global forces that helped keep inflation low for decades — like international trade and an expanding workforce — are dissipating.

A Columbia Business School professor explains quantitative easing and the Feds’ $120 billion per month bond-buying program with an analogy.

Dividend hikes and stock buybacks are on the way.

The central bank’s been keeping interest rates low in part by buying up mortgage-backed securities. That has Fed officials keeping a wary eye on the housing market for signs of overheating.

Consumer inflation expectations aren’t rising sharply, according to Morning Consult, consistent with the Fed’s view that most inflation right now is “transitory.”

The central bank raised its inflation forecast to 3.4% by year-end and expects to hike its benchmark interest rate twice by late 2023.

The Fed has a dual mandate to control inflation as well as unemployment, unlike other central banks.

A Federal Reserve survey found consumers are expecting inflation to hit 4% next year.

The renowned investor and policy adviser is skeptical of the Federal Reserve’s insistence that the inflation we’re seeing is “transitory.”

The Fed has to walk a fine line between mitigating disaster and shifting monetary policy to focus on fighting climate change.