Workers are being punished for inflation. The real culprit is corporate greed | Robert Reich

Big corporations are using inflation as cover to raise prices. Yet the US Federal Reserve is raising interest rates - further hurting Americans

The US Federal Reserve is aiming its powerful firehose at the living room but it's the forest that's ablaze. As a result, people may drown even as their house catches fire.

This about sums up the sorry state of inflation-fighting in America.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com