With Oil Speculators Blitzing, the Fed Needs to Call an Interest-Rate Reverse Play

The inflationary reality that we as consumers have been living for months may finally be starting to dawn on the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The minutes of the last policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, released on Wednesday, showed that the Fed’s inflation forecast was raised from a range of 2.1%-2.4% to a range of 3.1%-3.4%.