Name: The Fed Is Already Adding Money, so Why Is Inflation Still the Problem? | Chris Martenson
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Description: Stock markets are near or at record highs, and the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet has been rising again since December 2025 at a pace of nearly a billion dollars a day. Now inflation, after two years of decline, has started turning back up, and the Fed’s conventional tools may not address what is actually driving it.

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Stock markets are near or at record highs, and the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet has been rising again since December 2025 at a pace of nearly a billion dollars a day. Now inflation, after two years of decline, has started turning back up, and the Fed’s conventional tools may not address what is actually driving it.

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Economic researcher and energy analyst Chris Martenson, founder of Peak Prosperity, has spent years tracking how money, energy, and markets connect. He joins us to explain what that combination means for anyone holding stocks, bonds, or cash right now.

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