[senthil_rajasek]

>They should have been raising interest rates well before the pandemic.

The Fed in fact tried to tighten during the 2015 - 2018 period but in 2018, politics interferred.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Federal_Open_Mark...

[ianai]

18 is when then president Trump appointed Powell after not re-appointing Yellen. I don’t see that pointed out in your link.