The Fed has already begun to reduce its bond-buying program from about $120 billion a month, so the pandemic required some extraordinary measures.
Liquidity is a problem in normal cases but people need to pay and back to normal life.
Inflection will be at 13% for some years but it will back to 4% at the end of 2025
Hmmm I do not think they want years of inflation.
I lived in the Nixon Ford Carter times 5-10% every year.
But I do think the issue is that everyone in the world see that the USA goes in the hole almost every year without fail.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-us-federal-budget-deficit-3321439...
By Tom Murse
Updated July 26, 2021
The budget deficit is the difference between the money the federal government takes in, called receipts, and what it spends, called outlays each year. The U.S. government has run a multibillion-dollar deficit almost every year in modern history, spending much more than it takes in.
The opposite of a budget deficit, a budget surplus, occurs when the government’s revenue exceeds current expenditures resulting in an excess of money that can be used as needed.
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In fact, the government has recorded budget surpluses in only five years since 1969, most of them under Democratic President Bill Clinton.
In all-too-rare times when revenue equals spending, the budget is called “balanced.”
Adds to National Debt
Running a budget deficit adds to the national debt and, in the past, has forced Congress to increase the debt ceiling under numerous presidential administrations, both Republican and Democrat, to allow the government to meet its statutory obligations.
Although federal deficits have shrunk markedly in recent years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that under current law increased spending for Social Security and major health care programs, like Medicare, along with increasing interest costs will cause the national debt to rise steadily over the long term.
The larger deficits would cause federal debt to grow faster than the economy. By 2040, the CBO projects, the national debt will be more than 100% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and continue on an upward path— “a trend that cannot be sustained indefinitely,” notes the CBO.
Notice particularly the sudden jump in the deficit from $162 billion in 2007, to $1.4 trillion in 2009. This increase was due primarily to spending for special, temporary government programs intended to re-stimulate the economy during the "great recession" of that period.
Budget deficits eventually tapered back down into the billions by 2013. But in August 2019, the CBO predicted the deficit would again surpass $1 trillion in 2020—three years earlier than it had originally expected.
Here is the actual and projected budget deficit or surplus by fiscal year, according to CBO data for modern history.
2029 - $1.4 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2028 - $1.5 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2027 - $1.3 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2026 - $1.3 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2025 - $1.3 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2024 - $1.2 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2023 - $1.2 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2022 - $1.2 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2021 - $1 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2020 - $3.3 trillion budget deficit (projected)
2019 - $960 billion budget deficit (projected)
2018 - $779 billion budget deficit
2017 - $665 billion budget deficit
2016 - $585 billion budget deficit
2015 - $439 billion budget deficit
2014 - $514 billion budget deficit
2013 - $719 billion budget deficit
2012 - $1.1 trillion budget deficit
2011 - $1.3 trillion budget deficit
2010 - $1.3 trillion budget deficit
2009 - $1.4 trillion budget deficit
2008 - $455 billion budget deficit
2007 - $162 billion budget deficit
2006 - $248.2 billion budget deficit
2005 - $319 billion budget deficit
2004 - $412.7 billion budget deficit
2003 - $377.6 billion budget deficit
2002 - $157.8 billion budget deficit
2001 - $128.2 billion budget surplus
2000 - $236.2 billion budget surplus
1999 - $125.6 billion budget surplus
1998 - $69.3 billion budget surplus1997 - $21.9 billion budget deficit
1996 - $107.4 billion budget deficit
1995 - $164 billion budget deficit
1994 - $203.2 billion budget deficit
1993 - $255.1 billion budget deficit
1992 - $290.3 billion budget deficit
1991 - $269.2 billion budget deficit
1990 - $221 billion budget deficit
1989 - $152.6 billion budget deficit
1988 - $155.2 billion budget deficit
1987 - $149.7 billion budget deficit
1986 - $221.2 billion budget deficit
1985 - $212.3 billion budget deficit
1984 - $185.4 billion budget deficit
1983 - $207.8 billion budget deficit
1982 - $128 billion budget deficit
1981 - $79 billion budget deficit
1980 - $73.8 billion budget deficit
1979 - $40.7 billion budget deficit
1978 - $59.2 billion budget deficit
1977 - $53.7 billion budget deficit
1976 - $73.7 billion budget deficit
1975 - $53.2 billion budget deficit
1974 - $6.1 billion budget deficit
1973 - $14.9 billion budget deficit
1972 - $23.4 billion budget deficit
1971 - $23 billion budget deficit
1970 - $2.8 billion budget deficit
1969 - $3.2 billion budget surplusvery few good years and by the very nature of this going on and on and on inflation will occur.
BTW this is a bit old so the numbers from 2019 on are suspect. But are all in the hole.