The 3.3% Inflation Trap: How One Gasoline Spike Just Rewrote the Fed’s 2026 Playbook

Strait of Hormuz remains closed - but inflation is open to rise!

Twenty years of U.S. inflation in one frame. Five regimes since 2006 - the 2008 oil shock, GFC disinflation, the long low-inflation decade, the COVID shock, the post-pandemic surge, and the 2023-26 d…