How the Fed's Rate Pause Is Widening the Inflation Gap

Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation · Jun 11, 2026 · 6m · transcript

Episode 44 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo zeroes in on a growing pain lurking in the data: the gap between what inflation is doing and what the Fed is doing. With CPI still at 334 and the Fed Funds rate stuck at 3.65 percent, Lucas and Luna break down why the central bank's pause is hitting savers and borrowers asymmetrically. They discuss how the interest on reserve balances (IORB) may be distorting the real economy, why gold has dropped 5.5 percent in five days despite sticky inflation, and what the 10-year breakeven inflation rate of 2.34 percent actually signals for your…