Let's start with the biggest one which is that measures (let's say regulations) aimed at A (let's say megacorps) have their intended effect on A and most significantly on A.
In reality, the most influential and profitable companies will always have an easier way through whatever you throw at the sector then smaller, less profitable companies. The megacorps may even welcome / shape the regulation such that it harms their competitors that don't happen to have 30 lawyers on the payroll anyways.
Inflation likely started like a bank run, except instead of deposits, it was money being directly given to plebs.
This, among other issues likely started the inflation. As you note, this brrrrr machine had been running for over a decade.
Don't ascribe to delusional conspiracy what's easily explained by collective corporate greed.
I didn't say anything about a conspiracy or even forethought. It's simple incentives and power dynamics. Imagine Lagarde or Powell saying "oops, we shouldn't have printed a gazillion billion dollars, after all so please fire me and Paul Krugman and all the other state-aligned Neo-Keynesians and put Peter Schiff in charge to dismantle the ECB/FED and replace it with free market money". Absurd. Much easier to opportunistically try to pivot this into more state control on the back of inflamed public opinion.
No, of course it's "greed and "gouging", so that when the price of eggs goes up more the state can finally put it's boot on the neck of small/medium businesses and farmers to the cheers of the public.
You are being divided and conquered.