5 Trillion added to the Fed balance sheet is not a small handout. They didn't o ly hand out money to individuals but also gave to businesses and propped up the bond market.

Let's not forget, though, that Trump is the one who kicked this off: he signed the first COVID-related stimulus package ad the end of March 2020, to the tune of $2 trillion.

Given that he was only in office for the first year of the pandemic, it seems reasonable that Biden signed another $3 trillion away. If all that caused inflation, Trump and Biden deserve the blame together.

If you print money to pay for things generally that causes inflation, it’s one of the few clear facts economists will tell you they 100% know.

Yes as a person you got a modest check. You don’t remember all the fraudulent “loans” than have been prosecuted? Most of the money went to !individual people.

And don’t forget all those PPP loans that Congress persons didn’t have to pay back https://fortune.com/2020/07/08/ppp-loan-recipients-members-o...

Regular businesses didn’t either, my company got one but actually voluntarily did pay it back

The reason COVID handouts caused inflation while the '08 handouts didn't is that the COVID handouts went to regular people who spent the money while the '08 was wasted on bailing out the 1%, who spent it on assets that regular people don't buy every week.