“Our assumption is that the updraft in commodity costs will diminish into mid-year, and base results will lastly enable an rising downtrend within the year-over-year inflation metrics,” Englund informed CoinDesk in an e-mail. “This could diminish stress on the Fed to deal with inflation, and may enable for quarter-point hikes at simply each different assembly, leaving 5 hikes for 2022 total (in March, Could, June, September and December).”