Consumers actually increased their overall spending despite rising costs of inflation: AP

[sting in the rafters]

This won't be good for inflation (assuming it lasts, which it won't)

Yeah the problem is all that spending is being closed to retained earnings. In fact, it's one of the primary reasons corporate profits are continuing to outpace inflation, productivity, and wages. Same s____ happened after WWII, you can't spend blindly without external controls/procedures. Unionized workers will be (in theory) okay because that stuff is normally baked in to COLA adjustments, open-shop are boned though.