Last week's discussion focused on cost-push inflationary pressures attributed to rising energy costs. Your book also discusses demand-pull inflation where too much spending relative to our production capacity can push up the average price level. This week's discussion asks you to remember back to the firm's production function discussed in chapter 5, and use that understanding to discuss the major contributing factors to inflation in the US between 2020 and 2021, as developed by the Economic Policy Institute and shown in the figure below. Please use economic reasoning. Your answer should include what is and is not contributing to current inflation, how does this compare historically, and what does this suggest about the competitive nature of the US economy. Please be brief. The result should blow you away!!! For the full EPI article, please see https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have- contributed-disproportionately-to-inflation-how- should-policymakers-respond/