AILAN EVANS ASSOCIATE EDITOR – April 28, 20229:33 AM ET – for the Daily Caller

My cmnt: Jimmy Carter stagflation (also known as BidenFlation) has reared its ugly head once again. The American public knew this could happen and that is just another reason that this incompetent moron was never duly elected. Except for vote fraud in four major democrat-run cities President Trump would still be in office and our economic good times would have continued. And of course Putin would never dared to have invaded the Ukraine under Trump’s watch. Democrats lie, people die. Democrats cheat, fait accompli.

The U.S. economy under President Joe Biden has shrunk for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic despite inflation continuing to surge and prices remaining elevated.

U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter of 2022, according to Thursday data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), marking the first time the economy has shrunk since the second quarter of 2020, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. (RELATED: ‘When Will This End?’: Sen. Manchin Goes After Biden Admin Over Inflation)

Meanwhile, prices remain sky-high and inflation continues to surge; the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a key inflation indicator, soared 8.5% over the last year, the highest increase on record since 1981. Producer prices have also soared, achieving the highest year-over-year gain on record, according to CNBC.

Despite the negative GDP growth amid surging inflation, an indicator of “stagflation,” current-dollar personal income increased $268.0 billion in the first quarter of 2022. However, personal savings decreased from the previous quarter, down to $1.21 trillion compared with $1.39 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2021.

The BEA partially attributed the negative GDP figures to disruptions caused by the resurgence of COVID-19.

“In the first quarter, an increase in COVID-19 cases related to the Omicron variant resulted in continued restrictions and disruptions in the operations of establishments in some parts of the country,” the BEA said when announcing its report. “Government assistance payments in the form of forgivable loans to businesses, grants to state and local governments, and social benefits to households all decreased as provisions of several federal programs expired or tapered off.”