Monetary and fiscal policies are leading to 'significant inflationary danger,' economist Roger Bootle says wdaniel@businessinsider.com (Will Daniel) Economist Roger Bootle says monetary and fiscal policy is leading to "significant inflationary danger." Bootle said demographic changes, US-China tensions, and costly climate policies will only add to the problem. The Fed and a number of other market commentators have maintained inflation will be "transitory." Popular Searches In an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Bootle repeated his concerns about inflation and criticized other economists and market commentators for their view that monetary and fiscal policies aren't important when it comes to rising costs.