U.S. inflation expectations are not contained despite officials assurances to the contrary, which means inflation could quickly resume rising and climb above 4% before the end of the year, says Berkeley economist and SF Fed adviser Yuriy Gorodnichenko, who recently presented a paper at the Fed Board's 2nd Thomas Laubach conference. This will put a Fed in a bind that not only prevents them from cutting interest rates but my even force them to hike, he told MNI.