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Rabo: Please Don’t Make Us Look At The Inflation
Rabo: Please Don’t Make Us Look At The Inflation Markets continue to reel: “Risk crumbles”, says Bloomberg. Why? Because there is a plaintive plea from everyone from the Fed and the Treasury down to simple peddlers of exotic derivatives: please don’t make us look at the inflation! Yes, it’s US inflation-data day – and nobody wants to see […]
Jim Grant: The Fed Can’t Control Inflation
Jim Grant: The Fed Can’t Control Inflation Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell insists inflation is “transitory.” As prices have spiked throughout the economy, Powell’s messaging has essentially been, “Move along. Nothing to see here.” Peter Schiff has been saying the central bankers at the Fed can’t actually tell the truth about inflation because even if they acknowledge it’s a […]
Consumers Expect Surging Inflation to Crush the Purchasing Power of their Labor: Fed’s Survey
Consumers Expect Surging Inflation to Crush the Purchasing Power of their Labor: Fed’s Survey And there are some whoppers. Consumers are picking up on the rise of inflation, and the Fed, which has been trying to heat up inflation, is pleased. The Fed watches “inflation expectations” carefully. The minutes from the March FOMC meeting mention […]
Confronted with a Nightmare Scenario – John Rubino 5.8.2021
Confronted with a Nightmare Scenario – John Rubino 5.8.2021 Financial writer John Rubino says there is no easy way out for the financial and political mess the United States has created for itself. Rubino starts with the economic problems and explains, “Now, inflation is starting to spread. . . . Look at lumber. If you […]
Keep It Simple: Gold vs. a Mad World
Keep It Simple: Gold vs. a Mad World Psychologists, poets and philosophers have written for centuries that many who have eyes refuse to see, and many who can think, refuse to think clearly–all for the simple reason that some truths, like the sun, are just too hard to look straight into. Or as others have […]
Weekly Commentary: Generational Turning Point
Weekly Commentary: Generational Turning Point There is an overarching issue I haven’t been able to get off my mind: Are we at the beginning of something new or in the waning days of the previous multi-decade cycle? May 5 – Wall Street Journal (James Mackintosh): “We could be at a generational turning point for finance. […]
The Inflation Monster Has Been Unleashed
The Inflation Monster Has Been Unleashed The monster known as inflation has been unleashed upon the world and will not easily retreat into the night. This is reflected in soaring commodity and housing prices. Due to the stupid and self-serving policies of the Fed, we are about to experience a massive shift in the way […]
Relation Between Inflation and Deflation
RELATION BETWEEN INFLATION AND DEFLATION For most commentators inflation is about persistent increases in the prices of goods and services. However, is this the case? For example, the definition of human action is not that people are engaged in all sorts of activities as such, but that they are engaged in purposeful activities–purpose gives rise […]
Existential Economic Threats: How U.S. States Can Survive Without Federal Money
Existential Economic Threats: How U.S. States Can Survive Without Federal Money We all knew it was coming; the alternative economic media has been warning about it for years. Eventually, monetary intervention and bailout after bailout by central banks always leads to devaluation of the currency and inflation in prices. Helicopter money always ends in disaster […]
Three reasons why inflation is rising. Two of them aren’t going away
Three reasons why inflation is rising. Two of them aren’t going away A remarkable thing happened yesterday that tells you everything you need to know about inflation. In the morning, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated bluntly that “interest rates will have to rise somewhat to make sure that our economy doesn’t overheat. . .” […]
Lumber: Scary-Crazy Inflation Now Gets Passed On. But These WTF Price Spikes Cannot Last
Lumber: Scary-Crazy Inflation Now Gets Passed On. But These WTF Price Spikes Cannot Last Irrational behavior by buyers confidently betting on being able to pass on that irrationality to their customers. It works until it doesn’t. Lumber futures on Chicago Mercantile Exchange currently trade at a record high of $1,610 per thousand board feet, having […]
Investors Do Not See “Transitory” Inflation
Investors Do Not See “Transitory” Inflation The Federal Reserve and European Central Bank repeat that the recent inflationary spike is “transitory”. The problem is that investors do not buy it. Inflation is always a monetary phenomenon, and this time is not different. What central banks call transitory effects, and the impact of supply chains are not the real drivers […]
How Costco Is Masking A 14% Price Jump With Shrinkflation
How Costco Is Masking A 14% Price Jump With Shrinkflation The oldest trick in the retailer book is back. We have previously written about shrinkflation – the “creative” masking of higher prices whereby retailers sell a materially lower amount of products for the ‘same’ price, covering up what is often a significant price increase on […]
