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Meat Prices on the Rise
Meat Prices on the Rise (Image from Statistics Canada: Prices for meat products rise year over year in September) Canada’s CPI rose 4.4% YoY this September, according to Statistics Canada. Every major sector saw gains, but meat prices spiked 9.5%, marking the fastest pace of growth since April 2015. Canada’s Food Price Report for 2021, released […]
Corporate Greed the ‘Real Culprit Behind Rising Prices,’ Researchers Say
Corporate Greed the ‘Real Culprit Behind Rising Prices,’ Researchers Say “The more sway mega-corporations have over our economy, the more power they have to gouge customers, squeeze Main Street, and exploit workers.” Amid mounting data showing that people are paying more for food at grocery stores around the United States, a new analysis out Wednesday reveals how corporate […]
Inflationary Storm Forces Unilever To Raise Prices Fastest In Seven Years
Inflationary Storm Forces Unilever To Raise Prices Fastest In Seven Years Rising consumer prices are not going away. The latest example of this is from British multinational consumer goods company Unilever PLC who announced Thursday soaring commodity prices had forced it to raise prices the most in years. The multinational consumer goods company that produces […]
Money Velocity and Prices
MONEY VELOCITY AND PRICES The yearly growth rate of US AMS jumped to almost 80% by February 2021 (see chart). Given such massive increase in money supply, it is tempting to suggest that this lays the foundation for an explosive increase in the annual growth of prices of goods and services sometime in the future […]
How to Buffer the Fallout from America’s Third World Death Spiral
How to Buffer the Fallout from America’s Third World Death Spiral “What the hell?!” – President Joe Biden, June 16, 2021 Out of Control American workers are trying to make their way in an economy that’s rigged against them. We made this claim many years ago. Today, for fun and for free, we revisit this assertion…starting with the […]
It Gets Ugly: Dollar’s Purchasing Power Plunged at Fastest Pace since 1982. It’s “Permanent” not “Temporary,” Won’t Bounce Back
It Gets Ugly: Dollar’s Purchasing Power Plunged at Fastest Pace since 1982. It’s “Permanent” not “Temporary,” Won’t Bounce Back The Consumer Price Index jumped 0.6% in May, after having jumped 0.8% in April, and 0.6% in March – all three the steepest month-to-month jumps since 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. For the three […]
Core Consumer Prices Surge At Fastest Rate Since 1992
Core Consumer Prices Surge At Fastest Rate Since 1992 With the world’s eyes having moved on from China’s rip-roaring PPI (and post-data decision to unleash price controls), this morning’s CPI print has been heralded as the arbiter of “is it transitory or not” with some (BofA) even suggesting we are nearing a period of “transitory hyperinflation.” […]
Where Will The Next Deflationary Shock Come From?
Where Will The Next Deflationary Shock Come From? View as PDF “Whenever I hear numbers like this, I look back to my childhood growing up in Hungary, where…[the] value of money meant nothing. I’m very worried this is an unstoppable situation because the longer the Fed waits, the more they will have to raise rates. […]
Fed’s Favorite Lowball Inflation Gauge is Red-Hot, Not Seen in Decades, Even Without the “Base Effect”
Fed’s Favorite Lowball Inflation Gauge is Red-Hot, Not Seen in Decades, Even Without the “Base Effect” The majestic inflation overshoot has arrived. The Fed’s favorite inflation measure, generally the lowest inflation measure the US government provides — tracking a lot lower than even the Consumer Price Index which already understates actual inflation — and therefore our lowest […]
Suffering a sea-change
Suffering a sea-change There is an established theoretical relationship between bonds and equities which provides a framework for the future performance of financial assets. It would be a mistake to ignore it, ahead of the forthcoming rise in global interest rates.Price inflation is roaring, and so far, central banks are in denial. But it is […]
Surging Inflation Might Be the Rumblings of an Economic Tsunami
Surging Inflation Might Be the Rumblings of an Economic Tsunami 神奈川沖浪裏 or The Great Wave off Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai, 1831 Inflation in the U.S. is on the rise, may have started heating up last year, and is now on the cusp of spiraling out of control.Gasoline prices pushing $5 per gallon are concerning bad, and will strain family […]
Monetary Inflation’s Game of Hide-and-Seek
MONETARY INFLATION’S GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK The May 12, 2021, press release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of April sent the stock markets tumbling for two days and generated fodder for the news pundits with the announcement that the CPI measure of the cost-of-living had increased […]
Peter Schiff and Tucker Carlson: The Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Pandemic
Peter Schiff and Tucker Carlson: The Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Pandemic Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for April came in much hotter than expected. Year-on-year, inflation is up 4.2%. The big number even prompted Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida to say, “We were surprised by higher than expected inflation data.” Peter Schiff appeared on Tucker […]
Spiking Inflation, Rate Hikes, and Debt Defaults in Latin America
Spiking Inflation, Rate Hikes, and Debt Defaults in Latin America Mexico and Brazil, having seen the economic destruction that high inflation can wreak, don’t want to see it again. Latin America will soon be hit by a wave of business bankruptcies and defaults, according to Jesús Urdangaray López, the CEO of CESCE, Spain’s biggest provider of export […]
Karl Marx’s Road to Hell is Paved with Fake Money
Karl Marx’s Road to Hell is Paved with Fake Money “The way to Hell is paved with good intentions,” remarked Karl Marx in Das Kapital. The devious fellow was bemoaning evil capitalists for having the gall to use their own money for the express purpose of making more money. Marx, a rambling busybody, was habitually wrong. The […]
