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Finally, An Honest Inflation Index – Guess What It Shows
Finally, An Honest Inflation Index – Guess What It Shows Central bankers keep lamenting the fact that record low interest rates and record high currency creation haven’t generated enough inflation (because remember, for these guys inflation is a good thing rather than a dangerous disease). To which the sound money community keeps responding, “You’re looking […]
Why Core Inflation is Rising & What it Means for Fed Rate Hikes
Why Core Inflation is Rising & What it Means for Fed Rate Hikes Yellen was right to brush off “transitory” factors of “low” inflation. Consumer prices, as measured by CPI for October, rose 2.0% year-over-year. A month ago, CPI increased 2.2%. The Fed’s inflation target is 2%, but it doesn’t use CPI, or even “Core […]
Central Bank Group Think: Convince the Public More Inflation is Coming
Central Bank Group Think: Convince the Public More Inflation is Coming Chicago Fed chief Charles Evans is worried about the lack of inflation primarily because he is clueless about where to find it. As further proof of his economic illiteracy, Evans says “Low inflation expectations keep inflation down”. Bloomberg reports Evans Says Fed Must Convince […]
Yellen Was Right: “Transitory” Factors of “Low” Inflation Are Reversing, with Much More to Come
Yellen Was Right: “Transitory” Factors of “Low” Inflation Are Reversing, with Much More to Come What’s Boiling Beneath the Surging Inflation? Consumers are going to shell out more money for the same stuff, that’s for sure. Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index jumped 2.2% in September compared to a year ago, the Bureau of […]
Be Careful What You Wish For: Inflation Is Much Higher Than Advertised
Be Careful What You Wish For: Inflation Is Much Higher Than Advertised What the Federal Reserve is actually whining about is not low inflation–it’s that high inflation isn’t pushing wages higher like it’s supposed to. It’s not exactly a secret that real-world inflation is a lot higher than the official rates–the Consumer Price Index (CPI) […]
What’s The Matter With Inflation?
What’s The Matter With Inflation? What’s The Matter Kansas inflation? The divergence of official inflation as measured by the government versus inflation realized by the consumer and businesses has never been greater, in our opinion. Go ask anybody on the street in America and Europe if think “doing life or business” is getting more expensive. […]
Why US Price Inflation Remains Relatively Subdued?
WHY US PRICE INFLATION REMAINS RELATIVELY SUBDUED? The yearly growth rate of the US consumer price index stood at 1.9% in August against 1.7% in July, while the growth rate of the price index less food and energy stood at 1.7% in August against a similar figure in July and 2.3% in August last year. […]
August Consumer Prices Jump Most Since January Due To Soaring Energy, Shelter Costs
August Consumer Prices Jump Most Since January Due To Soaring Energy, Shelter Costs After disappointing (for The Fed’s inflationistas) producer prices growth yesterday, consumer prices jumped 0.4% MoM in August – the biggest spike since January. Gains were driven by soaring energy costs (offset by a big decline in vehicle prices). Year over Year, CPI […]
Does the Price of Oil Determine General Increases in the Prices of Goods and Services?
DOES THE PRICE OF OIL DETERMINE GENERAL INCREASES IN THE PRICES OF GOODS AND SERVICES? A very good visual correlation between the yearly percentage change in the consumer price index (CPI) and the yearly percentage change in the price of oil seems to provide support to the popular thinking that future changes in price inflation […]
Venezuela Stops Publishing Money Supply Data For Obvious Reasons
Venezuela Stops Publishing Money Supply Data For Obvious Reasons More than a year after hyperinflating banana republic Venezuela stopped reporting official inflation data, Venezuela has stopped publishing money supply data, depriving the general public of the last, and best, available tool to ascertain soaring inflation in what has become the world’s worst-performing economy. Then again, […]
Loonie Tumbles After Canadian Inflation, Retail Sales Plunge
Loonie Tumbles After Canadian Inflation, Retail Sales Plunge A slew of disappointing data out of Canada has sent the Loonie tumbling this morning (despite higher oil prices). Canadian Retail Sales and Inflation data missed across the board… Multi-year lows in CPI, Core CPI, and Retail Sales… And the result is a tumbling Loonie as expectations of […]
Ed Butowsky: Calculating The True Cost of Living
Ed Butowsky: Calculating The True Cost of Living Why it’s much higher than we’re told/sold Over the past decade, we’ve been told that inflation has been tame — actually below the target the Federal Reserve would like to see. But if that’s true, then why does the average household find it harder and harder to […]
Fruit and vegetable prices hike overall food costs
Fruit and vegetable prices hike overall food costs Food prices increased by four per cent over the year, largely because of the low loonie According to the Consumer Price Index, food prices increased by four per cent from Jan. 2015 to Jan. 2016. But fresh vegetables alone were up 18 per cent. For example, just […]
Silver Linings: Keynesian Central Banking Is Heading For A Massive Repudiation
Silver Linings: Keynesian Central Banking Is Heading For A Massive Repudiation For several years now the small coterie of Keynesian academics and apparatchiks who have seized nearly absolute financial power through the Fed’s printing presses have justified the lunacy of unending ZIRP and massive QE on the grounds that there is too little inflation. The bureaucrats at the IMF […]
A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit
A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit Credit is not innately good or bad. Simplistically, productive Credit is constructive, while non-productive Credit is inevitably problematic. This crucial distinction tends to be masked throughout the boom period. Worse yet, a prolonged boom in “productive” Credit – surely fueled by some type of underlying monetary disorder – can […]
