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Inflation On Track into 2024
Inflation On Track into 2024 COMMENT: Marty, it is amazing how you are the only one capable of forecasting this trend years in advance. I have been attending your WEC events since 2011. You have forecast long ago that the deflation would end in 2020 and that this wave would be inflationary with shortages in commodities. […]
Transitory Inflation Turning Into an Inflationary Spiral
Transitory Inflation Turning Into an Inflationary Spiral Consumer prices have been rising precipitously this year. If you annualize the Consumer Price Index through the first five months of 2021, you get a CPI increase of over 6%. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell continues to push the narrative that inflation is transitory, but not everybody buys […]
U.S. Inflation Is Highest in 13 Years as Prices Surge 5%
U.S. Inflation Is Highest in 13 Years as Prices Surge 5% The rapid rise in consumer prices in May reflected a surge in demand and shortages of labor and materials The U.S. economy’s rebound from the pandemic is driving the biggest surge in inflation in nearly 13 years, with consumer prices rising in May by […]
When Inflation is really Deflation
When Inflation is really Deflation QUESTION: Why is the Fed doing so much Reverse Repo? Do you think it will hit $2 trillion? JE ANSWER: I understand that people seem to be talking up the reverse repo activity as doom and gloom. The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates and boosted the return to fight inflation. […]
Grocery Stores Are Masking Price Hikes Via “Shrinkflation”
Grocery Stores Are Masking Price Hikes Via “Shrinkflation” The continued decline in Treasury yields has prompted many short-sighted arm-chair analysts to declare that the Fed was right about inflationary pressures being “transitory”. Of course, as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen herself admitted, a little inflation is necessary for the economy to function long term – because without “controlled […]
While Fed Is in Denial, Hawkish Bank of Russia Sees Inflation as “Not Transitory,” Warns of Possible Shock-and-Awe Rate Hike
While Fed Is in Denial, Hawkish Bank of Russia Sees Inflation as “Not Transitory,” Warns of Possible Shock-and-Awe Rate Hike US Inflation is almost as hot as in Russia, but the Fed is still blowing it off. Consumer price inflation in Russia is red-hot, having jumped 6.0% in May compared to a year ago, 2 […]
Cornered Fed Weighs Dilemma: Market Crash or Runaway Inflation?
Cornered Fed Weighs Dilemma: Market Crash or Runaway Inflation? Image via Science Photo Library The U.S. economy is at a fork in the road. One route leads to the return of market fundamentals and sane stock valuations, at the cost of a historic market correction. The other route leads to runaway hyperinflation that eats up […]
Peter Schiff: Political Hypocrisy Provides Cover for Fed on Inflation
Peter Schiff: Political Hypocrisy Provides Cover for Fed on Inflation From 2016 to 2020, Republicans were constantly trying to play up the economy. You’ll recall Donald Trump claiming it was the greatest economy in history. Meanwhile, Democrats were trying to play it down. Now, the roles have reversed. Since the Democrats own the economy now, […]
Pay More, Get Less: Consumer Income & Spending Chewed Up by Red-Hot Inflation
Pay More, Get Less: Consumer Income & Spending Chewed Up by Red-Hot Inflation Inflation ate my homework? You saw this coming after today’s release of the Personal Consumption Expenditure inflation index. “Core PCE” inflation, which excludes food and energy – the lowest lowball inflation index the US offers and which the Fed uses to track […]
Transitory Inflation Takes Hold of the Economy – How Long Will It Last?
Transitory Inflation Takes Hold of the Economy – How Long Will It Last? Cherry blossoms symbolize the fleeting nature of all things. Photo by Haoshuang Lou Just a couple of weeks ago, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold investors on the idea that rising inflation wasn’t going to last. Officially, as of May 2021, inflation had risen […]
The Next 6 Months: What To Expect
The Next 6 Months: What To Expect The price of corn is up thirty-two percent in the first quarter of this year. Beef is up seventeen percent. The price of chicken is up twenty-five percent in just the last two months. You have probably noticed the price of gasoline up forty-one percent as well. Still, […]
The everything death spiral
The everything death spiral Inflation is back in the establishment media headlines, as prices are rising across the economy. But rather like generals fighting the last war, business and economic journalists are dusting off models of inflation last used in the early 1980s. The idea, for example, that “inflation is always a monetary phenomenon” worked well […]
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.” […]
One Bank Goes Apocalyptic: Inflation Is About To Explode “Leaving Global Economies Sitting On A Time Bomb”
One Bank Goes Apocalyptic: Inflation Is About To Explode “Leaving Global Economies Sitting On A Time Bomb” As excerpted from “Inflation: The defining macro story of this decade” a must-read report written by Deutsche Bank’s global head of research, David Folkerts-Landau, co-authored by Peter Hooper and Jim Reid. Ronald Reagan (1978): “Inflation is as violent as a mugger, […]
