In one of Mel Brooks most definitive works, a scene where he is playing King Louis the XVI and the “piss boy” summarizes pretty much…
Posts tagged as “CPI-U”
I’ll bet Joseph Stalin was blushing in hell reading this gigantic steaming pile of nonsense. What is your esteemed author talking about? I just arrived…
The Federal Reserve now faces the ultimate challenge heading into an election year. As many long time observers have said, the Fed governors, despite their…
The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meets this week and faces the ultimate decision regarding the creature they have unleashed on the global economy: Do…
Throughout the United States history of inflation and deflation, one thing is certain: The Federal Reserve and political elites will make it worse in either…
When these pages or this author is wrong, I always want to lead an article or commentary off with an admission. This morning on FinTwit…
The sad truth about the world we live in now is that insanity is the new normal, and the old normal is now considered a…
Sometimes, and I do mean quite rarely, the mainstream news media does not lie: Soaring Food Prices Undermine Biden’s Economic Pitch to Voters – Bloomberg…
The age old adage that the shiny monetary metal throughout history has always been the ultimate hedge against inflationary times is now being challenged by…
The media and the Fed seem to have declared victory over inflation this week. If this is your first experience with inflationary periods like this,…
The mainstream media and the bubblevision might be stupid, but in reality they have the average American citizen pretty much figured out. So when one…
On Wednesday, April 12th, the BLS will release the latest data set for the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) which consensus seems to think will be…
I am standing by most of my December 31, 2022 prediction where I stated the following: -The Federal Reserve conducts a shocking 0.50% rate increase…
Ummm, yeah, “it’s contained” or whatever. From the St. Louis Fed Economic Data, month over month percentage change in CPI-U not seasonally adjusted: So much…