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Is That Inflation In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy?

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money-stack-imageWe saw tame inflation on the wholesale level yesterday, We have a mere +0.1% on both the headline CPI and on the Core CPI this morning.  Dow Jones had CPI estimates at +0.3% on the headline nominal CPI and +0.1% on the core-CPI measuring ex-food and energy.  On a year over year basis, it looks like we are down by -1.3% as the biggest decline in a half-century?

Transportation seems the highest at +0.8%, but on a year-over-year basis that is actually down by a shocking -14.3%.

We saw drops in food and beverages, housing, and apparel.  There were also no serious revisions to the April data.

After all, as that new money getting printed works its way into your pockets, there may be inflation.  But so far the inflation monster looks more like a timid hamster.

Jon C. Ogg

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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