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In a presentation today, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard that further monetary actions by the Fed’s FOMC had been placed on “pause” as a result of the modest gains in the...
The Labor Department’s report on producer prices took out some of the inflation fears on Thursday and now we have the reading for the Consumer Price Index for the month of March.  The headline...
If inflation is rising it is not quite so evident in the wholesale inflation data.  The Producer Price Index for March was reported as Flat or 0.0% and the core rate which takes out food and energy...
In a speech this morning in Syracuse, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley told an audience of local business leaders that while the US economy is doing better, “real economic activity...
Before you panic about inflation in this reading, you might want to consider that many commodity prices have already backed off in recent days.  Still, the reading for commodity import prices rose...
The University of Michigan/Reuters consumer sentiment index fell in March for the first time since August. The index reading of 74.3 is a full point below the February reading of 75.3. Recent...
The Labor Department has just released its data on retail inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index.  This was the December 2011 level and the figure came to +0.1% on the headline CPI and also...
Even though the US Federal Reserve downplays the contribution of commodity prices in the US core inflation rate, that doesn’t mean that everyone agrees. In fact, most of us who pay more for a...
Inflation is transitory… That is what you are told over and over by the likes of Ben Bernanke and friends at the Federal Reserve.  The reading of wholesale inflation, measured by the Producer...
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his first real speech today at the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in weeks.  He argued that the economic downgrade persists, as does the...
Today’s commodities news reflects on the sharp drop in silver, continuing softness in cotton prices, and another fall in grain prices. The fall in silver prices immediately following the...
There are green lights as far as can be seen on the boulevard of the American economic recovery. The National Association of Business Economics says in its latest survey “Job creation in the...