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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Charles I. Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, would like the central bank to get out of the QE2 business as soon as possible. He offers a number of...
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Wholesale inflation continues, but the supply side is having a hard time passing on the price increases if the Labor Department is right on its inflation data. The February Consumer Price Index...
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We have no inflation. It has to be that way since our Fed governors keep telling us that there is just no inflation or that it is only transitory. Sorry, but it seems that these same Fed members...
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24/7 Wall St. has decided to investigate where inflation has the greatest potential to damage the economy. There is plenty of ground to cover. It is clear that the cost of agricultural commodities,...
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