Showing posts with label Core PCE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Core PCE. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Who's gonna tell him?

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  Bessent: Inflation jump will be 'short-term blip'... Core inflation has been rattling around 3% or higher for nearly five consecut...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Core pce inflation is raging at 3.2% year over year in March, 109% above normal, and the Congress, the president, and the Fed are doing ZERO, ZIP, NADA about it

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 The Fed met YESTERDAY and left the federal funds rate unchanged even though this is their primary indicator of inflation and it is more tha...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

As an inflation fighter, Jerome Powell turned out to be twice as bad as Arthur Burns

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Under Powell core pce inflation exceeded 10Y yield for 4 consecutive years (2020-2023). Under Burns it was for only 2 (1974-1975). The Berna...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Core pce inflation at 3% year over year in Feb 2026 is double the average rate over the thirteen years 2008-2020

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Friday, March 13, 2026

That right there is a stagflation headline

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  Fourth-quarter GDP revised down to just 0.7% growth; January core inflation was 3.1% Economic growth was much slower than expected in the ...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Core pce inflation, the Fed's key inflation indicator, went to 2.996% year over year in December 2025, the highest reading since April 2024, 2025 comes in at 2.8%, 65% elevated above the 2000-2020 average of 1.7%

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Does anyone in leadership really care about what this persistent high inflation is doing to America?  
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Core pce inflation averaged 1.61% year over year under Trump 1.0, but through eleven months of 2025 it averages 2.79%, 73% higher

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This higher inflation level, measured on a year over year basis, has persisted for 19-months from April 2024. We're just going sideways,...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Unbelievably rosy GDP report contained core pce inflation data at 2.9% countering previous rosy core cpi inflation report at 2.6% and indicating rising inflation

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 U.S. economy grows by 4.3% in third quarter, much more than expected, delayed report shows   The U.S. economy grew at a much greater-than-e...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Core pce inflation ticked down to 2.82% year over year in September from 2.90% in August 2025, but for 3Q2025 it ticked up to 2.86% yoy, which is elevated 78% above pre-pandemic experience

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 But the damn fools will cut DFF again no doubt, despite the fact that recent cuts averaging 1.44 have done nothing to reduce inflation, or...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Core pce inflation has been higher and rising in May, June, July, and August than it was when Trump took office in January

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Core pce inflation year over year in August 2025 rose again for the fourth consecutive month to 2.90% from 2.85% in July

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 CoRe InFlAtIoN rAtE hElD aT 2.9% In AuGuSt, aS eXpEcTeD, FeD’s GaUgE sHoWs The damn thing's elevated 74% above the average 1.67 for the...
Friday, August 29, 2025

The core pce inflation rate was 48% lower 2009-2020 than it was in July 2025

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 The July 2025 yoy rate of core pce inflation, the Fed's key measure, rose to 2.877%, the third increase in the rate since April. The av...
Monday, August 25, 2025

The Financial Times is full of it about a rate cut, and can't even spell

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   ... the Fed chair is clearly more convinced by the employment side of that equation, indicating that “adjustment” may be necessary — a b...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Forecasters YUGELY underestimated July producer price increases, aka wholesale prices, forecasting +0.2% month over month, getting +0.9% instead lol

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  Hey, they're only off by a factor of 4.5x. Low inflation expectations based on June were clobbered by the facts, but to hell with the ...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

As bad as inflation has been since the pandemic, imagine living with core pce inflation above 3% year over year for twenty-six consecutive years 1967-1992

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 If they lived through that, we can live through this, and we will.    

The Fed was right yesterday, voting 9-2 to make no change to interest rates, as core pce inflation comes in at 2.79% year over year in June, a tick up from May's 2.75%

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 Core personal consumption expenditures year over year have been stuck in a range of 2.78% year over year for eighteen long months. This is ...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Kevin Hassett is full of it as usual

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  Trump tariffs don’t cause inflation because of ‘patriotism’ buying: WH advisor Hassett   That makes no sense.   Buying costlier U.S.-made ...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Core pce inflation in May 2025 rose to 2.7% year over year, which is a rate 80% higher than the 1.5% average rate 2009-2020

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 Daddy's inflation.    
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Methinks J. D. Vance doth protest too much about Jerome Powell

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  It backfired on Powell, though.   Yields climbed in response. 10Y went from 3.63 on Sep 16 to 4.37 by Nov 1. And core PCE inflation shot b...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Ah, so Republican pinhead Joe Concha thinks a Democrat win in 2026 would be a loss lol

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Joe Concha never really does get to his point in this column, but he does spread a lot of nincompoopery about like so much manure on a field...