Showing posts with label INFLATION 2026. Show all posts
Showing posts with label INFLATION 2026. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Core wholesale prices, not seasonally adjusted, rose 4.89% yoy in May 2026, a sideways move from 4.85% the previous month which however was initially reported at 5.2%

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    Wholesale prices rose 1.1% in May, more than expected, on surge in energy The producer price index increased a seasonally adjusted 1.1% ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The lover of the poorly educated says he loves the inflation

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  Trump says ‘I love the inflation’ after consumer price index hits 3-year high

Two years ago Trump was promising to cut our energy bills in half, but now we get a 23.5% year over year increase in energy inflation in May 2026 on top of double digit increases in March and April

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 Because he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. Why do they always seem to do the opposite of what they promise?     

Consumer price index inflation in May 2026: +4.2% year over year overall, +2.9% or +2.8% year over year for core, depending on whether you go not seasonally adjusted or seasonally adjusted

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Commenters may like to draw a sharp distinction between overall and core and point to core as evidence that this is not so bad, but the thin...
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...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Tim Carney doesn't mention why the bad polling results for Republicans and Trump on the economy started already in May 2025

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The word "tariff" does not appear in this column lol. The Impending Republican Collapse Tim Carney, Wash...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Gold and silver are still up 5+% year to date

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 SPX +10.52% ytd WTI +53.11% ytd   Meanwhile in April:  Hamburger +18.9% yoy Coffee +29.0% yoy Unleaded regular gasoline +28.0% yoy Electric...
Friday, May 29, 2026

When 86 is the good news

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The sum of the average prices of five ingredients for your April 2018 BLT (bacon, lettuce, tomato, lightly toasted white bread in butter) is...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Trump inflation is Bush-league: PCE inflation goes boing, core PCE inflation 3.3% year over year takes us back to early 1992

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And you remember what happened to Bush 41 in 1992.   boing Trump's core pce inflation is Bush-league (41!)
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Silver is still up 6.14% year to date, gold 5.09% even as energy prices march higher

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 But SPX is up 8.02% ytd. WTI is up 84.01% ytd. VGENX is up 20.88% ytd.   Investment grade corporate securities:   VWESX is down 1.54% ytd. ...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

Kevin Warsh wasn't sworn in as Fed chair on Friday and Powell is still in charge because Warsh has so many assets to unload to meet ethics requirements he couldn't get 'em all done on time lol

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 So the bond vigilantes threw a party and sold off, spiking yields across the board 1.44% on the day, throwing down the gauntlet at Warsh, d...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Real retail sales just comin' up for air

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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

CNBC doesn't really want to talk about how bad April's increase in wholesale prices was, doesn't mention the year over year increase to core, stripping out food and energy, at 5.2%

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 Wholesale inflation jumps 6% in April on annual basis, biggest increase since 2022 ... The producer price index rose a seasonally adjuste...

Adjusted for consumer price index inflation since October 2019, a traditional American breakfast should cost you 29.4% more in April 2026, instead it's 54.9% more!

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29.4% more is bad enough, right?  The ingredients for a traditional American breakfast in April 2026, adjusted for consumer price index infl...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Power prices did not climb 61%: The consumer price index for electricity was up 6.1% year over year, and the average price of electricity was up 7.2% year over year

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The Bloomberg headline linked to by Drudge meant that the rate of inflation for the consumer price electricity index at 6.1% year over year ...

Yes 6.1% is a rate 60.5% higher than 3.8%

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                  Many things have an explanation, if you think about them long enough.

Overall consumer price index inflation came in at 3.8% yoy in April 2026, core cpi at 2.8% yoy

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The overall rate of inflation in April 2026 at 3.8% yoy is 100% higher than the average rate of 1.9% yoy under Trump I. The core rate in Apr...

70% of Americans eat beef at least once a week, and pay these all-time high prices for it

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Sunday, May 10, 2026

I stopped caring about this particular economic measure when I realized that it obscures the fact that the top 20% in this country receive 60% of the income it displays

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Frankly, most of the economic charts produced by the government do this kind of thing. Most of the time the rich use this data to tell you h...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Back when America was still truly great, in July 1973, a barrel of oil was just 26 bucks

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 What?! A barrel of oil in July 1973 at $3.56 is $26.54 in March 2026 adjusted for inflation. I keep hearing that Baby Boomers are just suck...