Inflation Archives - Page 19 of 55

U.S. consumer prices soared in June. The stagflationary mix of rising unemployment, strained financial markets and rising inflation,...

UBS on yesterday’s PPI data: Whilst Bernanke took centre stage, macro data showed the increasing problems we face. Producer prices...

Now if we can only figure out how to add the credit crunch to this . . . > via NYT

Tax-rebate-goosed June Retail Sales rose less than forecast, up 0.1% headline and 0.8% ex-autos. Consensus was for gains of 0.4%...

Hey, looks like we are not the only nation that plays down their inflation rate: In Cambodia, they stopped reporting CPI...

Interesting analysis via David Rosenberg of Merrill Lynch: "There have been five phases to this current down-cycle – the first...

One of the criticisms I’ve had about the way BLS calculates price inflation is the Hedonic adjustments applied by the Bureau....

Wow — this is amazing. It shows no sign of stopping, which of course, it eventually must. Here’s a question — at...

I just love this WSJ headline: Zimbabwe Can’t Paper Over Its Million-Percent Inflation Anymore...

As per our earlier discussion: We know health care costs have skyrocketed, that education costs are through the roof, and that Housing...