Agflation !
Over the years, we’ve looked at — and coined one or two — terms for the current inflationary environment. We have...
Inflation Consensus?
Barron’s Mike Santoli writes: "It’s fashionable on Wall Street to strike a maverick’s pose and carp that...
Delving Deeper into the Inflation Issue
> "Who are you gonna believe, me, or your lyin’ eyes?" > As the lyrics above note, the consumer knows what the...
Inflation Part II
Here’s that missing post from yesterday. I found it ironic that the market was rallying on supposedly benign inflation news, while...
There’s No Inflation — Except for Necessities
Barron’s Alan Abelson weighs in on one of of our regularly and favored subjects: There is no inflation, except for all those pesky...
A Tale of 2 Inflation Rates
This morning’s inflation rate was terrific. Or terrible. What you saw depended upon where you looked. Wall Street looked at the...
Gold Bullion
Inflation appears to be still out there, yet Gold has been pulling back from its recent highs. I was wondering about this (non)...
NAR and Housing Forecasts
With the oft hallucinatory David Lereah now gone from the NAR, one would expect hope that the Realtor Group would take off the...
What? Inflation?
Okay, so here’s the "Official" explanation: the selloff over the past few days is courtesy of this new-fangled discovery...
Inflation, circa 1957
This has been circulating via email. The following were some comments made in the year 1957: (1) "I’ll tell you one thing, if...