Similar to Twain’s observation, reports of inflation’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Despite tales to the contrary, it is...
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Before 1983, CPI measured housing inflation by looking at what it cost to own a home (house prices, mortgage, property taxes). After 83,...
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Adjust this! We visited the issue of BLS "Owners Equivalent Rent" in CPI back in May (and several times since). But we...
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I’ve mentioned the magazine cover indicator several times in the past. I find its utility to be greater when discussing major...
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Good morning, and welcome to the monkey house. Now that the deluge has stopped, we can put away our umbrellas and turn to the key topics...
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Back in 2002, I addressed the issue of limiting the downside of disaster stock holdings (see Risk Management of "Fiasco"...
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Barron’s Alan Abelson shares my disdain for ginned up CPI data: When it comes to the so-called professional response to economic...
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On Monday, we looked at the Insolvency Epidemic — so its not like no one saw this coming. Everyone knew that yesterday was...
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Here’s some more color on Oil: The WSJ decided to track the past few decades of Crude’s price history, both adjusted (and...
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Today, I played the role of skeptic — and Man, did I hit for the cycle with today’s CPI comments — they were...
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