Bidenflation - Page 12

For decades, the Fed has helped pump up asset values and fought inflation by bringing down labor demand. What if it tries something very different?

December’s big inventory jump was likely an unintended effect of sales unexpectedly falling.

The Atlanta Fed’s measure of business inflation expectations increased significantly in February.

No signs that inflation may ease soon.

The first decline in expectations since October 2020.

Early hopes that inflation would stay confined to a few categories experiencing bottlenecks have been crushed.

American families brace for higher prices on food and drinks at this year’s Super Bowl parties.

Bidenflation is devouring wage gains, leaving American families worse off.

It’s not just the price of food on the kitchen table. The price of the table itself is up nearly 20 percent!

Much worse than expected.

“It sure doesn’t look transitory to me,” Chipotle’s CEO Brian Niccol said.

“If 2008 was a financial crisis, this is a molecule crisis,” Goldman’s Jeff Currie said. “We are out of everything. I don’t care if it’s oil, gas, coal, copper, aluminum, you name it we’re out of it.”

Gasoline prices have surged higher as winter weather has enveloped much of the U.S. and escalating tensions with Russia have helped push up the price of oil. The price of Brent, the global benchmark fell by nearly half a percentage

Inflation masked an even larger contraction in manufacturing at year-end.

Productivity made strong gains in the fourth-quarter but inflationary forces are still pushing up costs.

Wall Street firms are paying huge bonuses as the economy emerges from the pandemic, with compensation packages growing to levels not seen in a decade.

Spending inched up while costs soared, indicating that real output in construction may be falling.

Inflation expectations keep rising all over the country.

Raphael Bostic said that all seven meetings this year are “live” and all options on the table.

Consumer sentiment sank in January to the lowest level since 2011.

Prices are rising faster than income, leaving Americans worse off.

Another regional Fed survey shows mounting inflationary expectations.

Half of Americans expect inflation to increase a lot over the next six months.

The prices of products manufactured in the U.S. central Atlantic region rose in January at the fastest annual pace recorded in data that stretches back twenty-five years, according to a survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond released Tuesday.

Rising prices and the ongoing pandemic dragged down consumer confidence as 2021 got going.

The forward-looking measure of prices paid by manufacturers jumped to its highest level in decades.

Higher oil prices are closely associated with higher inflation.

Lumber costs jumped 24 percent in December, likely depressing single-family construction for the month.

The head of America’s largest bank says inflation will likely force the Fed to hike even more than markets currently expect.

Nearly half of Americans think inflation will devour all their income gains this year. Less than one-fifth expect real income gains over the next year.

Holiday shoppers stayed away in December thanks to high prices and early shopping.

The highest full-year producer price inflation on record.

More Americans are working but real earnings are down by a near record amount.

The Fed has failed to foresee two consecutive economic disasters.

Brady slammed Biden and Democrats after news broke that inflation surged 7 percent year over year in December — the fastest rate since 1982.

Inflation in car and truck prices shows no signs of hitting the brakes.