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I look at my 50 ETF charts each day, and I was doing so, something odd occurred to me: the chart of the treasury bonds ultrashort fund (symbol TBT) sure did look similar to, of all things, natural gas (UNG). Just for the hell of it, I put them on top of each other, and my recollection was accurate…….
Ya know, if inflation is as muted and not-very-shocking as the government wants us to believe, how come gold is acting like a total bottle rocket?
The “extraordinarily elevated” CPI numbers hit, and they weren’t so extraordinary after all:
To be sure, inflation is heating up, but there was nothing eye-watering about the report. Here is the monthly CPI over the past six years, and you can see clearly things have changed:
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