Sloper LZ wrote to me and offered to share these charts with the group with the message that “Does that 2008 top look like the current top? If the analog holds, it screams deflation is coming.” Thank you, LZ!
Doc Copper & Deflation
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Gas Climbs Back
Ancient Producers
The economic database in SlopeCharts is positively vast, and I was curious what we had in terms of Produce Price Index. Well, it goes back to 1913! Check it out:
Pee Pee Ai Yi Yi
Good morning, everyone. I haven’t looked at even a single comment from my tell-them-how-you-really-feel post from last night, but perhaps I will later. It’s occasionally good to turn my honesty dial up from 1% to 5% and see what happens.
The PPI came out, and we’re three for three at three point. In other words, all the inflation indicators have come in red-hot compared to the forecast. Yep.
As for Thursday’s PPI…
Now that all the breathless anticipation of the CPI amounted to a hill a beans in the end, but here’s the projection for the Producer Price Index, which the last two months precisely met projections:
