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The last major economic data point that will tumble in before the crooks at the FOMC hold their kabuki theatre meeting will be the Produce Price Index, which is forecast to be 1% for the month. (As we’ve noted in the hallowed halls of Slope, inflation is running at 20% presently, and is sure to rise). Let’s just say we wouldn’t be surprised to see this coming in scorching hot. The number is release (to us peons in the public, at least) one hour before Tuesday’s opening bell.
President Biden deserves credit for having so far avoided World War III. He has resisted calls to impose a no-fly zone over the Ukraine, which would lead to war with Russia, and he has clearly signaled he has no intention of fighting Russia.
(more…)SlopeCharts has access to an ungodly amount of economic data, and a side project of mine is to vastly improve the interface to that data to make it easier to discover. One thing I just “discovered” moments ago was something I had never heard of called the Flexible Price Consumer Price Index, which is something the U.S. Government records but doesn’t really mention. It tends to be a more honest reflection of true inflation, as opposed to the very-watered-down number that issue to the press (and whose calculation formula has been, I am not making this up, modified 19 times since the 1980s – – I am certain to keep the number as low as possible).
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