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Apologies in advance for some of the possibly confusing content to follow. But if this were easy anyone could do it, eh? There are a lot of balls in the air; balls known as inflation vs. deflation and most of all time frames.
The media present inflation as this guy picking out higher priced fruit. Wait til he gets to the meat department! You can click the graphic for the article at CNBC.
A typical couple enjoying their (presumably) debt-financed breakfast in bed (image via Affirm).
(more…)As we approached the CPI number this morning, the bulls finally were feeling the wind at their backs. The modest bout of weakness in recent days surely would be reversed by the Fed Put. Thus the ES was zipping higher, as it has done for a dozen years…….
My definition of Stagflation is ‘inflation that works to impair the economy’ (as opposed to appearing as a benefit as it does early on) and the problem is gaining momentum in India (and China).
China isn’t the only huge Asian economy with a coal shortage now
I usually make fun of MSM sources like CNBC (MarketWatch, etc.) with their dumb, herd scattering, eyeball harvesting headlines. But this stuff is real. Per this post on my coal holding BTU…
“I know as much about coal for energy and steel making as I do about nuclear thermal propulsion. That is, basically nothing.”
Well, now I know more. Every once in a while men who stare at charts…
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