Historical Oil Prices Chart– This Chart comparesMonthly Average Oil Priceswith theirInflation Adjusted Oil Price. Historical Crude Oil Prices (Table)– The first table showsAnnual Average Crude Oil Prices from 1946 to the present. Prices are adjusted for Inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CP...
What is the inflation adjusted price of common commodities? Historical Oil Prices Chart –This Chart compares Monthly Average Oil Prices with their Inflation Adjusted Oil Price. Historical Crude Oil Prices (Table) –The first table shows Annual Average Crude Oil Prices from 1946 to the present. Pr...
Chart Source: St. Louis Fed New car prices, as we saw, went up at the same rate as CPI (about a 100% increase from 1990-2020, or 2.5% per year) even though their CPI model said they went up extremely slowly on a quality-adjusted basis. Car maintenance CPI and gasoline prices of...
In other words, inflation expectations affect interest rates as the chart below shows: It is well known that the Fed is the primary determinant of short-term interest rates. This is one of the monetary tools the Fed has at its disposal and Bernanke candidly admits that Fed policy can also ...
Another broad valuation indicator that I don’t cite frequently is Tobin’s Q Ratio, which compares the broad equity market value to the replacement value of the companies. This excellent chart from Advisor Perspectives shows Tobin’s Q on the bottom, and shows the inflation-adjusted S&P 500 ...
I have calculated the earnings yield by simply taking S&P monthly earnings and dividing them by the S&P monthly average price as reported by Shiller. In other words, this yield is not "cyclically adjusted" to bring out the trends. The intimacy of using concurrent periods draws this relationship...
Moreover, adjust real final sales for gov’t purchases, and the yoy rate of adjusted final sales only barely turned positive (effectively 0%) in Q3. Real private final sales are at levels of four years ago; are down 4.2% from the ’08 peak; and have averaged less than 0.7%/yr. sinc...
The inflation subsidies also include cash payments made to gasoline wholesalers and distributors so that they would lower their gasoline prices, which would lower retail gasoline prices and therefore the inflation index for gasoline prices. The amount of the ...
This chart byAdvisor Perspectivesshows thatchezthe top 5% of households (dotted black line) and the top 20% (blue line), things don’t look too bad in terms of inflation-adjusted mean income. The 1% is mercifully not shown separately. But what has happened at the lower 80% of hous...
Chart 4: Record strong oil demand in the US in Dec / early Jan UK inflation will on the other hand look a tad softer and we generally see the divergence as growing between the US and Europe in inflation terms. December inflation is typically fairly hot in core terms in the UK as espec...