It's been on quite a journey over the past few years, a time that takes in the impact of the COVID pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine - see this graph: If predictions are correct, and CPI rises to around
Mary Long:We also got some inflation data that was released yesterday and that adds a little bit of rosiness to this overall picture. Total CPI held relatively steady, but it's core CPI. This is a number that excludes more volatile costs like food and energy that slowed for the first ti...
they’re not exactly the Fed’s top concern. The central bank will likely be more preoccupied with core CPI, which excludes volatile categories, like food and energy, and
Economists generally believe that when the Consumer Price Index (CPI) falls for two consecutive quarters, it indicates the presence of deflation. Deflation generally has the following impacts on economic activities. First, it leads to a decrease in total social investment. On one hand, deflation w...
With a fixed immediate annuity you can set up a steady income stream that you will never outlive no matter what happens to interest rates or the stock market. The payments can be made for your lifetime, for both you and your spouse's lifetimes, for a limited period of time, or for ...
Liz Ann Sonders interviews Kayne Anderson CEO Al Rabil about the state of the corporate real estate market.
I’ve been saying for a long time, and I wrote about it probably starting in July or August saying the good outcome is going to be a recession because in a recession, people will buy the bonds. The bad outcome was the scenario that we were staring down the barrel of in October. No...
The Fed’s minutes from the October meeting were released on Wednesday, and while the Fed maintains that it will begin to taper sometime in the coming months, it wasn’t exactly saying when. I’ve never thought that tapering was imminent, as the many “ifs” that Chairman Bernanke spoke ...
Each time a comment arrives I will hide it temporarily so as not to give the answer away too soon. Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments Double Drone Strikes Posted on July 13, 2013 by Polymath U.S. Drone Warfare: Secondary Strikes Target First Responders This is way worse than I ...
I can see a case for it, though. Not only because any changes to CGT will probably come into force before Rachel Reeves has even finished her bedtime cocoa for the day, but also because it’s hard to imaginelowerCGT rates anytime soon, even if they don’t go up in 2024. ...