CPI: Fed-obsessed Kabuki Dance cools

CPI comes in cooler, market cheers... So CPI is cool enough to settle the nerves of Fed-obsessed casino patrons and machines alike. Consumer prices post smaller than expected increase in…

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PPI: A fitting end to the ‘summer cool down’?

PPI +8.3% from August 2020 Producer inflation accelerated in August... So the dominant trend (in place over decades) is for declining Treasury yields with the implication of structural deflation. I…

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The Vampire speaks

Jerome Powell speaks about policy as inflation indicators invite the Fed to continue its course (thanks to the summer cool down) It appears that things cooled a little too much…

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First they came for the gold stocks…

First they came for the gold stocks... Then they came for resource rich, emerging economies... Then they came for commodities... What's next? Will the Teflon Don (AKA the S&P 500)…

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