It Gets Ugly: Inflation Shifts to Services. Food, Fuel Spike Too. Dollar’s Purchasing Power Swoons. by Wolf Richter • Jul 13, 2022 • 236 Comments Oh dearie, the Fed is going to meet in late July, and it’s going to talk about services inflation.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: US Dollar Exchange Rates and Inflation – What’s Next? by Wolf Richter • Jul 10, 2022 • 198 Comments The USD had a heck of a ride, which kept inflation from spiking even further. But it may not last much longer.
Average Transaction Price for New Vehicles Hits Record $45,844 in June, as Consumer Still Pay No-Matter-What, amid Inventory Shortages, Record Per-Unit Gross Profits at Dealers by Wolf Richter • Jun 26, 2022 • 229 Comments And despite the surge in interest rates for auto loans.
“Inflation Forecasts Aren’t Worth the Paper They’re Written on”: This Is about the Bank of Canada’s Reaction to Inflation, But it’s the Same in the US and Everywhere by Wolf Richter • Jun 24, 2022 • 286 Comments “Why the current tightening cycle is unlike anything we’ve observed in the past.”
False Hopes of Peak CPI Inflation: Prices of Services, Housing, Food, Fuel Spike. Dollar’s Purchasing Power Goes WHOOSH. by Wolf Richter • Jun 10, 2022 • 394 Comments The Fed is going to have a field day with its rate hikes.
Gasoline Spikes to Nearly $5 US Average, Diesel to $5.70. Crude Oil WTI Jumps to $119. Inflation Not in the Mood of Peaking Yet by Wolf Richter • Jun 6, 2022 • 207 Comments San Francisco regular hit $6.34 on average; at Wolf’s gas station from heck, it hit $6.79, premium at $7.00.
These Jobs Reports Are Not Good for Stocks by Wolf Richter • Jun 3, 2022 • 160 Comments And the Fed can see the budding Wage-Price Spiral too.
Time to Put Down the Shovel? So Far this Year, We’ve Dropped Three Projects due to Breathtaking Construction Cost Estimates by John McNellis • May 28, 2022 • 117 Comments His number came in 100% more than the cost of our last store, and the deal no longer penciled out.
Demand Destruction Hits Gasoline (But Only a Little) as Prices Spike in Historic Leap Just for Summer Driving Season by Wolf Richter • May 26, 2022 • 139 Comments I see gasoline prices rising further despite this modest short-term & long-term demand destruction.
US Natural Gas Futures Spiked to Highest since 2008, Tripled in a Year: Why We Kissed that Dirt-Cheap Natural Gas Goodbye by Wolf Richter • May 25, 2022 • 151 Comments The boom in natural gas exports creates massive demand on US production and connects US prices to the rest of the world.
