Inflation & Devaluation

Rents for Single-Family Houses and Apartments Blow Out across the US: This Crazy-Hot Rent Inflation is a National Fiasco

by Wolf Richter • Mar 15, 2022 • 229 Comments

And it has nothing to do with supply chains. Dear Fed, go have a look at the fruits of your labor.

Producer Price Inflation Gets Entrenched at 10%, Worst Level in the Data

by Wolf Richter • Mar 15, 2022 • 129 Comments

Businesses are confident they can pass on higher prices, plus some, to consumers.

Why This is the Most Reckless Fed Ever, and What I Think the Fed Should Do to Reverse and Mitigate the Effects of its Policy Errors

by Wolf Richter • Mar 12, 2022 • 363 Comments

The Fed’s credibility shifted from Inflation Fighter under Volcker to Wealth Disparity Creator and Inflation Arsonist under Powell. And everyone knows it.

WHOOSH, Dollar’s Purchasing Power Plunges in February as Inflation Spreads Across Services, Fed Still Pours Fuel on It

by Wolf Richter • Mar 10, 2022 • 180 Comments

This doesn’t even include the spike in food and energy prices over the past few weeks. They’ll show up later.

Crude Oil WTI Futures Go Bananas, Briefly Spike to $130: And this Is What’s Happening at my Gas Station

by Wolf Richter • Mar 6, 2022 • 265 Comments

Speculators are reacting to other speculators who are reacting to whatever.

Russia in Financial Crisis (Again), Ruble Collapses (Again), Central Bank Does Mother of All Rate Hikes (Again), US Stocks Shrug (Again)

by Wolf Richter • Feb 28, 2022 • 232 Comments

A financial crisis in Russia just doesn’t have the same effect on the US as a financial crisis brewed up in the US has.

Inflation Ate their Lunch, But Americans Made Heroic Efforts to Spend

by Wolf Richter • Feb 25, 2022 • 152 Comments

Personal Income and Spending under Red-Hot Inflation and Omicron.

Even the Fed’s Lowball Inflation Measure Goes WOOSH: Fodder for 50-Basis-Point Rate Hike in March

by Wolf Richter • Feb 25, 2022 • 220 Comments

The most reckless Fed ever is still just watching – and fueling – the consequences of 23 months of policy errors as the Inflation Monster gets bigger and bigger.

Buyers’ Strike Sets in: Used-Vehicle Supply Balloons, First Dip in Crazy Prices. But New-Vehicle Shortages Persist

by Wolf Richter • Feb 21, 2022 • 100 Comments

Will CPI inflation back off as used-vehicle prices unwind? Ha, here come the massive CPI measures for rent that are now soaring. Inflation Whac-A-Mole.

Americans Spent Money Like Drunken Sailors, But Did They Outspend the Raging Inflation in Durable & Nondurable Goods? Um, No

by Wolf Richter • Feb 16, 2022 • 165 Comments

Two elephants in retail: A historic spike in prices of goods and seasonal adjustments as the Pandemic upended seasonality.

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