Consumers Slash Spending Growth Expectations by Wolf Richter • May 8, 2017 • 118 Comments Lowest Level in Fed’s Data. The wallet does something embarrassing.
Atlanta Fed GDPNow Forecast Spirals Closer to Zero by Wolf Richter • Apr 14, 2017 • 45 Comments From bad to worse, hammered by retail sales and inflation.
Green Shoots! Is Argentina’s Economy Finally Growing? by Bianca Fernet • Apr 11, 2017 • 10 Comments How do you know when inflation is about 40%?
Rising Inflation, Four Rate Hikes, Financial Repression on Menu in 2017: Fed Heads by Wolf Richter • Mar 20, 2017 • 49 Comments Bondholders, savers, consumers to be put through inflation wringer.
ECB Trapped in its Own “Doom Loop” as Inflation Surges by Don Quijones • Mar 16, 2017 • 11 Comments To keep a financial system and currency union from collapsing on each other.
Inflation Hits Consumers, Mortgage Rates Take Off, “Financial Repression” for Bondholders and Savers by Wolf Richter • Mar 15, 2017 • 77 Comments The Fed is way behind the curve, but at least it now sees the curve.
Restaurant Recession Meets February Debacle by Wolf Richter • Mar 11, 2017 • 72 Comments What does inflation have to do with it?
Worse Than a Decade of Stagnation by Wolf Richter • Feb 17, 2017 • 54 Comments Retail sales are held up by only two sectors. The rest are sinking.
Whatever Happened to Inflation after All This Money Printing? It Has Arrived! by Wolf Richter • Feb 15, 2017 • 75 Comments Workers, bondholders, savers get sacked. So what would Yellen do?
Brazil Retail Sales Collapse as Inflation and Unemployment Whack Consumers by Wolf Richter • Feb 14, 2017 • 12 Comments A very inconvenient connection.
