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Rising Prices, Declining Confidence

By Ed McKinley

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December 7, 2021

Uncertainty prevails as inflation unnerves consumers and perturbs economists Prices are soaring and necessities are scarce as annual inflation of 6.8% grips the nation. While economists differ on how much…
Price Appreciation

By luckbox magazine

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December 7, 2021

Is someone manipulating government inflation numbers for political gain? That’s what a lot of Americans say about the most common yardstick, the consumer price index (CPI), which tracks the cost…
The End of the Rainbow?

By Tim Knight

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December 7, 2021

Prospects for continued inflation may interfere with finding a pot of gold The word “inflation” may not mean much to anyone who wasn’t around in the 1970s and early ‘80s.…
Luckbox leans in with Ed Yardeni on the Measuring Misery

By Jeff Joseph

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December 7, 2021

Yardeni, an investment industry veteran known as the “Wall Street Seer,” has held positions with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Fed Board of Governors and the U.S.…
Inflation Has a New Hedge

By Mark Helfman

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December 7, 2021

The best hedge against inflation? Bitcoin. Because no matter what happens, the world will never have more than 21 million bitcoins. Plus, no one has shown that the price of…
Higher Housing Prices Ahead

By Daniel Dubrovsky

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December 7, 2021

Even if food and energy costs decline, rising rents could sustain inflation Is 6.2% a lot? That was the year-over-year inflation rate in the United States in October, as measured…
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deflation

By Garrett Baldwin

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December 7, 2021

Why DO mainstream economists FEAR LOWER PRICES? Unemployment recently dipped to 4.6% as the economy added 531,000 jobs, according to the monthly jobs report issued in November by the United…
How China “Controls” Inflation

By Andy Prochnow

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December 7, 2021

The Middle Kingdom’s command-style economy is keeping consumer prices artificially low. It can’t last. As most of humanity grapples with inflation, China finds itself in an unusual position. Consumer prices…
Yes, This is Stagflation

By James Stanley

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December 7, 2021

But it STILL MIGHT BE transitory Something new happened in the 1970s and it’s apparently coming back to haunt the nation again. It goes by the name “stagflation.” The word,…
No, It’s Not Stagflation

By Christopher Vecchio

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December 7, 2021

Yes, prices are up and GDP is down compared with earlier this year, but the economy isn’t entering a ’70s-style malaise The economic woes of the 1970s, a decade marked…

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