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PPI Jumps by over 6% Month-to-Month Annualized for 3rd Month in a Row. Energy Price Spike just Latest Wrinkle
4+ hour, 3+ min ago (772+ words) The energy price spike hit inflation at the producer level in March: The overall Producer Price Index final demand (PPI) accelerated sharply to 4. 0% compared to a year ago, the worst since February 2023 (red in the chart). Month-to-month, the overall PPI…...
First Wave of Energy Price Spikes Hit CPI Inflation
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (842+ words) The first wave of energy price spikes that Americans pay for directly washed over the Consumer Price Index for March. But the energy price spikes that Americans pay for indirectly after they filter into non-energy goods and services have not…...
US Government Interest Payments, Tax Receipts, Average Interest Rate on the Debt, and Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Q4 2025
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (936+ words) What portion of tax receipts gets eaten up by interest payments on the monstrous Treasury debt? That's the question. And we got data on it today for Q4. Tax receipts'by the federal government jumped by $67 billion (+7. 4%) in Q4 from Q3 to a record…...
The Once Uber-Dovish ECB Continues QT, Shed "66 Billion in March, Has now Shed 50% of QE Assets since Peak
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (512+ words) The ECB shed an additional "66 billion in March of its bonds and loans that make up its QE assets that had topped out at "7. 16 trillion in mid-2022. Since QT started, it has shed "3. 55 trillion ($4. 14 trillion), or 50%, of its QE assets, according…...
Six-Month Core PCE Inflation (still before Iran War) Jumps by Most since June 2024. The Fed Needs to Pay Attention
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (928+ words) The Fed-favored inflation measure, the PCE price index, which includes food and energy, jumped by 0. 38% in February from January (+4. 6% annualized), the biggest jump in a year, though the energy price spikes from the Iran war hadn't started yet (blue line)....
Home Prices in the Largest European Countries Range from Housing Bubbles to a Market that Fell back to 2010
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (408+ words) In some of the 19 largest countries by GDP in the European Union (EU) and in the European Economic Area (EEA), prices of existing homes of all types have skyrocketed to new highs, led by Hungry (+23. 7% year-over-year), Portugal (+20. 9% year-over-year), and Bulgaria…...
Bank of Japan Accelerated QT Further, Started Selling Equity ETFs & J-REITs, Shed 12. 6% of its Assets since the Peak
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (837+ words) Under its QT program, the Bank of Japan reduced its total assets by another "15. 6 trillion (-$9. 8 billion) in the quarter through March 31, and by "67. 6 trillion (-$42. 3 billion) year-over-year, to "662. 1 trillion ($4. 14 trillion), the lowest level since Q2 2020, according to the BOJ's balance sheet data…...
The Massive Unsustainable Trade Deficit in Goods Has Improved Sharply. Tariffs Are Doing their Job
1+ week, 5+ day ago (373+ words) The 6-month average trade deficit in goods fell (improved) to $80 billion in February, the least-bad since September 2020, and down by 37% from the 6-month-average peak in March 2025. The tariffs are doing their job! Since a trade deficit is a negative in…...
Retail Sales Plunged in February. But Huge Seasonal Adjustments Caused them to Jump. A Look at Both
1+ week, 6+ day ago (699+ words) Retail sales soar in December and collapse in January and February, every year to varying extents. Huge seasonal adjustment factors are used to reduce December sales and to increase January and February sales, to roughly level them out. And that…...
USD Share Drops to 31-Year Low as Central Banks Diversify into Other Currencies & Gold
2+ week, 3+ day ago (902+ words) It has been zigzagging down toward the 50% line for years. It does have consequences. And it has been there before. USD-denominated foreign exchange reserves are US securities held by central banks other than the Fed. They include US Treasury securities,…...
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