Under normal circumstances, real estate during inflationary period makes perfect sense because debt (mortgages) held against the property generally gets inflated away over time during high inflationary periods. Unfortunately housing…
While everyone is talking about Wednesday’s FOMC meeting where the Fed announced: In addition, the Federal Reserve will continue to increase its holdings of Treasury securities by at least $80…
According to Oilprice.com, the current rig count has been steadily but slowly climbing up. The total rig count rose to 576—a figure that is 238 up from this time last…
From Finance Yahoo News, Pakistan recently upped their central bank rate to 9.75 percent which represents a 100 basis point increase. Rising inflation is hitting the country’s sizeable poor and…
If you read our recent depressing post about the general direction of wages, explosive costs of health insurance, health care, education, housing and en mass boomer retirements, then you would…
Bloomberg reports that inflation is bad enough to impact the cost of synthetic fertilizers so much so that demand for animal manure is red hot. There are also alternative uses…
Friday’s 6.8 percent inflation rate for the U.S. has us thinking about the rise in inflation globally and we have been doing some research. Specifically, we were interested in finding…
Today’s theme is food and labor. We have reports from Campbell Soup that high labor costs are pinching profits and inflation doesn’t seem to be abating. United Natural Foods reported…
Mexico’s INEGI released consumer pricing index and it shows a whopping inflation at 7.37 percent! Mexico is one of the top 3 trading partners for the United States and high…
Brazil economic data came out hot and heavy today. First, the central bank raised interest rates 150 basis points from 7.75 pct to 9.25 pct. Secondly, Brazil retail sales are…