BLS: July PPI 2023
The BLS released their PPI report today and it shows that inflation is still stubbornly resilient. The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.3 percent in July, seasonally adjusted,…
BLS: July CPI 2023
The BLS released the inflation report today and while some progress has been made inflation is not moving in the right direction. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers…
The Best Investment Now, T-Bills
The best investment right now for a variety of reasons seems to be short term T-bills. With all T-bills at a year or under paying above 5 percent interest rate…
China Demographics In News
Both CNBC and the Wall Street Journal have articles highlighting China’s demographic problem and what it means to the global community. From CNBC: China is facing a demographic problem and…
Uber & The Flash Mob
It’s summer and team members at the Econonaut decided to take some time off so we halted posting a articles but some of us are back and we come with…
Inflation Down But Not Out – Raises Galore!
The current narrative is that inflation is down and all of our inflationary problems will soon be part of the distant past but there are things happening right now that…
Market Update: July ’23 SPY, QQQ, XHB Crash Comparisons
It’s time to do our mid-month review of our crash comparisons. The SPY ETF is only 5.86 percent down from it’s post-COVID peak and it’s remarkable considering the Federal Reserve…
BLS: June CPI 2023
The BLS reported inflation inflation at 3 percent year over year so is it time to break out the champagne? Well, before you pop open that bottle, let’s take a…
Will Forced 401k Participation Save Equity Markets?
The year 2025 seems to be a pivotal year for a variety of demographic paradigms. First, we’ve written about the university enrollment cliff in Colleges & University Death Spiral that…
End of June SPY, QQQ, & XHB Chart Crashes
We’re done with the first half of 2023 so let’s check in on our chart crash comparisons: First up SPY and we see that the ETF index has made a…