Here’s the time series on beef farm-to-wholesale spread, in 1982-84$. Figure 1: Real retail price per pound (black line), wholesale-retail…
The ADP survey cumulative increase in private NFP since 2023M03 is 3.1mn, more than the 2.8mn reported in the current…
Not from the Onion, but rather from the Daily Signal, mouthpiece of the Heritage Foundation: The Treasury Department under President…
The Harris Walz plan for reining in grocery prices appears to contain two components, one of which has attracted a…
From X, on Thursday: This is beyond ridiculous: industrial production and capacity utilization saw another massive downward revision, and Jul’s…
From a paper by Michele Andreolli, Natalie S. Rickard, and Paolo Surico (presented at NBER Summer Institute Monetary Economics sessions):…
Prices are up relative to January 2021, but not relative to January 2024: Figure 1: CPI – food at home…
That’s a title from FT. Remember when Trump promised 4% growth (in May 2017)? How did that turn out? Figure…
With the CPI release, we have new July observations for 3 series. Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation for core CPI (blue), chained…
Heritage Foundation’s EJ Antoni writes on X (August 2): Over the last year, native-born Americans have LOST 1.2 million…