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BLS says July Inflation Holds Steady at 5.4%
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released their Consumer Price Index News Release for the month of July on August 11th, 2021. Inflation Summary: Annual Inflation 5.37% virtually identical to June’s...
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August 2021 Inflation Down Slightly
On September 14th, 2021, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that in August 2021, the Annual Inflation Rate was down. Inflation Summary: Annual Inflation was 5.25% in August, 5.37% in July, and 5.39%...
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FED Issues September 2021 Statement
On September 22, 2021, the Federal Reserve reported its current policy position. Currently, the FED is creating liquidity (i.e., printing money) through its Quantitative Easing (QE) program at the rate...
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Why is a Little Bit of Inflation Considered Good for the Economy?
Federal Reserve Eccles Building Washington D.C. The short answer is because the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, i.e., the “FED,” says it is. The longer answer is much more complicated. To determine whether...
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September Inflation Rebounds
The Annual Inflation Rate rebounded in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Inflation Summary: Annual inflation was 5.39% in September, 5.25% in August, 5.37% in July, and...
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Millennials Have Never Seen Inflation This High
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Annual Inflation Rate rose again in November. Inflation Summary: Annual Inflation highest since May 1982. CPI Index rose from 276.589 to 277.948....
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Why Quantitative Easing is Inflationary… Sometimes
Quantitative Easing was initially considered inflationary but after its first usage, it didn’t appear to be. Is this always the case? Is Quantitative Easing really inflationary? Will the Quantitative...
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Spoiler: The FED Guaranteed To Fight Inflation… Sooner Or Later
News from the FED’s December 2021 FOMC Meeting For nine months now, here at InflationData, we’ve been saying that inflation was becoming a problem. We’ve said this even though the FED denied it and...
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April Inflation Down, But…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in April 2022, Inflation fell to 8.3% Inflation Summary: Annual Inflation Declined from 8.54% in March to 8.26% in April CPI Index rose from 287.504 to...
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Surprise, Surprise, The FED Raises Rates by .75%
At its June 15th meeting, the FED announced that it will be raising rates by ¾%. Up until last week, this would have been a big shock to the market. But despite the imposed FED silent period leading up...
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Jerome Powell “Channels” His Inner Paul Volcker
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is sounding more and more like former FED Chairman Paul Volcker, who served as the chairman of the Federal Reserve from August 1979 to August 1987. Volcker is...
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September 2022 Inflation Virtually Unchanged
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that for September 2022, Annual Inflation fell from 8.26% to 8.20% Inflation Summary: Annual Inflation fell from 8.26% to 8.20% CPI Index rose from 296.171 to...
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November FED Announcement Rocks Stock Market
The FED Giveth and the FED Taketh Away On Wednesday, November 2nd, the FED held its “Federal Open Market Committee meeting” and made the announcement the market has been breathlessly awaiting. As...
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Why the Fed Is Bankrupt and Why That Means More Inflation
In 2011, the Federal Reserve invented new accounting methods for itself so that it could never legally go bankrupt. As explained by Robert Murphy, the Federal Reserve redefined its losses so as to...
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Is The Fed Flashing Signs It’s Done Raising Rates?
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday raised the target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) to 4.75 percent, an increase of 25 basis points. With this...
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Central Banks Respond Differently to the Banking Crisis
Central bankers don’t like surprises, so they tend to communicate among themselves in order to coordinate their response to every new crisis. And this week there was a wave of responses to the...
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Annual Inflation Virtually Unchanged in April
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report released on May 10th, Annual Inflation declined by 0.1%… but according to our calculations, it was even less than that. The BLS reported a decline...
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The Effects of Raising the Debt Ceiling
In this article, Professor Daniel Lacalle examines the relationship between Federal debt and crony capitalism. ~Tim McMahon, editor. Key Facts: Congress has raised the debt ceiling 78 times since 1960...
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Radical Decentralization: the Key to Wealth and Freedom
By RyanMcMaken It is not uncommon to encounter political theorists and pundits who insist that political centralization is a boon to economic growth. In both cases, it is claimed the presence of a...
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June 2023- Inflation Falls to 3%
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report released on June 13th, Annual Inflation declined from 4.0% in May to 3% in June. (but more precisely, it was from 4.05% to 2.97%.) Monthly...
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