
Gas Climbs Back

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The economic database in SlopeCharts is positively vast, and I was curious what we had in terms of Produce Price Index. Well, it goes back to 1913! Check it out:

Good morning, everyone. I haven’t looked at even a single comment from my tell-them-how-you-really-feel post from last night, but perhaps I will later. It’s occasionally good to turn my honesty dial up from 1% to 5% and see what happens.
The PPI came out, and we’re three for three at three point. In other words, all the inflation indicators have come in red-hot compared to the forecast. Yep.

Now that all the breathless anticipation of the CPI amounted to a hill a beans in the end, but here’s the projection for the Producer Price Index, which the last two months precisely met projections:

