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It’s going to be hard to get too jazzed about today’s CPI report. Because it is entirely a pre-Iran-war number, it won’t have any of the energy spike that will make next month’s figure so exciting/alarming. Now, ordinarily I’d say that this will be the last ‘clean’ number without those influences, but this number isn’t in any sense clean because there are still echoes of the ...


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One of the nice features of the USDi digital currency is that its path is known with certainty well in advance. The price of USDi is determined by the interpolated CPI index value compared with the value on the reference day (315.605). So, for example, we know that today’s[1] USDi value is 1.02681 ...


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Let’s start by setting the context for today’s CPI number.

A couple of months ago, we missed a CPI because of the shutdown. The BLS simply didn’t have any data to calculate the October 2025 CPI. That wasn’t the real problem. The real problem was that the BLS’s handbook of methods more or less forced it, in calculating the November CPI index, to assu...


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Before I tell you what I think about Trump’s nominee for Fed Chairman, Kevin Warsh, I should first confess to the fact that my opinion of Chairman Powell has changed several times since he was first nominated. That’s a user-beware warning about my thoughts below, but it’s not just about me. I’ve watched the Fed since about 1990 – I wrote a book leaning against the perception ...


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I’m here to draw your attention to something alarming happening in currencies at the moment. Here is a picture of the US Dollar, which has lost a huge amount of value in the past year.

Now, before certain ones of you get al...


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