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>The data, when paired with prior months’ lower-than-expected readings, point to more consistent signs that inflation is easing and may pave the way for the Fed to downshift to a quarter-point hike at their next meeting ending Feb. 1.

I hope not. There's an absurd amount of dumb money floating around, and YoY inflation is still at 6.5%. Higher interest rates are going to force companies and investors to actually post profits instead of functioning as giant leeches on the economy.




YoY is at 6.5%, but the last six months annualized is 1.8%. The YoY numbers are rapidly becoming misleading.


I tend to agree.

And in the housing market as well. All sorts of silly things have happened with home prices due to all the cheap money.


Headline and Core CPI printed 'as expected' however Services CPI soared to the highest in 40 years, real wages shrank for the 21st month in a row and housing costs continue to soar




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