…Board recently issued a statement concerning costs and the plight of labor. And the issues? Pricing issues within the transportation of goods across the US. Typically, these costs are passed…

…which are even more leading, declined by -5,500. It continues to appear likely that January was the peak for this sector. Goods jobs as a whole rose 18,000. These should…

…retail sales increased 0.5%. Here they are compared with real personal expenditures on goods since just before the pandemic: Unsurprisingly, in the past year real retail sales have followed the…

…it rounds to unchanged rather than a decline. The PPI for finished goods (red) also rose 2.1%: PPI for finished goods is now up YoY by 2.2%, and is only…

…rounded to -0.1% for the month. Here’s what the past 2.5 years since the 2021 stimulus look like (blue) compared with personal spending on goods deflated by the PCE goods…

…or a mobile phone, are meant to reflect the seller’s costs and the buyer’s willingness to pay (demand for that good) — not their ability to pay (income available for all goods). But lots…

…of the last big pandemic stimulus look like (blue) compared with personal spending on goods deflated by the PCE goods deflator. Both are normed to 100 as of March 2021:…

…takes the entire economic output of the US — all the goods we make, from cars to houses to food, and all the services we buy from each other, from…

…of communist East and capitalist West succumbed to the reality that the economic regime of the East was fanciful. It simply couldn’t compete in delivering material goods and innovation. The…

…In December commodity prices declined -1.3%. For finished goods they declined -1.2%. Even producer prices for services were unchanged: On a YoY basis, commodity prices are down -3.2%, finished goods…