…in April, after declines in both February and March. Producer prices for final demand goods rose 0.2%. If this sounds well-contained to you, that’s because it is. YoY commodity prices…

This commentary came by way of ltr a reader at Angry Bear. A pretty solid review of how drug prices and the resulting costs after insurance are still impossible to…

…employamerica.org, Preston Mui Throughout the pandemic recovery, high inflation has been attributed to tight labor markets and high wage growth. Fed officials have, for months, maintained that the labor market…

…energy prices are likely to at least be an equal determinant to the badly lagging almost certain deceleration in shelter prices. Stabilizing inflation vs. decelerating wage increases would mean decelerating…

July CPI: almost everything except fictitious shelter costs are getting close to the Fed’s comfort range  – by New Deal democrat Gasoline prices and fictitious shelter prices are once again moving…

…that the big decline in commodity prices is over. There have only been two increases in commodity prices in the past 12 months: I suspect we’ll get #3 tomorrow. If…

…prices or private insurance prices. There is a price in between which can be achieved and better than today’s prices. A lot of territory to investigate. Medicare is encouraging states…

…rates between the lowest and highest income households was even larger (0.41 percentage points). Prices of household essentials have historically risen faster than nonessentials From 2005 through 2020, prices of many…

…gives Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices. President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will save millions of seniors money on some of the costliest prescription drugs on the market. Meanwhile,…

…managed-care approach to cost containment drove prices up by driving up administrative costs and triggering massive consolidation of our health care system. That was a lethal combination: Consolidation made it…