…the price index for personal consumption expenditures, also included in this report, which is a chained price index based on 2012 prices = 100 . . . from Table 9…

…a gas, gas, gas” which persuasively showed that Bush’s approval rating closely correlated with the price of gas. Quite simply, people use the price of gas as an easy proxy…

…ago. Not only is this a near-doubling in price, but it is the highest in the past 7 years: Not only that, but energy prices tend to feed through into…

…were produced for that consumption….that’s done with the price index for personal consumption expenditures, which is a chained price index based on 2012 prices = 100, which is included in Table…

…that consumers are more vulnerable to a price “shock” than at any time in the last 8 years (house, car, and gas prices, anyone?). One of my recession models –…

…fell back & was only up slightly on the week…almost all the price movements in oil were market reactions to various news relating to Russia/Ukraine…prices fell back because there were…

…its opposite: all prices taking off simultaneously. This would require wage inflation to overtake price inflation, thus causing a self-perpetuating spiral, with wage rises feeding back into further price hikes…

Gas and oil price update: good news and bad news We’ll get some important house price information tomorrow, but there is no economic news of significance today, so let’s update…

…of the past 2 months was almost certainly a positive side-effect of lower gas prices. But in the past 2.5 weeks, according to GasBuddy, gas prices have risen over $.20/gallon….

…the FHFA house price index (/2 for scale), which has been declining since last June through its last reading for December: As I have repeated many time, house prices lead…