Inflation and Trillions

 

Inflation and Trillions

 The Marxist-democrats running this government posture that “there is nothing to see here”, when inflation is mentioned.  “Don’t believe your eyes and pocket books, just listen to us”.

 Well, they can scarcely maintain the charade in the face of actual results as discussed in real news articles like the following.  Inflation is the highest its been in forty years.

 The Marxist-democrats have passed $6 trillion worth of “Covid relief” and “Infrastructure” legislature, and they want to pass another $3 trillion, or so, in social spending.  Mavens of the new Biden economics claim that all of this can be done without increasing the deficit or triggering a destructive inflation.  Mavens of these new economics like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich write scholarly sounding articles supporting this obvious lie.

 I’m not an economist, and the economics I studied in university were from a text by Paul Samuelson, who was pretty much a non-free market Keynesian, who was teaching across the river at MIT at the time.  Since then, I’ve become familiar with Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayak and Ludwig von Mises, all mostly free market economists.

 But forgetting the theoretical underpinnings, any person with some degree of common sense, has to acknowledge that printing and pumping and borrowing $6 trillion, or $9 trillion, has to result in the kind of inflation that we are experiencing.  Let’s remember a trillion is a thousand billion.  It is a one, with 12 zeros after it.  Even $1 trillion is a massive amount of money.

 

 This is from the “Daily Caller”, with the annoying pop-ups removed. 

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HARRY WILMERDING

December 10, 2021

 The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.9% in November, bringing the key inflation indicator’s year-over-year increase to 6.8%, the highest figure in four decades.

 The CPI’s increase is the largest increase in four decades, up from October’s 6.2% according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report released Friday morning. Experts surveyed by CNBC projected inflation would increase 0.7% in November, translating to a 6.7% gain on a year-over-year basis.

 “These are frighteningly high inflation numbers, the likes of which we haven’t seen for decades,” Allen Sinai, chief global economist and strategist at Decision Economics, Inc., told The Wall Street Journal.

 The core price index, which measures inflation of goods less food and energy, jumped 0.5%  in November, a decrease from October’s 0.6% increase, according to BLS. (RELATED: REPORT: Online Inflation Soars Heading Into Busy Holiday Season)

 Price increases in gasoline, shelter, food, used cars and trucks and new vehicles were among the largest contributors to the index’s jump in November, BLS said.

 Food prices increased 6.1% on a year-over-year basis, and energy prices soared 33.3% over the last year and 3.5% in November.

 Meanwhile, the labor market continues struggle to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emerging Omicron variant has brought new concerns.

 “We have tremendous spending by consumers. A lot of people are getting hired. Demand is huge. Monetary policy remains very easy and fiscal stimulus has no precedent in history,” Sinai said.

 The U.S. economy added just 210,000 jobs in November, far below experts’ projections of around 573,000, but unemployment slipped to 4.2% from October’s 4.6% figure.

 The number of Americans who filed new unemployment claims totaled 184,000 in the week ending on Dec. 4 as employers fight to retain workers entering a busy holiday season.

 “Looking past the noise, we think claims will eventually hover more consistently around pre-pandemic levels of 220k, assuming the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has only a moderate negative impact on the economy,” Nancy Vander Houten, lead economist at Oxford Economics, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

 Soaring inflation and falling unemployment have triggered Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to pivot away from pandemic era stimulus programs. Powell signaled that the central bank would wind down its bond-purchasing stimulus, which will lead to earlier-than-expected interest rate hikes.

 The central bank is scheduled to meet Dec. 14-15, when a more detailed schedule is slated to be announced.”

 https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/10/inflation-consumer-price-index-joe-biden-jerome-powell-bureau-labor-statistics/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2680&pnespid=vaJ7GCFYKaIC2qHDtjDvA5SW4Rb.TJYpK.e10eYz.0Rmy3O3aV5mTeBwZZR0QOANQ4xd81N4

 Ray Gruszecki

December 10, 2021