‘Soft landing’ narrative nuked: PPI collapsing, nearly 60% of CPI components in deflation, retail sales trending negative. Profit Recession just getting started with 34 companies reporting -6.7% so far…

Non existent credibility cause the Fed is again out of synch with the market and the data.Yields dropping as a new Fed policy error of staying too high too long would kill any soft landing narrative.Powell's got some explaining to …

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The theme of 2023 will be deflation, as frugality is already coming back into style with a vengeance for the middle class. Meanwhile, investor FOMO is about to explode with extreme dislocation

by BoatSurfer600   Volume drop at US ports is the start of a much steeper decline. DEUTSCHE Bank Warns of Peril, Borrowing from U.S. Banks FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s Deutsche Bank (ETR:DBKGn) has a stark warning to European companies borrowing from U.S. …

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This is what asset deflation looks like… The economy is melting down fast!

https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1547577863368425475 https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1547873218052050950 https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1547295051977555970 https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1547315706458505218 Republican economic expectations lowest on record. Democrat expectations lowest under Biden's presidency pic.twitter.com/Zdl6HSfCyH — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 15, 2022 Consumer participation is declining in both real and now nominal terms, at least per $WFC's credit card …

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Deflation to Trigger Fed’s 180

by David Brady via Sprott Money While everyone is focused on inflation, it is becoming increasingly clear that we’re on the cusp of deflation in everything but necessities such as food and energy. It is also convenient for the Fed that they exclude …

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Concurrent Deflation And Hyperinflation Will Ravage The World, Gold The Ultimate Against Wealth Destruction

by Egon von Greyerz of Gold Switzerland FLATION will be the keyword in coming years. The world will simultaneously experience inFLATION, deFLATION, stagFLATION and eventually hyperinFLATION. I have forecasted these FLATIONARY events, which will hit the world in several articles in the past. Here is a link to an article from 2016. …

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Hard deflation in used cars.

Hard deflation in used cars. Manheim Used Car Index has gone from 54.2 this time last year — to 9.7. (via ⁦@JohnSpall247⁩) pic.twitter.com/QsatslG7bJ — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) May 27, 2022 Used car-related ⁦@Google⁩ search activity has plunged of late ⁦@DataArbor⁩ …

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Can’t decide if next year will be Hyperinflation, Reflation, Growthflation, Stagflation, Deflation, Depression or Collapse….

by mark000 Let The 7-way Free-For-All begin! Hyperinflation ….of the USD Reflation ………..Goldilocks, positive GDP and normal CPI Growthflation …..positive GDP, high CPI Stagflation ………Zero/small negative GDP, high CPI Deflation ………..Japan, Zero/small negative GDP, zero/negative CPI Depression…….. Large negative GDP, large negative CPI Collapse ………. “UNPOSSIBLE” …

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The Inflation vs Deflation Debate

by David Brady via Sprott Money In a prior article, I discussed how timeframes matter with respect to price forecasts. The same goes for macro forecasts. Consider the inflation debate. Despite all protestations to the contrary and frequent references to such textbook concepts …

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Inflation or Deflation? What Is Going On?!?!

With prices rising substantially across just about every sector, the most common questions we’ve been receiving involve Mike Maloney’s theory of a potential short-term deflation before big inflation, or even hyperinflation. Watch today’s video update to get his latest thoughts.

Should Gold Investors Root for Deflation?

by Jeff Clark, Senior Analyst, GoldSilver   One of gold’s biggest catalysts throughout history has been inflation. Debase your currency enough and gold responds almost automatically. And the bigger the inflation, the bigger gold’s response. Even the fear of inflation ignites the gold price, …

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