Trump needs to stop trying to sell ‘Affordability ‘ to people digging DEEPER into their pockets to pay for things…
And Immigration Policy that drives up costs…
Tariff’s/Import Taxes…
A War…
Policies of Uncertainty …
Wholesale prices rose sharply in February, providing another sign that inflation continues to percolate even aside from rising energy costs.
The producer price index, a measure of pipeline costs that producers receive for their products, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.7% on the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, the so-called core PPI increased 0.5%.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for increases of 0.3% for both measures.
For the all-items index, prices rose faster than the 0.5% pace in January. However, the core increase was less than the 0.8% for the prior month.
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The surge in PPI came due in large part to a 0.5% increase in services costs, something the Fed would not welcome. Policymakers have attributed much of the recent run-up in inflation to tariffs, which would not show up as much on the services end….
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Goods prices rose 1.1% on the month.
Food prices rose 2.4% while energy was up 2.3%. Within food, the index for fresh and dry vegetables soared 48.9%.
The report suggests that pipeline inflation pressures remain persistent, particularly on the services side, complicating the Fed’s path as it weighs how long to keep interest rates elevated.
The report comes with inflation worries accelerating amid the fighting in the Middle East. The U.S. and Israel continue to strike at targets in Iran, causing energy prices to surge. Oil has been trading around $100 a barrel, up more than 70% year to date as the conflict has proceeded.
None of the inflation data so far has captured the price increases associated with the war. But it has indicated that even before the attacks, inflation was a problem…
Note….
People who voted for Trump over Harris/Biden for the Economy LOST their bet….
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