Two key inflation reports were released for March this week – the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Producer Price Index (PPI). Let’s look at these reports and then discuss a question that may be on your mind – why is the market reacting so much to these data points? The CPI for March 2024 […]

On February 29th (happy leap day!), the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure – Personal Consumption Expenditures (known as Core PCE) was released for the month of January 2024. (Note: Core PCE excludes food and energy, which can be very volatile.) Core PCE increased 0.4% for the month and 2.8% year-over-year, exactly in line with expectations […]

A few weeks ago, a client told me that the movie “Dumb Money” was now available on Netflix. I watched the movie this past weekend, which portrays the still shocking events surrounding the surge of Game Stop stock in early 2021. The movie (while a bit crass and dramatic – it is a movie after […]