THELOGICALINDIAN - Inflation in the US continues to abide red hot as customer prices aftermost ages added acutely to 85 in March compared to the aforementioned ages aftermost year Metrics appearance the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS Customer Price Index CPI acicular aftermost ages at the fastest clip back December 2024
Inflation Continues to Hammer the US Economy — White House Blames Putin
The latest abstracts from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that aggrandizement has connected to acceleration ages over ages in the United States. BLS appear the organization’s latest CPI numbers and aggrandizement has acicular a abundant accord back aftermost year. According to the latest CPI numbers, customer prices in March jumped to 8.5%.
The abstracts follows February’s CPI numbers which showed a 7.9% anniversary access in February. Last month’s anniversary acceleration was 0.8% college than the year prior, while March saw a 1.2% jump. According to a Bloomberg abstracts report, “consensus economists” accepted an 8.4% access for March.
Just afore the CPI abstracts was released, the White House said that it accepted aggrandizement to be “extraordinarily elevated.” White House columnist secretary Jen Psaki abhorrent the aggrandizement on Vladimir Putin and Russia back she said: “We apprehend March CPI banderole aggrandizement to be abnormally animated due to Putin’s amount hike.”
On Tuesday, the economist and gold bug Peter Schiff told his 686,700 Twitter followers that aggrandizement will not be transitory. “The 8.5% YoY accretion in March CPI is the accomplished back 1981, back absorption ante were 20% & CPI was 13.5%,” Schiff tweeted. “Current absorption ante are .25%, and application the 1981 CPI the YoY accretion is acceptable 17%. With absolute ante abrogating 16.75% now, against absolute 6.5% then, aggrandizement is actuality to stay.”
On April 8, 2022, northmantrader.com’s Sven Henrich wrote:
A Few Economists Expect an Inflation Peak Soon
Andrew Hunter, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics thinks the March access will “mark the peak” for inflation. “The big account in the March address was that amount amount pressures assuredly arise to be moderating,” Hunter said in a agenda beatific to CNBC.
Ian Shepherdson, arch economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics told CNBC in the aforementioned address that the latest BLS CPI abstracts is “encouraging.” “Overall, this address is encouraging, at the margin, admitting it is far too anon to be abiding that the abutting few amount prints will be as low; abundant depends on the aisle of acclimated agent prices, which is actual adamantine to anticipation with confidence,” Shepherdson remarked. “We’re abiding they will fall, but the acceleration of the abatement is what matters.”
Joe Brusuelas, arch economist at RSM US told CNN the March numbers ability be afterpiece to a peak. “Yes, aggrandizement may anon acquisition its peak. However, that does not betoken cogent abatement is on the way in the abreast term,”
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