Headline inflation fell to 4.9% year-over-year, lower than the 5% expected.
Core inflation ticked down to 5.5% year-over-year, in line with expectations.
https://twitter.com/SteveRattner/status/1656275768727543808
Clearly. But its also dropping steadily, clearly.
If the rate of inflation drops, that doesn’t mean prices are going down, just that they aren’t rising as fast. The price of groceries are still much higher now than when Biden took over. Same can be said for just about everything else I can think of.
8.3% in 2022
4.9% in 2023
That’s pain for the poor and fixed income
I’m happy to see it headed in the right direction. It’s getting there.
Defation causes prices to go down, the past high inflation as pointed is already baked into the cake.SS is based on COLA . As this years was which was the highest in decades.
That U.S. Gov’t Interest expense graph is brutal. At the rate we’re now spending and printing money, the Fed will have to keep inflation high for a long, long time to be able to service our rapidly growing debt. Of course, they won’t ever think of repaying any of it - only refinancing it over & over again.
https://twitter.com/credeallawyer/status/1658539599583404032
And here’s Office REIT Vornado Realty Trust ($VNO, monthly back to '99, click to embiggen)
Man, I thought the Chinese were bad off
The tower at 350 California in San Francisco, valued at $300 million in 2019, is expected to trade at about $60 million
https://twitter.com/rcwhalen/status/1658483162211827714
San Francisco’s 350 Cal to be sold to Korean investor for “between $200 and $225 per square foot for the 300,000-square-foot Financial District building. That amounts to $60 million to $67.5 million — 75% below the $250 million sought when the building hit the market in 2020."
https://twitter.com/idannyb/status/1658496384629379072
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Beck’s Prime still stands up to the even higher-priced gourmet burgers. Not cheap, but not overpriced.
Hard to see an end to financial crises. Lots of stuff like “the end of the business cycle” have proven false. Chit can go wrong. Will go wrong. Frequently.
Becks Prime was $12-18 per burger before COVID.
A nice Pappas Burger was $20-35 per burger. What is it now? (GUH, I miss good burgers… I can’t find a comparable one in SoCal)
Cheddars has a decent burger…under $9. Actually, Cheddars has very reasonable prices comparatively. I suspect the menus are so expensive to reproduce, they hold off as long as they can
China can’t afford multiple defaults
@coachv — I know you’re not a Ray Dalio fan but he writes well on global macro. Here’s his take on the debt ceiling negotiations…
I don’t like Dalio because he’s a hypocritical China whore. Still, he knows what he’s talking about. You just have to understand where his self-interest lies.
Slight negative GDP like we had Q2 last year
More on the apartment foreclosure mentioned many posts above —
(paywall at link)
Apartment owner who lost thousands of Houston apartments in foreclosure this year is again under fire, this time from a group of Texas investors who are accusing the apartment buyer of essentially conning them out of $12.4 million. A group of 123 investors filed a lawsuit in Harris County this week accusing Applesway Investment and some of its related companies of fraud, theft and breach of fiduciary duties… The investors are mostly first-generation Indian immigrants living in Houston and Texas who heard about Applesway Investment’s potential real estate deals here through family, friends and word of mouth.
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