At Jackson Hole, Powell assured us that a “narrow group of foods and services” were responsible for the “spike of inflation”. Yet, in the latest Kansas City Fed survey, EVERY i.e. 100% of the respondents said their raw material prices were higher than a year ago!

At Jackson Hole, Powell assured us that a “narrow group of foods and services” were responsible for the “spike of inflation”. Yet, in the latest Kansas City Fed survey, EVERY i.e. 100% of the respondents said their raw material prices …

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The Source of Killer Inflation: Services

by Charles Hugh-Smith The soaring cost of services is driven by a number of factors. What will the future bring: fire (inflation) or ice (deflation)? The short answer: both, but in very different doses. Goods that are tradeable and exposed to technologically driven …

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Food delivery services of the world mapped

via Brainmouth: So we’ve been scraping food delivery service locations for a while now and finally have enough to map. It all comes from the various delivery services’ public-facing websites (source) We originally mapped them in our own tool (Thinknum Datalab) and …

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