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How the New York Fed's Financial Stress Index Rewrites Inflation
Episode 40 of Inflation Explained with Fexingo digs into a fresh inflation signal: the New York Fed's Household Financial Stress Index just hit its highest level since July 2022. Lucas and Luna unpack why this survey matters more than CPI for understanding where inflation actually lives—in people's wallets. With the S&P 500 down 2.7% and gold sliding 2.7% in the last five days, markets are pricing in a different story than the one consumers are living. The hosts connect the dots between the NY Fed survey, the proposed tariffs on 60 economies, and the real economy where rent and car…
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