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How Oil Shocks Rewrite Inflation Rules
Transport companies are sounding alarms on fuel prices while households face a one thousand seven hundred dollar bill from the Iran war’s economic ripple effects. Lucas and Luna dissect how energy spikes distort core inflation metrics, why the Fed’s traditional tools struggle with supply-driven price shocks, and what the latest CPI and PCE data tell us about sticky services versus volatile goods. We explore whether higher interest rates can actually cool down an economy priced up by geopolitical friction.
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