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CPI Blast-Off Should Come as No Surprise -- Matthew Johnson #5630
In all actuality is not a huge surprise that PPI increased. When you consider the economy as a large heavy car, (think 1976 Lincoln Continental) this thing was completely stalled blocking the middle of the road in 2020. That’s good for no one, so the motivation is “do something!” The government starting pushing on the car to get it moving. They print a lot of money, flooding the economy with plenty of liquidity, then interest rates get lowered to 0%, this incentivizes and stimulates spending…little by little the car begins moving but then it really gets moving. Now the car is travelling too…
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