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Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Inflation is not a single number — it is a tax that hits every asset, every salary, and every grocery run differently. Lucas and Luna dig past the headline CPI print to show you where real purchasing power is being eroded and where it can be defended. Each episode opens with fresh data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Reserve, and real-time market moves. Lucas frames the macro forces — wage-price spirals, shelter inflation lags, Fed rate trajectories — while Luna tests every…
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Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating InflationHow Silver Is Outshining Gold in This Inflation Cycle
Gold is down 2.7 percent over the past five days, even as CPI and breakeven inflation tick higher. Meanwhile, silver futures are up over 4 percent in the same…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Is Changing Your Emergency Fund Strategy
Episode 51 dives into the quiet crisis in your emergency fund. With the S&P 500 hitting 7,431 and small caps surging 3.1% in a week, cash yields look tempting…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Is Hurting Bond Ladder Strategies Right Now
Lucas and Luna examine why traditional bond laddering is losing its inflation protection edge in June 2026. With the 10-year breakeven inflation rate rising to…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Small Caps Are Beating Big Stocks in This Market
The Russell 2000 has surged 3.1% in the past week while the S&P 500 barely budged. Lucas and Luna unpack why small-cap stocks are suddenly outperforming their…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why SpaceX IPO Is Reshaping Inflation Hedges
Episode 48 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo explores how the SpaceX IPO is reshaping the inflation-hedging landscape. Hosts Lucas and Luna break down…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Small Caps Are Beating Inflation Hedges
In this episode of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna look at a surprising trend in the current market: small-cap stocks are outperforming traditional…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How SpaceX IPO Is Reshaping Inflation Hedges
In Episode 46 of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna explore how the biggest IPO of 2026 — SpaceX's record-setting $75 billion offering — is changing…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Gold Is Falling Despite Sticky Inflation
Gold has slumped to a six-month low even as inflation remains stubbornly above the Fed's target. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the paradox: why…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How the Fed's Rate Pause Is Widening the Inflation Gap
Episode 44 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo zeroes in on a growing pain lurking in the data: the gap between what inflation is doing and what the Fed…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Inflation Is Quietly Reshaping the ETF Industry Landscape
Episode 43 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna examine how persistent but cooling inflation is reshaping the ETF industry. They discuss…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Your Rent Is Rising Faster Than Inflation
Episode 42 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo digs into why rents are climbing at nearly double the rate of headline CPI. Hosts Lucas and Luna examine…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Dividend Stocks Are Getting Crushed Right Now
The stock market is sliding, but dividend stocks are getting hit even harder. The Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF is down more than the S&P 500 over the past…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Gold Is Falling Despite Sticky Inflation
In this episode of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna dig into a puzzle that's been rattling markets in June 2026: why gold is down nearly 11% in a…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Your Cash Is Losing Value Faster Than You Think
On this episode of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna break down the hidden costs of holding cash in the current rate environment. With the…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Is Reshaping Your Portfolio Rebalancing Strategy
In this episode of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna explore how persistent inflation is quietly reshaping portfolio rebalancing strategies. With the…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How the Hot Jobs Report Is Stalling Fed Rate Cuts
The May jobs report came in hotter than expected, pushing the Fed further from cutting rates. On this episode of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna break…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
The Inflation Tax on Uninvested Cash
In this episode of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna discuss the real cost of holding uninvested cash in a high-inflation environment. With the Fed…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How the Fed Rate Pause Is Hurting Your Savings
Lucas and Luna dig into a surprising effect of the Fed's interest rate pause: even with CPI still elevated at 332.4 and 10-year breakeven inflation at…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
The Real Inflation Hedge You Already Own
In this episode of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive inflation hedge that most people overlook: your own human…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Hospitals Charge More When Inflation Is Low
Inflation has been cooling—CPI is at 332.4, core PCE at 129.6—but hospital prices are still climbing at 4% annually. Lucas and Luna examine why medical…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Rogue Overtime Pay Drives Local Inflation
Episode 32 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna unpack a surprising local inflation driver: premium pay mandates for gig workers and tipped…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Is Quietly Reshaping Corporate Dividends
As core PCE inflation hovers around 2.6% in mid-2026, companies are using surplus cash differently. Lucas and Luna explore how inflation is driving a quiet…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Inflation Is Quietly Reshaping the Stock Market's Winners
Episode 30 of Inflation and Your Money digs into how persistent inflation is quietly reshaping the stock market's winners and losers. Lucas and Luna…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Lets Companies Downsize Quality
Episode 29 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo explores 'quality fade' – the hidden way companies cut costs by reducing product quality without…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
The Inflation Tax on Your Savings Account
In Episode 28 of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna dig into how inflation is quietly taxing cash savings even as the Fed holds interest rates near 3.6…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
The Inflation Tax on Your Savings Account
Lucas and Luna break down how inflation is silently eroding the purchasing power of cash sitting in savings accounts, even with interest rates above 3.5…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Rising Inflation Is Reshaping Your Rent vs Buy Decision
In Episode 26 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna break down how persistent inflation is rewriting the classic rent-versus-buy calculus…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Is Reshaping Your Rent vs Buy Decision
In Episode 25, Lucas and Luna dig into how persistent inflation is quietly rewriting the math behind one of the biggest financial choices most people make…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Home Prices Keep Rising Despite Cooling Inflation
In Episode 24, Lucas and Luna explore a puzzle: headline inflation is easing, but home prices and rents keep climbing. They dissect the latest CPI shelter…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Inflates Your Property Tax Bill
Lucas and Luna explore an underappreciated inflation mechanism: property taxes. As home values rise, local governments reassess, and tax bills climb even if…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Shrinkflation Hides Higher Grocery Prices
Episode 22 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna unpack the quiet but corrosive phenomenon of shrinkflation — where package sizes shrink but…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
The Unsung Inflation Hedge in Your Grocery Bill
Episode 21 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo dives into a surprising inflation hedge hiding in plain sight: the shrinking package. When prices rise…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Corporate Profits Are Eating Your Inflation Numbers
Inflation is officially cooling — CPI is up just 2.4% year-over-year — so why does everything still feel expensive? In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Gold Miners Are Surging While Bullion Stalls
Lucas and Luna examine a curious market divergence: gold bullion is up just 2 percent in the past five days, but gold mining stocks like the GDX ETF have…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
What Prediction Markets Cost States in Tax Revenue
Lucas and Luna dive into the growing tension between prediction markets and state tax authorities. With the gaming association reporting that states have lost…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Prediction Markets Are Costing States Billions in Tax Revenue
Episode 17 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo explores a fresh angle: the hidden fiscal impact of prediction markets on state tax revenues. Lucas and…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Creates a Second-Hand Car Price Surge
Lucas and Luna explore a surprising inflation ripple: why the price of used cars is rising again even as new-vehicle inventory recovers. They trace the…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Disguises Rising Corporate Margins
Lucas and Luna explain how inflation has allowed companies to quietly increase profit margins without triggering consumer backlash. Using recent data on the…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Small Caps Are Surging While Inflation Lingers
Episode 14 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore why small-cap stocks are outperforming the S&P 500 so far in late May 2026, with…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Squeezes College Tuition More Than Tuition
Lucas and Luna examine how inflation reshapes the economics of higher education more powerfully than published tuition hikes. With the CPI at 332.4 and core…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Inflation Hits Older Workers Hardest
Lucas and Luna examine a little-discussed inflation asymmetry: wage growth for younger workers has outpaced inflation, while workers over 55 have seen real…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
The Quiet Inflation of Your Insurance Premiums
Lucas and Luna explore a stealth inflation driver that hits every household but rarely makes headlines: insurance premiums. With CPI data for April 2026…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Erodes Your Emergency Fund
Lucas and Luna discuss a hidden cost of inflation: the silent erosion of emergency cash reserves. With CPI at 332.4 and core inflation still sticky at 335.4…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Your Stocks Are Rising While Your Wallet Hurts
The stock market is hitting new highs — the S&P 500 just crossed 7,400 — but the cost of living keeps climbing. Lucas and Luna unpack the disconnect between a…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Service Prices Are Keeping Inflation Sticky
Core CPI came in hot again for April, driven almost entirely by services like rent, car insurance, and medical care. Lucas and Luna break down why goods…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
What the Bond Market Tells Us About Inflation's Next Move
Lucas and Luna explore the bond market's inflation signals in May 2026. The ten-year breakeven inflation rate sits at 2.40 percent, up slightly from 2.39…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
The Hidden Cost Inflation Imposes on Your Savings
In this episode of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a stealthy but devastating effect of inflation: how it silently erodes the…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Your Paycheck Buys Less Every Year
In this episode, Lucas and Luna tackle a stealthy threat to your finances: bracket creep. With inflation pushing nominal wages higher, workers are getting…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
The Fed Rate Cut That Never Came
In this episode of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna explore why the Federal Reserve has held interest rates steady at 3.64 percent since late 2025…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Why Your Rent Keeps Rising Even as CPI Cools
In this episode of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna unpack the gap between official inflation numbers and what people actually feel at the…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
TIPS Bonds Are the Inflation Hedge Nobody Talks About
Everyone rushes to gold when inflation worries rise — but in April 2026, consumer prices rose 0.65 percent month over month, and gold had its worst week in…
- Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
Gold Just Had Its Worst Week in Years What That Says About Inflation
Gold is down nearly 4% in five days. The mining stocks ETF, GDX, has dropped more than 12%. In the first episode of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna…