Understanding Gasoline Price Inflation: Causes, Impact, and Solutions
Gasoline price inflation has been a hot topic in recent years. As the cost of crude oil has fluctuated and the demand for gasoline has increased, the price of gasoline at the pump has followed suit. In this blog post, we will explore the causes of gasoline price inflation and its impact on consumers and […]
Why oil is crashing and the black swan event of 2014: The price of oil is down by 40 percent in six months and hardly anyone saw this coming.
Black swan events are bound to happen in financial markets. It appeared that 2014 would be a year where stock markets gained footing in the world of supposedly low volatility until oil prices came crashing down. The crash in oil is enormous. It has sent many countries into panic mode including Russia where interest rates […]
Inflation is all around us if you know where to look: Spiking food costs, rising home prices and rents, and more expensive energy.
Inflation is accepted as a normal part of our economy similar to how we take it for granted that the sky is blue. It is close to a religion where people simply believe that inflation is part of the economic fabric of our nation. Yet inflation with no subsequent rise in wages is tantamount to […]
Cascading risk and economic headwinds – 5 charts examining the coming financial challenges for the American economy. Inflation is much higher than you would expect but Federal Reserve orchestrating greatest banking bailout in history.
The American economy appears on the rugged surface to be stabilizing but only if you fail to look under the hood. Today, we have a record 46,000,000 Americans on food stamps. Many of these people were once moving into the middle class but were launched off the economic treadmill. The banking syndicate that caused the […]