RE: US Inflation11 May 2021 22:45
booboo,
The markets are looking for non-transitory markers of inflation. So the headline number may look like a rocket ship rise, but its all the data underneath and where it shows inflation increases being embedded such as high wage costs. In some ways they need to compare inflation where it was two years ago in 2019 to remove all base effects and then divide it by 2 to get a proper 2020 price then a 2021 price from that. The market either dumps gold or they buy it on what they choose to read into it. If we find going to the restaurant is like going to the barbers of late and we have 30%-50% price increases, a lot of people won't go back again or maybe they try somewhere else or they frequent such places far less often. The effect then becomes transitory as the extra cash built up over Covid-19 may well evaporate by September. They also have new business operations completely replacing would be retired competitors and timings of market entry may increase competition in coming months. Those numbers may be dis-inflationary when they arrive especially if they want new customers. Its going to be really hard to read what gold will actually do in all of this. Tony