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Inflation Alert! St. Louis Fed Lead Economist in Supervision Willaim Emmons reported price-to-rent ratio is at its highest level since at least 1975. As of March, the nationwide house price index was about 30% higher than the estimate of fair value.

Source 5/24/21 Price-to-rent has surpassed that of the last housing bubble peak. Some interesting excerpts from the report: The nationwide house price-to-rent ratio, a widely used measure of housing valuation that is analogous to the price-to-dividend ratio for the stock market, is at its highest level since at
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Inflation Alert! On yesterday's earnings call for the period ending June 30, 2021, J.B. Hunt said intermodal demand continues to significantly outpace our available capacity and inflationary cost pressures continue to present themselves.

Hello r/Superstonk, Jellyfish with you this afternoon to dig into J.B. Hunt's statement from their earnings call Transcript Source (Is Motley Fool, please don't hate me!) First, I am sure many of you are wondering what the heck intermodal means! Intermodal: involving two or
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Inflation Alert! A dive into the Drewry Supply Chain Advisors World Container Index. Does this bottleneck look like the wildcard to everything inflation to you as well?

Source: Drewryโ€™s composite World Container index increased 4.7% or $397 to $8,795.77 per 40ft container. * The composite index increased 4.7% or $397 this week, and also, remains 333% higher than a year ago. * The average composite index of the WCI, assessed by Drewry year-to-date, is
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INFLATION ALERT! The Reserve Bank of Australia announced today that it would taper its Quantitative Easing (central bank purchases securities from the market in order to increase the money supply)

The Reserve Bank of Australia announced today that it would taper its Quantitative Easing (central bank purchases securities from the market in order to increase the money supply), by reducing weekly purchases of government bonds by A$1 billion a week, to A$4 billion a week. Reddit Post
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