What’s Going on With Inflation?

January’s CPI (Consumer Price Index) numbers came in last week and inflation was hotter than expected. Prices were up 0.6% in January, which means a year over year (yoy) increase of 7.5%. As you may have seen, this is the highest since 1982. As we’ve said previously , inflation is one of the scariest words in finance. It invokes troubling memories of the 1970’s where inflation was high... READ MORE