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A recent report shows: Inflation‑adjusted starting salaries for new U.S. college graduates have fallen to about $54,500 This is the lowest level in at least six years Real wages for graduates have been declining as the entry‑level job market cools Fewer graduates are landing jobs aligned with their degrees This comes directly from a labor‑market …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Consumer credit is weak in nominal terms and negative in real terms. Nominal Consumer Credit, Data from the Fed, Chart by Mish Nominal consumer credit has started to flatline. In real terms, credit is declining. Real Consumer Credit in Billions of Dollars Real Consumer Credit Data from the Fed, …
by Mike Maharrey It seems as if gold has been breaking records every week as bulls have run with wild abandon. However, last week, gold quietly hit a very significant milestone without much fanfare, taking out its all-time high in real terms. For perspective, in October 2023, gold was at $1,830 an ounce. Today, the yellow metal …
Gold just had a historic breakout The 50 year chart – adjusted for inflation – is in uncharted territory past the 1980 peak pic.twitter.com/nWSFhhPY5J — Katusa Research (@KatusaResearch) April 12, 2025 Gold have much more upside than most anticipate. From 2001 to 2011 within 10-year period gold price increased 8 fold from $235 to $1,915. …
The inflation-adjusted yield on 30-year Treasuries hit the highest level since 2008 last week, at 2.7%. pic.twitter.com/gDjLYv7RNh — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) April 13, 2025 the dollar is fine they said.. yeah investors keep dumping debt and the dollar like a 3rd world country. pic.twitter.com/4odlHpSQBz — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) April 14, 2025
10y inflation swaps jumped with the market Make inflation great and middle class poorer again pic.twitter.com/skURIoF9md — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) November 7, 2024 ALERT: Inflation-adjusted S&P 500 is very over-extended This also happened in: – 1913– 1929– 1965– 1999 Some of them were strong melt-ups But the market eventually fell With at least a 60% drop …
Inflation-adjusted hourly compensation is down 5.2% since the final quarter of '20 and is unchanged from a year ago, despite an increase in productivity and higher nominal pay: pic.twitter.com/1goh8soIMQ — E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) August 1, 2024 US CPI inflation set to collapse. The Q2 productivity and unit labour cost data are just out and …
Make America affordable again … Has your income gone up more than 40% since 2019? pic.twitter.com/5AYZP26oER — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) April 8, 2024 US 10-year inflation-adjusted yields are at the highest levels of 2024. pic.twitter.com/Z0LeH1PAFJ — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) April 8, 2024 Grandma Yellen’s recent claim that inflation will continue to decline might sound …
