Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral

Today the WNBA season tips off, but Dallas Wings veteran forward Alysha Clark has already won a high-stakes competition. She – and a Nobel Prize winning economist – were on the team that negotiated a ground-breaking contract for the players. And Alysha wrote all about it in her j ...  Show more

Curt Flood was the best center fielder in baseball and one of the game’s highest paid players. He took the St. Louis Cardinals to the World Series three times. Then he got traded to the Phillies. He didn’t want to go. But baseball’s rules said he had no say in the decision. He co ...  Show more

In this follow-up to our episode on inflation, we zoom in on one of the most underrated yet powerful forces shaping monetary policy and market moves: inflation expectations. What do people think prices will do in the future? Those expectations can actually fuel real inflation thr ...  Show more

On today’s show we are taking a look at the Macro economy. The bureau of Labor and Statistics published the latest CPI data which came in a bit hotter than expected. This is implying that the Fed will need to keep interest rates higher for longer to combat inflation. The Fed k ...

Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. What's more, tariffs and trade wars threaten to accelerate inflation again. Yet the conventional wisdom about inflation is stuck i ...  Show more

This week's inflation data releases have been favourably received by financial markets. After the UK, the US also released inflation figures that indicate further progress towards disinflation, paving the way for potential interest rate cuts beginning in September. The extent ...