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Soaring PPI Coupled with Plunging Housing Starts Spotlights Struggling U.S. Economy
U.S. companies were hit with the largest annual jump in wholesale prices in 27 years during July, while housing starts dropped to their lowest level in 17 years, the latest indicators that ruinous stagflation is tightening its grip on the U.S. economy for the first time in decades.
“Inflation is way too hot and with housing way too cold, we have the opposite of a Goldilocks economy,” Joel Naroff, president and chief economist of Naroff Economic Advisors, said in a note to clients after two separate U.S. government reports were released.
The Labor Department announced that the producer price index…
20Aug2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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