Team Fed And CPI

As investors, analysts and commentators warm to the idea that “inflation is likely transitory”, much of what we have been hearing from the the Fed and the United States Treasury seems to encourage and support that interpretation.

Team Fed member (aka Secretary of Treasury) Janet Yellen, who has used the word ‘transitory’ on other occasions, followed up her own attempts (here and here) to introduce the word into mainstream financial vocabulary with additional comments in a press conference after the G-7 meeting in London…

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