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PPI February 2026: The Inflation Reawakening

The Producer Price Index surged 0.7% MoM in February, blowing past consensus expectations and marking the largest monthly increase since August 2023. This could not have come at a worse time for the Fed, the economy or the markets.

March 18, 2026 by Joe Zidle

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macro & strategy Members Jun 9, 2026

The $40 Chicken vs. the 13-Year-Old Car

Saturday's Wall Street Journal said everything we need to know: a story about how Americans are keeping their cars for nearly 13 years, at the bottom an article about restaurants charging $40 for half a rotisserie chicken. These two stories are not contradictions... its where we are.

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macro & strategy Members Jun 2, 2026

CAPE 42, Sentiment 44.

Leopold Aschenbrenner, the former OpenAI researcher whose "Situational Awareness" essay became required reading across institutional finance, entered into $8.46 billion in put notional. The true believer is hedging.

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macro & strategy Members May 28, 2026

Persistent Inflation and the Bifurcated Economy

The April PCE report confirms what the many already suspect: inflation is not retreating. Headline PCE rose to 3.8% year-over-year, the highest since May 2023. When inflation persists at these levels for half a year, it stops being transitory. But I'm optimistic that the economy keeps growing.

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