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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GET BIGGER

Each week, we report instances where the money junky hedge funds, private equity groups and the already big companies swallow another piece of the global economy. Here are some more of what the BIGS have been gobbling up and how the Bigs keep getting bigger and the rich keep getting richer. It should be noted...

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SPOTLIGHT: INFLATION

GAS PRICES SOAR IN EUROPE AS U.S., RUSSIA CUTS SUPPLIES An explosion at a U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal shut down the facility for repairs for at least 90 days, operator Freeport McMoran announced. The company handles 20 percent of U.S. LNG exports to Europe and about 10 percent of the continent’s total gas...

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HOME PRICES IN CHINA NOT RECOVERING

Home prices in 70 major cities across China continued to slide in May, dropping by an average of 0.79 percent from a year previous, despite banks’ and local governments’ efforts to revive demand as the country’s real estate industry continues to work its way out of financial near-collapse. Prices ticked down 0.17 percent from the...

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CHINA’S GDP EDGES UP IN MAY

China’s economic output grew slightly in May after most of the country’s two-months-long anti-COVID restrictions were eased, allowing people back to work and to stores. Industrial production expanded 0.7 percent year over year, reversing April’s 3-percent slump amid the lockdowns. Consumer spending decreased 6.7 percent in May compared to a year earlier, easing back from...

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CENTRAL BANKS STILL FUMBLING POLICY

For more than a year, central banks called inflation “temporary” or “transitory,” waiting too long to raise interest rates while inflation soared far beyond their targets, and now are racing to catch up, hiking interest rates by startling amounts and at a rushed pace that push the global economy toward recession.  That record was summarized...

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HOW DID U.S. OFFICIALS GET INFLATION SO WRONG?

It has been relatively recently that U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and treasury secretary Janet Yellen have publicly admitted (sort of) that they misread inflation’s trajectory. They had projected that inflation would sink to their 2-percent target rate by the end of this year; they now see it at 4 percent by 2023 and...

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