The combination of sluggish growth and high inflation can wreak havoc on both consumers and stock markets.
The Fed faces a deepening stagflation dilemma as February’s Non-Farm Payrolls fell short by 92,000 jobs while core PCE inflation remains stuck at 3.0%. With crude oil surging past $100 a barrel and ...
Widely seen as a nightmare economic scenario, it’s the rare double blow of rising prices and weak growth, squeezing consumers at the checkout line and in the job market. “The whiff of stagflation is ...
Mike O'Rourke, Chief Market Strategist at JonesTrading, warns that rising oil prices, private credit stress and stagflation signals could pressure markets, urging investors to rotate toward defensive ...
Investors are finding few places to take cover as a fresh supply shock ripples across global markets, upending long-held ...
President Nixon tried to cure stagflation by increasing government spending to fight the 1970 recession and imposing wage and price controls in 1971. However, the problem was not really “cured” until ...
The S&P 500 is in a bubble, trading at extreme valuations with a Shiller PE above 37, which is just below the 2000 dot-come levels. The recent Fed's SEP suggests that stagflation is a major risk in ...
The Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jamie Dimon, addressed the issues surrounding huge deficits, inflationary factors, and geopolitical risk in the U.S. economy while talking to Bloomberg ...
A fresh round of economic data this week landed with a thud. Not because it was especially bad, although some of it was. The uncomfortable reception had more to do with the context in which it was ...