Inflation Guy’s CPI Summary (September 2025) Well, it seems like it’s been a while since the last CPI update! Thanks to the government shutdown, it has been since this data is a week and a half later than it was scheduled to be. The importance of the CPI release is obvious, but it was reinforced by the fact it’s the only […]
https://inflationguy.blog/2025..../10/24/inflation-guy

Mamdani’s Effect on the CPI Surprising no one, and yet shocking many, avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani won the election yesterday to become Mayor of the largest city in the United States.[1] Probably the main reason for Mamdani’s victory is that he pursued the tried-and-true method of giving out free stuff, and a whole generation of Americans who have systematically been […]
https://inflationguy.blog/2025..../11/05/mamdanis-effe

Does Crypto Expand the Money Supply? We live in interesting times, and let’s face it: mostly, in a good way. It doesn’t have to stay that way, naturally, and it won’t stay that way naturally. This has always been the weak spot in any system that insists on centralized management of certain functions. Of course, that’s the fundamental flaw and conceit […]
https://inflationguy.blog/2025..../10/15/does-crypto-e

The Fault, Dear Brutus, is in R* I want to say something briefly about the “neutral rate of interest,” which has recently become grist for financial television because of new Trump-appointed Fed Governor Stephen Miran’s speech a couple of days ago in which he opined that the neutral rate of interest is much lower than the Fed believes it is, and that […]
https://inflationguy.blog/2025..../09/24/the-fault-dea