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Gundlach On Surging Gold Prices, 1970s Inflation Flashbacks

The disconnect between healthy unemployment numbers and miserable consumer sentiment remains a striking feature of today’s economy, DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach told attendees at a webcast ...

Oil Shocks, Inflation And Why The 1970s Playbook Has Its Limits

The Fed's tools are designed to address excess demand, not disrupted global supply chains or geopolitical embargoes.
The Conversation

The 1970s inflation crisis shaped modern central bank independence. Now it’s under populist threat – podcast

For months, Donald Trump has badgered the US Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell, to lower interest rates. When the governors of the Fed did so by 0.25 percentage points in mid-September to a ...
CNBC

An inflation pattern that has overtones of the dreaded 1970s is forming

An inflation pattern is forming in the consumer price charts in the same way it did in the 1970s, a potentially troubling indicator for the financial markets. Investors should take a look at the shape ...
Morningstar

America is being haunted by a 1970s bogeyman known as stagflation. Here's how big the threat is.

Higher inflation and a slower economy can be a toxic brew Long lines at gas stations were a common scene during the era of stagflation in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. The Iran war has revived the ...

When bread was 36 cents: How grocery prices from the 1970s compare to today

In the 1970s, the United States was in the midst of the Great Inflation. Here's how grocery prices then compare to grocery ...