Inflation risk: The government has kept borrowing from the Bangladesh Bank as commercial banks can't come up with much-needed funds owing to the liquidity crunch.
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inflation risk here? it s possible. my view in decades covering tech, right now new york city cab drivers, i think it s as under owned as i ve seen tech going back to 2009. you look at the perfect storm playing out despite the fed speak, i believe it could be a sort of rip higher rally. a lot of bad news baked in. doves came out. it s good to remind people that the stock market is a leading indicator, right. all of that pain and frustration for investors was forecasting the uncertainty that s still in the books for this year. a lot of investors looking beyond that and hoping that a fed will start to slow down. ceos starting to worry about a recession. the chamber of commerce said business is fed up with washington. listen. businesses don t have the clarity or the certainty to plan
"In this new year, recession, actual and feared, has joined inflation in the driver seat of the global economy and is likely to displace it," El-Erian said.
inflation will be even lower than what it is today which is good news because 7% is still too high. normal is a different concept. a different one. i expect we ll get do the 4s and then inflation risk is sticky around 4%. and, matt, you noted overall inflation, core inflation going down. food inflation, though, that remains stubbornly high. that s what s causing people pain at the grocery store. what is affected and why? sticker shock at the grocery store is real. food prices up overall 10% for the year. that is significant. look at these significant categories, butter 27% more expensive, flour, milk, eggs. 49% more than a year ago. the last time we saw an annual gain, i wasn t even alive. you have to go back to 1984.