Reports of the demise of US inflation have been greatly exaggerated. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Aiden Reiter discuss the continuing high numbers and what the Fed might do about it this year. Also they go long Ohio State and short New Year’s resolutions.

Unhedged feels only a little reassurance. We thought inflation was all but beaten four months ago, and were wrong; once burnt, and all that. Despite this good report, however you look at it, core inflation is closer to 3 per cent than 2 per cent, and the trend is sideways, not down.

Economists polled by Reuters expect Wednesday’s US consumer price index to show inflation of 2.8 per cent in December, up from 2.7 per cent a month earlier. They anticipate that core inflation, which strips out volatile components such as food and energy prices,

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And almost as expensive due to years of cash flowing in to escape the inflation in neighbouring countries such as Argentina. What’s nicer than an ocean-view apartment to preserve your wealth in real terms?

Yields down, stocks up. After government bonds sold off sharply the week before, buyers were back after favourable inflation prints calmed investors’ nerves in the US and UK in the past week. As far as returning to normal it might be as close as we are going to get for some time.

Corporate earnings are coming in strong. Investors are also seeing the Trump administration take a less aggressive approach to tariffs than some had expected.

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise rates at its January 24 meeting following recent supportive comments from BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda and deputy Ryozo Himino.

The Bank of Japan has raised short-term interest rates to “around 0.5 per cent” in a well-signalled move that extends the country’s monetary policy “normalisation”.

The last time MAS eased the pace of Singapore dollar’s appreciation in 2020 was when the economy was headed for its worst recession ever in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. This time around the decision comes after inflation, which had soared to its highest levels in more than a decade in 2023, dropped to a three-year low in December 2024.

IAS 29, titled Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies, provides accounting guidelines for countries experiencing hyperinflation.