Airfares to US to drop?

[RSD]

The published number likely depends on where in the buy vs sell cycle Trump and his minions & puppeteers are at … whether they’re trying to tank the US economy to make things cheaper to buy, or boost it in order to sell at a high-point. But it’s hard to know what their goal is ‘til after they’ve moved their checkers pieces around the chess board.

Yep. The scepticism around U.S. figures now is probably going to be similar to scepticism of Chinese data.

 

[AuSammy]

Tuesday evening Aust. time is when the U.S. CPI data for July comes out - June was 2.7%, analyst prediction for July is 2.8% - lets hope that it doesn't start with a 3 or the share markets might be in for a world of hurt.

Given one of the chief statisticians recently just got sacked for not fudging figures, possibly the latest figures will be whatever the administration wants them to be.