last bread
"why are regular things staying priced while the markets go haywire"
the markets are flying up for several reasons
bond prices are getting hit with higher interest rates,
no where to invest money safely like savings accounts or cd's, everyone is trying to make enough to keep up with inflation
but mainly its is all the money "printing" going to the big guys first and they are buying stocks
playing the direvitive casino, chasing algo's
the "regular" things are going up too if you look around at gas, lumber, oil, silver, houses food etc
the regular stuff just might be lagging some
i and not when the money gets out of the big banks and into peoples hands and starts moving price inflation will follow
a couple key words
m1 money supply
velocity of money
blow off top
a short small book written in 1876 called
fiat money inflation in france
now free online
explains things nicely
it was written as an essay and is easy to understand
(it was read to the congressmen and senators back then so you can see it would be easy to read)
as the supply of money is inflated the money loses its value
when people start turning the "money" into hard assets as soon as they get it, it starts a vicious circle
more printing, more spending, more trying to buy before the money loses more value etc