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So uncertainty breeds reckless short-selling, an inability of the bulls to actually deploy capital -- they really want to!! -- to these situations, and the despair and ruin they are precipitating.

Just beyond-belief dumb. And nobody says a thing.

Random musings: Once again, the July producer inflation index reflects the top of commodities, but I am getting tired of saying this stuff, because the futures react to each piece of rearview-mirror news as earth-shaking until it is figured out. ... Housing starts were the lowest since 1991, when we had a lot fewer people -- again, BULLISH, but the market interprets it as bearish as if we need more starts! Good grief!

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Look Beyond the Headline on the Inflation Number

Originally published on Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 9:48 a.m. EDT

The headline's scary as all get-out: "Jump in Wholesale Prices Shows That Inflation Remains High." No way that interest rates would be going down on that. No way we should be thinking of anything but a tightening by the Fed.

But neither is the case. Rates are going down. The Fed's not going to do anything, it is scared of its own shadow and is -- as usual -- paralyzed about the big issue of the day, house price depreciation.

Which brings me to the index itself, the one that "soared" the worst in 27 years.

I am never a top-down guy, I am a bottom-up guy, and if you break down the components that screamed higher, you will understand why inflation has not only peaked but is coming down hard.