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UMich Survey Provides More Ammo For Inflation Hawks

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The May prelim UMichigan Consumer survey's "featured chart": "The average of net price mentions for buying conditions for homes, vehicles, and household durables were more negative than any time since the end of the last inflationary era in 1980 " (in other words, higher prices meant worse buying conditions).

  • Overall higher inflation was the theme of the report, pointing out weakness (the headline sentiment number came in at 82.8 vs 90.0 expected) was largely as a result of higher price expectations: "the highest expected year-ahead inflation rate as well as the highest long term inflation rate in the past decade. Rising inflation also meant that real income expectations were the weakest in five years."


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