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December PPI: Wholesale Inflation Eases, Beating Market Expectations

December’s Producer Price Index revealed encouraging signs for inflation control, with wholesale prices rising less than anticipated at 3.3% annually and 0.2% monthly, falling below economist projections of 3.5% and 0.4% respectively. While core prices, excluding volatile food and energy components, edged up to 3.5% year-over-year from November’s 3.4%, they remained below the expected 3.8% increase. The data arrives at a crucial moment as markets assess the Federal Reserve’s potential rate decisions for 2024, with current projections showing limited likelihood of rate cuts until at least mid-year. This report, coupled with upcoming CPI data, will be pivotal in shaping expectations for monetary policy adjustments, particularly given recent strong labor market indicators that suggest the Fed may need additional evidence of cooling inflation before implementing rate cuts.

 
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Inherited Gold IRA: Beneficiary Rules & the Step-Up Basis Gap

Physical gold you own outright gets a full step-up in basis at death. Gold inside a Gold IRA never does — it’s taxed to your heir as ordinary income instead, on a ten-year clock the IRS only fully clarified in 2024. Here’s what a beneficiary needs to know before a missed deadline costs 25% of the account.

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The Cantillon Effect: Why Money Printing Makes Some People Rich First

New money doesn’t reach everyone at once: banks and asset holders get it first, wage earners get it last, after prices have already moved. Using Fed balance-sheet data and its own Distributional Financial Accounts, this piece traces exactly how that sequence played out from 2008 to 2022, and why physical gold and silver sit outside the mechanism entirely.

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