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Inflation Reaches New High as Consumer Prices Jump 7.9%, Highest in Four Decades

John Carney 10 Mar 2022

Inflation climbed to another four-decade high in February with prices expected to push even higher on the back of soaring energy prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Department of Labor said that the consumer price index rose 7.9 percent compared with a year ago. Prices were up 0.8 compared with the prior month.

This is the ninth straight month of inflation above 5 percent. Prices rose at an annual rate of 7.5 percent in January, jumping 0.6 percent from December.

Economists had forecast CPI to rise by 0.7 percent for the month and 7.8 percent compared with a year ago.

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Adults younger than about 60 have never dealt with anything like this before.  Lord only knows how they will react.  Retirees are instructed to shed their portfolios of stock, and every safe investment is losing value, so I'll imagine quite a few of them will be forced to draw from their home equity if this persists. 

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Adults younger than about 60 have never dealt with anything like this before.  Lord only knows how they will react.  Retirees are instructed to shed their portfolios of stock, and every safe investment is losing value, so I'll imagine quite a few of them will be forced to draw from their home equity if this persists.
Who is instructing retirees to sell their stock?  Seems like a foolish move.

Oil stocks have jumped up significantly in just the past several weeks, so to have sold would have been disastrous.
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Who is instructing retirees to sell their stock?  Seems like a foolish move.

Oil stocks have jumped up significantly in just the past several weeks, so to sell would be disastrous.

Many financial advisors steer them into low return investments, unless they have atypical risk tolerance. 

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Highest inflation in 4 decades.  Gee --- Hello America, do y'all see what Joe has done and is continuing to do??
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Many financial advisors steer them into low return investments, unless they have atypical risk tolerance.
Time to dump the financial advisors who make this call.
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  Gee --- Hello America, do y'all see what Joe has done and is continuing to do??

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