The so-called affordability crisis is nearly overshadowing vast Wall Street betting on whether the Fed will cut its target rate a quarter point at its next meeting December 9 and 10 \u2014 because some Fed heads have been mouthing off about inflation and buying into the lefty press attacks on President Trump.<\/p>\n
In the last few trading sessions investors have been selling because they think there\u2019ll be no rate cut. Baloney.<\/p>\n
First of all, grocery prices under Mr. Trump have barely budged despite a couple of highly publicized outliers.<\/p>\n
Overall, grocery prices are up only 2.1 percent at an annual rate. The grocery problem guy was President Biden. Under his presidency, grocery prices jumped 5.4 percent annually.<\/p>\n
Cumulatively for the whole period, grocery prices under Mr. Biden were up a whopping 23 percent. Yet in Mr. Trump\u2019s first eight months, they were up a minuscule 1.4 percent.<\/p>\n
And, as Mr. Trump said yesterday at the McDonald\u2019s Action Summit, some grocery prices are already falling. He\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
In general, inflation is coming down, and that, according to Fed Governor Christopher Waller, an influential voice on the board, is a key reason why the central bank will cut its target rate by one quarter of a percent. He is also worried about some recession creep in the job market.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And of course, Democrats sabotaged Mr. Trump\u2019s fourth quarter with a 43-day shutdown that will take money out of Q4, though it will be recouped next year.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s make this as simple as possible. To keep inflation down, first shrink the Fed\u2019s balance sheet and reduce their target rates. That will keep the M2 money supply growing at a modest 5 percent, where it is now. Counterinflationary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Second, supply side tax cuts and deregulation and \u201cdrill baby drill\u201d produce more goods and energy at lower prices.<\/p>\n
Third, get rid of non-essential tariffs, like coffee, bananas, fruit, meat, nuts, and others.<\/p>\n
Stick to the big stuff, the important stuff, the national security stuff \u2014 forget about stuff we don\u2019t really grow much of.<\/p>\n
Mr. Trump just did this, and the results are immediately positive.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I want to add to this, profits are the mother\u2019s milk of stock and the lifeblood of the economy. Estimates for next year are up 12 percent for the S&P 500. That\u2019s a big number. That\u2019s why folks should buy the dip.<\/p>\n
And you know what? Sometime very early next year we will have an economy growing around 4 percent with an inflation rate below 2 percent accompanied by historically mild interest rates.<\/p>\n
Last time I saw that was Ronald Reagan\u2019s \u201cCity on a Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n
From Mr. Kudlow\u2019s broadcast on Fox Business Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The so-called affordability crisis is nearly overshadowing vast Wall Street betting on whether the Fed will cut its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-292271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}