Bloomberg: “The Number of the Week Is 7”
By admin_45 in IN THE NEWS
Excerpt from Bloomberg quoting DataTrek Research:
.... "For inflation to make the switch from transitory to structural, the economy needs to see a sustained boost in capacity utilization by companies, which would allow them to raise prices more easily — as long as their peers are also experiencing tight capacity. DataTrek Research issued a report this week that found the “magic number” to be right about 80% as the point where capacity utilization results in faster inflation. The problem is, that level hasn’t been reached since early 2008, before the financial crisis"....
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