Monday, June 21, 2021

As Lumber Prices Fall, the Threat of Inflation Loses Its Bite

Costs soared partly because of do-it-yourselfers’ spending stimulus checks, but a month of declines show that consumers aren’t about to trigger runaway increases.


? Lumber prices? No Quasis, I’m not buying your shit. Let the CPI fall for once; let measured inflatation recede for a month. Holding up lumber prices (?!) as a “sign”—you’re blockheads.