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When Everyone Is Wrong About Inflation, It Pays to…

May 8, 2025

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When Everyone Is Wrong About Inflation, It Pays to be Right

Being a contrarian isn’t easy.

It’s lonely.

It’s uncomfortable.

It’s necessary.

Because it can pay off in a big way.

This is especially true with tariffs and their potential inflationary effect today.

Trump’s trade war has dominated the headlines ever since he held Liberation Day.

He’s wielded tariffs like a sledge hammer, slamming a 145% general tariff on China. Then exempting things like auto parts. And that’s not even scratching the surface.

It’s a constantly moving target that’s creating extreme volatility in the markets and creating uncertainty in the economy. And it’s brought the threat of inflation back to the top of the worry wall. At least according to the consensus view.

But what if everyone is wrong?

What if tariffs aren’t inflationary after all?

What if they’re actually deflationary, where prices fall? Or disinflationary, where they rise at a much slower rate?

If that’s the case, which I believe it is, then if you’re preparing for inflation and you get disinflation, it’s probably not going to help your portfolio.

So today, I’ll explain why you should be focusing on lower prices ahead… and how you can prepare your portfolio for it. Even better, I’ll share a way to profit from it.

Look at the Clues

This week the Fed kept interest rates steady at 4.25% to 4.5%. Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s reasoning is that while the economy is on solid footing, hot inflation is a worry.

That’s led to much of the mainstream media and many analysts throwing around the term stagflation.

Stagflation is when we have double-digit inflation, negative growth, and skyrocketing unemployment.

It’s what made the 1970s so difficult.

At the start of the decade, inflation was heading higher, albeit slowly at first. We can see this in the chart below.

Then the oil price shock hit following the 1973 oil embargo, when OPEC cut off oil exports to the U.S. and other Western countries in retaliation for their support of Israel…

That led to scenes like this one…

1970’s gas line

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It became a self-fulfilling feedback loop. Inflation ran out of control in three strong waves. Rising unemployment didn’t help with the unemployment rate hitting a peak of 8.2% in 1975.

It ignited stagflation, which choked the economy and consumers.

That’s not what we’re seeing today.

Publicly “defying” Trump by keeping rates steady… or screaming that we’re heading for 1970’s style stagflation both make for great headlines… at least in some circles.

But it’s just smoke and mirrors.

And when you filter through the noise, you’ll find something different is happening.

What’s really in motion is a much slower rate of inflation than most people believe.

This next chart shows our current measure of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

As you can see, after a peak of 9.1% annual inflation, the official rate of inflation continues to decline. Today it stands at 2.4%, not far from the 2% target set by the Federal Reserve.

But, there’s a little-known, more accurate measure of inflation…

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Don’t Let This Week’s Fed Decision Distract from a Much Bigger Economic Reckoning

This week is all about the Fed. But many don’t realize that there is another economic shifthappening behind the scenes, one that is unlike anything Louis Navellier has seen in his four decades on Wall Street. He calls it The Economic Singularity. We’re talking about an economic transformation so profound it could create explosive wealth for those who understand it. But for those that don’t, it could bring devastating financial consequences. Make sure you know exactly what’s coming and how to prepare for it the right way.

Real Life Inflation Vs. Government Data

Truflation is a private company that publishes its Truflation index. It uses real-time data from more than 15 million goods and services tracked on a daily basis. It takes into account things like food, housing, transportation, utilities, and a whole host of other things consumers spend on.

And it has a 99% accuracy rate in predicting inflation.

Today, the Truflation number stands at 1.46%. That’s down from 3% at the beginning of the year.

That’s hardly the go-go inflation days of the 1970s.

And just as with CPI, the number continues to fall.

Now, it may not seem like prices are falling or rising at a much slower rate. That’s in part because after the recent bout of inflation a few years ago, they hit a new baseline. So it may feel like things are getting more expensive rather than the opposite.

However, that may change sooner than later. That’s because another compelling piece of evidence that inflation is dead in the water is the price of crude oil.

People often forget that oil makes the world go round.

You need it to make just about everything we consume, from our moisture-wicking gym shirt to the laundry detergent we wash it with. Or build the things that we need, from the cars we drive (which run on gas but also contain parts made from crude oil) to the paint we cover our walls with.

Without it, the world would literally screech to a halt.

Yet what’s happening in oil today is nothing short of a complete freefall.

And with the U.S. as the largest single producer of oil today by far, I doubt we’ll see anything like the gas lines experienced in the 70s.

Add in the fact that the unemployment rate is 4.2% and it’s clear as the nose on my face that we’re far from a stagflationary environment..

The reality is, tariffs are proving to be deflationary. Here’s an example…

What Gold and Air Travel Shows Us

Take the mining industry as a case in point.

About 25% of the costs of a gold mining operation depends on energy derived from mainly diesel fuel. So when oil prices collapse and fuel prices fall along with it, the miners’ profit margins increase.

And with gold up near its all-time highs, I expect profits for gold miners to rip higher in the coming quarters.

Another industry where this is playing out is air travel.

Fuel accounts for about 30% of the operating costs for airlines. Typically, when fuel prices rise, airlines quickly pass off that cost to consumers by raising ticket prices. But when fuel costs fall, they’re much slower to lower airfares. Instead, they soak in higher profit margins.

These are just two examples of many – with countless more popping up every day.

They are also the best place to start when it comes to preparing your investments for a very different environment to the one everyone’s worried about.

Look to industries that benefit from things like lower oil prices. Start adding exposure to them in your portfolio.

In particular, look to the airlines. They haven’t had the best year to date. They’re virtually down across the board. American Airlines (AAL) is down about 40% year to date. Delta Airlines is down about 24%. United Airlines is lower by about 23%.

But that may change in the coming quarters thanks to the deflationary pressures everyone’s ignoring. An easy way to play this is through the U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS).

Regards,

John Pangere
Editor, Freeport Strategic Opportunities

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John Oliver’s scheme to rename a Minors team

Thursday, May 08

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Welcome to The Pregame Lineup, a weekday newsletter that gets you up to speed on everything you need to know for today’s games, while catching you up on fun and interesting stories you might have missed. Thanks for being here.

There is a magic and a mythos to Minor League Baseball, from its homey stadiums to its zany promotions to its eclectic ballpark eats, that captures the attention of smalltown communities across the country. Now it’s captured the attention of one bigtime celebrity, “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver, who is making an entirely earnest pitch to teams across the Minors: Let him help you rebrand.

A true baseball fan and, more specifically, a Mets fan, Oliver has said he started rooting for them when he joined Jon Stewart at “The Daily Show” in 2006, though he also knew that “as a real sports fan in England, it’s just not acceptable to come to America and support the Yankees.” But his latest foray into the sport was a segment on his Emmy-winning show that was entirely dedicated to Minor League Baseball, highlighting all that is truly wacky and wonderful about it, which our own Ben Hill has of course been doing for many years in his “Baseball Traveler” newsletter (subscribe to it here, we can’t recommend it highly enough).

Oliver ran through just a tiny portion of the countless outstanding ballpark promotions happening every day across the Minors, even touching on some that have hilariously gone wrong. He cherry picked some of his favorite team names, including the Rocket City Trash Pandas. But we want to focus here on the way he ended the segment.

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“I have a very special offer,” Oliver said. “We are willing to use all of our resources and stupidity to give one Minor League Baseball team a total rebrand. We will give you a new team. A new mascot. We will even throw you a theme night. It will be personalized and it will be bespoke.”

The only catch: Whichever team is picked has to submit entirely to whatever Team Oliver conjures up – “no questions, no notes.” It’s a bold proposition and one that clubs across the Minors are already clamoring to be a part of. The Lake County Captains, of Toilet Row fame, are not flushing away this opportunity. The Reno Aces are throwing their hat in the ring. The Hartford Yard Goats took a different tack: “John Oliver should let us rebrand him. Never trust a man with two first names,” the team joked on its social media account.

Since we’re nothing if not accommodating over here at The Pregame Lineup, we thought we might send Oliver down the right path, starting with those Reno Aces. The city of Reno, Nevada, is named after Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer who was killed in battle during the Civil War. His son, Jesse Wilford Reno, was the inventor of the first working escalator. So we submit, as a starting point, the Reno Escalators, which might be just weird enough to work with if Oliver’s willing to take the climb.

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CARDINALS: SPEED IS THE NEW POP

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There’s been a lot of talk about cardinals and smoke today, but those other Cardinals have been a bit busy burning up the basepaths thanks to one man named Victor Scott II. In fact, Scott’s speed has proven so prolific that he’s pretty much in scoring position once he reaches first base. Yesterday, the St. Louis speedster twice scored from first, one of those times doing so on a single. That’s a nice luxury to have for a team that’s middle of the pack when it comes to power numbers (only five NL teams have hit fewer homers this season than the Cardinals have).

Scott’s wheels are impossible to miss with your eyes, but the numbers bear it out as well. He’s tied for the third-best average sprint speed at 30 ft/sec and has 24 bolts (third most in baseball), which are defined as any run where a player’s sprint speed is at least 30 ft/sec.

Teammate Jordan Walker said it best after witnessing Scott running wild yesterday:

“He might be the fastest baseball player I’ve ever seen.”

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• Phillies @ Rays (7:05 p.m. ET, FREE on MLB.TV): Winners of eight of their last 10, including the first two games of this series, the Phillies send superstitious southpaw Jesús Luzardo and his definitely necessary specs to the mound tonight. That’s not great news for the Rays, both because he has a 1.94 ERA and because they have been shut out six of the last eight times they have faced a left-handed starting pitcher.

• Reds @ Braves (7:15 p.m. ET, MLB.TV): The Braves have been steadily creeping their way toward .500 after that much-discussed 0-7 start. Though things are looking up, their offense has hit a bit of a rough patch over the past seven games, a span during which they scored just 18 runs but managed to go 3-4. The Reds snapped a four-game losing streak with a win last night that was tempered by Hunter Greene exiting early with a groin injury.

• Dodgers @ D-backs (9:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV): The Dodgers begin their first series of the season against an NL West team not named the Rockies, and the reigning champs will be out to prove this division still runs through them. They have ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the hill, armed with a minuscule MLB-best 0.90 ERA. For the D-backs, it’s their first divisional clash of the season, and starter Brandon Pfaadt had the Dodgers’ number last year, picking up the win in both of his outings against them.

STYLE GUIDE

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Eye gold is the new eye black. At least for A’s star Lawrence Butler, who on Wednesday afternoon made a fashion statement with his glimmeringcheekbones. The A’s announcers were a bit perplexed about whether this was more for flair than flare protection, but it’s never been totally clear if eye black actually has much utility. Either way, they chalked it up to “look good, play good,” and Butler promptly hit a two-run homer.

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