It's Confirmed - Higher for Longer & Americans Will Feel it

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]Well, it's pretty much confirmed higher for longer and the financial squeeze on virtually every single American based on the new data that was just released the other day that I want to bring to your attention here in this video cuz this is giving us a big broad look as far as what is going on and what actions we will likely be seeing or maybe not seeing at all going forward over the coming days, weeks, and months. And now, stick with me because I do have this article right here. I'm going to pop this up on the screen in just a minute so you can see and read for yourself exactly what this article is saying, the details of the economic report that was released. I'll talk you through the highlights of that report, what this means going forward, and again, how the finances of the average person out there, virtually every single American, is literally getting crushed right now, with maybe the exception of a teeny teeny tiny percentage of people at the very top who are making a boatload of money off of a highly manipulated market that continues to go up and up and up.

[00:00:57]But wait, did I say highly manipulated?

[00:01:00]Whoops. Gee, I wasn't supposed to say that. Sorry, I should have said all the corruption in the market. Oh, sorry. I guess I wasn't supposed to say that either, but it's the fact. We all know it, right? And a lot of people out there are getting crushed. Meanwhile, others are making a a ton of money that they probably can't even count cuz it's so much. Now, super fast. Before we get into it, if you have not done so yet or if you're new here, thanks so much for watching. Please consider subscribing 100% for free. Big subscribe button down below. Cost you absolutely nothing.

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[00:02:12]Anyway, this is crazy. Okay, so new economic report was just released and I want to share the details with you because this is impacting all of us and I'm not sure about you, totally freaking sick and tired of this. I'm not sure about you. Drop your comments down below, but I am like at the end of my rope here. I am just like so incredibly frustrated and irritated with all this.

[00:02:32]Let me know your thoughts. Am I just a total nut and um just the only one thinking this way or what? But I am just like totally sick and tired of this.

[00:02:42]Let's put this screenshot up on this on the screen here. Now, feel free to read through this. It's actually not a screenshot. I don't know why I said that. I apologize. It's an article. Feel free to read through the details on this, but let me explain what's going on. All right. So, we just received the other day the PCE, which stands for personal consumption expenditures. Now, this is the Federal Reserve's uh preferred inflation gauge. Now, remember, there's tons of inflation gauges that come out each month. There's the CPI, the consumer price index.

[00:03:09]There's the PPI, producer price index.

[00:03:11]There's the PCE, produ um personal consumption expenditures.

[00:03:16]And there's others as well, but these are the main ones. Okay. Anyway, this is the one that we just received. Now, here's what's interesting. This is uh the one that we got uh on the behalf of April. Okay, so April's PCE. Now, here's what's interesting about it. Came in at an an annualized pace of 3.8%.

[00:03:34]Okay, that's annualized inflation 3.8%.

[00:03:37]Now, what's interesting about it is a month prior it came in at uh 3.5%. The month prior to that came in at three uh 2.8%. So you can see the trend here, the trajectory, right? It is certainly moving higher. Does anybody want to project maybe where we're going to be with the next report? My bet would be on 4.5%.

[00:03:58]Why do I think that? Just look at the sequence. Look at the trend. It would suggest that maybe the next time would be somewhere right around that 4.5% uh in the next reading. Okay, so we all recognize this. Prices are moving significantly higher. We know this. And again, here's what's interesting about this. As you look through the notes of this report that came out here, it's not just energy. Cuz we would think, oh, it's just the energy shock, right? It's just the gasoline and the oil disruption that we've seen. You would think that, but as I've been saying for a couple months now, anytime that we see price increases and a shock in oil or uh energy prices, that ultimately over the following months translates into higher prices on virtually everything as it works its way through the supply chain.

[00:04:45]Initially, yes, inflation is jacked up with an initial energy shock or oil shock just mostly caused by energy, right? Or oil or energy. Okay, that's where we generally see it right from the very start. But as you move out a couple months, which to be fair, we've already moved out a couple months, right?

[00:05:02]Remember the oil shock started back in March. That was a couple months ago now.

[00:05:07]Uh, but when you see a couple months later, then you start to see it showing up in other areas of the overall economy and price increases, which is what we're starting to see here. And I'm going to say this much, news flash, more to come.

[00:05:20]This is not over. And as you see there in the article, it also indicates this is likely going to get worse before it gets better. Literally, what I've been saying for a couple months now, and um, there's a lot of people out there that say, "Oh, no. This is just going to go away. We're going to wake up one day and it's all going to be gone, just passed over like a storm cloud. Really? No, it's not. That's not how this works, right? That's not how it works.

[00:05:43]Especially with energy, it takes months to work its way through the supply chain, and we're still in the beginning stages of this working its way through.

[00:05:52]We're likely going to continue to see uh these elevated prices, unfortunately, probably through the end of the year.

[00:05:59]I'm going to say this, okay? I'm going to go out on a limb right now and say this. I'm going to be fair with you. I'm filming this video at the very end of May 2026. Okay, end of May 2026. Come back and check this video out in 6 months from right now. Okay, here's what my prediction is. By the time we get to the end of the year, the holiday shopping season, we're going to see a ton of reports and people coming out suggesting we're seeing a muted holiday shopping season. Shoppers don't have as much money. They're not buying as many goods. They're not buying as many presents this year. Why? It's because of the oil shock, the energy shock. It's because of um whatever. They're going to give it some thing um you know, basically some prediction or make up some thing. But basically at the end of the year, people are not going to be be able to buy nearly as much uh as they are, you know, planning on or what they think they're going to during the holiday shopping season, whatever. But my point being is that we're going to see it everywhere in the headlines.

[00:06:57]Shoppers are strapped with cash. They're not uh strapped for cash. They're not going to be buying as much. They're not accumulating as much. They're not giving as much this year. Yeah. It's because prices have jacked up so much. People are only going to buy like one item or something. It's going to be very minimal per person, right? So anyway, at the end of the year, they're going to use this as a massive excuse, and that's going to be the reality because prices will be so much higher. Um and again, this isn't even over yet, okay? There's a lot more to come. Now, another thing I want to point out really quickly is this.

[00:07:25]Remember this much. The Federal Reserve, you know, starting a few years ago started raising interest rates aggressively.

[00:07:32]Uh interest rates have only come down a little bit. They've lowered interest rates by about 100 basis points or about 1% over the last, I don't know, whenever they started cutting interest rates, two years ago or something like that. They cut interest rates a few times, maybe three times or so. A total of 100 basis points or 1% is how much they brought them down. Well, guess what? with these higher inflation numbers, do you think that they're going to lower the interest rates anytime soon? Nada. They can't.

[00:07:59]They cannot do it. Even with the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, uh, Kevin Wars can't do it. Cannot lower interest rates into all of this inflation. This simply cannot be done because if they do, all that's going to do is just fan the flames of inflation even more and cause even more of a situation that we're already dealing with, which is higher inflation by about double what it's actually supposed to be. Inflation is supposed to be around 2%. We're pushing nearly 4%. Right? So, point being is that it's nearly double what it's actually supposed to be.

[00:08:30]They've got a major problem. So, point being is that at the beginning of the video when I said higher for longer, this is what I mean by this higher prices, higher inflation, higher interest rates for longer. This isn't going to subside overnight. It's going to take several months and realistically probably through the end of 2026 is how long we're going to be dealing with this. Maybe even beyond. They never even got inflation under control the first time around. When inflation started to take off in mid 2021, it never even came back down to the target that they wanted, which was 2%. It oscillated around like the high 2% range for a little, you know, maybe 6 months or a year, something like that, and then it took off again. And here we are going back up. Wrong direction, right? So anyway, just want you to be prepared as far as what's going on. And again, it's easy to see the headlines out there that say, "Oh no, inflation's gone. No inflation anymore. we're actually entering into uh disinflation. Well, it would actually suggest the opposite.

[00:09:30]We're actually still seeing inflation.

[00:09:32]Maybe there will be a point at some at some point here, you know, in the next couple years or year or whatever that maybe we do fall into a disinflationary uh e economy or something, but probably not anytime soon. And again, I think a lot of consumers out there that are literally getting just just getting hammered financially. Don't don't also put it just getting hammered financially are just um getting very very sick of this. Anyway, drop your comments down below. Let me know what you think about this, but we may uh it's probably not going to be the severity that we saw a few years ago, but we may see another major inflationary situation like what we saw a few years ago. Again, probably not quite to that degree, but we may see another major uh inflation situation that's going to get completely out of hand and completely well disrupt the finances of a lot of people in a major way just like we saw a few years ago.

[00:10:25]It's going to be interesting to watch play out. But either way, I'll keep you posted. Want to bring you the information on this and again just so we can see what's going to happen here.

[00:10:31]I'll certainly keep you posted over the coming days, weeks, and months with any further information as it's released.

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