Apollo’s Slok Warns of Inflation Risk From Diesel Surge

Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, warns that inflation from rising diesel prices may not be taken into account by the Federal Reserve since “that is really entering elsewhere in the CPI basket than in the energy line.” He speaks o…

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