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Looking at current events and market trends, I could see significant drop in EPI, IFN, FLIN. Any suggestions which out of these three , I can consider for long term investment perspective
The last time America’s [job numbers](https://newrepublic.com/post/198695/fox-business-terrible-july-jobs-numbers-trump-maria-bartiromo) were this bad—besides the pandemic—was during the Great Recession. Revisions to the last three months of job reports have moved the three-month growth average to 35,000, a lag that hasn’t emerged [since 2010](https://x.com/jamiedupree/status/1951261889935135153), and which some economists have said could [indicate](https://www.epi.org/blog/weak-jobs-report-may-signal-a-coming-recession-average-job-growth-just-35000-over-the-past-three-months/) a recession is on the horizon. “The labor market is much weaker than originally reported the last two months. While payrolls grew 73k in July, May and June data were revised down a total of 258k to 19k and 14k, respectively,” wrote Economic Policy Institute economist Elise Gould. The health care and social assistance industries supplied practically all the new jobs over the last three months, while other sectors—including manufacturing, professional and business services, warehouse, retail, and government—lost jobs, according to the new figures. “Without health care, the last three months of payroll gains look like this: -53,000 in May, -45,000 in June, and -300 in July,” [reported](https://x.com/thestalwart/status/1951262432489349479?s=46) Bloomberg U.S. economy editor Matthew Boesler. EPI chief economist Josh Bivens posited that if the U.S. enters a recession in the coming months, the “rapid softening/deterioration in the labor market” over the last three months will likely be marked in retrospect as the start of the country’s economic decline. Trump administration officials [blamed](https://newrepublic.com/post/198714/trump-adviser-jobs-report-last-time-economy-this-bad) the abysmal numbers on “seasonal adjustment quirks,” though they failed to provide rationale on what made this season so different. In light of that, economists had their own ideas, pointing directly at Donald Trump’s trade policies.
A single, modest 10 % baseline tariff provides the predictable floor that CPA, EPI and American Compass all describe. Carve‑outs simply recognise reality: if a part or machine is literally unavailable here, a duty‑drawback or case‑by‑case waiver keeps the line running while the baseline still signals where new investment should go. That two‑tier structure is explicit in CPA’s model notes and in EPI’s 2025 tariff FAQ, so supporting exemptions while defending the baseline is internally consistent, not a reversal.  CPA’s “Liberation Day” brief stresses that a universal rate makes retaliation harder to target at politically sensitive sectors, because every exporter faces the same hurdle; off‑setting currency moves and supplier price concessions absorb roughly half of the duty in the model. AAM takes the complementary view that a broad, reciprocal tariff is itself leverage to negotiate lower barriers abroad, limiting the tit‑for‑tat spiral.   American Compass argues that textbook comparative advantage assumes free prices. When rivals run industrial subsidies, a small baseline duty is the price correction that lets genuinely more productive U.S. sites win business. Advances in automation have already narrowed the China‑wage gap to single digits, so a 10 % tariff tips the maths without banning imports outright.  EPI’s analysis treats the baseline duty and the CHIPS Act as complements: subsidies pull fabs to U.S. soil, while tariffs guard their future sales once grants expire. Nothing in the pro‑tariff literature proposes killing semiconductor or battery incentives; it argues those incentives work better when downstream demand is protected from dumped inputs.  EPI and CPA both point to time‑limited exclusions or duty‑drawbacks for inputs that have no domestic substitute. The point of the baseline is to make those waivers exceptional and transparent, not to force fabs to pay 10 % on a tool that nobody else can supply. CPA’s macro run still shows consumer prices rising only about 0.5 percentage point per year with every item taxed, a ceiling that falls further when genuine carve‑outs are applied.   The Reshoring Initiative tracks filings with project budget, location and start date. Its June 2025 report logs 244 000 manufacturing jobs announced for 2024 and notes that tariff permanence was cited 454 % more often in early 2025 than the year before. Q1‑2025 totals eased to a projected 174 000, but the report attributes the dip to pending tariff litigation, not to a lack of corporate interest. These counts are higher than at any point from 2013‑19 even after adjusting for cancellations.   CPA frames the April‑2025 package as the first time in years that importers, producers and financiers can plug a single, unchanging number into their pro‑formas instead of waiting for nightly Section 301 tweaks. Investors generally price risk lower when the cost is known, even if it is slightly higher, than when the cost could swing to zero or 25 % overnight. 
Consumer‑price effects are smaller and offset by higher incomes The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) models a universal 10 percent tariff and finds the one‑time price level rises only about 0.5 percent per year during a six‑year adjustment—while real household income climbs 5.7 percent thanks to stronger wages and employment. CPA also shows the $263 billion in annual tariff revenue is large enough to finance tax rebates for lower‑ and middle‑income families, flipping the distributional impact from regressive to progressive.  “All products get more expensive” ignores substitution and domestic scaling The analysis assumes every imported input simply passes its full tariff cost through to the shelf price. Positive‑outlook work stresses two mitigating channels: importers often squeeze foreign suppliers for discounts, and domestic producers expand output, creating fresh competition that restrains mark‑ups. American Compass notes that permanent, across‑the‑board tariffs give firms the confidence to scale U.S. capacity, allowing medium‑term price relief that a piecemeal approach cannot deliver.  Demand does not collapse—GDP and jobs rise in the simulations CPA’s general‑equilibrium results show real GDP up nearly 3 percent and 2.8 million additional jobs after six years, precisely because higher domestic production offsets any dip in import volumes. Reshoring Initiative data corroborate the mechanism in real time: 244 000 manufacturing jobs were announced in 2024 and early‑2025 filings remained strong, with “tariff permanence” cited far more frequently than a year earlier.  The aluminum‑tariff anecdote is incomplete Pointing to Alcoa’s short‑run order book misses the broader metals picture. The Alliance for American Manufacturing documents that reciprocal steel and aluminum duties spurred notable capital‑spending commitments, while Chinese and Russian overcapacity was forced to cut prices, reducing security‑related risk.  Price spikes in 2018–19 moderated within months as domestic supply came online, a pattern consistent with the CPA model’s modest inflation estimates. Foreign‑producer burden and strategic leverage The critique treats tariffs purely as a consumer tax. Yet CPA’s revenue‑recycling design and EPI’s sectoral‑policy logic both highlight that a share of the incidence falls on foreign exporters who either accept lower margins or invest locally to bypass the tariff wall. That shift is intentional: it disciplines subsidized overcapacity abroad and pulls critical supply chains home, objectives that cheap‑import logic cannot meet.  Context matters Past episodes cited in the passage pre‑date today’s tighter labor market, new industrial‑policy credits, and explicit revenue‑rebate proposals. The positive analyses factor those 2023–25 realities in and still project net benefits, so applying yesterday’s anecdotes to today’s policy menu risks anachronism.
SMIN - India’s small cap ETF has returned 140% past 5 years FLIN/EPI for large cap, around 100% in past 5 years
For those curious, my Indian ETF call (EPI) just jumped 5,200%. Take that for what it’s worth. Exp. 10/17.
This is the highlight. Being an IT guy I wanted to trust but verify that this blurb from EPI matched the actual text. > However, H.R. 1968 would also make changes to current spending levels, with an increase in defense spending of $6 billion, and $13 billion in cuts to domestic spending. The bill also includes provisions that would give the Trump administration significantly more leeway to spend federal dollars without Congressional approval. It also includes a provision that would prevent any member of Congress from attempting to terminate President Trump’s recent declaration of national emergencies over immigration and the U.S. border, which he has used to impose large, broad-based tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. https://www.epi.org/policywatch/house-passes-continuing-resolution-h-r-1968-to-cut-federal-spending/ This is the actual text. > https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1968 > In sections such as 1113 and 1422, the Act states that if a sequestration is ordered by the President under section 254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, then the spending or operating plans required by those sections must reflect that sequestration. I was wondering wondering what the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 was. Here is a run down. Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: > This law was designed to control and reduce the federal budget deficit. Key features include: > Setting Spending Targets: It established limits on federal spending to help bring the budget deficit under control. > Automatic Spending Cuts (Sequestration): If actual spending exceeded these set targets, the law mandated automatic, across-the-board cuts in discretionary spending. > Enforcement Mechanism: This “sequestration” mechanism forces adjustments without the need for additional legislative action, ensuring that spending is scaled back to meet budgetary goals. > Together, the sequestration provision in this Act works as a safeguard to enforce budget discipline—if a sequestration order is issued (as allowed by the 1985 law), the agencies must reduce their spending in line with the mandated cuts.
I diversify with vxus alongside regional etfs inside my Roth IRA. Mexico EWW, Canada EWC, Japan DXJ and EWJ, Finland EFNL, Poland EPOL, Argentina ARGT, India INDA and EPI. Been with these for three years now. India is down a bit past few months though but I’m holding until retirement. I’d check out some of the different regional ETFs, there’s several of different countries with different specifics.
I thought EPI was at the bottom so I bought 600 shares and it continued dropping 🤡☠️
I mean this portfolio would actually probably ~~net a positive return over 10 years but severely underperform the SP 500~~ go exponential to 100k by 2021 so its not a 100% dumb idea. If you have more money then sense go for it. I have skin in the game because I actually did. My IRA is all 70% fspgx, 30% EPI and EMMF so it actually adds some necessary stability. I also have Altria and Genpact (MOG), suncor, sentinelone (SUS) and 23andme and wayfair (MEW). Currently the hawk tuah ira with 2k total, up 0.57% since inception. Fun fact: the brainrot ETF has a higher 5y avg annualized return than millionaire investor Cathie Wood's famous Ark etf!
I have EPI in my poportfolio for India allocation
EPI, FLIN, PIN & INDY. Hoping to see good gains since they are betting heavy on India.
Play India thru ETF's like EPI, INDY, SMIN, etc
It makes sense cause if you shop at Costco you mostly likely have a family and if you have a family you kinda need to make more money to feed them. The EPI CoL in my county for 2 adults is 70k, but it's 100k for a family of 4.
Go with a country specific ETF. $EPI wisdomtree India earnings fund is an example of this. Has been performing well. Yet to see how it will perform against SPY long run.
Are they trying to compete with EPI (iDEAL) ? If so that is a fool's errand in the EU and UK.
INDA, EPI, FLIN, SMIN, INDY, PIN, nfty, glin, inqq, dgin, inde, indf Gotta admit there's a lot more etfs to short since the adani news. And for wsb, INDL (2x lvg bull etf)
>10k index funds...I have set monthly recurring of 350$ deposit to VOO You are mostly in stocks, which is appropriate for a 31 year old. But your stock investments are primarily large cap (large company) US stocks. If you want to diversify, the obvious directions are smaller companies and non-US companies. For smaller companies look at AVUV. For international stocks look at something like VXUS, SCHF, or SCHE. If you are interested in India specifically look at INDA, EPI, and FLIN.
EPI and WBD steady mobbin today. Lets go India and Hollywood.
EU decided to adopt a union wide EPI (European payment initiative) system modelled on Dutch iDeal (which is an awesome and practically free service btw) which will further eat into the market share.
EPI return 39% for the year and QQQ is 30%. You are leaving money on the table.
My awesome India etf EPI is green today as usual. 🇮🇳
Why EPI over INDA? Why not ICICI bank, if the economy is so bullish?
Are you sure about EPI? Tech is only 10% of that pie. Also, college enrollment in the US is down because American colleges are abysmal. When the education you get from college is good, you can afford more than someone who didn't go to college. Apparently, in America today, a college degree doesn't even earn you enough to pay for your college education. It's not anti-intellectualism that's hurting college enrollment. It's the fact that it is smarter (more intellectual) to learn a trade. It costs you a small fraction of what a college degree in the US does. You make more money and sooner. I do still agree that America is a falling empire. However, many American companies are international companies, and there are fees for owning foreign stock. So wouldn't it make more sense to buy stock in American companies that are getting good footholds in India?
Is EPI ETF/India reliable.. or another “bet on Brazil or China gamble”
OP stated they bought shares in EPI. Knowing nothing about it myself, Google says it's an ETF launched in 2008 that selects stocks based on companies with strong earnings in the previous fiscal year, rather than using a market-cap-weighted approach.
S&P500 $VOO will perform better than India $EPI from today to 1 year from now. Save this comment and @ me in 1 year.
I bought EPI today. India Bulls Gonna Crush.
I bought a little EPI, I trimmed too early. Now I am adding back
Sorry friend, anything with your pancreas is rough. I work with lots of patients with EPI and gastrointestinal diseases. It's probably the hardest diet to educate someone on because our guts are so different. It'll get better! Your insurance may cover RD visits, which can help with some symptoms.
He's not even treating it as such, actually trying to find the root of the cause and not jump to conclusions. This is actually being studied as a side effect by NIH too. If no diagnosis is found I should actually be able to participate in their study. Idiopathic EPI has surged globally in the last few years if you would like to research it. Covid and the vaccine both seem to have it as a side effect. Not really even trying to be political or conspiracy, just stating facts from real studies going on.
There is EPI and PIN. Generally India is seen as expensive but deservedly so as has English speakers rule of law property rights and isn’t china
Check out their international. GXG and ARGT have been a ride since last year. NDIA good for India exposure, just started last summer. I don't hold it as I've been holding EPI and INDA beginning of last year.
How about the fact that EPI pens are $500 and the only ones in stock aren’t covered by insurance :(
Thanks for this summary, there's a lot to research and unpack here. For India ETF, why do you prefer EPI over FLIN? The latter has a lot lower expense ratio, 0.19% for FLIN vs 0.85% for EPI, for a similar holding portfolio.
? Is that why the stock keeps going down ? I was thinking of buying calls as soon as I make gains with EPI and Indian wisdom tree ETF on Robinhood https://preview.redd.it/0qr42ed1z7jc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68c29b513294ac783b2764d6ae00bed7e66d904b
Guys I think I found a way to make all that I see Green https://preview.redd.it/v7jcuo5ufzic1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc114e4e625b8d32ddb36e978433d97573c0b272 I present EPI a wisdom tree fund of India🇮🇳
https://preview.redd.it/zomjl0ofnyic1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=617b2f9b7e34fd1605be02c39b3ebd402788a721 It’s wild how I first missed PLTR earnings then ARM with a potential gain of turning 5.7 k to 190k. Then I miss going COIN and AMAT calls. I will get my account back with EPI long calls which is an India etf. Gotta try everything 
I’m thinking of doing calls at 9:30 or maybe 10 minutes before markets close. But then I want to divide the port into DKNG, DASH and AMAT calls. Man decisions decisions But I also have been thinking about doing long calls on EPI a wisdom tree Indian ETF. The gains are long term a bit but I want to see greeeewn NOW https://preview.redd.it/v5yqp5zl5sic1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f410572336c89be85a307dafeef57f24836a27e0
the EPI wage inequality has been well known to be misleading. https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/es/07/ES0707.pdf
This is from 2015. EPI has a good analysis (a bit dated now) detailing how much better (comparatively) low wage workers have done since COVID. The paper is from March but the last 8 months have seen broad real wage gains for everyone so you can basically increase the numbers across the board. https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2022/
As someone from the same market as PayPal (and Wirecard) I can say that I am bearish on it long-term. Problem is their way of interfacing with third parties and sometimes their pricing models. It already caused them to fall behind in Brazil against Pix and is also losing ground in the US. If EU implementations like EPI and Digital currencies gain ground it can get hairy. Also by far their largest market is in BNPL which could face EU regulation as well.
I have exposure to India via EPI.
"Ford CEO Jim Farley earned $21 million in total compensation last year, the Detroit News reported, while Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares made $24.8 million, according to the Detroit Free Press. GM CEO Mary Barras tallied nearly $29 million in 2022 pay, Automotive News reported. Overall CEO pay at the Big Three companies rose 40% from 2013 to 2022, according to EPI." But it's because of the guys turning the wrenches that trucks are more expensive?
Nope. Only 13.8% “Income Disparity Income disparity is the most dramatic when you look at how the distribution of wages has changed since 1979. As the EPI reports: "The bottom 90% earned 69.8% of all earnings in 1979 but only 60.2% in 2020. In contrast, the top 1% nearly doubled its share of earnings from 7.3% in 1979 to 13.8% in 2020." The EPI also points out that the top 0.1% more than tripled their share of earnings to 5.4% in 2020 from 1.6% in 1979.” https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-income-puts-you-top-1-5-10/
Concur Check out $EPI too. Better valuation overall and balance
> Reality check: These folks are still not making much money. > In 2022, the 10th percentile hourly wage, i.e. the workers at the bottom, was $12.57. > That's not considered enough for one person to maintain an adequate standard of living anywhere in the U.S., according to EPI's calculations. Literally from the last article you linked if you bothered to read it. Sure, on the surface "wages went up" sounds good, but going from poor to still poor isn't much progress.
>EPI (J.P. Morgan premium income covered call etf) It's dumb that your logic for saying no to this is because he's a noob. If you are such a pro, you should e able to explain why its risky, with specific risks spelled out, and also explain what risk to reward ratio he should consider before trading option. Genralized criticism backed only by "because you rae a noob" only shows how you have the need to feel better about yourself because you've got a head start in trading option. remember, he could be a very intelligent in terms of financial engineering and probability such that he has better grasp of option of option trading than say a veteran option trader who has nearly broke even for past 10years because he only understands the rules of the game but unable to apply anything more than that. remember while stock trading is so much random variable, but options trading actually is very much probability and statistics, and so someone who has a knack for distribution probability will by far out rank you in terms of his success. \*\* in fact, this options play for tesla at $110 would have been a hands down a winning play and one of the safest trade anyone could have made even in current macro environment. Who's the pro now?
Need some EPI, some emerging market funds
Mexico market ain't cheap. Nor is India's I do like $EPI -- cheaper Indian stocks thrown in there, too
> The ones that always get fucked has traditionally been the little guys, the blue collar lower class. However, what the 2020 Covid recession told us is that the government and general public who votes for these governments wants the little guys protected, via bailouts and whatever means needed to keep them around. I do believe the Fed's interest rate hikes are aimed at making the lower and middle class pay for the crazy excess of wealth class portfolio growth and federal debt spike of the pandemic. [Most of the inflation we're experiencing is due to extremely high profit margins US companies are currently raking in since supply side disruptions started during the pandemic, and that they don't seem to be motivated to cut down](https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-disproportionately-to-inflation-how-should-policymakers-respond/). The rest of inflation is due to supply constraints, like that caused by sanctions, trade war vs China and other US policies. And these inflation drivers complement each other. With a trade war putting tariffs on Chinese imports and reducing supply of imported consumer goods, US companies are free to hike prices due to the reduced competition. Ideally, the tariffs and constraints on imports should translate into increased domestic production, but what seems to be happening is almost historic profit margins for US companies instead. And inflation. The thing to understand is that both inflation and interest rate hikes benefit the people on top of the economic food chain in the US. Inflation is a form of regressive tax on lower and middle income households that spend a greater percent of their income on food, energy, shelter and basic goods for living, while low interest long term debt is magically shrinking so long as the interest on the debt is much lower than inflation. The US federal deficit and debt is also magically shrinking every month that inflation reduces the dollar value of the debt. This is why inflation is a regressive tax on lower and middle income households while large, low-interest debt holders make out in an inflationary environment. The next way to fuck the poor and middle class is to raise interest rates, in the pretense that it's high wages that are driving inflation. But wage growth hasn't matched profit margin growth of companies for a long time, and it doesn't match the inflation due to trade wars, import tariffs on mass consumer goods and other supply disruptions. So relying on high interest rates, which is specifically intended to cut into wage growth, to cut inflation is another way to force the burden of high inflation onto workers. It's these kinds of approaches to economic management that explain why economic inequality grows during both Democratic and Republican Administrations. Everybody in power pretends they are doing one thing, when the way they do things means that they are always following policies that enrich the wealthy and investor class the most while shifting all of the costs and burdens onto the working class. _____________ References for high corporate profit margins driving inflation rather than wage growth, suggesting the Fed's interest rate hikes are an example of our policy leaders trying to target inflation in ways that burden working classes, rather than address real causes of inflation today: * 03/23/2023: [The Fed has it wrong: Corporate greed is to blame for inflation, not rising wages, SocGen analyst says](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-fed-has-it-wrong-corporate-greed-is-to-blame-for-inflation-not-rising-wages-socgen-analyst-says-e1236056). Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has repeatedly said undercutting wage growth for American workers is essential for tamping down the worst bout of inflation in the U.S. in more than 40 years. But a raft of data suggest that robust corporate profit margins — not wages — are having a much bigger impact on rising prices, according to longtime Société Générale strategist Albert Edwards. Edwards calls this dynamic “greedflation”: the notion that corporate price gouging is helping to keep inflation robust at a time when commodity prices, which were initially blamed for the price shock, have actually fallen over the past 12 months. * 2022: MarketWatch.com article reporting [profit margins set a record at 13.5% of gross valued added in the second quarter of 2021 and have barely come down from that peak despite inflation raging at 40-year highs](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inflation-hasnt-been-bad-for-everyone-companies-are-producing-outsized-profits-11661455321) * 2022: [According to an article on Substack.com, inflation is being driven by the pricing power and higher profits of corporations, costing $2,126 per American](https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/corporate-profits-drive-60-of-inflation) * 2022: [Another article on EPI.org states that over half of the increase in price growth in the current recovery can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase](https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-disproportionately-to-inflation-how-should-policymakers-respond/)
I don’t think Tata is embroiled in scams, might be another company. This might be a good reason to invest in an ETF instead of selecting stocks from a foreign country. FLIN is cheapest and EPI is the most diverse. As to whether to invest or not you can either go off on some of the hot takes in the comment or below is it’s past performance relative to the emerging market (EM) ETF. Of course past performance is no guarantee and EMs are riskier in general. https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&timePeriod=4&startYear=1985&firstMonth=1&endYear=2023&lastMonth=12&calendarAligned=true&includeYTD=true&initialAmount=10000&annualOperation=1&annualAdjustment=100&inflationAdjusted=true&annualPercentage=0.0&frequency=2&rebalanceType=1&absoluteDeviation=5.0&relativeDeviation=25.0&leverageType=0&leverageRatio=0.0&debtAmount=0&debtInterest=0.0&maintenanceMargin=25.0&leveragedBenchmark=false&reinvestDividends=true&showYield=false&showFactors=false&factorModel=3&portfolioNames=false&portfolioName1=Portfolio+1&portfolioName2=Portfolio+2&portfolioName3=Portfolio+3&symbol1=VWO&allocation1_1=100&symbol2=EPI&allocation2_2=100
definitely. this is why i have been buying EPI. India is on sale.
INDA & EPI down 2%. Nothing to trade, here
My company has fully captive units in India and the Philippines, we also do some work out of Vietnam. I travel to India once or twice a year and yes, the changes that you see today Vs 5 or 10 yrs ago is dramatic. It reminds me of China in the early 2000s with cranes, concrete mixer trucks, bulldozers and other heavy construction equipment everywhere. You see the rampant consumerism too where car sales seems to have far outpaced the rate of their road construction and there is visible high-velocity commerce in cities big and small. That said i would wait to invest in India for the simple reason that the Indian stock market today is the most expensive emerging market since South Korea in 1997! It has barely corrected and is up something like 600% since 2010. A small position in a ETF is probably safer than chasing individual stocks - INDY, INDA,EPI
EPI (Egg Price Index) going vertical. There's going to be blood in the streets tomorrow
While this is pretty good article, the EPI is a union funded think tank and as such could be biased. Is there any independent/university research showing similar?
EPI is a non-partisan think tank. They literally will loose their 501 C status if they get political. The data hasn’t changed in the year since the data used in this study. Don’t like their data? Fine- you trust google finance? Go look at the net income margins of just about any major, large cap company. They are having record high margins. That doesn’t happen if your inputs are inflated at the same rate as your price increases. That only happens when you are increasing prices far beyond your input increases. Go listen to earnings calls. Executive teams literally bragging and crowing that consumers have accepted their price increases above cost overruns.
Yeah that sounds good. Btw, what’s EPI?
As retail, you cant trade Indian stocks listed in India without citizenship or residency there. (Local market rules) You can trade few indian stocks on US exchanges (HDB, IBN, INDY, TTM, WIT etc.). There are some India specific ETFs trading in US and Europe as well (INDY, INDA, EPI etc) if you want to try that. In IBKR, even if you cant trade the stocks you can still trade the Indian index NIFTY futures as they also trades on singapore exchange. You need to activate signapore in your regions in IBKR. The futures are expressed in dollars and each index point change leads to change of 2 dollars.(2$ per point)
Right but RPI uses PCE inflation to adjust to real and let’s be honest, consumers or the “average consumer” is seeing much higher increases in costs of living than PCE suggests, maybe even CPI. If you adjust using CPI, real wage growth is deeply negative. And RPI is lagged and infrequent compared to like weekly earnings data. Using weekly/hourly earnings per BLS and EPI, real wage growth trended lower until June and recently popped but is still -3.5% YoY. Anyway, point is just you can’t only use one data source to make sweeping conclusions and call out others. Other reliable sources paint an opposite picture. Common sense says groceries up 12%, gas up 18%, while nominal wages up maybe 6% on average? Credit card spending up 15%, with an unprecedented increase in essential spending going on credit cards. That’s a squeeze on consumers any way you slice it I’d say.
Her point is wrong and meaningless. Interest rates need to be increased to incentivize sound lending decisions. Restricting the money supply during 9%-18% inflation is crucial in preventing a global economic collapse. E. Warren isn’t an economist. She’s a partisan. P.S. it’s been two years. Stop the Supply Chain bs. We all know it’s false flag nonsense. The real primary cause of inflation is monetary inflation. The money supply has been increased almost 50% over the past two years. Inflation is between 9%-18% when using CPI and EPI. Macroeconomics 101.
Not sure if you wanted some actual theory: We’re in this period of widely accepted globalization. No matter where you live as an investor, the reality is most of these big global companies will continue to make revenue. Lets look at some options competing with SPX: IVV (us low risk, high reward) EZU (europe low risk, medium reward) WCHN (china high risk, high reward) EPI (india even higher risk, low reward) EWJ (Japan less risk, low reward) EWY (south korea less risk, medium reward) No matter where you live, you are most likely buying something from the FAANG stocks. They make up 19% of the spx 500. The market is a reflection of what the world thinks about the future given current events. People are buying spx500 bc they think it’s low risk high reward and that is a better choice compared to the other options.
What i just told you isn’t the “official narrative”. It’s what has historically happened, aka reality. Savings do NOT improve living standards during periods of inflation. It lowers them through a loss in buying power. During deflation, yes, savings can raise living standards as buying power is gained through an appreciation of the dollar. Debt, debt based spending, and monetary and fiscal stimulus do NOT always lower living standards in the long run. If used appropriately during periods of opportunity to expand debt, debt based spending, and stimulus INCREASE living standards. The entire point of taking debt for investment and governmental purposes is to increase REAL growth and/or prevent a total default on prior existing debt (today’s circumstances for many governments). Yes, it is obvious that when inflation outpaces nominal growth their is a decrease in REAL growth. You attempting to compare today’s globalized markets to the gilded ages is like comparing a 96’ Honda to a 22’ Ford F-150 Lightning. They’re nothing alike. There are much more powerful comparative advantages at play now. The world is more competitive than ever in terms of production capabilities and competitiveness of smaller economies. Deflation DOES depress spending as deflation usually occurs during times of higher unemployment and lower aggregate demand, or times of exponentially increasing productivity. (Gilded ages was a time of exponentially increasing productivity and that’s what caused intense deflation) As deflation becomes entrenched it become MORE likely large capital firms CUT spending and hold their capital for the hopes of increasing buying power and purchasing larger quantities of goods and services at a later date (aka deflation incentivizing saving and reducing spending). The median wage has spiked higher in the past two years than it did anytime over the past two decades (maybe longer). Yes, inflation has outpaced this LARGE increase in nominal wage growth creating a sight decline in REAL wage growth, but that does not justify your false statement and belief that deflation increases OVERALL SPENDING. Deflation disincentivizes spending. Especially at the beginning of a deflationary cycle. Yes, I agree the Consumer Price Index is a faulty measure of inflation. I instead prefer to look at the year-over-year U.S. Export Price Index as a a more realistic measure of inflation. Last month CPI was at 9.1% and EPI was at 18.2%. The real inflation rate is somewhere in between, if not then it is EPI’s measure 18.2%. (New CPI numbers came out today at 8.5% the year ended July 2022. Which is down from last months CPI for year ended June 2022 at 9.1%) I agree with you on many things, but deflation does decrease spending. Billionaires, millionaires and the financially literate aren’t going to use or give away something that has a potential to increase in value. Spending increases AFTER prices have already experienced deflation. Not during deflation. Also, the reason i told you your comparison didn’t matter was because there was opportunity for markets and Real GDP growth to expand exponentially during the Golded ages. That growth has already been realized and then some. Today’s markets are already highly leveraged and experienced intense periods of growth. As markets mature growth is expected to be much slower. This is why investment in developing nations is so appealing to large investment firms. The potential for growth is untapped.
Hi I'm new to investing. What to do you mean by $EPI Shares? Are you expecting it to go down or go up? Please help.
>if you're going to try and use a correlation/causation on taxes, I'll do the same on government spending ??? What correlation? You cannot have a correlation between two factors when *one stays constant*. I don't know how many times I have to repeat this for you to understand: government spending has **remained largely constant** (20% +/- 3% of GDP) for the past century. Upper tax rates **have varied drastically** (from 70% all the way down to 28%, now at 39%). >you mean the rate that almost no one paid in the first place? This is an *astoundingly* ignorant argument. Sure, only the top 1% of households paid the top tax rate, but you're completely failing to account for the fact that: 1. The top 1% of households in 1979 received **34%** of the country's total income. Slashing the tax rate from 70% to 28% on over a THIRD of the country's income is MASSIVE. The problem is even worse today, since the top 1% now receive **54%** of the nation's income. [Source](https://www.epi.org/publication/top-1-percents-share-income-wealth-rising/) 2. The tax cut was not only for the very top tax bracket, it was a massive cut for the top THREE tax brackets, which included many more households than just the top 1%. [Source](https://taxfoundation.org/historical-income-tax-rates-brackets/) 3. Reagan also **increased** the tax rate on the poorest Americans later in his Presidency (same source as point #2) Those tax cuts for the rich, and tax hikes for the poor **absolutely, 100%** contributed significantly to the nightmarish income inequality we see today. >dude, your source is from EPI, a left-wing think tank, which of course would be biased Ah, yes, the go-to comeback for people with no logic, evidence, or actual arguments of their own: "hurr durr biased media!!!!". Where are *your* sources then? Here are two more studies that point to **poor economic policy** as the main driver of the productivity-wage gap and wage stagnation: 1. [Study from the American Economic Association](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.27.3.57) 2. [Study from the OECD](https://www.oecd.org/economy/decoupling-of-wages-from-productivity/) >why are you ignoring my comments on automation and global competition? Because like I said, this has been largely debunked as being a primary driver of wage stagnation. Sure, it *does* contribute somewhat, but again, **economic policy is far more impactful of a factor than automation and globalism**. If automation and global competition is causing this, then we would see this phenomenon **across the board** with all rich, developed Western countries, but that is **not** the case. The [above study from the OECD](https://www.oecd.org/economy/decoupling-of-wages-from-productivity/) found that the United States is an extreme outlier in wage inequality and decoupling of productivity and wages amongst rich Western countries. The vast majority of other rich Western countries have significantly higher wage growth rates, lower productivity-wage decoupling, and vastly lower wage inequality than the US. **The reason for that is because of idiotic Republican economic policy**. Lastly, you completely failed to address my last question: >Why are you defending the rich? From your comment history, you appear to be solidly middle class. You know why the upper class always win against the middle, working, and lower classes? Because they have class solidarity - they are all united in pursuing what is best for their class. Meanwhile, we have those in the middle class like you that defend and vote for economic policies that are detrimental to our class.
> Stop acting as if modern spending is somehow at astronomical, runaway levels my point is that neither tax rates nor government spending affects wage levels (if you're going to try and use a correlation/causation on taxes, I'll do the same on government spending) > What IS very far from historical norms is how low the tax rate is on the rich you mean the rate that almost no one paid in the first place? > Like I said in my last comment (a point which you failed to address), economists overwhelmingly agree that Republican economic policies dude, your source is from EPI, a left-wing think tank, which of course would be biased why are you ignoring my comments on automation and global competition? of course American wages are not going to keep up if the same product can be made more cheaply by overseas labor or a robot
I’m going by the EPI report from Josh Bivens 4/21/22.
This time around, EPI states that Inflation was caused 54% by corporate profits, and 34% by supply disruption.
EPI you still in touch with the OG L2F? Are they ever gonna come back?
Oh no EPI ,, I’s already on one
[Here's an in depth report](https://www.epi.org/publication/the-economic-costs-and-benefits-of-airbnb-no-reason-for-local-policymakers-to-let-airbnb-bypass-tax-or-regulatory-obligations/) from EPI, not funded by any interested parties or it would've been disclosed.
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>That is how it works, the average American household would be $18,000 poorer without trade. You leave out what it cost them and what it cost others, its not all roses like I said. EPI uses what it uses, the report I linked goes over it more as well. You don't like it? Sucks to be you. Again, you sell it like its all pros and no cons...why I know you're a shill. Never said all trade was bad, nice try though....
> lol, that's not how that works and you know it. That *is* how it works, the average American household would be $18,000 poorer without trade. > According to the Economic Policy Institute's study, 61% of the net job losses due to trade with Mexico under NAFTA, or 415,000 jobs, were relatively high paying manufacturing jobs. EPI used the highest estimate for job losses that no one else uses. Even then $415,000 jobs is worth the purchasing power and productivity gains. For every net job lost, the gains to the U.S. economy were about $450,000, owing to enhanced productivity of the workforce, a broader range of goods and services, and lower prices at the checkout counter for households. And according to PIIE, around 14 million US jobs today rely on trade to Canada and Mexico.
awesome! Good to see you participate finally EPI! Coming in strong!
wages have been stagnant since the 70's. pensions were the other half of renumerations people earned, those are gone an wages did not increase to compensate. executive level pay has increased 948%. you are completely missing the point or biased. the fucking stats don't lie. It wasn't always this way. In 1965, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio in the United States stood at about 20-to-1, according to a 2015 report by the EPI. But starting in the 1970s up through 2014, "inflation-adjusted CEO compensation increased 997 percent, a rise almost double stock market growth and substantially greater than the painfully slow 10.9 percent growth in a typical worker's annual compensation over the same period." [https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/](https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/) [https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/16/ceos-see-pay-grow-1000percent-and-now-make-278-times-the-average-worker.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/16/ceos-see-pay-grow-1000percent-and-now-make-278-times-the-average-worker.html) [https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/pdf/understanding-the-labor-productivity-and-compensation-gap.pdf](https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/pdf/understanding-the-labor-productivity-and-compensation-gap.pdf) [https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/why-the-gap-between-worker-pay-and-productivity-is-so-problematic/385931/](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/why-the-gap-between-worker-pay-and-productivity-is-so-problematic/385931/) https://www.payscale.com/data-packages/ceo-pay
>“The Triumph of Injustice,” by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California at Berkeley, presents a first-of-its kind analysis of Americans’ effective tax rates since the 1960s. It finds that in 2018, the average effective tax rate paid by the richest 400 families in the country was 23 percent, a full percentage point lower than the 24.2 percent rate paid by the bottom half of American households. [source](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-time-history-us-billionaires-paid-lower-tax-rate-than-working-class-last-year/). I'd argue that the percentage of their income that they pay is more important then the amount they pay. Especially when you factor in that after a certain amount of income - it's not going to daily necessities for living but it can towards investments and savings. >“In 2015, a family in the top 1 percent nationally received, on average, 26.3 times as much income as a family in the bottom 99 percent,” the EPI reports. [source](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/the-1-percent-makes-over-1-million-more-than-everyone-else-in-the-us.html).
This reading of the data is hogwash. These statistics methodologies are not applicable outside of the incredibly narrow circumstances under which they are synthesized. The article starts with >Democrats like to talk about struggling families who find wages aren’t keeping up with the cost of living. But our fact-checking has found that the economic data clashes with their argument. Then it goes on to bury the fact that they are specifically only counting people that meet [certain specific income and employment criteria](https://www.epi.org/data/#?subject=wage-percentiles&g=*) in their calculation for "cost-of-living" as if it can be broadly used to decribe the economy as a whole. For example, one of the criteria for counting the cost of living by the index in the EPI is >Data from the CPS ASEC include all wage and salary workers ages 18–64. Self-employed workers are excluded from the sample, with the exception of data for years 1967 and 1973 which are derived from Murphy and Welch (1989) and include the self-employed. >Data from the SSA include all workers based on reports by employers on Forms W-2. >For more information on our annual wage calculations, see [methodology](https://www.epi.org/data/methodology/). >Health insurance and pension coverage data are for private-sector wage and salary workers ages 18–64 who worked at least 20 hours per week and 26 weeks per year. This sample is chosen to focus on those with regular employment. Coverage is defined as workers who received health insurance from their own job for which their employer paid for at least some of the coverage. That is a very bad faith argument since neither Kamala nor I are claiming to use such narrow and exclusionary criteria for counting the actual cost of living. This is like the unemployment numbers that don't count underemployed, or discouraged workers. It is only useful for ignoring the problem and rationalizing the continued pillaging of the non-rich. The cost of living is very obviously much more expensive to live in now than it was 10, 20 , or 40 years ago. There is simply no way to use raw numbers to come to any other conclusion, so they have to invent elaborate methodologies to exclude unpleasant data.
The EU doesn't like to be depended on American tech either. [The European Processor Initiative](https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/EPI-timeline-novi_transparent.png) is going to develop chips based on RISC-V architecture. Intel might get contracts to manufacture those chips though.
This lady is the real OG guys. Damn real life EPI sighting. She also mods r/furryinflation
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you think they're planning for EPI numbers of Tuesday?...
Support for my thesis on discount grocers: Recent evidence suggests there's more food inflation to come. According to calculations from the Earth Policy Institute, Washington, food prices will likely be higher in the second quarter, with soybean prices hitting 15-year highs and wheat and corn seven-year highs. When this year's grain harvest begins in May, world grain stocks will be down to 59 days of consumption -- the lowest level in 30 years, EPI noted.
Hopped on Y Charts and I compared the I:EPI and I:FPI to US food and energy CPI, among other things, I guess its as crystal ball as I can get. chart shows April and May, less the data we are awaiting tomorrow. https://imgur.com/a/qt18JWO
Hopped on Y Charts I compared the I:EPI and I:FPI to US food and energy CPI, among other things, I guess its as crystal ball as I can get. chart shows April and May, less the data we are awaiting tomorrow. [https://imgur.com/a/qt18JWO](https://imgur.com/a/qt18JWO)
That was u/SneekerPeaker and he was complaining about it lmoo CUS I WANT BUTTER CHICKEN EPI
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K does anyone say it in their head like EPI DEMI EL KAY or is it more like epidemilk
Hahaha omfg I almost forgot. The day will come EPI. You will get your wish 🥕👨🌾 please never let me forget.