Markets are bubbling! S tocks were surging, Treasuries posted modest gains in a bond market that benefited from investors' cautious tone approaching this week's Fed meeting. The FNMA 3.5% bond we watch ended the week up .09, to $98.30. Fannie Mae reported that consumers polled in August anticipate home prices to go up 3.4% in the next 12 months but I predict we will see 2% in 12 but we will see little of that until Jan. 15 . We are plaining right now a bit and the natural slow season is setting in! (CPI) for August is forecast to show inflation at bay. These numbers are skewed folks. You want to track inflation. Take the same candy bar in the same store every 6 months and measure the inflation rate! That is an easy number to check! It's affecting you here & now! The truth is never a good as the cooperate sponsored economic entertainment on television. I may be an armature economist but at not I providing en...