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Money is safe up to the limits and perhaps even above that. we should touch on some of the encouraging economic news we got out. >> oh, yeah, inflation. >> remember inflation? that was the biggest problem in the economy maybe up until the last few days and the producer price index. that's wholesale inflation and that shows that the prices are coming down month over month and a 4.6% increase over the past year and if you look at the trend, that's a big improvement. eight straight months of cooling inflation and this is the lowest figure and things are definitely going in the right direction the...

>> absolutely. another sign that inflation is cooling off. producer prices actually declined month over month. that was a surprise. year over year this clocked in at 4.6%. that is the eighth straight month of cooling inflation. it is a big improvement from a year ago when we had almost 12% wholesale inflation. you can see it on that chart really cooling off very significantly. other numbers out today on retail sales showing that retail sales dipped in february after a big increase in january. but this is another sign i think that the economy is cooling off. the question now is what does the fe...

Numbers it is so interesting that we've seen the market come down, but on the economic front producer prices unexpectedly dropped between january and february. also on an annual basis it cooled off to 4.6%. if you look at the chart, this is a major improvement from early last year when this metric was nearly 12%. we've seen eight months in a row of cooling off. less encouraging were some of the retail sales numbers out. that showed that american shopping slowed down a bit between january and february. retail sales fell by .4%. that's significant because, remember, consumer spending, that's the...

Look at the cpi inflation, consumer price index up 4.6%. the hourly wages are not keeping up. people don't have enough money to buy the things they need, right? >> yeah, absolutely, anita. when you start looking at the president's multitrillion dollar budget, there's bigger concern there too because he wants to raise corporate rate to 28%, there are a million small businesses that file as corporations. they are automatically going to be hurt by that. corporate taxes is just like another commodity input at a company. they include that as part of their calculation when they come up with a price ...

Cooling from january's huge half a million jobs, but still historically strong. the tight jobs market bringing bigger paychecks, average hourly earnings of 4.6 on an annual basis. economists anxious to see is growth cool because it feeds into inflation. the jobsless rate ticked up to 3.6%. leisure and hospitality led payroll gains adding 105,000 jobs. theed if in its quest to slow down the economy and bring down inflation. the consumer price index, retail sales and consumer sentiment all on tap this week. >> christine romans, thank you so much for that. we are going to be talking to an expert ...