Hey everybody we're up now we're here and today we're going to be talking a little bit

about the macro environment and inflation, we've also got an update on Tesla's cold weather

performance, those issues that we've been talking about over the last couple of days.

New notes from Morgan Stanley and Global Equities, updates on Berlin, Texas, China, and

more.

Finally some overperformance here for Tesla stock, finishing up almost 4% on the day to

$1,106, 22 cents while the NASDAQ was only up to 10th of a percent, even though it was

up quite a bit higher this morning, after inflation data did come out.

Like with many of these reports or events, my speculation here is that the market is reacting

positively mostly due to the removed uncertainty kind of getting through that potential downside

event, because in this case the CPI consumer price index data came in pretty much right

in line with expectations, increasing 7% year over year, 7.0%, and rising half a percent

month over month, so from where the index was at in November.

These are really high inflation rates and this is going to continue to be a hot topic

of conversation, so I wanted to spend just a minute here talking about how this might

play out over the next few months.

As you can see, the inflation rates year over year have continued to increase now up

to the 7% level from December year over year, but it does seem like maybe it's starting

to top out a little bit, and looking at the month over month changes this half a percent

for December, that is down a bit from the rates from October and November, which increased

at 9.10% and 8.10% of a percent.

So inflation is still increasing, but at a little bit slower over rate, so that month over

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