It's Tuesday, February 15th, and this is Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio today from Motley Fool's stock advisor, Jason Moser,

also from Stock Advisor Alex Shearer and from Motley Fool Asset Management, Bill Mann.

Guys, good to see you.

Hey.

We've got the latest from Berkshire Hathaway, Starbucks, as well as some surprising news

about Coca-Cola, but we're going to begin today overseas. China's

consumer prices rose nearly 5% in January compared to a year earlier and the price of

food jumped more than 10%.

Bill, man, is China just badly losing the fight against inflation?

They are, but I mean if you keep in mind that this is something that this is part of the process anyway.

I mean, this is part of what they were trying to do to bring China is still a great wealth

generating machine, but this is ultimately pretty good for the US and not to get too deep in the

weeds of economics. It probably means that things are going to be more expensive

here over the shorter term but ultimately the US and other markets are going to be more

competitive I mean if you think about what China is it is the low-cost manufacturing environment

so you're what you're seeing is the beginning of some equilibrium coming into the

system. One of the things that we've talked about over the past few weeks is the rising price of commodities

just well pretty much everywhere I mean is is when looking at commodity prices is China the first place investors should be looking for red flags?

I think that's definitely the case.

I mean, we hear stories about companies in Indonesia actually that I saw a few weeks ago

that said that Chinese government

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