Three Charts That SCREAM "Inflation" In 2018

The financial system is preparing for an inflationary shock.
The single best means of measuring inflation vs deflationary forces in the US financial system is the TIP to Long-Treasury (TLT) ratio. When this ratio rallies the system is predicting inflation. When it falls, the system is fearing deflation.
Running back to 2010, we’ve been in a long-term deflationary downtrend on this ratio.
This deflationary pull has dragged down the entire commodity complex over the same time period.