Inflation Archive
Greenspan: Inflation - the real threat to recovery
June 30, 2009 · Category: Federal Reserve, Inflation
But I see inflation as the greater future challenge. If political pressures prevent central banks from reining in their inflated balance sheets in a timely manner, statistical analysis suggests the emergence of inflation by 2012; ...
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Doug Casey: Go Short Interest Rates
June 24, 2009 · Category: Inflation, Interest Rates
People who short interest rates - in other words, people who bet they are going much higher in the coming years - are going to make a fortune. I think interest rates will go back ...
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Krugman Dismisses Inflationary Risks
June 17, 2009 · Category: Inflation, Market Commentary
In his column from Monday, "Stay The Course", Paul Krugman dismissed the idea that current government policies are potentially inflationary as follows:
What about the claim that the Fed is risking inflation? It isn’t. Mr. Laffer ...
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Malanga: The Social And Economic Effects of the 1970s Inflation
By contrast, we’ve largely forgotten our most recent brush with raging peacetime inflation, the 1970s. Although nothing like Germany’s in the 1920s, ours was nonetheless powerful enough to be more dispiriting and more transformative of ...
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Todd Harrison: “Pick a Side: Hyperinflation or Deflation?”
June 4, 2009 · Category: Inflation, Macro Economics
There is a marked difference between taking our medicine as a function of time and price and injecting the system with drugs with hopes that the symptoms will pass. The latter continues to be the ...
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Sac Bee: The economy is down, but the cost of living is going up
May 22, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Inflation
If you look at the consumer price index, you would think that the cost of living is very low. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The cost of living for the average person is going up.
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Edward Chancellor On The Inflation/Deflation Debate
Inflation expectations might also shift if the markets lose confidence in the state of the public finances. Washington is set to produce a deficit this year of $1,800bn (£1,237bn, €1,325bn). The cost of bailing out ...
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Dollar Selloff Is Risk To Stock Market
March 19, 2009 · Category: Commodities, Currencies, Federal Reserve, Gold, Inflation, Market Commentary
The dollar continues to tank and commodities continue to rally in the wake of yesteday's Fed announcement:
The euro is up another 2 cents versus the dollar to $1.37 - after rallying 4 cents yesterday after ...
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Dow Chemical Raises Prices Again
Less than a month after announcing across the board price increases to combat rising energy and raw materials costs (May 28 Press Release), Dow Chemical (DOW) is at it again announcing additional across the board ...
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Bernanke Continues To Jawbone About Inflation
Moreover, the latest round of increases in energy prices has added to the upside risks to inflation and inflation expectations. The Federal Open Market Committee will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, as ...
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