Yesterday, the the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee surprsied nobody with their 12th consecutive 1/4 point increase. The WSJ noted...
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ee Parsing the via the WSJ: "The Nov. 1 statement announced that the Fed was raising its key short-term interest rate by one-quarter...
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We have had robust reflation/inflation ever since the Fed took rates down to half century lows, and then left them there for quite a...
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Fascinating discussion today via Barron’s Alan Abelson. He looks at som interesting ideas from MacroMavens, who raise some...
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I mentioned a new column on why Inflation is real the other day (here). But an incident today was so telling re: measuring...
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There is a dividing line between supporters of the so-called Core rate of inflation and those economists I taken to referring as...
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Two immediate thoughts come to mind about this, one economic and one political: 1) Ben Bernanke is a safe, strong choice, sure to be...
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As mentioned, the full column setting the record straight on inflation is up, titled The Unpleasant Truth About Inflation. Its in the...
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Hey, guess what? More mainstream media discovery that Inflation is lurking! Yesterday, it was the NYT, today, the WSJ: "A specter...
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Dan Gross drinks the Inflation ex-inflation kool aid: "ASIDE from the stuff that’s becoming more expensive, like food and...
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