Category: Inflation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, May 04, 2013
Government Crooks Responsible for the Greatest Wealth Transfer in History / Politics / Inflation
By: Bill_Bonner
Last night, six of us went out to dinner at one of the nicest restaurants in Salta. We ordered two bottles of good Laborum cabernet sauvignon. We had beefsteaks, dessert and coffee. The bill came to 1,058 Argentine pesos (about $200).
Was that a lot... or a little?
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Monday, April 29, 2013
How to Protect Your Portfolio from Inflation Without Gold / Stock-Markets / Inflation
By: DailyGainsLetter
Moe Zulfiqar writes: Inflation is when the general price level increases. As a result, purchasing power diminishes; simply stated, every dollar buys less than it did before. Central banks around the world, including the Federal Reserve, continuously try to tame inflation so that it doesn’t get out of control, usually targeting for an inflation rate of anywhere from one to three percent.
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Why Governments Lie About Inflation? Because It Covers Up Bigger Lies / Economics / Inflation
By: Graham_Summers
More and more analysts are catching on to the fact that Government measures of inflation are phony. The US Government tells us that inflation, as measured by the CPI, is 0.8%. This is largely a work of fiction however as the actual cost of goods purchased by consumers has increased.
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Zombie Parasites vs. Productives, Turning Argentine / Economics / Inflation
By: Bill_Bonner
Here in Argentina, most things were closed on Monday for the Easter holidays... and are closed again today, too.
What do these Argentines think they are? French?
We wandered the streets. Here in the Palermo Soho neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where we are staying, there were thousands of people window-shopping, eating in restaurants and drinking in outdoor cafes.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Preparing for Inflationary Times / Economics / Inflation
By: Jeff_Clark
"All this money printing, massive debt, and reckless deficit spending – and we have 2% inflation? I'm beginning to believe that either the deflationists are right, or the Fed's interventions are working." – Anonymous Casey Research reader
The CPI, in our view, does not accurately measure inflation, which accounts for some of the discrepancy our reader is pointing out. However, the proper definition of inflation is "an increase in the quantity of money," which we've had in spades. We've not experienced the concomitant increase in prices, which is what we're addressing in this article.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
The Real U.S. Inflation Rate and What to Do About It / Economics / Inflation
By: Don_Miller
A little over a month ago we did a quick poll on what our readers thought the real rate of inflation was. The idea for polling our readers came from the disconnect between the official government rate of around 1% and what some had told me they were experiencing first hand.
Thank you to everyone who participated, particularly those who shared frustrating examples of the ever-increasing cost of living. There were close to 100 pages of reader comments, and I read them all... every single word.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
What Does 8% Inflation Really Mean? / Personal_Finance / Inflation
By: Don_Miller
Eight percent is not good news. In my latest article I shared some reader feedback from our inflation survey, and in case you missed it, the Money Forever Reader Poll Inflation Rate is 8%. But what does that number really mean for us – seniors and savers trying to protect our buying power? It's time to read the tea leaves and find out.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Is The Government Lying To Us About Inflation? Yes! / Economics / Inflation
By: John_Mauldin
In today’s Outside the Box, Gary D. Halbert (my old and very dear friend and former business partner of many years) reminds us about a few significant facts concerning the Consumer Price Index (CPI) that mainstream economists and the media tend to ignore. The central question is whether the CPI is really indicative of the actual inflation rate. Not likely, says Gary, since the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which compiles the CPI, has engaged in methodological shenanigans over the past couple decades (as has been well documented by John Williams of ShadowStats, among others). The upshot of all their monkeying with the numbers is that the official rate of inflation may be two to four times lower than the actual rate (which is rather convenient if you’re a government bureaucrat trying to hold down interest costs and Social Security payments).
Sunday, March 17, 2013
The Biggest Lie Ever Sold to the American Public / Politics / Inflation
By: Graham_Summers
The US has been lying to all of us for decades now.
We’re not talking about some kooky conspiracy theory… we’re talking about INFLATION.
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
A Long-Term Look at U.S. Inflation / Economics / Inflation
By: PhilStockWorld
Doug Short writes: The March 2012 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released today puts the February year-over-year inflation rate at 1.98%, about half the 3.92% average since the end of the Second World War.
For a comparison of headline inflation with core inflation, which is based on the CPI excluding food and energy, see this monthly feature.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
China Sounds Warning Bell For What’s Coming Our Way / Economics / Inflation
By: Graham_Summers
Let’s wind the clock back to 2008.
The world was thought to be ending. Lehman went bust. Markets were plunging. Everyone was scared that growth was over. It was as though the global economy was grinding to a halt.
But then China’s stock market bottomed. The Chinese Government announced a massive stimulus plan to turn its economy around. And sure enough the Chinese economy took off again.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Can the U.S. Learn From Argentina's Hyper Inflation Economic Chaos? / Economics / Inflation
By: John_Mauldin
(From Cafayate, Argentina) There are some who worry whether the path that Argentina has taken to monetary ruin on multiple occasions (and that it seems intent on taking again) is one that the US may also find itself on. That worry has crossed my mind a few times, I must confess. Today we will look at Argentina more in depth. From a monetary perspective, it deserves attention. And once again there will be opportunity.
Let me jump right to the conclusion: Just as Spain is not Greece, because each chose a unique route to economic malaise, the US is not Argentina. We are perfectly capable of avoiding Argentina’s problems while cooking up ones that are all our own. But there are some worrisome and potentially instructive issues in Argentina.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
The Relationship Between Money and Prices / Economics / Inflation
By: Alasdair_Macleod
Money printing The quantity theory of money and its accompanying equation of exchange are generally accepted as defining the relationship between money and prices. The equation has been expressed a number of ways, always including “velocity of circulation”, which is a variable essential to balance the equation.
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013
First Record Dow High, Then Record Gas And Grocery Prices / Stock-Markets / Inflation
By: Jeff_Berwick
Gary Gibson writes: Ben Bernanke must have been smirking and nodding smugly all day yesterday. The Dow hit an all-time high at 14,286 and closed at 14,253.77. What's even more impressive is that this is double where the Dow stood just four years ago. And it only took five and a half years and previously unmatched amounts of new money creation to do it.
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013
An Infinite Amount of Money, Et Tu, Italy? / Economics / Inflation
By: John_Mauldin
The three major blocs of the developed world are careening toward a debt-fueled denouement that will play out over years rather than in a single moment. And contrary to some opinion, there is no certain ending. There are multiple paths still available to Europe and especially the US, though admittedly none of them are bright and carefree. There are very few paths available to Japan, as they have skipped too far down the yellow brick road of debt. None of Japan’s remaining paths have good endings. In the US, even as numerous voices declaim on the crisis that awaits if we don’t act, there is seemingly no collective will to actually do anything as yet. Perhaps it will take… a crisis. In Europe, the peripheral countries can already be said to be in crisis.
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
The Inflation Secrets Your Broker Won’t Tell You About / Stock-Markets / Inflation
By: Graham_Summers
The US Government and the US Federal Reserve downplay the threat of inflation. There are two primary reasons for this:
1) Acknowledging higher inflation would mean both revising GDP growth much lower (last quarter’s FDP growth would have been negative 1% if you accounted for the real increase in costs of living).
2) One of the primary arguments the Fed uses for why it can print hundreds of billions of Dollars without hurting consumers it because inflation remains “contained” or “transitory.”
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Is Inflation the Legacy of the Federal Reserve? / Economics / Inflation
By: Mike_Shedlock
In testimony to Congress on February 27, Bernanke bragged that inflation under his and Greenspan's watch was a mere 2% a year.
Of course Bernanke ignored a housing boom and bust. He also ignored a a dotcom boon and bust, a global financial crisis, numerous bank bailouts, and a policy of "too big to fail" that is now "even bigger".
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Out of Control U.S. Government Spending Means It's Time to Hedge Against Inflation / Commodities / Inflation
By: Money_Morning
Jeff Uscher writes: Uncontrolled government spending could force the Fed to monetize the government's debt, creating runaway inflation, former Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin warned in a report.
If these circumstances were to occur, the Fed would be unable to do much, if anything, to control inflation, Mishkin said in the report, presented at a conference at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Why Inflation in 2013 Is Imminent / Economics / Inflation
By: Money_Morning
Jeff Uscher writes: Is a spike in the monetary base - currency in circulation plus bank reserves at the Fed - the first sign of imminent inflation?
Art Cashin, the well-respected director of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange for UBS, recently told King World News the increase in the monetary base may well be a sign of impending inflation.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Why There's No Real Inflation - Yet / Economics / Inflation
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: According to Milton Friedman, "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."
If that is true, then you have to wonder where the heck all of the inflation is.
Every central bank in the Western world is holding interest rates down, and almost all of them are printing money like it's going out of style.
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