Category: Inflation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Dallas Fed - We Don't Want Inflation To Raise Its Ugly Head / Economics / Inflation
By: Bloomberg
Dallas Federal Reserve president Richard Fisher told Bloomberg Television's Michael McKee today that the one thing everyone at the Fed agrees on is that "we don't want inflation to raise its ugly head." Fisher said that "as perhaps the most hawkish member of the Fed when it comes to inflation," he doesn't "see that prospect right now."
Fisher also said that community and regional banks need a "level playing field" and that "I do not dislike Jamie Dimon or Lloyd Blankfein. My children are friends with Lloyd Blankfein's children. They're good people. They do a good job at what they do. They're not bad people. It is just that the system is biased towards their institutions."
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Where Is the Inflation? / Economics / Inflation
By: Mark_Thornton
Critics of the Austrian School of economics have been throwing barbs at Austrians like Robert Murphy because there is very little inflation in the economy. Of course, these critics are speaking about the mainstream concept of the price level as measured by the Consumer Price Index (i.e., CPI).
Let us ignore the problems with the concept of the price level and all the technical problems with CPI. Let us further ignore the fact that this has little to do with the Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT), as the critics would like to suggest. The basic notion that more money, i.e., inflation, causes higher prices, i.e., price inflation, is not a uniquely Austrian view. It is a very old and commonly held view by professional economists and is presented in nearly every textbook that I have examined.
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Iran’s Lying Inflation Statistics / Economics / Inflation
By: Steve_H_Hanke
Today, the Central Bank of Iran released its inflation statistics for 2012. Remarkably, despite all of the international notoriety surrounding Iran’s outbreak of hyperinflation in October, the Central Bank claims that Iran experienced an annual inflation rate of only 27.4%.
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Keynesian Inflation Propaganda Exposed / Politics / Inflation
By: Peter_Schiff
Economists who hold the popular view that expanding the money supply will provide the best medicine for our ailing economy dismiss the inflationary concerns of monetary hawks, like me, by pointing to the supposedly low inflation that has occurred during the current period of rampant Fed activism. In a recent blog post aimed specifically at me, Paul Krugman noted that the sub 2.5% increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the past few years are all that is needed to prove me wrong. In fact, Krugman and others have even suggested that the CPI itself overstates inflation and that the Fed would be better able to help the economy if less strict methodologies were used. However, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the CPI is essentially meaningless as it woefully under reports rising prices.
Friday, January 04, 2013
Investor Profit from the Inflation Deflation Reality 2013 / Economics / Inflation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“There is no practical way that QE can cease here or in Euroland without a total and final collapse of the financial system.”
“The Federal Reserve Really Has No Practical Option To End QE”
Jim Sinclair, jsmineset.com, 1/3/2013
The five year chart of the CRB Index (a Broad Measure of Commodities Prices) shows three descending tops, which is suggestive of Deflation. But to conclude that Deflation is likely to be The Ruling Force in the Economy in 2013 would be a Dangerous Error.
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Friday, January 04, 2013
Market Valuation, Inflation and Treasury Yields: Clues from the Past / Interest-Rates / Inflation
By: PhilStockWorld
My monthly market valuation updates have long had the same conclusion: US stock indexes are significantly overvalued, which suggests cautious expectations on investment returns. In a “normal” market environment — one with normal business cycles, Federal Reserve policy, interest rates and inflation — current valuation levels would be a serious concern.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Why Inflation is the Economy's Hidden Iceberg in 2013 / Economics / Inflation
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Even though Ben Bernanke's Fed has kept interest rates close to zero, inflation hasn't been a big problem since the 2008 financial crisis.
Despite what many observers have expected inflation has remained quite tame.
However in 2013, that may be about to change. One factor that might cause a surge in inflation is the fiscal cliff.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Why TIPS Won't Protect You from Inflation...and Other Government Lies / Politics / Inflation
By: Casey_Research
If the "World Snake Oil Salesperson Society" had a hall of fame, good old Uncle Sam would be a charter member. When it comes to smooth-talking folks into buying debt instruments, he's the slickest around.
And Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) are one of his slickest gimmicks.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Investor Inflation Protection, and Profit, from Political Numbers / Economics / Inflation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
As the miscreants in Washington negotiate solutions to the “fiscal-cliff” and debt-ceiling crises, trial balloons have been floated that agreement has been reached to use a new CPI measure—the C-CPI-U, which tends to understate inflation even more than the CPI-U—as way of deceptively reducing cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security, etc. Not too surprisingly, public reaction appears to be turning increasingly negative, as the concept gets broader exposure in the popular press.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Bank of England Inflation Fraud Holds Steady at CPI 2.7%, RPI 3%, and Real 3.9% / Economics / Inflation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The mainstream press played its part in perpetuating the Government's debt / money printing arm's (Bank of England) continuing inflation fraud with matter of fact coverage of today's CPI inflation rate holding steady at 2.7%. The reality is that the Inflation fraud is at the very core of why the general population is continually forced to work ever harder and to accumulate ever greater amounts of debt (slavery) all to just stand still in terms of being able to cope with the real cost of living increases that are NOT reflected by official CPI.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
What Inflation Means For You: Inside the Consumer Price Index CPI / Economics / Inflation
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short. The Fed justified a previous round of quantitative easing “to promote a stronger pace of economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with its mandate” (full text). In effect, the Fed has been trying to increase inflation, operating at the macro level. But what does an increase in inflation mean at the micro level — specifically to your household?
Friday, December 14, 2012
Inflation Targeting is Dead, Long Live Inflation! / Commodities / Inflation
By: Adrian_Ash
The Fed actually thinks it can drive 315 million souls through a 0.2% gap in its forecasts...
REMEMBER INFLATION? Central bankers do – and they want to get rid of it, writes Adrian Ash.
Not in the way they used to get rid of it. Back then they would raise interest rates to curb debt-fuelled spending. Whereas now they want to throw inflation out of their policy targets instead.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
UK CPI Inflation Soars Despite Bank of England Deflation Propaganda, Shocks Academic Economists / Economics / Inflation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
UK CPI inflation soared for October by rising to 2.7% up from 2.2% (Sept) which is set against academic economists / mainstream press expectations for a rise to just 2.3%. Whilst the more recognised inflation measure, RPI rose to 3.2% up from 2.6%, against press expectations of 2.8%.
Friday, November 09, 2012
Obama Election Win Means Big Inflation is Coming, Investor Refuge in Gold and Silver / Economics / Inflation
By: Zeal_LLC
Well, Americans voted and the winner is inflation. Half our voting populace inexplicably decided to award a second term to Obama. Four more years of mind-boggling record deficits and record national debt growth! Obama’s Administration spent roughly 50% more than the government took in, which can essentially only be financed in two ways. Borrowing from foreigners and running the printing presses.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
When Infinite Inflation Isn't Enough / Economics / Inflation
By: Peter_Schiff
If no one seems to care that the Titanic is filling with water, why not drill another hole in it? That seems to be the M.O. of the Bernanke Federal Reserve. After the announcement of QE3 (also dubbed "QE Infinity") created yet another round of media chatter about a recovery, the Fed's Open Market Committee has decided to push infinity a little bit further. The latest move involves the rolling over of long-term Treasuries purchased as part of Operation Twist, thereby more than doubling QE3 to a monthly influx of $85 billion in phony money starting in December. I call it "QE3 Plus" - now with more inflation!
Friday, November 02, 2012
Will The Inflation Monster Devour Your Savings? / Personal_Finance / Inflation
By: DeviantInvestor
Inflation will destroy your savings unless you prepare. I encourage you to buy my new eBook, “Survival Investing With Gold and Silver.”
Question: Is this book simple and easy to understand?
Answer: Yes!
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The Virtual Economic Recovery Courtesy of Inflation / Economics / Inflation
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
Since mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates inflation. The financial Presstitutes spoon out the government’s propaganda that prices are rising less than 2%. But anyone who purchases food, fuel, medical care or anything else knows that low inflation is no more real that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction or Gadhafi’s alleged attacks on Libyan protesters or Iran’s nuclear weapons. Everything is a lie to serve the power-brokers.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
U.S. Dollar Index Disguises Global Inflation Threat / Currencies / Inflation
By: Jonathan_Kosares
When the U.S. Dollar Index peaked at 120.51 in January of 2002, few suspected that it was on the brink of a one-directional correction that would ultimately erase a third of its value. In fact, in just three short years, the dollar index shed, on average, a point a month before ultimately hitting a low of 80.77 in January of 2005. This sharp decline in the dollar index coincided with, and largely fueled, the first few years of the now decade-old bull market in gold.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Inflation: Washington is Blind to Main Street's Biggest Concern / Economics / Inflation
By: Peter_Schiff
Journalists, politicians and economists all seem to agree that the biggest economic issue currently worrying voters is unemployment. It follows then that most believe that the deciding factor in the presidential race will be the ability of each candidate to convince the public that his policies will create jobs. It seems that everyone got this memo...except the voters.
Sunday, October 07, 2012
Why You Should Be VERY Afraid of Inflation / Stock-Markets / Inflation
By: Graham_Summers
For the last 80 years or so, financial theory has held that inflation and deflation were mutually exclusive events. We’ve now seen that idea go up in smoke as deflation affects home prices and incomes in the US at the very same time that we experience inflation in energy and food prices courtesy of the Fed’s insane money printing.