inflation

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). "I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I…

From Win Thin Inflation data out of Asia today points to rising risks of food-driven inflation. While that should not have monetary policy implications if due solely to supply side disruptions, it could lead to policy responses if…

It's inflation that the Federal Reserve is after. Everyone knows this. The Fed has made it explicit. The sentence from the FOMC that Marshall highlighted yesterday shows you that: "The Committee will continue to monitor the…

Here we go again: the dollar appears to be under sustained attack in the foreign exchange market. To judge from its latest FOMC statement, the Federal Reserve appears to be actively encouraging inflation: “The Committee will continue to…

During this credit crisis, you keep hearing talking heads act as if deflation is the worst thing that could hit an economy. Just a few years ago we kept hearing people talking about inflation as if it were the thing to avoid. Now suddenly,…

Here's my initial reaction to Fred Sheehan's last post on Bernanke: inflation in goods, deflation in assets. I think this is something that Fred got into in one of his previous posts. Inflation versus deflation discussions are the…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession  (McGraw-Hill, 2009). It is unfortunate the media does not make better use of an…

By Annaly Capital Management The “bond bubble” discussion in the mainstream media has become deafening lately. Some of the commentary has been thoughtful and interesting, but not all of it. Much of the bubble-watch has focused on asset…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Inflation versus deflation discussions are the rule for columnists,…

Here's Andy Xie spinning his inflation tale of woe. He thinks western stimulus is not creating demand or inflation in the west but stoking inflation in emerging markets, causing them to overheat. Take a look. I have made a similar…