inflation

Highlights The US dollar is enjoying broad gains today as the Greece’s fiscal woes have returned with vengeance.  Market News International reports, that have been given some idea of what an IMF program could entail, are now looking…

In June of last year, I wrote a post called "Central banks will face a Scylla and Charybdis flation challenge for years." The crux of the piece was that we are living in a world in which debt deflation is always one downturn away,…

FiveThirtyEight: Throw All The Bums Out? Bad Idea. China Drawing High-Tech Research From U.S. – NYTimes.com Arizona Drops Children’s Health Program – NYTimes.com Hillaryland – Swampland – TIME.com China tries to cool yuan…

FT.com – Asia's inflation genie leaps out of the bottle House prices to fall further as loan arrears rise – Independent.ie TheMoneyIllusion » It’s China’s world, we just live in it (Krugman, round two) More Americans live with…

The Pragmatic Capitalist - The Many Myths of Warren Buffett Morgan Stanley – Global Economic Forum – Default or Inflate or… Time to Press China on Its Exchange Rate – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com FT Alphaville – Neil Hume – Buiter’s…

The following is a post which first appeared at the Big Picture from Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance who run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. --- We Are All Austrians Now Things are different…

Hat tip gaius marius. Rogers is not just bullish on agricultural commodities. He is bullish on oil too. Rogers says: Over the next decade or so, oil is going to go much, much, much higher because known reserves are declining at a very…

Randy Wray says: The Federal Reserve on Monday proposed allowing banks to park their reserves at the central bank, a move aimed at weaning the economy off extraordinary infusions of cash and curbing inflation. The Fed would create the…

When asked about monetary policy by Sen. David Vitter earlier this month, Ben Bernanke gave the following response. The public’s understanding of the Federal Reserve’s commitment to price stability helps to anchor inflation expectations…