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A Path To Runaway US Inflation

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:26:15 +0000

"I see green shoots," said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes back in March, doing his best rendition of Haley Joel Osment from the movie The Sixth Sense . Since then, every poor economic headline in the lapdog media has been preceded with the word "unexpected," as if the clueless ...

Mises Economics Blog found this 38 hours ago on mises.org

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Two New Ways to Hedge Inflation With ETFs

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:37:00 +0000

Index IQ has introduced two new exchange traded funds (ETFs) that are intended to provide a hedge against inflation. The new ETFs offered by Index IQ are: IQ CPI Inflation Hedged ETF (NYSEArca: CPI) IQ ARB Global Resources ETF(NYSEArca: GRES) As we enter a period of more inflationary ...

Scott's Investments found this 9 days ago on etftrends.com

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Zimbabwe Inflation: The End of the Story

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:04:07 +0000

As we went to press with Modern Principles: Macro we kept having to add zeroes to Zimbabwe's peak hyperinflation rate and move it up the table of world leaders. In our final revision, Zimbabwe's monthly inflation rate had hit 79,600,000,000% putting Zimbabwe in second place. We ...

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ... found this 7 days ago on marginalrevolution.com

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Personal Income & Spending Dispel Inflation Fears

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:00:00 +0000

The consumer is still strapped. The Commerce Department posted its data for September’s personal income and spending, and frankly it almost makes you question yesterday’s GDP data. The report showed that Personal Income was unchanged in September, but showed that Spending was down ...

BloggingStocks found this 8 days ago on 247wallst.com

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Asset inflation, price inflation, and the great moderation

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:04:18 +0000

Commenter "reason" asks a question:...

Economist's View found this 10 days ago on interfluidity.powerblogs.com

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Inflation in China at 15%?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:51:22 +0000

This tidbit, from a report on impressions of conditions in China, via a steel buyer who has been making the rounds in Asia (hat tip reader Michael) is more significant than it appears. High inflation levels in China (and the powers that be seem to get worried when it goes over 11%-12%) is ...

FT Alphaville found this 10 days ago on nakedcapitalism.com

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When Will Inflation Really Hit Us?

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:20:17 +0000

" Most of us are gathered at the station, watching for the Inflation Express to come rumbling in. But we’ve been waiting for a while now. Just when should we expect the big locomotive to arrive and start pushing the prices of most things uphill We’d all like to know the exact date, of course, ...

iehi posted 13 days ago from hf-implode.com

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FRBSF Economic Letter: Inflation Expectations and the Risk of Deflation (2009-34, 11/2/2009)

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:03:06 +0000

Inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) has declined rapidly and even turned negative since the peak of oil and other commodity prices in mid-2008 (see Figure 1). In light of current high unemployment and prospects for a slow recovery, the question of whether deflation will ...

Economist's View found this 4 days ago on frbsf.org

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