Personal Income, Spending Falls
online.wsj.com 5/1/2009 — Personal income fell 0.3% in March, while spending dropped 0.2% as U.S. consumers elevated savings to cope with the recession.

Personal Income & Spending: Consumer Inversion Continues
247wallst.com 3/27/2009 — February’s personal income and spending is not looking like any major recession cuts are keeping the houses from buying needed goods, but if the math is right then they are spending money they don’t have. Personal income came in at ...

Fears of Inflation
econospeak.blogspot.com 8/16/2009 — Jack Healy reports on the current lack of inflation: Consumer prices in the United States did not budge last month, easing, for now, concerns that the record deficit and huge new government spending would spur inflation. “It could be a very large ...

What Inflation?
247wallst.com 10/15/2009 — We have just gotten the Labor Department’s measure of retail inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index. The September reading still has inflation running tame, and many will be watching for more of the Producer Price Index data as a result ...

"A New Approach to Gauging Inflation Expectations"
economistsview.typepad.com 18 days ago — Good news for those worried about inflation: A new measure of inflation expectations indicates that "longer-term inflation expectations remain near historic lows, in the neighborhood of 2 percent": A New Approach to Gauging Inflation ...

The Foolishness of "Income And Spend" Numbers
market-ticker.denninger.net 6/29/2009 — The personal income number came in up 1.4% and spending came in 0.3%. Here's what the BEA said: The pattern of changes in personal income and in DPI reflect, in part, the pattern of increased government social benefit payments ...

When Will Inflation Really Hit Us?
hf-implode.com 10/25/2009 — " 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, ...

Notes on This Week’s Column: Inflation Fears
newyorker.com 9/8/2009 — My column this week is about the curious fact that we’ve seen a resurgence of inflation fears even though the economy is still struggling and even though there’s no sign of price pressure either...

Asset inflation, price inflation, and the great moderation
interfluidity.powerblogs.com 30 days ago — Commenter "reason" asks a question:...

Misunderstanding Inflation
alephblog.com 9/9/2009 — Monetary inflation leads to inflation in goods, services, and/or assets. We just went through a decade (and then some) where there was low product price inflation, but there was significant inflation in asset values. What was the response from policymakers? Aside from a rare comment ...