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The Inflation Factor
ritholtz.com - 12/18/2008
The Inflation Factor
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The Inflation Factor Doug Short is a retired IT manager and lifelong investor with a Duke Ph.D. and a prior career as an English Professor at North Carolina State University. In the mid-’80s I was seduced by IBM microcomputer technology and spent many years with Big Blue before ...
Humpty Dumpty On Inflation
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com - 12/18/2008
Humpty Dumpty On Inflation
— globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com — There is an excellent article by Axel Merk on 321Gold called Monetizing the Debt . The article... discusses the Fed's growing balance sheet and whether or not it represents inflation. The aspect that I want to highlight is in regards to bank lending. ... (more) Humpty Dumpty On Inflation

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Inflation explained
themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com - 12/17/2008
Inflation explained
— themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com — While waiting for the new inflation initiatives to be announced by the Federal Reserve in about an... hour, via 24hGold comes the following Depression-era explanation of why inflation is our only hope in the current crisis. "What inflation has done ... (more) Inflation explained

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reason.com - 12/22/2008
The Growing Case for Inflation: Why rising prices will help the economy - Reason Magazine
— reason.com — One of the great achievements of our time has been the conquest of inflation. In the 1970s,... it ravaged our savings, raised our taxes, and kept the economy on a roller coaster. So it is a measure of our current economic crisis that the return of ... (more) The Growing Case for Inflation: Why rising prices will ...

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The Mess That Greenspan Made — ... the Fed Flattens Rates, the Dollar Gets Bruised - NY Times Nervy investors spur rush at Swiss gold refiners - Reuters Trade Watch: Further Confirmation of Slowdown in Container Shipments - Naked Capitalism Blackouts and Cascading Failures of the Global Markets - Scientific American 2008's star newsletter profits from the stars - MarketWatch ECONOMY New jobless claims drop more than expected - AP The Inflation Factor - The Big Picture Chrysler shuts down all production - CNN/Money Obama ...

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