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China Soars Most Since 2009 After Government Threatens Short Sellers With Arrest, Global Stocks Surge
China Soars Most Since 2009 After Government Threatens Short Sellers With Arrest, Global Stocks Surge Here is a brief sample of some of the measures the Chinese government and the PBOC have unleashed in just the past ten days to prop up the crashing market include: a ban on major shareholders, corporate executives, directors from […]
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming”
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming” Ali and Frazier, Laurel and Hardy, Mayweather and Pacquiao, Liesman and Santelli, and now Schiff and Maloney. Peter and Mike join clash of the titan-like to discuss their investment strategies and expose the charts the government doesn’t want you to seeas […]
Inaccurate statistics and the threat to bonds
Inaccurate statistics and the threat to bonds Statistics have become very misleading: in particular we are being badly misled into believing that the US is teetering on the edge of price deflation, because the US official rate of inflation is barely positive, a level that US bonds and therefore all other financial markets have priced […]
Robert Shiller: Unlike 1929 This Time Everything – Stocks, Bonds And Housing – Is Overvalued
Robert Shiller: Unlike 1929 This Time Everything – Stocks, Bonds And Housing – Is Overvalued Robert Shiller is a professor of economics and finance at Yale University. He is the author of Irrational Exuberance, which in 2000 predicted the collapse of the tech bubble and is now in its third edition. He was awarded the […]
Today’s CPI Lesson: The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target Is Completely Stupid
Today’s CPI Lesson: The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target Is Completely Stupid The madness of the Fed’s pending 81 month run of zero interest rates comes down to an inflation subterfuge that has no logical or empirical grounding in real world economics. Essentially, the Keynesians who currently inhabit the Eccles Building have turned all of central banking’s anti-inflation history on its head, saying, […]
The Government Fraudulently Reported April Inflation Numbers
The Government Fraudulently Reported April Inflation Numbers There’s no B.S. like the BLS – Dave Kranzler, Investment Research Dynamics The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the Consumer Price Index for April this morning. This Ministry of “Truth” published an inflation report that asserts that consumer inflation rose .1% month over month for April. But a further dissection […]
Think Different About Purchasing Power
Think Different About Purchasing Power The Tip of the Iceberg The dollar is always losing value. To measure the decline, people turn to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), or various alternative measures such as Shadow Stats or Billion Prices Project. They measure a basket of goods, and we can see how it changes every year. However, companies are […]
Modern-Day Monetary Cranks and the Fed’s “Inflation” Target
Modern-Day Monetary Cranks and the Fed’s “Inflation” Target One Bad Idea After Another Ben Bernanke is frequently in the news these days. The latest occasion concerns his opinion on the Fed’s “inflation” target, i.e., the target for the speed at which money should be debased relative to consumer goods in order to finally attain centrally […]
Is Mario Draghi Stupid, Crooked Or What?
Is Mario Draghi Stupid, Crooked Or What? Europe is surely at the top of the heap among today’s raging financial market lunacy. It seems that Ireland has now broken into the negative interest rate club, investment grade multinationals are flocking to issue 1% debt on the euro-bond markets and, if yield is your thing, you can get all of 3.72% on the Merrill […]
Are Central Bankers Losing The Plot: “The SNB Move Signals A Spectacular Loss Of Nerve”
Are Central Bankers Losing The Plot: “The SNB Move Signals A Spectacular Loss Of Nerve” As we have reiterated very frequently over recent years, the biggest vulnerability in the post crisis environment was that central banks start to make policy errors, by taking activist and precipitous decisions. Thus following on from last year’s error by Norges […]
Low inflation should not be feared, says George Osborne
Low inflation should not be feared, says George Osborne The sharp fall in the UK inflation rate should not be feared, Chancellor George Osborne will say in a speech later. “We should not confuse this welcome news with the threat of damaging deflation that we see in the eurozone,” he will say in a speech. […]
The Stimulus Monkeys Are Screeching And The Central Banks Are Pushing On A String
The Stimulus Monkeys Are Screeching And The Central Banks Are Pushing On A String Have you been at the zoo when the monkeys start rattling their cages and screeching in unison? That about sums up the last 24 hours since the euro zone’s December CPI printed at negative 0.2% versus prior year. Within minutes of the release, brokerage […]
Estimating the Effect of Hedonic Quality Adjustments on the Consumer Price Index | The Consumer Price Illusion
Estimating the Effect of Hedonic Quality Adjustments on the Consumer Price Index | The Consumer Price Illusion. Having an informed debate over Hedonic Quality Adjustments is difficult due to the lack of comparable consumer price indices. A few exist, however, andtoday we will look at an index compiled by PriceStats, an off-shoot of MIT’s Billion Prices Project, which scrapes the […]
Manipulating the Consumer Price Index: Hedonic Quality Adjustments | The Consumer Price Illusion
Manipulating the Consumer Price Index: Hedonic Quality Adjustments | The Consumer Price Illusion. Have you heard the one about CPI? Suppose that a TV manufacturer retires a product and replaces it with a newer, better, and much more expensive one. If the new TV costs 5 times more than the old one, how can we manipulate the […]
