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Moneyness: Sign Wars

November 15, 2014

Moneyness: Sign Wars. Does a lowering of a central bank’s interest rates create inflation or deflation? Dubbed the ‘Sign Wars‘ by Nick Rowe, this has been a recurring debate in the economics blogosphere since at least as far back as 2010. The conventional view of interest rate policy is that if a central bank keeps […]

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Manipulating the Consumer Price Index: Hedonic Quality Adjustments | The Consumer Price Illusion

November 6, 2014

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 […]

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Gold, Yen, Central Banks and the Endgame | SurlyTrader

November 6, 2014

Gold, Yen, Central Banks and the Endgame | SurlyTrader. Japan is frantically trying to stop its deflationary trap and its immense debt burden.  The population is aging and prospects look dire.  On Halloween (great timing) the Bank of Japan threw the kitchen sink at the problem by announcing that they would increase their QE from ¥60-70 […]

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Can’t Find Any Inflation? Here’s A Place To Start | Zero Hedge

October 27, 2014

Can’t Find Any Inflation? Here’s A Place To Start | Zero Hedge. Lately, there has been much anguished consternation, especially among the tenured US economics professors (primarily those who make 6-digits or more per year) and of course, the Federal Reserve where as we revealed last week, at least 113 government workers make $250,000 (excluding bonuses) and […]

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The Scariest Number Revealed Today: $1.114 Trillion In Eurozone Bad Debt | Zero Hedge

October 26, 2014

The Scariest Number Revealed Today: $1.114 Trillion In Eurozone Bad Debt | Zero Hedge. As we previously reported, the ECB’s latest stress test was once again patently flawed from the start. Why? Because as we noted earlier, in its most draconian, “adverse” scenario, the ECB simply refused to contemplate the possibility of deflation. And here’s why. Buried deep […]

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