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The Foundation for Potential Price Hyperinflation is Being Laid
The Foundation for Potential Price Hyperinflation is Being Laid The Federal Reserve sure seems to have a tough time finding and reporting signs of rising inflation — especially when it’s hidden in other sectors like a lack of demand for energy. A recent example of the Fed’s “inflation blindness” comes from a speech Chairman Jerome Powell gave […]
BoE Keeps Policy Unchanged, Tells Banks To Start Preparing For Negative Rates “If Necessary” But Sees Spike In Inflation
BoE Keeps Policy Unchanged, Tells Banks To Start Preparing For Negative Rates “If Necessary” But Sees Spike In Inflation The Bank of England kept its stimulus program unchanged on Thursday. The BoE maintained its Bank Rate at 0.1% and left the size of its total asset purchase programme at 895 billion pounds in a unanimous decision, […]
Inflation Is Spreading Broadly into the Economy. Amid Surging Costs, Companies Raise Prices, and Customers Pay them, Despite Weak Economy, 10 Million Missing Jobs
Inflation Is Spreading Broadly into the Economy. Amid Surging Costs, Companies Raise Prices, and Customers Pay them, Despite Weak Economy, 10 Million Missing Jobs “Not only have the last two months seen supply shortages develop at a pace not previously seen in the survey’s history, but prices have also risen due to the imbalance of […]
The U.S. Government Will Inflate To The Bitter End
The U.S. Government Will Inflate To The Bitter End The big news organizations say Joe Biden’s the next president of the USA. That claims of election fraud and fixing are baseless. Do you believe them? Do you trust them? Regardless, Biden’s acting as if. He’s talking to foreign leaders. He’s meeting with vaccine makers. He’s […]
Soaring Food & Energy Costs Spark Rebound In Producer Prices
Soaring Food & Energy Costs Spark Rebound In Producer Prices Producer Prices rebounded MoM in May with headline Final Demand PPI rising 0.4% (against +0.1% exp) but it left PPI YoY still down 0.8%… Some serious dispersion in the various sector’s price swings… This rebound was driven by a record surge in food prices… Two-thirds of […]
Anatomy of a fiat currency collapse
Anatomy of a fiat currency collapse This article asserts that infinite money-printing is set to destroy fiat currencies far quicker than might be generally thought. This final act of monetary destruction follows a 98% loss of purchasing power for dollars since the London gold pool failed. And now the Fed and other major central banks […]
What Will It Take to Get the Public to Embrace Sound Money?
What Will It Take to Get the Public to Embrace Sound Money? In the last decade, the combination of virulent asset price inflation and low reported consumer price inflation crippled sound money as a political force in the US and globally. In the new decade, a different balance between monetary inflation’s “terrible twins” — asset […]
“Inflation Is Inevitably Going To Rise” – Is Alan Greenspan Right?
“Inflation Is Inevitably Going To Rise” – Is Alan Greenspan Right? Via DataTrekResearch.com, “Right now, there’s no real inflation at play. But if we go further than we are currently, inflation is inevitably going to rise.” That’s from Alan Greenspan on CNBC this week. The “further” relates to US Federal deficit spending, the idea being that […]
The Source of Killer Inflation: Services
The Source of Killer Inflation: Services The soaring cost of services is driven by a number of factors. What will the future bring: fire (inflation) or ice (deflation)? The short answer: both, but in very different doses. Goods that are tradeable and exposed to technologically driven commodification will decline in price (deflation) while untradeableservices that are difficult to commoditize […]
Will Your Retirement Efforts Achieve Escape Velocity?
Will Your Retirement Efforts Achieve Escape Velocity? Sadly, most of us will outlive our savings The concept of ‘retirement’, of enjoying decades of work-free leisure in your golden years, is a relatively new construct. It’s only been around for a few generations. In fact, the current version of the relaxed, golfing/RV-touring/country club retirement lifestyle only […]
How Gibson’s paradox has been buried
How Gibson’s paradox has been buried Until the 1970s, all recorded history showed that bond yields were tied to the general price level, not the rate of price inflation as commonly believed. However, since then, the statistics say this is no longer the case, and bond yields are increasingly influenced by the rate of price […]
The Idea That the Fed Is ‘Independent’ Is Absurd
The Idea That the Fed Is ‘Independent’ Is Absurd Reuters Photographer President Donald Trump sparked controversy — as is his wont — when he recently told CNBC that he was “not thrilled” with the Federal Reserve’s announced hikes in short-term interest rates, which he claimed would hinder the economic expansion for which his administration had […]
Misleading with Numbers: It’s Worse When the Government Does It
Misleading with Numbers: It’s Worse When the Government Does It Major international comparisons have long concluded that Americans’ ability to effectively utilize mathematics is inadequate. Such conclusions divide students, parents, teachers and administrators into camps that share little more than blaming others for the problems. However, it is unclear whether all the finger-pointing indicates a […]
Visualizing Real Inflation – A Decade Of Grocery Prices For 30 Common Items
Visualizing Real Inflation – A Decade Of Grocery Prices For 30 Common Items Over the span of 2000-2016, the amount of money spent on food by the average American household increased from $5,158 to $7,203, which is a 39.6% increase in spending. Despite this, as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes, for most of the U.S. […]
How Uncle Sam Inflates Away Your Life
How Uncle Sam Inflates Away Your Life “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,” once remarked economist and Nobel Prize recipient Milton Friedman. He likely meant that inflation is the more rapid increase in the supply of money relative to the output of goods and services which money is traded for. As more and […]
