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Food: What’s In Your Basket? How Fast Are Prices Rising?
Food: What’s In Your Basket? How Fast Are Prices Rising? The BLS says the CPI rose 2.1% in December from a year ago. Food rose 1.6%. I called the BLS and filled in some numbers. In CPI Up 0.1 Percent: How Much is the CPI Understated? I disputed the BLS’s year-over-year overall inflation figure of […]
What Has QE Wrought?
What Has QE Wrought? [Editor’s Note: Watch Ron Paul deliver this Special Report here.] The Great Recession began in 2007. It didn’t take long for the money managers to recognize its severity, and that a little tinkering with interest rates would not suffice in dealing with the economic downturn. In Dec. 2008, the first of four Quantitative […]
2018: The Year of Living Dangerously
2018: The Year of Living Dangerously I’m calling 2018 “The Year of Living Dangerously.” That description might seem odd to lot of observers. Major U.S. stock indexes keep hitting new all-time highs. 2017 went down as the first calendar year in which the Dow Jones industrial average was up for all 12 months. Even in […]
One Bank Asks If The PBOC Is Secretly Goosing Markets
One Bank Asks If The PBOC Is Secretly Goosing Markets Something odd is going on in China. On one hand, the PBOC has been soaking up excess liquidity from the market like a drunken sailor, and after not conducting reverse repos for 10 consecutive days, it has reduced the excess liquidity level by 510bn yuan […]
Economists Think Inflation Will Rise Sharply in 2018: They’re Wrong
Economists Think Inflation Will Rise Sharply in 2018: They’re Wrong Let’s investigate six reasons economists think inflation is about to pick in 2018, and why I think they are dreaming. Reason Number One – Wage Hikes Minimum wages rise in 18 states starting in 2018. Former Fed Vice-Chairman Stanley Fischer told Bloomberg TV on October […]
2018 Economy Goes Cold – Inflation Hot – Danielle DiMartino Booth
2018 Economy Goes Cold – Inflation Hot – Danielle DiMartino Booth Former Fed insider Danielle DiMartino Booth is not optimistic about a surging economy in 2018. Booth contends, “We have seen 24 consecutive back-to-back months when credit card spending has outpaced incomes. That tells you households are struggling to get by. This is not Eve […]
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 1
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 1 During the 40 months after Alan Greenspan’s infamous “irrational exuberance” speech in December 1996, the NASDAQ 100 index rose from 830 to 4585 or by 450%. But the perma-bulls said not to worry: This time is different—-it’s a new age of technology miracles that will change the laws […]
2017 Year In Review
Tortoon/Shutterstock 2017 Year In Review Markets fiddle while Rome burns Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than […]
Weekly Commentary: Chronicling for Posterity
Weekly Commentary: Chronicling for Posterity Janet Yellen’s Wednesday news conference was her final as Fed chair. Dr. Yellen has a long and distinguished career as an economist and public servant. Her four-year term at the helm of the Federal Reserve is almost universally acclaimed. History, however, will surely treat her less kindly. Yellen has been […]
Inflation v Deflation–State Finances
INFLATION V DEFLATION – STATE FINANCES There is a general belief, and that is all it is, that state finances fare better in an inflationary environment than a deflationary one. This perception arises from the transfer of wealth from lenders to the state through a devaluation of the currency, which occurs with monetary inflation, compared […]
The Fed’s Great Unwind: Will It Sink Us?
THE FED’S GREAT UNWIND: WILL IT SINK US? In the eyes of many people, the Federal Reserve (Fed) is an indispensable institution. We are told it supports growth and employment, fends off the negative shocks, and fights inflation. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Fed’s fiat money regime is economically and socially highly […]
Mark Carney Forced To Explain Surge In UK Inflation To Highest In Almost 6 Years
Mark Carney Forced To Explain Surge In UK Inflation To Highest In Almost 6 Years The market expected Mark Carney to avoid it but it was just not meant to be. The BoE Governor will suffer the ignominy of a bizarre tradition of having to write a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer explaining […]
Doug Noland: There Will Be No Way Out When This Market Bubble Bursts
Doug Noland: There Will Be No Way Out When This Market Bubble Bursts Financial assets will become toxic to hold This week Doug Noland joins the podcast to discuss what he refers to as the “granddaddy of all bubbles”. Noland, a 30-year market analyst and specialist in credit cycles, currently works at McAlvany Wealth Management and […]
Finally, An Honest Inflation Index – Guess What It Shows
Finally, An Honest Inflation Index – Guess What It Shows Central bankers keep lamenting the fact that record low interest rates and record high currency creation haven’t generated enough inflation (because remember, for these guys inflation is a good thing rather than a dangerous disease). To which the sound money community keeps responding, “You’re looking […]
Inflation Surges as Economy Bogs Down in Mexico
Inflation Surges as Economy Bogs Down in Mexico Bank of Mexico caught in a vise. In the last week, the governor of the Bank of Mexico (or Banxico), Augustin Carstens, stepped down in order to take over the reins as general manager of the Bank for International Settlements in Basil, Switzerland, while Finance Minister José […]
