Inflation numbers continued their upward trajectory, with consumer inflation rising to 3 percent in September from a year earlier.
Not exact matches
Although the patches prevented an AMT explosion, the
number of taxpayers affected by the AMT
continued to grow throughout the decade (figure 1) because (1) the regular income tax was indexed for
inflation, but the AMT was not; and (2) Congress enacted substantial cuts to the regular income tax.
Many
continue to expect a continuation of low rates of
inflation and low interest rates, despite quite low unemployment rates in a
number of countries.
For me the main information coming out of CPI
inflation data is that consumer demand relative to total production
continues to be too weak to drive up prices, something confirmed earlier this week by the August trade
numbers, which failed to suggest strong growth in domestic demand.
Surprisingly, analysts
continue to hail lower - than - expected CPI
inflation as giving the PBoC room and encouragement to expand credit — largely I guess because this is what analysts say when US or European CPI
inflation numbers are low, and although most of us haven't thought through the differences between China and the US in the ways prices respond to monetary policy, we don't want to seem like we don't know what we are doing.
The
inflation numbers, you've got to remember we have very robust cost savings initiatives as well that have
continued to deliver for the last 4 to 5 years here.
After playing with the
numbers, I settled on this allocation: I allocated 80 % of the portfolio to the Dividend Blend portfolio, which has a
continuing withdrawal rate of 5.5 % (plus
inflation) at its minimum.
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