Sentences with phrase «about inflation do»

And those worried about inflation don't think a bond paying $ 50 a year is so great.

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«Google doesn't care about inflation,» he notes.

Or, do the economic positives we hear each day about low interest rates, low unemployment, low inflation, a healthy banking sector, rising real - estate prices, technology improvements, protection of resources, renewable energy and the rise of India — among others — suggest that any downturn or crisis will merely be a short - term market correction, with the kind of economic rebound we saw following the 2008 crisis?

There also was concern around the table about what a faster drop in value would do to inflation expectations.

However, although the BCC believes the country will manage to avoid recession, it does anticipate slowing economic momentum over the next two years given higher inflation trends and a continued lack of clarity about the process by which the U.K. leaves the EU.

(That's a big step for the central bank, which would prefer to talk only about what it's doing to control inflation.)

«The BoC has stated rather clearly to look through near - term inflation, partly because there isn't anything it can do about it anyway but also because (and we agree) it believes many of the pressures will abate into next year,» they write.

In Vermont, where the minimum wage is currently $ 8.60 and has been above the federal level and indexed to inflation since 2007, small business owners don't think much about the annual wage increases anymore, says Betsy Bishop, president of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce.

«They ask themselves — 1) What I absolutely need to live on and therefore need to shield from investment risk; (2) What I need to make my investments grow at the market rate and beyond inflation so I can meet my future needs; (3) What do I dream about and need to take risks around in order to come true?»

«They're worried about how do you have more inflation?

«Ten years past the financial crisis and we could see a period where, instead of talking about «secular stagnation» as our mutual friend Larry Summers likes to do, we're going to be seeing growth upgrades that we haven't seen, we're going to see investment like we haven't seen and we might see inflation in a way we haven't seen,» Rogoff said.

When I think about debt I do not care about interest rates, the type of loan, inflation or compounding.

I don't think things will get better until the inflation target is raised, at least there is an increasing number of influential people talking about it.

We would not be too fretted if actual inflation moves about a bit over the short term, provided price expectations do not change (i.e. we stay on this short - run curve).

The conundrum with TIPS is they get hit from rising interest rates so it's all about how much does inflation make up for that rise.

Generally don't we always want to think about inflation that way too, what is core, and what is headline.

Well the way we do that is we have a medium term target for inflation and we talk about holding CPI inflation to 2 to 3 per cent on average over time.

How do you feel about a rising inflation rate on your effective real cash return?

I'm not worried about interest rates getting crushed during a reset, because if they do, that simply means there is little inflation.

But around 1980, central banks got religious about inflation and started to do drastic things, like raising interest rates.

Despite its inflation concerns, the last thing the Fed wants to do is talk about «additional firming» in the interest rates to which those ARMs are tied.

Individuals living in Japan, the United States, or Germany don't worry about rampant inflation, a national infrastructure that is at the point of collapse, or the availability of basic

«He doesn't want to leave any question about the independence of the Governor of the Bank of Canada, but we have a situation under the Conservative government that has allowed record household debt... and the bank is really caught between a rock and a hard place, because these high debt levels create pressure for higher interest rates, but inflation is very low.

I do not mean a narrow economist's definition, but rather the whole way of thinking about inflation in business, government and the community generally.

In the 150 years since Confederation, the average income per person in Canada has increased about 20-fold after adjusting for inflation — all because we have adopted better ways of doing business.

And we talk a lot about inflation, and we talk about — people don't want higher inflation.

Instead, the Fed did the opposite: it signaled it was worried about inflation and that the expected policy path could tighten.

I hope to explore this properly in another note soon, but suffice to say for the time being that the typical framework economists use to think about inflation - which they proxy by changes in the CPI - is narrow, incomplete and fails to do justice to the richness of inflation as a concept.

Concerns about the Federal Reserve, which will commence its two - day FOMC meeting this morning, and likely end the gathering with an interest - rate increase and worries about looming inflation contributed to the poorer trend yesterday, as did some overdue profit taking.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Despite the fact that all the central banks have been woefully wrong about nearly every single forecast they have made on GDP growth, inflation and labor markets for decades, they enjoy an aura of infallibility which would be the envy of any medieval Pope because they succeeded in doing what governments by themselves were unable to do in 2008 - 9, namely stop and reverse the financial crisis.

Goods go up in price every year due to inflation (think about how we joke that movie tickets used to cost $ 2) so your money doesn't stretch as far as it used to.

Perhaps it was the last element of inflation hysteria, where the markets during that period didn't so much believe as the Fed about its forecasts for economy and prices, rather they believed the Fed believed in its own numbers.

And yes, actually the market reaction has really being quite muted and I don't know whether this partly reflects the new economic norm, you know the flattening of the Phillips Curve, disruptive change, lower inflation the Fed talked about at the Jackson Hole Summit last year, something called Our Star which is going to lower long - term rate of equilibrium interest rates.

Don't agree about inflation in the US, though.

Chris: Well the one everyone always talks about is of course precious metals, and that's because they understand the true nature of money and what money represents, what it does not represent, and therefore they understand the dangers of a Fiat currency in today's world and its ability to create inflation.

In addition, they dropped the statement indicating that they are «monitoring inflation developments closely», hinting to an easing of concerns about inflation being too low and perhaps also suggesting that they do not expect inflation to accelerate significantly.

Individuals living in Japan, the United States, or Germany don't worry about rampant inflation, a national infrastructure that is at the point of collapse, or the availability of basic necessities, such as food and medicine.

Assuming the ECB had become worried about weaker core inflation dynamics at the end of last year, the February HICP report certainly did not help.

This new confirmation of Inflation is groundbreaking, but Inflation isn't about the beginning of the observable universe, it happened after the beginning so Inflation has nothing to do with a first cause.

more to the point for an Economics graduate, who doesn't understand inflation moaning about the fact the the price of players has gone up considering annual revenues of the premier league teams have shot up too is incredibly stupid... But hey Wenger knows best; he wouldn't be in a position not having to spend over the odds for quality players if he acted in the first place, that's the icing on the retard cake there for me..

Fans and pundits alike criticise Wenger because he doesn't spend extravagant amounts of money but let's not forget about inflation and the investments made in Man City and Chelsea.

There will be a written ministerial statement later today about the decision by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to ensure that the inflation target is met and that the economy does not fall below that target by putting extra money into the economy, which is described as quantitative easing.

Growing doubts about evidence for ancient gravitational waves don't undermine cosmic inflation, says the theory's co-founder Andrei Linde — and don't let feelings obscure science

Although the findings don't rule out traditional inflation theories, they do open the door for other theories about how the universe began, including the idea that the universe began with a splat rather than a bang (ScienceNOW, 9 April 2001).

So, if these waves are discovered — and both Scott and I have been part of a group that has been looking at we might be able to do in the next set of satellites that may look for this, and John has been a leader in thinking about building experiments to look for these things — if we detect gravitational waves from inflation, there is a real possibility of pinning things down [enough] so that one could perhaps convince every physicist that inflation happened.

But this week, a team of theorists decided to ask: assuming the signal isn't caused by dust, what exactly does it say about inflation?

And as you may know the Planetary Society did an analysis that shows we could be in orbit around Mars, which would be analogous to the Apollo 8 orbit of the moon in 2033 without changing anything about the NASA budget just adjusting it for inflation.

Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

That is, if the stock market didn't have recessions, and if we could somehow make politicians stick to their funding promises, and if state predictions about longevity and salaries and inflation and all other sorts of other variables were perfectly accurate, then all our problems would be solved.