If you value stability and safety, and don't
care about inflation protection, you may find this an attractive investment.
Hmm... what if the FOMC doesn't really
care about inflation anymore?
One way to take
care about inflation risk is to buy for example 5 yr bond every year and sell a 5 yr bond that matured that year.
If you own a 10 - or 30 - year piece of paper, you really
care about inflation.
«Google doesn't
care about inflation,» he notes.
Not exact matches
If Poloz was correct, and the media only
care about prices when they spike to absurd levels, then let me suggest that some us are
about to make up for it by working overtime to explain why the Bank of Canada wants to raise interest rates even though core
inflation is trending away from the two - per - cent target.
Poloz says the only rate he
cares about is
inflation, and virtually every piece of official communication from the central bank notes the boost that non-energy exports are getting from the weaker exchange rate.
When I think
about debt I do not
care about interest rates, the type of loan,
inflation or compounding.
We aim for this — not because
inflation is all we
care about — but because the maintenance of low
inflation is a necessary condition for having a long economic expansion in output and employment.
The debate prior to this crisis can be (perhaps simplistically) characterised as between those who argued that an
inflation - targeting central bank should
care about asset prices to the extent that they affected the forecasts of output and
inflation over the policy horizon, and those who argued that additional attention needed to be paid to asset prices and the possibility of credit imbalances.
I need a serious break from the ugliness of DC health -
care politics, so let's talk
about three interesting and related economic questions:
inflation, labor demand, and consumer spending.
Policymakers are unlikely to
care much
about the reasons given the moves may help revive
inflation.
I think she still
cares about the underemployed, but I think she has shifted away from thinking we really should be seeing
inflation above target before we move, and that makes her somewhat more conventional than we thought a year and a half ago.
Furthermore, this is the only effect of monetary
inflation that the average economist or central banker
cares about.
I deal with a lot of dumb questions
about gold: «There is no
inflation, why should I
care about gold?»
The cyclical ravages of
inflation, the doubts
about the future of Social Security and the continuing escalation of health
care costs must cause at least occasional anxiety for any prudent person.
The health
care changes were among several ambitious proposals that the new governor outlined in his $ 120.6 billion budget, which would increase overall spending by 6.3 percent —
about double the rate of
inflation — and cut $ 1.2 billion from existing health
care programs.
Over the past 10 years, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show that the price for medical
care increased at roughly 3.3 % a year, or
about 70 % more than the overall rate of
inflation.
Even though one might think what would be important to measure would be overall Money Supply
Inflation, much more often people
care more
about measuring Price
Inflation.
In that sense, it's
inflation that you're likely
caring about the most.
Bonds
care a lot
about inflation.
But as an investor looking to increase your wealth, what you should
care about are real returns, which are your results over and above
inflation.
I don't really
care about turning profit on my savings, but I know better than leaving them on plain account in my country's native currency on percentage keeping up with current
inflation - Hyperinflation has swallowed my long - term savings account once already, and the situation isn't really stable.
Anyway, I was just wondering your position, because I think it's interesting when people talk
about compound interest, and some of them fall into the camp of paying those debts off sooner to make the compounding work in their favor, and others fall into the same camp you're in, and that is letting
inflation and rents take
care of it.
But equity investors don't necessarily have to
care so much
about inflation or currency depreciation (two sides of the same coin), since they often tend to be compensated accordingly with higher / lower underlying equity returns.
There are so many things to think
about — income; risk; asset allocation;
inflation; taxes; Social Security; health
care; Medicare; long - term
care; the list goes on and on.
All he
cares about is making sure that the $ 35,000 or so in income his portfolio produces each year though dividends, distributions and tax credits goes up faster than the rate of
inflation, and so far it has.
Speaking personally, sometimes I think that the only benchmark I
care about as an investor is
inflation.
The Fed, on the other hand, mostly
cares about core
inflation, which strips out the volatile energy component.
They have resigned to the fact that their real returns will be negative after considering taxes and
inflation, and just
care about not seeing the number of dollars they have decline.
Wired GC doesn't much
care about the cause of the increase, whether it's talent or
inflation or profit motive — the latter which Wired GC identifies as a «likely culprit.»