But if the European Central Bank significantly loosens the currency to bail out these countries, it will create
serious inflation problems in countries like Germany and others with more skilled labor forces and reasonable deficits.
The HK$ - US$ peg hasn't made sense for a long time and has become the main cause of a huge
inflation problem in Hong Kong.
Partly because
most inflation problems were demand driven over the course of the cycle, there was a continuing belief that if the cycle could be smoothed, inflation would be contained, and both fiscal or monetary policy were available instruments in addressing the cycle.
And the other issue is if you look at typical forward - looking inflation indicators like the TIPS, those markets are not telling you there is some
massive inflation problem just on the horizon.
Adam Boyton, the chief economist at Deutsche Bank, based in Sydney, says rising government charges are at the heart of the
domestic inflation problem.
«We have
an inflation problem right now,» said Landry's Inc. founder and CEO Tilman Fertitta, the billionaire who owns and operates more than 450 restaurants across 40 unique brands, in an interview at the Milken Global Conference.
«If the Fed is moving slowly, it means that they are not chasing an overheated economy or
an inflation problem,» Sonders said.
Rick Rieder looks beyond the headline inflation level to gauge whether the U.S. has
an inflation problem.
-LRB-...) So how is it that a weak economy like Australia, which is weighed by a severe slowdown in mining investment, low confidence and weak commodity prices, can have
an inflation problem?
It can stabilize their currency if they have
inflation problems or outside currency speculation as you pointed out.
Printing more money would have made
the inflation problem much worse.
It's starting $ $ RT @LisaCNBC: The Japanese are going to overdo it and create
an inflation problem.