Sentences with phrase «measure of inflation does»

Some advocates complain that the government's measure of inflation doesn't reflect the costs many older Americans face.

Not exact matches

Even if Canada doesn't start dropping payloads of cash itself — something Cooper says he does not foresee in the next three years, at least — the ripple effect of a central bank explicitly targeting higher inflation and adopting formerly verboten measures to get it would be felt on these shores in the form of increased global volatility.

The Fed has noted the decline in the «market based» measures of inflation — i.e. breakevens — and said these too look transitory, though these do bear close watching.

Moreover, core inflation moved ahead of its level of 6 months ago, and leading economic measures continued to slip (though we don't see them as being indicative of recession risk at present).

This brings us to the big question regarding measuring inflation: What do we include in the basket of items which we use to measure inflation and how do we weight them?

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.

Again, she was struggling to understand the lack of inflation and that will continue to plague her because they just don't truly understand where the inflation is as the Fed measures it.

The index is not designed to measure the realized rate of inflation, nor does it seek to replicate the returns of any index or measure of actual consumer price levels.

Among other measures, they examined the «success rate» (cases where the portfolio did not run out of money) for different expected future return scenarios assuming 4 % of the portfolio value (inflation adjusted) is withdrawn annually for 30 years.

Inflation doesn't directly cause prices to raise; instead it is a measure of how much raise in prices happened.

Moreover, core inflation moved ahead of its level of 6 months ago, and leading economic measures continued to slip (though we don't see them as being indicative of recession risk at present).

Inflation is the measure of the rate at which prices increase, so if savings don't beat inflation after tax, they're losing yInflation is the measure of the rate at which prices increase, so if savings don't beat inflation after tax, they're losing yinflation after tax, they're losing you money.

This second measure is also used where the country in question didn't or doesn't keep reliable inflation statistics which may well be true of Colombia in the 90s.

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The CPI and CPI - U do not directly measure inflation, but it gives a very good idea of whether we are in a period of inflation or deflation and how severe that change may be.

To do this, I bonds adjust their rate every 6 months to track changes in the level of inflation as measured by the CPI - U.