Sentences with phrase «of substantial inflation»

Stocks, in general, are decent investments to hold over the long term during periods of substantial inflation.

Not exact matches

There are some signs that inflation could come out of hiding in the next 18 months, but I would be very surprised if we saw a substantial increase in long rates in the coming couple of years just because there are too many disinflationary macro headwinds.

According to the Fed's models, this should generate substantial inflation — despite years of running evidence to the contrary.

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.

Naturally, as a central banker, I'll begin by observing that over the past two decades, most of the world has experienced a substantial fall in inflation.

Mishkin noted «I am less optimistic about the prospects for core PCE inflation to move much below 2 % in the absence of a determined effort by monetary policy,» adding that «a substantial further decline in inflation would require a shift in expectations, and such a shift could be difficult and time - consuming to bring about.»

It is difficult to understand why the record burden of consumer debt will be impervious to a rising unemployment rate, particularly when companies are facing a substantial acceleration in wage inflation in recent months as they try to shore up profit margins - making substantial new layoffs inevitable.

Zvi Bodie, professor of management at Boston University and author of «Worry Free Investing,» thinks you should a substantial amount of your money in Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities (TIPS).

The risk of a more substantial and sustained pick - up in inflation would be heightened if the economy were to expand significantly more quickly than currently envisaged.

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.

Goods and services that can not be imported from Asia have had substantial inflation in recent years — we shall only mention the cost of health care and education.

So does the Accord, which I believe has been a substantial contributor to the low rate of inflation we now see in Australia: the Accord processes are not perfect but that is the nature of compromise and human affairs generally.

The idea was that politically independent central banks would take control of monetary policy from government treasuries that had become the de facto monetary policymakers during World War I and had created substantial inflation in many countries.

Stating that the risk of a substantial fall in inflation was greater than the risk of a substantial rise, the Fed lowered the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 1 per cent in June.

In particular, following a quarter when falling petrol prices reduced inflation, the higher level of petrol prices in the first month of the June quarter suggests that a substantial contribution to the CPI is possible, which could take CPI inflation close to 3 per cent in the year to the June quarter.

It appears that the extensive changes in the economy over the past decade — including a structural fall in the inflation rate, productivity - enhancing changes in the labour market, corporatisation and privatisation of public - sector enterprises and substantial falls in the barriers to international trade — have led to an improvement in Australia's underlying rate of productivity growth.

Though the loss was quite substantial when you factor in years of inflation.

Chris Keates, general secretary of teachers» union NASUWT, said her organisation had argued for a «substantial above - inflation pay rise».

For most Canadians, ownership of a family home provides a substantial inflation hedge, and it also comes with substantial tax benefits.

But that would represent a substantial reduction in inflation - adjusted income from $ 40,000 a year to $ 32,000, a cut of more than $ 650 a month.

Better inflation hedges (like gold) probably exist, but they come with the cost of sacrificing substantial long - term returns just to make you feel better about short - term inflation gyrations.

As a result, Ben Bernanke feels that the risk of a substantial downturn has receded, and so, the next focus of the FOMC will be inflation.

My own impression is that the lack of fiscal discipline of recent years will ultimately feed a substantial amount of inflation, but it is not likely to appear so long as credit problems are accelerating.

These parcels have enjoyed — to varied degrees — substantial unrealized appreciation from up - zoning, surrounding population growth, property improvements, construction and lease - out, and, in some instances, more than a decade of market inflation.

In recent years, the BoJ has purchased a substantial volume of yen to increase inflation.

This is to ensure that a substantial portion of the dividend income is derived from energy stocks, which makes the fund less vulnerable to inflation.

Substantial goods, service and asset inflation is already being built into the system — its manifestation is really just a matter of when, not if.

This research depicts that with a raising incidents of lifestyle related diseases along with medical inflation, a health plan with high sum insurance is on fairly substantial demand in the market.

Then in May, the Fed said, «In contrast, over the same period, the probability of an unwelcome substantial fall in inflation, though minor, exceeds that of a pickup in inflation from its already low level.»

Macroeconomic factors such as GDP, imports / exports, inflation, and interest rates have a direct impact on real estate values — most noticeable when there is a substantial change in any of them — and appraisers must be able to interpret how these factors impact value.