Sentences with phrase «official inflation numbers»

But those figures don't show up in the official inflation numbers or the velocity ratio.

Not exact matches

(I'm not talking about official numbers which are not believable except by the brainwashed; I'm talking about the real rate of inflation reported by the Chapwood index or shadowstats.com.)

Nevertheless, in light of the latest sluggish inflation figures and dovish comments by a number of Fed officials, there was increased skepticism among many market participants about whether policymakers would go ahead and implement another rise in interest rates before the end of the year, as indicated by the Fed's projections for monetary policy.

The only reason we don't see high inflation in the official numbers now is because housing prices (and, therefore, equivalent rents) have been falling.

A number of officials viewed a stronger economic outlook and greater confidence for higher inflation implying «the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.