If you are not
sure about the inflation rate, it is displayed at every car shop and will also be mentioned in the user manual when you buy a car.
Not exact matches
So, if there's a lot of global slack, that will make them less concerned
about inflation pressures, but by then, if a lot of places are at relatively full employment and seeing target
inflation, that will make them want to make
sure that we're not going into an overheating kind of mode.
I have talked
about this at length elsewhere, and I am
sure that informed people are well acquainted with the current monetary policy regime in Australia, which is based on an
inflation target, an independent central bank and a floating exchange rate.
As I am
sure you know, Taylor rules are a simple formula which give a benchmark for the real short - term interest rate, conditional on the latest information
about output relative to estimated potential output and
inflation relative to the target rate (and conditional on an assumption of a so - called «neutral» real interest rate).
SCHNEIDER: The number one metric and this gets back into my comments
about optionality for the Fed, but the number one metric that the Fed is going to be focused on is the tightness of the job market and wage pressures on the go - forward basis, so
sure inflation — headline
inflation has perked up a little bit.
«I'm
sure he was not talking
about the economy where the cost of living has skyrocketed, unemployment has reached unbearable level while
inflation is also beyond what we can bear.
I'll go for the first; I'm not so
sure about the second, with
inflation rising globally.
Not
sure about calling out a 2k difference over many years - what
about interest saved and
inflation?
I think that right now is an exceptionally bad time for government bonds (except for maybe
inflation - protected and I am not
sure about those either).
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.
Sure, corp. earnings are higher in absolute terms vs. the CPI reported, yet your argument that the CAPE is really 14 does nt work in my humble opinion because the average worker is earning less or
about the same as he was 10 years ago... Therefore the demand has not gone up as it would if this stealth
inflation was improving our lives and making stocks cheaper...
The most important thing
about this spreadsheet to understand is that future rates of return,
inflation, salary, disasters, how long you'll live, and other life events can't be known for
sure.