Sentences with phrase «thinking about inflation»

This v quickly got me thinking about inflation, enough to devote myself to this post instead:

That way you continually roll over to new debt issued at new interest rates that reflect current thinking about inflation.

I do not mean a narrow economist's definition, but rather the whole way of thinking about inflation in business, government and the community generally.

Carl Weinberg, High Frequency Economics Founder, says the market should be thinking about inflation risks but it's not currently.

Generally don't we always want to think about inflation that way too, what is core, and what is headline.

I hope to explore this properly in another note soon, but suffice to say for the time being that the typical framework economists use to think about inflation - which they proxy by changes in the CPI - is narrow, incomplete and fails to do justice to the richness of inflation as a concept.

Also, think about inflation, what seems like a big payment now will not be so big toward the end of the mortgage.

When I was younger I never thought about inflation.

That might sound great until you think about inflation, which this type of annuity doesn't do.

Whenever you are buying a term plan don't forget to think about the inflation.

Not exact matches

This point — and again this goes back to Evans this morning — can best be grasped by thinking about the»70s inflation, when rates were high.

«I think the major thing you have to worry about and think about is creeping inflation,» he contended.

This theory is why the Fed is thinking about raising rates even as inflation has consistently fallen below its 2 % annual target, because the central bank believes it needs to get ahead of rising inflation that a falling unemployment rate will cause.

In Vermont, where the minimum wage is currently $ 8.60 and has been above the federal level and indexed to inflation since 2007, small business owners don't think much about the annual wage increases anymore, says Betsy Bishop, president of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce.

It's easy to think of cost inflation as the oil companies» problem and the workers» benefit, but in reality there are about 35 million more stakeholders to consider.

And while he acknowledged that the issues weighing down the market — particularly concerns about tariffs and inflation — were legitimate, he thought some money managers had taken their selling sprees too far.

Siegel thinks that earnings per share can grow about half a point faster than nominal GDP — in the 5 % range including inflation — chiefly because of big gains in the technology sector.

When I think about debt I do not care about interest rates, the type of loan, inflation or compounding.

I don't think things will get better until the inflation target is raised, at least there is an increasing number of influential people talking about it.

That was part of our thinking in late 2013, when inflation was running persistently below target: we were concerned about the downside risks to inflation, but decided against easing policy further to avoid exacerbating growing household indebtedness and elevated house prices.

Now, if you think the economy is about to fall off the rails, either it «s going to go into recession, or it «s — there «s going to be a tick off in inflation, that might be a signal things are going to get worse.

It is time to think more boldly, especially about the idea of inflation targeting.

-- > The value of investing in relationships for the long - haul — > Investing in your health and longevity as a way to increase your lifetime earnings — > Why longer life expectancies should change the way you think about investing — > The shockingly low rate of personal savings and investment in the US — > My favorite part of the interview: whether we can reasonably expect the US markets to keep going up at their long - term average 7 % per year after inflation, or whether that was a unique period of US expansion which won't be repeated again.

The irony is that when we first started talking about inflation targeting, it was our insistence on that very flexibility that made people think we weren't serious.

The flexible inflation target served as a useful framework to think about the Asian crisis.

I think lifestyle inflation is a natural response to making more money — this strategy helps us live below our means without having to think about it.

Just as the events of the 1970s and emergence of stagflation throughout the industrial world, led to new policy paradigms, I believe that recent events will force us to develop new approaches to thinking about economic fluctuations and inflation which will, in turn, drive major changes in thinking about fiscal and monetary policy.

It is this latter subject I would like to examine in more detail because I think it tells us something about how we are adjusting to low inflation.

Early on, we had some indication that she would be highly emphasizing the plight of the underemployed, for example, and also there were some chances she would think about approaching the inflation target from above rather than below, essentially delaying rates until it was clear that inflation was above target.

Listen, and you go back years and think about if you got this sort of growth, this sort of wage acceleration, that the rate of inflation would be much higher.

I think she still cares about the underemployed, but I think she has shifted away from thinking we really should be seeing inflation above target before we move, and that makes her somewhat more conventional than we thought a year and a half ago.

If I were you I might think about adding the new NS&I certificates to the mix, to help protect your non-equity allocation from inflation.

Goods go up in price every year due to inflation (think about how we joke that movie tickets used to cost $ 2) so your money doesn't stretch as far as it used to.

By demonstrating that it is serious about stoking inflation, the E.C.B. could prevent people from entering a mind - set where they think prices are falling and slow their purchases as a result.

I mean, think about areas outside of the United States that have high inflation rates, if you are a consumer there, in an oppressive regime, you want a way to have more control over your assets and not be at the whim of governments, so that's kind of how it all started.

He talks about what he thinks of interest rates, inflation and -LSB-...]

«When we think about financial repression, we think about interest rates being below normal levels or below inflation.

As all the global markets were in sell mode St. Louis Fed President James Bullard hit the airwaves with thoughts about being wrong in his inflation projections.

Anything thoughts about that would be interesting but specifically re the book a very simple question, on page 97 he gives some key withdrawal rate definitions but not the definition of inflation adjusted withdrawal rate.

The monetary policy people think about output gaps and inflation, and the financial stability people think about asset prices and leverage and how to strengthen resilience.

But they have more misgivings than they once might have had about attempts to meet inflation and / or unemployment mandates that ignore the financial implications of the interest rate settings thought necessary to reach those goals.

And those worried about inflation don't think a bond paying $ 50 a year is so great.

Think about it this way: Using the average individual benefit of $ 1,341 per month in 2016, finding a similar investment paying the same amount for as long as you live, with inflation adjustments and survivor benefits for your spouse, would cost nearly $ 450,000.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, consumers think inflation will be about 2.7 percent a year from now.

Considering that the media plays up the worst possible scenarios in everything — you would think that a winter snowstorm was an assault on the existance of all humanity in its path the way some weather forecasters talk about it — the constant inflation of the danger posed by ordinary events, it is no wonder that people are fearful.

«It's important that we think about it as something across the board so as to not change the balance of power between the executive and the Legislature,» said Assembly appointee Roman Hedges, who proposed an inflation - adjusted increase to legislators» salaries of about $ 35,000, which went nowhere.

Inflation also revitalized cosmology, giving theorists like Vilenkin plenty to think about — and a bit more respectability to boot.

So, if these waves are discovered — and both Scott and I have been part of a group that has been looking at we might be able to do in the next set of satellites that may look for this, and John has been a leader in thinking about building experiments to look for these things — if we detect gravitational waves from inflation, there is a real possibility of pinning things down [enough] so that one could perhaps convince every physicist that inflation happened.

Krauss: I think the amazing thing about inflation is [that] it is completely consistent with what we see, and the key question, [you're right,] is: Will consistency ultimately be enough to convince everyone that it is absolutely true?

The theory of cosmic inflation, proposed and developed by Alan Guth, Andrei Linde and Alexei Starobinsky, has revolutionized our thinking about the universe.