After
writing about inflation for 8 years, my predictions of rising inflation are coming true.
Not exact matches
«It's one of the things I'm often puzzled
about, is how many folks are
writing about how
inflation's been missing in action and all that,» Poloz said.
«It's hard to understand why the BOJ is still cautious
about adopting a price - stability target,» Kuroda
wrote, eight years ago, before the central bank was strong - armed this year into adopting a binding
inflation target of 2 percent.
«The BoC has stated rather clearly to look through near - term
inflation, partly because there isn't anything it can do
about it anyway but also because (and we agree) it believes many of the pressures will abate into next year,» they
write.
But that's at least in part because those of us who get paid to
write about such things have been conditioned to treat
inflation as a non-story.
I
write I'm all
about capital preservation + beating
inflation, but it looks likes I'm slightly more conservative in the way I actually invest.
In a letter dated April 24, Representative Alex Mooney (R - WV)
wrote to Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, raising concerns
about their formal policy to devalue the Federal Reserve Note (e.g. «
inflation targeting») and requesting information
about the United States» use -LSB-...]
I suspect, for reasons I will
write about in the next few days, that moving away from
inflation targeting to something like nominal gross domestic product - level targeting would be a better idea.
Well you know let's also talk
about, go back to the financial repression part because one thing I've started to
write about and other people have also started to
write about is the possibility that we finally get some
inflation.
There will be a
written ministerial statement later today
about the decision by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to ensure that the
inflation target is met and that the economy does not fall below that target by putting extra money into the economy, which is described as quantitative easing.
The science budget as a whole is up
about $ 20 billion, but that increase probably won't keep pace with
inflation, Pallava Bagla
wrote Thursday at ScienceInsider.
He
wrote about Brazil as this sleeping giant shackled by
inflation, and fifty years later, that's still arguably the biggest economic story playing out in South America.
The Breakfast Club made $ 45 million (adjusted for
inflation, that's $ 115 million today) and inspired a wave of more angsty films
about growing up, including Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful (also
written by Hughes), Stand by Me, For Keeps, Dead Poets Society, Say Anything, and School Ties.
LaTisha D Styles
wrote a guest post at Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
about Investing Strategies for
Inflation.
I previously
wrote about how
inflation is a beast and you need to slay it.
I have
written about the impact of
inflation on mortgage payments in the past (see: Your Mortgage May Not Be As Expensive As You Think It Is).
One person I was
writing to asked some detailed questions, and I told him that the stock market was likely to return
about 4.5 % / yr (not adjusted for
inflation) over the next ten years.
So, I've been told
writing about losing the prospect of potentially millions of dollars in the housing market, due to the inevitable
inflation of the dollar and appreciation, is too big of a number / concept for some people to comprehend.
I
wrote a post last year
about inflation and investments, where I concluded that stocks are a useful but sporadic hedge against
inflation.
Continued from here, and I guess here: I actually started
writing this post the other day, but quickly got side - tracked into a different post — after all, one can't really talk
about real assets without first taking on
inflation!
You talk
about us having conquered
inflation, but lately you've been
writing about the reasons why federal government can't shrink.
As I
write, home sales are strong, stock prices are fluctuating but high, and
inflation is essentially invisible, all of which is good news for just
about everyone.