signs were appearing that Housing was cooling back in August. More recently, there was also a comprehensive front page WSJ article on the...
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My colleague Charles Nenner has been painstakingly analyzing data, some of which goes back hundreds of years. (I will make these...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan announced in Congressional Testimony today that the "yield curve was no longer a useful...
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Yesterday, the the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee surprsied nobody with their 12th consecutive 1/4 point increase. The WSJ noted...
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If that title has you confused, than you are probably not a fan of the CPI ex- food and energy, occasionally referred to as...
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We’ve been discussing quite a few inflation related issues lately. Here’s an overview: • Inflation/Shminflation an...
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Barron’s agrees with our assessment that, CPI not withstanding, there is actually some inflation out there. Add Oil and Fed...
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This will be the last in our series on inflation for today (hopefully). As we noted earlier, there is historical precedent for Central...
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Erik points us to this fascinating history of the core rate of inflation (aka Inflation ex-inflation), via the Economist: "Stephen...
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The WSJ: The Sept. 20 statement announced that the Fed was raising its key short-term interest rate by one-quarter point to 3.75%, its...
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