The BLS reported that prices rose modestly in April, below consensus expectations. The usually Bullish Michael T. Darda of MKM Partners...
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I stumbled across a data point yesterday that was quite fascinating: The percentage of food and health care in the Consumer Price Index....
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A must read piece is in the upcoming June 2008 Bloomberg Markets Magazine titled: The Improviser "Ben Bernanke, the...
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Peter Bernstein, author of such books as Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, has an interesting piece in the Sunday NYT,...
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Unlike the Federal Reserve, Trichet and the EC are very concerned with high Inflation: Click for Video Remember, the EC has a single...
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I’ve been complaining for quite some time that the understated Inflation overstates GDP. John Williams of ShadowStats notes the...
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Yesterday, I wrote: “David Leonhardt’s NYT columns are oftentimes insightful and illuminating. Unfortunately, today’s...
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David Leonhardt’s NYT columns are oftentimes insightful and illuminating. Unfortunately, today’s column is not one of those...
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Alan Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, Robert McTeer, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Jim...
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Excellent Sunday morning chart porn in the Business section of today’s NYT, regarding the various components of CPI inflation...
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