The usually terrific Floyd Norris puts forth an interesting but somewhat flawed thesis in Friday’s NYT about Gold; it has some odd...
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Barron’s Alan Abelson revisits an all too familiar subject: Inflation (ex-inflation) and fun with hedonics: "Of course, the...
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Once again into the fray of inflation ex-inflation: Yesterday’s PPI data was not at all a net positive, despite the...
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Mike Panzner looks at the spread between the PPI and the nonsensical core rate: Over the past three decades, the spread between the...
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I don’t have an opinion (either way) on Greg Ip, the WSJ reporter who covers the Fed. But I have to call this sentence into...
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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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ee Parsing the via the WSJ: "The Nov. 1 statement announced that the Fed was raising its key short-term interest rate by one-quarter...
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We have had robust reflation/inflation ever since the Fed took rates down to half century lows, and then left them there for quite a...
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Fascinating discussion today via Barron’s Alan Abelson. He looks at som interesting ideas from MacroMavens, who raise some...
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I mentioned a new column on why Inflation is real the other day (here). But an incident today was so telling re: measuring...
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