Topic: Inflation

“The U.S. Dollar and Prosperity: Accidents Waiting to Happen”

– October 6, 2010

“A lasting solution would be to recognize explicitly that market prices, reflected in the yield curve and gold price have been the most reliable signals of the global demand for dollar liquidity. The daily correlation between gold and the dollar has be …

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“Monetary Policy and the Business Cycle”

– October 6, 2010

“From my view, I would welcome the day when the topic of this conference—”Money, Politics, and the Business Cycle”—would become obsolete. Not because there is no relation between money, politics, and the business cycle; there is. But I would welcome th …

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“Which is Better: High or Low Inflation?”

– October 5, 2010

“In addition to encouraging fiscal responsibility on the part of consumers, low but stable inflation (or even deflation) is also good for the long term economy, because it allows producers to know their costs. This predictability allows producers to ge …

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“Why is inflation bad?”

– October 4, 2010

“Inflation is a process of continuous increase in the prices of most goods and services in a country. This does not necessarily mean that all prices increase. There may be some exceptions, such as computer prices which have actually declined in recent years. Inflation can therefore be described as a persistent general increase in prices.”

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“Tea Partiers support audit of Federal Reserve”

– October 1, 2010

“Though Republican Rep. Ron Paul told The Daily Caller last week that he was worried that “some people have slipped into the Tea Party who are awfully close to being part of the establishment,” on at least one particular anti-establishment issue close …

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“Rising Gold Prices Affect Local Companies”

– September 30, 2010

“In financial circles, analysts credit the rising price of gold to an unlikely duo: investors seeking shelter and central bankers from India, Bangladesh and other developing countries. Both are wary of a falling dollar. It starts with low interest rate …

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Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History

– September 29, 2010

“Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman — dubbed ‘the Oliver Stone of economists’ by the Chicago Tribune — makes clear once and for all that no one, from the local corner merchant to the Wall Street banker to the president of the United States, is immune …

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“The Dynamics of Chronic Inflation in Brazil, 1968-1985”

– September 29, 2010

“This article develops an error-correction model with the aim of analyzing the behavior of prices during a period of chronic inflation in Brazil. The degree of inflationary inertia is estimated, and tests for the importance of disequilibria in the dome …

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“Does Inequality Cause Inflation? The Political Economy of Inflation, Taxation and Government Debt”

– September 29, 2010

“The optimal revenue mix is tilted more towards seigniorage if the ruling political party has less of a dislike for inflation, if the costs of collecting taxes are high and the extent of tax evasion is widespread (cf. Canzoneri and Rogers, 1990), and i …

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Russia – “Inflation Could Trip New Exchange-rate Crisis”

– September 28, 2010

“This happy outcome was a result of serious efforts by the Finance Ministry to contain budget expenditure and by the Central Bank to restrain excessive monetary growth. Inflation control became the most important priority for the government because, ap …

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“Thomas Hoenig is Fed Up”

– September 24, 2010

“This is Tom Hoenig’s moment, and it’s a strange one. In Washington, he is the burr in Fed Chairman Bernanke’s saddle: the rogue heartland banker who keeps dissenting alone—for the sixth straight time on Sept. 21—to protest the Fed’s rock-bottom intere …

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“Gold Miners Gain on Fed’s Latest Views”

– September 23, 2010

“Miners such as Newmont (NEM) and Silver Wheaton (SLW) galloped to new highs on Wednesday, as gold prices reached another new peak in the wake of the Fed’s latest comments. The Federal Reserve on Tuesday indicated that it was prepared to pump fresh cas …

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