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ThinkstockWhile inflation has been relatively tame in the United States and Europe, several large nations have struggled with rising prices. Sadly, most instances are simply stagflation, where prices...
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Jon OggSomething may not be adding up properly with the U.S. Labor Department numbers. Perhaps it is just a lagging effect of CPI versus PPI, as we frequently have discussed, or the boys and girls...
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ThinkstockDespite higher energy costs, inflation still seems to be in check. The U.S. Labor Department released on Wednesday morning the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the month of July. The headline...
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ThinkstockThis should sound familiar to you: “We are tying shot-term interest rates to the unemployment rate.” This is a message you have heard from Ben Bernanke and the U.S. Federal Reserve for...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has released its Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) for the month of June. Economic activity is showing a slight improvement on the national...
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courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying in his semiannual report to the Congress on Wednesday. The stock, bond, commodity and currency markets are trying to...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has released its inflation report for the month of June. Its Consumer Price Index (CPI), measuring consumer inflation, showed that prices were up by 0.5% on the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is responsible for measuring inflation, and it has just released its first reading with the June Producer Price Index (PPI). This is the measure of...
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ThinkstockThe storm of equity selling that followed the June meeting of the FOMC has brought out the troops (Fed presidents mainly) to clear up what Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke meant when he said that...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department already released its reading for wholesale prices via the Producer Price Index for May, and now we have the retail inflation data coming via the Consumer Price...
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Jon OggThursday finally brought on a lot of new economic data for investors to peruse from the Labor Department and Commerce Department. This on the heels of several days in a row of almost no real...
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Jon OggImagine not just loaning the government money for free, but at negative nominal rates. Another fresh Treasury auction of 10-year inflation-protection TIPS just went off yet again at negative...
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Jon OggIt has been hard to ignore the rise in bond yields on the longer end of the Treasury curve in recent days. The market keeps looking for clues from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and...
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ThinkstockMore economic data is out for the markets to chew on. The good news is that inflation appears to be remaining nonexistent. The bad news is that manufacturing in the New York area is dipping...
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ThinkstockEver since the Federal Reserve began its first quantitative easing program in late 2008, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker has been warning that future inflation is going to run wild...
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