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Price Inflation Hit a New 40-Year High in February

by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org No, It’s Not “Putin’s Fault.” According to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, price inflation in February rose to the highest level recorded in more than forty years. According to the Consumer Price Index for February, year-over-year price inflation rose to 7.9 percent. It hasn’t been that high […]

What to do about Inflation

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy Americans live from threat to threat. Now that the “covid threat” and the “Russian threat” have played out, we have the “inflation threat,” but is it any more real? It is true that the Central Bank has poured out unprecedented amounts of money for more than […]

FED Wizards – The Mega Manipulators

by Egon von Greyerz via Gold Switzerland In an investment world of instant gratification and Fed Intervention, when short term trading and speculation is the norm, real values are forgotten. Confucius understood the value of long term thinking and thus real values: If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed, if in […]

U.S. Inflation Rate Hits 7.5 Percent!

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just released its most recent Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures. Not good. The U.S. inflation rate has officially reached 7.5 percent for January 2022! According to Yahoo Finance, consensus estimates according to Bloomberg data was 7.3 percent. Big miss for the consensus. From the BLS, Increases in the indexes […]

Why Fighting Inflation Is Not a Priority for the Fed

by Liam Cosgrove via Mises.org On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held true to its monetary-tightening timeline despite last week’s 10 percent drawdown in most major indices, effectively saying, “10 percent is not enough.” With retail sales numbers that will surely return to trend without more stimulus (see chart), a gridlocked Senate, and the prospect […]

Will the Fed Pop the Everything Bubble?

by Daniel Lacalle via Mises.org The history of economic development cannot be understood without the importance of recession periods. Recessions are often the result of the excess accumulated in previous years. Creative destruction after a period of excess used to drive a stronger recovery and continued economic development. That was until risky assets became the […]

The Federal Reserve Keeps Buying Mortgages

by Alex J. Pollock via Mises Institute Runaway house price inflation continues to characterize the U.S. market. House prices across the country rose 15.8% on average in October 2021 from the year before. U.S. house prices are far over their 2006 Bubble peak, and remain over the Bubble peak even after adjustment for consumer price […]

Is the Crack-up Boom Here

by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute Bloomberg News recently solicited advice from Argentinians who lived through that country’s high inflation on how Americans should cope with rising inflation. The Argentinians suggested Americans spend their paychecks as fast as possible to avoid future price increases. They also suggested taking out loans that can be paid […]

Elizabeth Warren Is So Very Wrong about Inflation

by William L. Anderson via Mises Institute Almost anyone who follows social media is familiar with the latest tweets by Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has pronounced her verdict on higher food and gasoline prices: they are nothing less than the result of corporate greed. In fact, according to Warren, there is no inflation, only corporations arbitrarily […]

What’s Going on with Inflation?

Katharina Buchholz at Statista notes, Economic recovery following the lockdown era of the coronavirus pandemic has caused the price of goods and services to rise since the start of 2021 in many developed nations. Consumers catching up on spending coupled with persistent stock problems have created a climate of scarcity as pandemic effects continue to […]

Federal Reserve Failure

by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute  What do the Federal Reserve and neoconservatives have in common? They both refuse to admit that their policies — the neocons’ promotion of perpetual war and the Fed’s manipulation of the money supply — are complete failures, having produced the opposite of the promised results. The latest example […]

The Biggest Federal Reserve Scandal

by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute september 27, 2021 Following revelations that Federal Reserve officials made trades in financial assets while the Fed was taking extraordinary efforts to “stimulate” the economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ordered a review of the Fed’s ethics rules. While these trades appear problematic, they pale in comparison to […]