Inflation

The Federal Reserve: Whining About the Economy

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Statistics, Unemployment, Economics, Job Cuts, Inflation, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Ben Bernanke Recession, Recession, Business News
Hale

Yesterday the Federal Reserve released the latest Beige Book. What did it show? Consumers are slowing their shopping, housing is still deteriorating, and prices are increasing.

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Clipped Roman Coins and Shrunken Coke Cans

Max Keiser | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Roman Coins, Starbucks, Empire, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Loss of Empire, Inflation, Rome, Economy, Business News
Max Keiser

The Romans had a gold-backed currency that they physically needed to shrink to engineer empire-killing inflation. In America, the government, not having a gold-backed currency, just prints more worthless paper.

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The Black-Scholes Atomic Debt Bomb & 7 Predictions

Max Keiser | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Option Volatility Formula, Federal Reserve Bank, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Deflation, Inflation, Black-Scholes, Business News
Max Keiser

By not deflating the supply of fiat, debt-based exchange units for so many years, the over supply of them, each a claim on America's future, has grown by quantum levels of risk.

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Misery Index Highest Since Bush 41

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Reagan, Carter, Inflation, Clinton, Economy, Bush 43, Uemployment, Misery Index, Bush 41, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

The economic misery index, which is simply the sum of unemployment and inflation rates, rose in June to 10.5, its highest level in 15 years.

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Sorry, Canada, $7 Canadian Is Just $6.98 American!

Dave Burdick | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Loonie, Canadian Dollar, Weak Economy, Canada, Weak Dollar, Inflation, Economy, Business News
Dave Burdick

"Hey, Canada! You thought that pipeline was worth seven billion dollars? Ha! Yeah, where we're from, that's a $6.98 billion pipeline!" And then I'd smugly shine an apple on my lapel.

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Lies, Damn Lies and Government Inflation Statistics

Kevin Phillips | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Inflation, Economy, Business News
Kevin Phillips

The possibility that inflation could reach double digits should start to resolve today's central debate: whether this decade's economy is more like the 1930s or that of the stagflationary 1970s. Alas, there are elements of both.

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U.S. Inflation At A Glance

Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Inflation, Food Prices, Consumer Price Index, Consumer Prices, Gas Prices, Cost of Living, Weak Dollar, Recession, Economy, Business News

Reports on inflation showed big price increases at the consumer level and the wholesale level for June, driven by higher energy and food costs. Here ...

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Zimbabwe Inflation Hits 2.2 Million Percent

AFP | Godfrey Marawanyika | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Inflation Crisis, Zimbabwe Economic Crisis, Inflation, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Money, Zimbabwe Inflation, Business News

Zimbabwe's inflation rate, already the world's highest, hit an astronomical 2.2 million percent Wednesday after Robert Mugabe's re-election in a one-...

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Prices Rise At Second-Fastest Rate In 26 Years

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Inflation, Price Rises, Rising Prices, Rising Inflation, Ben Bernanke, Economy, Financia Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON — The price of a quart of milk, a plane ticket and a host of other products rose in June at nearly the fastest pace in a generation, ...

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Oil Prices May Drop, But The Dollar Won't Go As Far Anyway

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Weak Economy, Recession, Economy, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Oil Prices, Business News

WASHINGTON — The price of a quart of milk, a plane ticket and a host of other products rose in June at nearly the fastest pace in a generation, ...

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"Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction" at the G8 Summit

Max Keiser | Posted 07.06.2008 | Business

Read More: G8, Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction, Al Jazeera English, Monetary Policy, Inflation, G8 Summit, Monetarism, Business News
Max Keiser

I was on Al Jazeera live from Doha, Qatar Sunday talking about the G8 meeting, the U.S. dollar and weapons of mass financial destruction.

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Squeezed Dry

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Politics News, Inflation, Economy, Wages, Middle Class, Oil Prices, Oil Profits, Fashion, Recession, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

The long term massive substitution of technology-driven innovation, fueled with cheap wages and energy, may be at increasing risk. Rising energy costs are hard to substitute around.

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Starbucks To Close 600 U.S. Stores

AP | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Starbucks, Starbucks Closures, Weak Economy, Economic Downturn, Recession, Inflation, Starbucks Closing Stores, Business News

SEATTLE — Starbucks Corp. has announced it's closing 600 underperforming stores in the United States. The Seattle-based premium coffee company ...

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Global Inflation Rising At Double-Digit Pace

AP | RACHEL BECK | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Inflation, Global Inflation, Global Inflation Rising, Bad Global Inflation, Business News

NEW YORK — There is nowhere to hide from inflation. Prices in one in four countries, many of them in emerging markets, are accelerating at a do...

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The Time For Fed Action Is Now

Vince Farrell | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Federal Reserve, Weak Economy, Ben Bernanke, Core Inflation, Weak Dollar, Inflation, Business News
Vince Farrell

Inflation is the cruelest form of taxation. It eats away at buying power and once uncorked, it's very hard to contain.

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A Conflict that Bodes Ill for the Dollar

Michael Pento | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Inflation, Business News
Michael Pento

Investors must keep in mind that Ben Bernanke is no longer an objective third party trying to steer the economy.

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The U.S. Recession, the Dollar and Why Bush Wants to Bomb

Max Keiser | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Afshin Rattansi, The Dollar, U.S. Recession, Oil Prices, Weimar Germany, US Economy, Inflation, Business News
Max Keiser

I had a chance to talk about the U.S. economy, the dollar and oil as it relates to Iraq and Iran this week with Afshin Rattansi on Iran's press TV (oh...

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Our Love, Hate Relation to Inflation

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Energy, Gas Prices, Inflation Rate, High Food Prices, Inflation, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

Housing prices went nuts from 1996-2007, and there virtually no complaints. So why is speculation influenced inflation in food and energy prices the work of Satan?

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Inflation Hits Hawaii Hard

CNN | Chris Lawrence | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Hawaii Inflation, Hawaii Bad Inflation, Hawaii, Inflation, Hawaii High Inflation, Business News

Imagine going to your local grocery store and paying over $8 for a jar of Jif peanut butter. How about $5.50 for a loaf of white bread, $6.50 for a ga...

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Floods, Bush Oil, Congress, Nasa, Right Wing Media, Phil Gramm, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq Oil, Smears, Republican Hypocrisy, Stagflation, Political Corruption, Hurricane Katrina, Jim Wilkinson, Jeffrey Skilling, Texas Oil, John McCain, Michelle Obama, John McCain Hypocrisy, World Hunger, Enron, Climate Satellites, John McCain Lobbyist, Midwest Flooding, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Farm Bill, Enron Loophole, Enron Scam, John McCain 2008, Inflation, Hypocrisy, Refugees, Republicans, Green, Green News
Janet Ritz

While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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Good News from the Fed

Jeff Madrick | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Rates, Federal Reserve, Itnerst Rates, Inflation, European Central Bank, Ben Bernake, Business News
Jeff Madrick

If bond traders believe inflation will go up, they will send long interest rates and therefore mortgage rates up. That, too, can lead to a worsening of the crisis.

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Caco-Phony and Clarity

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Democrats Presidential Election 2008, Housing Market, Prices, Low Wages, Economics, Inflation, Housing Crisis, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

The bells are tolling for millions caught off guard by stagnant wages and job growth, falling savings, rising debt, shrinking wealth and spiking prices. But turnaround is possible and has been done before.

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Inflation jumps by biggest amount in 6 months

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Inflation, US Economy, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON — Soaring energy costs pushed inflation up in May at the fastest pace in six months. Food costs kept rising, too, and all signs are p...

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Increased Airline Fees and Reduced Service Are Chintzy: Wouldn't it Be Less Annoying and Would Anyone Really Notice if They Just Raised Their Fares a Little?

Michael Russnow | Posted 06.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Inflation, Airline Fees, Cost of Living, Gasoline Prices, Reservation Fees, Reduced Airline Services, United Airlines, Michael Russnow, Overweight Baggage, Domestic Travel, American Airlines, Airline Meals, Delta Airlines, International Travel, Business News
Michael Russnow

With the recent decline of service, airlines are truly an affront to the transportation industry. They are also unfair and unequal in the manner they display their indifference.

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The Case Against the Victory Garden

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Budgeting, Outsourcing, Barbara Kingsolver, Groceries, Hobby, Laundry, Core Competency Moms, Tax Refunds, Inflation, Money, Save Money Groceries, Cooking, Gardening, Cleaning, Wall Street Journal, Gardens, Living News
Laura Vanderkam

The home-garden micro-trend runs counter to the tidal wave of food outsourcing that's swept through grocery stores over the past 20 years.

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