Inflation

Airplane Crashes Into Wild Pig On Runway, Reveals Zimbabwe's Air Safety Failures

Times Online | Jan Raath | Posted 11.08.2009 | World


It took a wild pig on the runway at Harare International Airport to reveal what many Zimbabweans have long feared: the country's Civil Aviation Author...

Five Myths the Recession Taught Us

James Altucher | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business


James Altucher

During the course of the past few months, several myths came to bear on the struggling economy that will play out through 2010 to create enormous opportunities in the market and the economy.

The Best Risk Reward Proposition

Alan Schram | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

This will be a different kind of inflationary cycle. The dollar will decline, but Real estate prices will not be going up because few property owners can raise rents right now.

Women's Wages Rose Faster Than Men's During Recession

Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business


The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau...

The Economic Recovery Continues

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business


Hale

The details we learned this week about the economy add up to a simple story: the recovery is progressing. However, an economy the size of the U.S. is like a battleship; turning it around takes time.

Surprise: Obama Isn't the Enemy of Seniors After All

Mark Miller | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics


Mark Miller

Obama's endorsement of a one-time payment to Social Security recipients helps position him on the side of seniors at a time when many already are angry with him about health care reform.

Reviving the Local Economy With Publicly-Owned Banks

Ellen Brown | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business


Ellen Brown

Despite trillions of dollars in bailout money, bank loans fell to their lowest rate since the onset of the Great Depression. Now that the Fed has done all they can, is it time for the states to step in?

The US Dollar: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business


Marshall Auerback

It seems there isn't a day that goes by without more commentary on the demise of the dollar and the concomitant risk of a collapse of the world's reserve currency.

Food Prices Poised To Rise

DailyFinance | Dan Burrows | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business


If there's any silver lining to a recession -- albeit a thin one -- it's that consumer prices typically go down. Make no mistake, deflation is a sign ...

Dollar, Inflation, Recession Optimism

Diane Francis | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business


Diane Francis

A world expert on economics delivered a cogent and optimistic analysis of the meltdown, its causes, its cure and its effect on the future at the recent Global Business Forum in Banff, Alberta.

What $1000+ Gold Means To You

Nathan Lewis | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business


Nathan Lewis

If you look more closely at gold, you discover that there is hardly any compelling investment thesis at all. In fact, it appears that gold is among the most useless things on the planet.

Martin Wolf: "Worldwide Inflation" Could Be Coming

Posted 09.21.2009 | Business


In an interview with Yahoo Tech Ticker this morning, Martin Wolf, the chief economic commentator at The Financial Times, was cautiously optimistic abo...

Roubini: How The Federal Reserve Should Withdraw The Stimulus

The Globe and Mail | Nouriel Roubini | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business


There's a general consensus that the massive monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and support of the financial system undertaken by governments and centra...

We Are Not Dependent on Foreign Countries for Our Own Money

Paul A. London | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics


Paul A. London

History-blind conservatives scare the country by saying that creating more money is a slippery slope to runaway inflation. This is not so. The real danger is the opposite.

The Economy: Cycling Along With the Training Wheels On

Michael de Portu | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business


Michael de Portu

Some observers ask whether we are in 1929 or 1932. The good news is that the world is so different today, we are probably in neither. The globe has 6 billion inhabitants with that much more potential for instability.

Central Bankers Content To Keep Interest Rates Low

Financial Times | Krishna Guha | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business


The world's central bankers were in no hurry to start raising interest rates as they headed home on Sunday from the US Federal Reserve's annual retrea...

The New Fall Fashion is Inflation

Michael Pento | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business


Michael Pento

The data soon to be released by the government will put a dagger through the hearts of those who are predicting a protracted period of deflation.

Vanishing Social Security COLA Adjustment Will Squeeze Some Seniors

Mark Miller | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business


Mark Miller

The vanishing COLA will squeeze many retirees hard. Social Security provides, on average, about 39 percent of income for retired households and more than 50 million people receive benefits.

Growth: Never More Needed, Never More Misunderstood

Michael Pento | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business


Michael Pento

What constitutes real growth and the pathway to achieve it has never before been more confused. Real growth comes from empowering the private sector by cutting taxes and reducing public spending.

Needed Medicine: A Dose of Inflation?

Jodie Allen | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business


Jodie Allen

it's worth asking if a carefully monitored dose of inflation, might be the fastest -- and maybe only -- way to spring America free of its debtor's shackles.

Apples and Inflation

Michael Pento | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business


Michael Pento

It would be politically and economically devastating for the Fed to dump $800 billion of Treasuries in addition to the $3.25 trillion they must sell in fiscal 2009.

Debt, Inflation and the Stock Market

Alan Schram | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

It should be obvious to all that we can't get out from under our mountain of debt through spending.

Risk of Major Social Upheaval Likely if Bank Bonanza Continues

Marshall Auerback | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics


Marshall Auerback

Is a Democratic administration and a Democratically controlled Congress presiding over one of the most regressive wealth transfers in history?

In New York, What Goes Up Stays Up

Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.26.2009 | New York


Dan Dorfman

Is the cost of living in New York City really falling?

Fed: Recession Easing, Inflation Not A Threat

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve sought Wednesday to defuse fears that the trillions it's spending to revive the economy could spark inflation l...