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I generally send out two letters a week. The letter that arrives in your inbox over the weekend is Thoughts from the Frontline and is written by me. The second letter, which is called Outside the Box, generally comes in the middle of the week and is an article or essay written by someone else that I...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. August Unemployment Rate Fell to Seven-Year Low 2. US Economic Outlook For the Second Half of 2015 3. Inflation Still Running Well Below the Fed’s 2% Target 4. Stronger Dollar Could Hamper Growth This Year & Next 5. New China Economic Data Point to Further Slowdown 6. Fed...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. 4Q Gross Domestic Product Revised Lower to 2.2% 2. Inflation Turns Negative in January & Last 12 Months 3. With Prices Falling, Is America Now Headed For Deflation? 4. How Falling Prices Tend to Affect the Stock Markets 5. Fed Chair Speaks to Congress – Nothing Really Important...
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In my February 10 E-Letter , I focused on how deflation is spreading around the world, first in Japan since the 1990s and more recently in Europe, which saw inflation go negative in December of last year – for the first time in decades. This is a very serious issue and one I will be focusing on...
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Definitions of Inflation and Deflation Measuring Inflation/Deflation Asset Inflation Versus Price Inflation So Who’s Afraid of Deflation? And Then There Is Debt Deflation The Last Argument of Central Banks New York and New Technology For a central banker, deflation is one of the Four Horsemen of...
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A note has been circulating among economists, calling into question the wisdom of another group of economists who wrote an open letter to the Federal Reserve a few years ago suggesting that one of the risks of their quantitative easing program was increased inflation. Since we have not seen CPI inflation...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Consumer Food Prices Are Skyrocketing 2. 10 Fastest-Rising Food Prices at the Supermarket 3. California is in Big Trouble! So Are We All 4. Drought Monitor Chart For Continental US 5. Incurable Disease Threatens Florida Citrus Crop 6. Latin America Coffee Blight Sends Prices Skyward...
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The long-awaited upward move in inflation may finally be arriving. Producer (wholesale) prices surged 0.6% in April, the largest monthly gain in more than four years, coming on top of a 0.5% gain in March. In the past year, producer prices have increased a moderate 2.1%. Yet in the past three months...
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By Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst We’ve all heard of the inflationary horrors so many countries have lived through in the past. Third-world countries, developing nations, and advanced economies alike—no country in history has escaped the debilitating fallout of unrepentant currency...
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My good friend Dylan Grice takes a very interesting tack in the latest issue of his Edelweiss Journal , today's Outside the Box. Rather than attacking our macroeconomic problems directly with economic tools, he approaches them from the point of view of what he calls a "subtle but significant...