Apr 12 2013

Does inflation matter? The real cost of living for middle class Americans. Fed on path to growing balance sheet to $4 trillion.

Does inflation matter?  If you ask this question to the Fed, it appears like it doesn’t.  The Fed is doing everything it can to stoke the fires of inflation.  Instead, what it is doing is causing further asset bubbles and misallocation of capital in markets.  For most people the cost of living is becoming more […]

Mar 21 2013

Who’s afraid of a little bit of inflation? How low interest rates hide the real price of housing, college tuition, and cars.

Inflation is like the proverbial story of a frog in hot water.  Drop a frog in boiling water, it jumps right out.  Drop a frog in regular water but slowly raise the heat, and it will slowly boil into oblivion.  Inflation has a subtle way of destroying purchasing power.  Unless incomes are rising, which they […]

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Mar 9 2013

Inflation eats away the new peak in stock market: Dow is down 11 percent since 2000 adjusting for inflation. Looking at the stock market and the impact of inflation.

The Dow has now reached a new peak.  The media is prancing up and down like a giddy school girl as if this had a significant impact on the bottom line for most Americans.  Don’t let the details out that many companies have increased their bottom line by squeezing wages and cutting worker benefits.  Yet […]

Jan 29 2013

Inflation unchained: US dollar down 23 percent from 2000, Tuition up 72 percent, and home values up 44 percent. Incomes adjusting for inflation are back to 1990s levels.

It is hard to believe that people in the US are still denying the obvious impact of inflation.  The slow erosion of purchasing power has occurred for many decades now.  What people tend to forget in a completely fiat based system is that the Fed can print as much money as it likes.  And they […]

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