China’s holiday greetings: a 25 basis point rate hike
China’s scramble to battle inflation continues. On Saturday, Christmas Day in many parts of the…
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Dr. Duru This holiday season may get more expensive for the kids
Bloomberg reports that Wal-Mart “…raised prices on hundreds of toys this month..” While these price…
Inflation Expectations Are Not Contained in China
In “Chinese Consumers Signal Deepest Concern With Prices Since 1999“, Bloomberg reports that inflation expectations…
AK Steel increases prices on carbon steel products
AK Steel (AKS) is increasing prices yet again. Effective today and starting with new orders,…
Now showing – higher prices at Netflix
Netflix (NFLX) is increasing the price it charges for its 1-DVD and 2-DVDs out at…
China continues to lose its fight against inflation
We have chronicled on these pages China’s struggles with inflation. It appears the pressures are…
Wal-Mart’s “Always Low” prices starting to edge up.
Patrick McKeever of MKM Partners says prices at Wal-Mart have edged higher in recent months:…
writejesse Inflation hidden in higher unit costs
Thanks to Tim Ianoco for posting a link to this article from Fortune: “Why your…
What is going on in Silicon Valley?
Consider: Tired of defections to Facebook and elsewhere, Google is offering all of its employees…
As inflation expectations continue to rise, long bond continues to sag
Prices of long-dated treasuries continue to fall, meaning yields are rising. Below is the chart…