About

Inflation Watch is brought to you by two longtime friends who corresponded about the economy via e-mail starting in October 2008. In those early months before the Great Financial Crisis, we found signs of inflation that surprised us given the deflation talk that was rampant at the time. Deflation won that round. It took a pandemic to unleash the inflationary forces we so long presumed lurked in the bowels of the economy.

At Inflation Watch, we report on increasing steel prices, rising used car prices, soaring health care premiums, skyrocketing rental car prices, and so on. We started this blog to track these stories and call attention to them.

You can read about our (archived) general approach to inflation here: http://inflationwatch.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/danger-of-inflation/

Dr. Duru has been writing about financial markets since 2000. He pens several blogs and enjoys InflationWatch as place to marvel at the dynamic of prices. Dr. Duru served as a pricing analytics expert from 2002 to 2010 among many other roles. You can also find Dr. Duru at One-Twenty Two and Seeking Alpha.

“writejesse” was the pseudonym for a part-time health policy analyst who spends his free time running the beautiful trails of Colorado Springs. He “retired” from InflationWatch around 2011. He got tired of waiting for real inflation to show up.

Our sub-heading (“Watching for potential inflation here, there and everywhere”) is adapted from Bill Fleckenstein, whom we admire. He does not know us and he is not responsible for any of the content at this site. Visit Mr. Fleckenstein’s (old) site here.

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