On the Ground Measuring Inflation
Ever wondered exactly how the government measures inflation via individual products? Planet Money ran a…
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Dr. Duru Cross-Post: The Canadian Dollar’s Rapid Devaluation Presents An Inflation Predicament for the Bank of Canada
(This is a cross-post from my blog One-Twenty Two) A year ago, the Bank of…
Housing Bubbles: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
Prescription for preventing housing bubbles from the IMF…
The Persistence of Deflationist Psychology
Seven and a half years after the financial world as we know it almost completely…
The Fed Asks “What Inflation?”
Last week, headlines and pundits were hot and bothered about the potential for the Federal…
The IMF Launches “Global Housing Watch”
Housing prices are on the march again across the globe, and the International Monetary Fund…
Over-stretching the case for inflation
I continue to think it makes more sense to fear inflation than deflation, but I…
Inflation May Be Dead, But Inflation Watch Is Not
Things have been pretty quiet around here. Every now and then I see a story…
The UK’s CPI inflation to remain stubbornly high for the next two years
On February 7th, The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England (BoE) decided…
Hong Kong Property Market Defies Tame Inflation
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority just published its Quarterly Bulletin on economic conditions in Hong…