Tag Archives: inflation

Turkey’s Next Challenge: How Bad Can Inflation Get?

How Turkey’s central bank plans to regain market confidence that it will eventually hit its 5% inflation target again remains a mystery.

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Iran Protests: The Inflation Dimension

Once again, sharply rising food prices contribute to turmoil.

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Verdict on Greenspan: Guilty, But Not as Charged

As Fed Chairman, Greenspan utterly failed to limit leverage and bubbles, and this failure magnified financial fragility.

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Time for a Global Restart, But How?

It seems we are headed for a deflationary wave or a wave of hyperinflations. But there is an alternative.

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The Frenchman Who Reshaped the IMF

Reflections on the work of Olivier Blanchard, the IMF’s now retired chief economist.

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Truly a New Economic Order

How to operate in a world shaped by a cost crash and a demand lull?

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QE Is Debt Cancellation

The United States, the UK and Japan have far less government debt than is generally understood.

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US Fed: Go Knock Yourself Out, Chicken Little

Janet Yellen should be more assertive on interest rates.

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Germany Counters Deflation in the Eurozone

By raising real wages, Germany has launched itself into a new period of growth.

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The U.S. Federal Reserve and Shared Prosperity

How do we get a U.S. Fed that works for Main Street, not Wall Street?

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