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Once (hyper)inflation is publicly seen as being the lesser evil of all options available for the government meeting its debt service, it cannot be dismissed out of hand that (hyper)inflation would be the consequence. ... Read the full post ... Read more

FINTAG COMMENT Printing. I have spent much of the weekend fretting over the printing of money. When I did my Phd in Economics [Editor: Steady on], the concept of a developed country printing money to stimulate was always just a theory. Never did I for once believe that a fully developed country li ... Read more

They say the most dangerous enemy is the one you don't know, but as our legislators have proven to us in the last few months, the most dangerous is in fact the one you've created. Year over year inflation, as reported by the New York times on Thursday , has skyrocketed at a rate not seen sinc ... Read more

In an interview with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo yesterday, Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker refused to offer any clear sign as to when the central bank might finally end its zero-bound policy and begin raising rates. When asked whether he was worried about future inflation, Lacker said he think ... Read more

To understand inflation, one must first understand what money is and how to measure it. Please read What is Money and How Does One Measure It? before attempting to understand what follows. Unfortunately there is no general agreement as to the definition of inflation. Here are some of the widely ... Read more

I'll make one point up front; I disagree with Prechter on gold and even more particularly on his and EWI's conclusions on gold mining and its prospects in a deflation. In fact, I disagree with his ultimate conclusions about deflation and inflation. Yet I am going to recommend Conquer the Crash ... Read more

The idea that there is the need for more inflation in order to revive the economy seems preposterous. The yearly rate of growth of monetary pumping as depicted by the Fed's balance sheet jumped from 3.8% in August last year to 152.8% by December 2008. At the end of April, the yearly rate of growth ... Read more

Please join me at the Chicago Natural Resources Expo on April 24-25 for a discussion about gold, silver, hard assets, inflation, currencies (or whatever else is on your mind) and to meet with various natural resource company executives. For all the deflationists in the crowd, I am pleased to announ ... Read more

Previously I discussed some of the differences between inflationary and deflationary economic environments. I’d like to pick up where I left off, mention one challenging aspect of deflation, and talk a bit about which environment we’re experiencing. Read the full article ... Read the full ... Read more

FINTAG COMMENT Oxford Street. Consumption of material goods is a key driver to economic growth. The UK, like many other countries is struggling with a new world order of bartering, knitting and home cooking. Yesterday I went to Oxford Street, one of the world's most famous shopping areas to see how ... Read more