All Posts Tagged With: "Consumer Price Index"
Why Fed Bailouts Are Good News for This Inverse Bond Fund
Despite the chaos on Wall Street, the Fed yesterday left its benchmark interest rate on hold at 2%.
Martin Hutchinson says the Fed has finally starting doing its job: putting price stability over Wall Street’s demands. Real interest rates are negative. This is feeding inflation. It also means Treasury bond yields - also currently below the rate of inflation - are too low and should begin to rise again.
Martin says investors can profit from this situation with the Rydex Juno Inverse Government Long Bond Strategy (MUTF:RYJUX).
US Inflation Rate Surges
US consumer price inflation rose at its fastest rate since November 2007 as oil and energy costs continue to soar.
The US Labor Department said prices increased by 0.6% in May, a higher increase than forecast.
John Mauldin examines the causes of inflation in in Outside the Box…
Whip Inflation Now
Whip Inflation Now…Where Can We Get Help on Inflation?…The Patient Died Anyway…Inflation in Asia and Europe…There Are No Good Solutions
Get Ready for Higher Inflation… and Red Hot Industrial Action!
Here’s a not-too-controversial prediction. Later this month, Big Merv King will get the Basildon Bond out and pen his missive to the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, explaining why inflation has gone over 3.0%.
US Inflation Rate Rises 0.6% in May
The US inflation rate rose by 0.6% in May — the highest monthly increase since last November.
The core inflation rate, however, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, only rose 0.2%, easing fears that rising commodity prices would feed into more widespread inflation
But can the government’s inflation data be trusted? John Brown in The Daily Reckoning doesn’t think so…
Interest Rates Will Go Up, Not Down
I was delayed on my way in this morning. By the Luftwaffe. Yes, an unexploded bomb in east London played havoc with the District Line.
What Relationship Exists between Capital Inflow Control and Inflation in Colombia?
These investments of foreign capital, so valued and hoped for by the economy, are generating problems for Colombia since they affect the type of change required to impact the competitiveness of the Colombian economy.
Are Your Investments Prepared For Stagflation Britain?
Ah! This is more like it! You know how the official, Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation figure was 3.0% last month? Well, I don’t know about you, but that felt a bit low to me. I buy things.
With Oil Speculators Blitzing, the Fed Needs to Call an Interest-Rate Reverse Play
The inflationary reality that we as consumers have been living for months may finally be starting to dawn on the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Keeping Tabs on Inflation, and Perceptions
Are people starting to catch on that government economic statistics are widely manipulated? After my post last week broaching this possibility, I just wanted to briefly keep score.
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