Bill Bonner, venerable voice of reason and co-author of The New Empire of Debt, brings a tongue-in-cheek look at inflation in the new U.S. economy for The Daily Reckoning, UK Edition.

Gold tracked back from its lows on Thursday as the dollar retreated from earlier highs, with worse-than-expected U.S. macro data and weaker European equity markets fuelling doubts a recent winning streak was sustainable.

A pair of crucial economic indices seesawed in February, helping some analysts to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said that he expects inflation to be “quite low for some time,” but that the Federal Open Market Committee will begin publishing its long-term inflation forecasts to promote transparency.

What has really changed?…importing inflation…hoping to prove Friedman wrong…Can the U.S. central bank really begin fighting inflation in a serious way? Ah, dear reader – there’s a cruel twist to this story…The cure for high prices is high prices…and so the global economy lurches forward…and more!