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6 Reasons Inflation is Higher than You Think

Tom Spencer

Some market commentators saw this coming, and those same players predict that higher inflation will persist. However, it can confer a benefit on businesses, owners of real assets, and borrowers who are able to raise prices, enjoy capital gains, or repay loans with money that has less value. in October , its highest level since 1990.

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Monetarists Accuse ECB of "Dangerous Game of Chicken"; The REAL Dangerous Game

MishTalk

At a press conference to explain the ECB''s latest decision, Mr Draghi said: "There is going to be a low level of inflation for a protracted period of time, but deflation? The eurozone is doing so by accident, letting market forces drain liquidity from the financial system for month after month. Eurozone inflation slowed to 0.7%

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. “We need to make some major changes with urgency and a depth of purpose. So what happened?

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Right on Cue: Fed's Dudley Delivers Dovish Speech

MishTalk

Futures were negative following Friday''s dismal job showing but that lasted only as long as the the market open. If I am correct, then this would lead to a further reduction of labor market slack, with the unemployment rate approaching 5 percent by the second half of the year. Reuters reports Rate Hike Timing Now Unclear.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. A similar crash in public opinion awaits Bernanke for fueling one of the biggest, if not the biggest stock and bond market bubbles in history. Here we are.