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6 Reasons Inflation is Higher than You Think

Tom Spencer

Due to improved technology and rising productivity, the Federal Reserve has been able to juice the money supply for more than 70 years without it showing up too much in the price level. This is already impacting home sales, and Fannie Mae forecasts home sales will fall for the next 2 years. The measure of inflation has changed.

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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. 96 Percent of Spaniards Believe Political Corruption is "Very High" Downturn Lingers House prices continued their decline, new lending declined retail sales declined.

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

Harvard Business

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.

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Right on Cue: Fed's Dudley Delivers Dovish Speech

MishTalk

Examples of such indicators include retail sales, the ISM manufacturing index, manufacturing production and orders, and single-family housing starts. oil production almost certainly will fade away. Overall, I view these downside surprises as reflecting temporary factors to a significant degree.