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Inflation

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  1. The Right Coast

    The Real Inflation Risk Is Political Reason.com

    By Thomas A. Smith

    As America exits the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for goods and services is surging and triggering worries about inflation.The consumer price index for March showed a 2.6 percent increase over the…

  2. The Right Coast

    I Now Track the Most Important Measure of the Fed s Economy: the Wealth Effect and How it Impacts Americans Individually | Wolf Street

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The Federal Reserve is pursuing monetary policies that are explicitly designed to inflate asset prices. The rationalization is that ballooning asset prices will create the wealth effect. This is a…

  3. The Right Coast

    What s Behind the Stunning Spike in Used Vehicle Auction Prices? That Consumers Aren t on Buyers Strike Shows Something Big about Inflation Has Changed | Wolf Street

    By Thomas A. Smith

    When you talk to dealers that came back from auctions to buy vehicles to replenish their inventories, they tell you with an exasperated voice about prices being bid up to…

  4. The Right Coast

    The Connection between Inflation and Bitcoin

    By Thomas A. Smith

    via www.youtube.comPretty pretty good.

  5. The Right Coast

    In-Your-Face Inflation: AutoNation Brags About Huge Jump in Per-Vehicle Gross Profit on Soaring Prices Despite Declining New-Vehicle Unit Sales | Wolf Street

    By Thomas A. Smith

    AutoNation, the largest chain of franchised auto dealerships in the US, reported fourth quarter earnings this morning and even as the total number of new vehicles sold in the quarter…

  6. The Right Coast

    Home-Price Surge Says Inflation Is Real. The Fed Clings to Illusion It Isn t. | Barron’s

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Central bankers routinely deny any connection between their monetary policies and asset prices, even though that s how those policies are transmitted to the real economy. Pay no attention to…

  7. The Last Gen X American

    It’s 2021. Where’s My ‘Hyperinflationary Great Depression’?

    By Matt Leichter

    [The following post first appeared on this site on January 1, 2012. What it said then still applies today, mutatis mutandis. Thanks for reading the blog and have a prosperous…

  8. Environmental Law & Policy Monitor

    EPA Publishes Annual Inflation Adjustments to Civil Penalty Amounts

    By Mack McGuffey, Melissa Horne, Mandi Moroz

    On December 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its annual civil monetary penalty adjustments in the Federal Register. The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 2015 requires…

  9. Keeping It Real Estate

    What’s happening with the Retail Prices Index and why?

    By Jane Dockeray, Chris Somorjay, Ingrid Stables

    Speedread: Alongside Wednesday’s Spending Review, the government and the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) have published their response to the recent consultation on reform to the RPI. The outcome to the…

  10. The Right Coast

    Inflation as a Tool of the Radical Left | Mises Wire

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch its currency&.Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer way…