Did the Fed Forget to Look at the February Inflation Report?
Core inflation may be heating up as the Fed is putting too much confidence in low energy prices.Most of the Fed's economic forecasts were little...
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Keynesian Brain Twister: What Happens When We Get Inflation & Negative Rates?
Short answer: We get more Larry Summers editorials.Long answer…Larry Summers, a key accidental architect of Wall Street’s GFC of 2008-09 and...
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Egypt on the brink
In the wake of what looks to be the second most deadly terror attack since 9/11 (the first being the horror that was Beslan), we look at the local...
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A Kurdish conundrum & Egypt faces the ghosts of Algeria
Below are some thoughts on the current situation in Turkey re: the Kurdish flare up, the likely outcome of which will be an AKP majority...
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Who's Afraid of Deflation?
Concerns about deflation - the phenomenon of falling prices of goods and services - in the wake of the financial crisis, have provided the...
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