Post tagged with inflation

  • New Free Report: Inflation History – The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Dollar

    February 16th, 201104:00 PM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    The economic events of the past two years, and the government's response to them, have many wondering how long it will be before inflation returns — and how strong it will be. The Obama administration's new budget, released this week, projects a 2011 budget deficit of $1.6 trillion dollars and a doubling of the national debt—from $9 trillion t...

  • Why Isn't the Fed More Worried About Inflation?

    November 19th, 201008:52 AM ET
    By Mark Biller
    I thought some readers might find it helpful to understand why the Fed doesn't appear to be as concerned as many commentators about the risk of future inflation. Note that I'm not writing this explanation because I necessarily think the Fed is right and its critics are wrong. This is simply to help you understand both sides of the argument a ...

  • Are bonds bubbling?

    August 25th, 201004:39 PM ET
    By Mark Biller
    Economists and investing analysts are engaged in a serious debate about whether the U.S. economy is headed toward inflation or deflation. The deflation arguments have picked up speed this summer, fueled by an increase in reports showing that the economy appears to be slowing again. While the experts remain (sharply) divided about whether we will t...

  • Payback time? NYT looks at the "Debt Bomb"

    December 02nd, 200910:33 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    "What a good country or a good squirrel should be doing is stashing away nuts for the winter," bond expert Bill Gross said in last Monday's New York Times. "The United States is not only not saving nuts, it's eating the ones left over from the last winter." Gross, founder of Pimco, the world's largest and most influential bond-investment firm, is ...

  • It's back-to-basics time

    November 20th, 200911:43 AM ET
    By Austin Pryor
    Allow me to repeat part of what I wrote in my October editorial: The past two years we've been dealing with [a recession], and some seasoned observers fear the worst is far from over. They advise avoiding the stock market and building your cash stockpile. Another group believes it's likely the economy has turned the corner and the market is lo...

  • Where does gold go from here?

    November 09th, 200901:53 PM ET
    By Mark Biller
    It took many SMI readers by surprise when we started writing positively about gold in our May cover article, then came right out and suggested buying it in August. Some believed it was too late to buy at that point, having seen gold rally from roughly $250 at the beginning of the decade all the way to nearly $900 at that time. Now, with gold u...

  • College costs continue upward

    October 23rd, 200908:36 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    Prices are down in quite a few areas of the economy, but not in higher education. Not by a long shot. The New York Times has details from the College Board's latest "Trends in College Pricing" report. The price of a college education rose substantially last year.... Hit hard by state budget cuts, four-year public colleges raised tuition and fe...

  • When a 5,300% gain = a catastrophic loss

    October 21st, 200902:16 PM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    Financial commentator Jonathan Hoenig, writing at SmartMoney.com, tells a sad (and recent) tale of how runaway inflation can destroy the value of earnings. From May through October of 2008, Zimbabwean stocks skyrocketed, shooting from 72,000 to almost 400,000 by early November as measured by the S&P/International Finance Zimbabwe Index. Fo...

  • Prepaid college tuition: it seemed like a good idea at the time

    October 16th, 200909:14 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    The New York Times offers an unhappy updateon state-run plans that pledge to cover the cost of attending a state's public institutions of higher ed, irrespective of how much tuition may have increased between the time of the pre-payments and a student's actual enrollment. In other words, prepaid plans imply (or in some cases explicitly offer) a gu...

  • Gold sets new highs

    October 07th, 200911:44 AM ET
    By Mark Biller
    Gold soared to an all-time high of $1,045/oz yesterday, sparked by a couple of news items this morning. Both illustrate the point we've been making in recent months that the rationale for investing in gold stems from what is happening (and likely going to happen) to the dollar. One of the news items that sparked gold's rise was a report in the U.K...
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