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Since the Federal reserve and just about every Western country tried to reflate us out of the 2008 depression, there have been many people crying INFLATION.
Inflation creates a specifically strong reaction amongst many (older) people who’s parents or grandparents were ravaged by inflation during the middle of the 20th century or who bore the brunt of inflation in the 1970s. … Read more
I’m not a financial analyst, but I have money in the bank, a mortgage and some investments, so I’m very interested in the financial health of the world economy.
A recent report – “Global dollar credit: links to US monetary policy and leverage” – published by the Bank for International Settlements in January 2015, is boring but very relevant to the world financial economy.
Our economic future is increasingly in her hands.
We have been enjoying a ZIRP (US zero interest rate policy) world recently. With the improvement in the US economy, the Fed suggested at its policy meeting in March that the program may end this coming autumn and it may start raising interest rates about six months from then. The latest pronouncements have underlined this, pointing out that the Fed responds to data and the data is looking better and better.… Read more