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I must first state that the inflation that I am discussing in this article is the price of goods and services, not money inflation or asset price inflation. Mmmm - which to choose! I am sure that you have read very well reasoned articles that suggest that inflation is on the horizon. Here...

I've come up with what might be an unconventional way of forecasting inflation. I begin with the per capita net growth in aggregate debt in the US as my baseline to work with. From there, I use four factors that will prove to be either an inflationary force or a deflationary force. Dependi...

The Federal Reserve has done as it promised and opened the monetary spigots. Since the end of the banking week, February 26, 2020, the Federal Reserve has been buying securities at a regular pace, has opened several different sources of funds for firms that operate in the US money markets, a...

Following the longest expansion on record, the global economy is currently plunging into what could easily become one of the deepest but also shortest recessions in modern times. However, business cycle history offers few clues for what is likely to unfold over our cyclical six- to 12-month ho...

The Fed seems to have managed to halt the massive dollar squeeze and the associated strength in nominal yields and real-interest rate expectations. This has led to a reversal of the rather peculiar gold sell-off that started in early March. We think this short-term win for the Fed to come at t...

Money-market mutual funds (MMMFs) have had a turbulent couple of weeks. On March 18, the Federal Reserve System created a Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF) to "assist money market funds in meeting demands for redemptions by households and other investors." What's the source ...

The post-virus economy faces possibility of higher inflation, threats to Fed independence, and increased pressure on the European Union. Jim Bianco, of Bianco Research joins Macro Musings to discuss the latest on the economic impact from the coronavirus. David and Jim discuss the details ...

There seems to be little question these days about the position of the US dollar in the world. The US dollar is still the primary currency in the world... and Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve appear to be doing everything they can to sustain that position. The latest move by Mr. Powel...

By Kevin Flanagan As promised, here's part two in my Money in Motion series. The Federal Reserve (Fed) and the U.S. federal government provided unprecedented responses to the market turmoil last week. Investors may begin to ask whether the time has come to begin positioning their fixed-inc...

Excerpted from the March 29th edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole , NFTRH 596 , this segment was written before the segment on the Fed-Treasury-government 'merger' that threatens to turn the United States into a Banana Republic one day. Inflation would obviously be a big part of such a ...