Tag Archives: Inflation

Is Debt The Only Cause Of Inflation?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. —Milton Friedman, 1963, Inflation: Causes and Consequences. New York: Asia Publishing House Wall Street Journal’s infographic twitpic on the recent rise of financial stocks is not … Continue reading

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The Lincoln Penny

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa When ponzi schemes such as Bernard Madoff’s are galore on Wall Street and when at least as much crisp cash is required out of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as is the … Continue reading

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The Fed’s Media Transparency

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is reporting a few days before the Federal Reserve’s next forecast round is scheduled to begin about the Fed being in two minds about inflation. One can only wonder … Continue reading

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Prices And The Price Of Green

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The recently roiling world energy markets barely registered on the French radar. The French do not depend much on oil. The French need neither cap and trade nor carbon tax. When energy prices rose, … Continue reading

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Why Cheap Oil Is Not Really Cheap

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa John Stossel, a Princeton psychology graduate at Fox News and formerly of ABC News, recently wrote a blog post saying in his typical self-proclaimed libertarian vain, that U.S energy independence is not needed. Perhaps … Continue reading

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Inflation Dynamics

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The latest data for the year 2009 on the annual change in prices is at once disconcerting and suggestive: the change in the consumer price index (CPI), also known as inflation or the reduction … Continue reading

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