Recent Posts Tagged With 'deflation'

• Colorado Minimum Wage Set to - Drop?

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 19:30 in drudge report, deflation, will it be inflation or deflation?, wage deflation, colorado minimum wage drops

  According to the Associated Press, Colorado will become the first state to reduce its minimum wage due to a "falling cost of living."Colorado is one of 10 states where the minimum wage is tied to inflation. The indexing is thought to protect low-wage...

• Mr. Met Casts His Lot in Deflationary Camp

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 17:08 in deflation, will it be inflation or deflation?, mets cut season ticket prices

  The New York Mets announced today that they will be cutting season ticket prices by at least 10%, according to ESPN.com."The Mets are sensitive to the economic realities facing our fans and we have lowered our ticket prices in response to these chall...

• Great Essay on the Threat of Hyper-Deflation

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 00:05 in deflation, bill bonner, daily reckoning

  Yesterday in our weekly column, we kicked around the possibility that the hyperinflationists are wrong...or at least early to the party.My piece was also picked up by Seeking Alpha, and you should check out the comment stream from livid gold bugs and...

• Is Deflation “So 2008”? Hyperinflation Trade Looking Crowded

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 18:23 in deflation, robert prechter, rising inflation, helicopter ben, growing money supply, hyperinflation in america

  As the Federal Reserve continues to print money, the “hyperinflation trade” seems to be a crowded one.The premise seems sound and reasonable – whenever a government prints money and devalues its own currency, rising prices follow. A deflationa...

• How Does Gold Perform in Recessions and Depressions?

  Posted on Friday June 5th, 2009 at 17:41 in deflation, robert prechter, rising inflation, greater depression, gold performance in recessions and depressions

  I started tracking Robert Prechter of Elliott Wave recently because, to my knowledge, he's one of the only guys who correctly anticipated the Great Crash of '08. Now, he had been waiting for this crash since he wrote Conquer the Crash in 2002, but b...

• How Do Gold Stocks Perform in Deflationary Depressions?

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 18:37 in inflation, gold stocks, gold investing, deflation

  Let's take a stroll down Great Depression memory lane to find out what would happen if, in fact, we do slip into a deflationary depression. Would our gold stocks get trashed? It's important to consider all the possible scenarios that could unfold.....

• This Ain't Your Grandpa's Deflation...This Week in Commodities

  Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 17:01 in great depression, australian dollar, deflation, weakening dollar, soybean futures, rising inflation, falling us dollar, us dollar rally, protecting yourself from inflation, orange juice futures

  Common wisdom holds that depressions are inherently deflationary.  The United States in the 1930's.  Japan in the 1990's and 2000's.Combine a depression with other deflationary factors going today in the US - demographics, deleveraging, falling ass...

• Deflation Risks Subsiding...Goldilocks Has Been Achieved

  Posted on Friday May 15th, 2009 at 13:56 in inflation, ben bernanke, deflation, rising inflation, helicopter ben, cpi calculation

  Ben Bernanke was right – if you put your mind to it, and print enough money, you CAN prevent deflation.New CPI numbers show that the core CPI (excluding food and energy, which nobody really uses anymore) actually jumped 0.3% last month, their larg...