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Did you get a pay cut?

I'm curious how many here on mylot received a pay cut this past year or two. Most businesses stopped giving merit increases last year and many, including UPS and Fed Ex gave employees 5% paycuts....

What Will Happen When The Bill Comes Due?

Regardless of what you believe moneys does not grow on trees. Government can only only generate funds three ways; taxing, printing, borrowing. If it taxes it take money out of the economy, if it...

American capitalism and price fixing

My first exposure to this confused me, and I never thought about it until tonight. My first exposure involved gas stations. If an owner of a gas station was charging less for his gasoline, it was...

Global slowdown do you think it wil end

Guys as we all aware that global slowdown is on a rise do you think it will end or continue............Do comment........

Are you fed up with price rise of essential commodities?

Hi Friends. Price rise I think is world wide phenomenon. Prices of essential commodities keep rising at alarming pace here in India, common man is finding it difficult to meet up the challenges. In...

Inflation and Expectations

Ken Houghton follows up on his previous post.One of the few honest statements that came out of the Reagan Administration was in late 1982, when the Volcker policies were working but the market was...

How Do We Predict Inflation?

Ken Houghton notes that playing with data is dangerous.Predicting the future tends to be easy. There are several ways to do it. First, you can predict that everything will grow as it did this...

The Fed's attempt to assuage inflation fears that don't need assuaging

by RebeccaThere is no shortage of speeches by US central bankers these days. The following is an excerpt from a NY Times article that highlights the debate among key Fed officials about the speed and...

Green Shoots Data Defined

As a rule, the Shiller Index uses the CPI as reported for All Urban Consumers (CPIAUCNS on Fred(r)).But the Index is only updated Quarterly, so monthly data is estimated. Which produces a very...

G-20 to talk about 'exit strategies'...

Rebecca WilderWith the developed and developing economies printing money like it's going out of style, the exit strategy - i.e., taking back the hundred percent increase in the monetary base (at...