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By Rising trade barriers. Aging populations. A broad transition from carbon-spewing fossil fuels to renewable energy. The prevalence of such trends across the world could intensify global inflation pressures in the coming years and make it harder for the Federal Reserve and other central banks to meet their inflation targets. That concern was a theme…

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By Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was nothing if not clear during his Friday speech from Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Getting inflation down is still the Fed’s first and overwhelming priority. And they’re not going to rest or stop considering more rate hikes if the data dictates. Oh, and by the way, Powell made clear yet again…

By Former Treasury chief Larry Summers got panned for posting a graph suggesting US inflation could be tracing the same path now as in the 1970s.  Nobel laureate Paul Krugman said the chart was “problematic on many fronts”, adding the 1970s story was different.  Market veteran Jim Bianco slammed the post as “chart crime”, pointing…

By The global economy this year is full of puzzling surprises. Japan’s GDP growth is currently surpassing that of China, and July retail sales in the US were double the consensus forecast, despite the US Federal Reserve pursuing one of the most concentrated rate-hiking cycles in decades.In the UK, wage growth has risen to an…

By Higher rates are supposed to be fighting inflation, but they also raise the price of a key component … [+] of CPI.gettyMeasuring inflation is a complex task, especially when calibrating monetary policy responses to rising prices. Residential rent, in particular, makes up for over a third of the Consumer Price Index, of which owner’s…

By Paul Krugman has long been a critic of the Fed’s 2% inflation target, and suggests the goal be bumped up to 3%. But central bankers’ reaction to such suggestions is similar to what “you’d get if you waved a Pride flag at a DeSantis rally,” he says. In his New York Times op-ed, Krugman…