I said I'd come back when I figured out a way to make money of this crowds ability to completely convince themselves that the official inflation...
OK, United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index. Detailed category by category price tables can be found at...
This is very interesting, both from a big picture view and the legal maneuverings of this case. They essentially picked on a small entrepreneur...
I know, crazy that anyone would believe the exhaustively documented inflation numbers that they can easily verify themselves, which also happen to...
Thank you for that well reasoned and insightful comment. You really educated us all.
Seriously, "Hedonics"? Let's get intuitive here. The price of energy is down 70% from 2008, the price of mineral commodities down 40%. Oh, and you...
Sorry for the fixed income diversion, you're right I know the common usage I just think it's entitled seniors misusing a term. I don't however,...
So if it's too small to matter then why so adamant about hiking it? Highly recommend a macro and micro econ course. The concept of nominal vs real...
So you claim that the dozen or so independent public and private sources that calculated inflation between 1.5% and 2% every year using reams of...
It's always easier to win hearts and minds if you provide a modicum of explanation as to why your position is correct. Some quantitative backing...
So to be clear, we should do something that risks pushing us into a recession even though everything if going fine ("Unemployment is low, the...
I think its a sign of a dinosaur if you're a trader who refuses to add to their toolbox by learning how to code. That doesn't mean that you're...
Because there's not moral imperative to raise rates, you raise them to prevent inflation. If unemployment is low and GDP is growing fast with no...
Today as an experiment I decided to jump on a thread full of unsubstantiated assertions and attempt to counter that with quantitative rigor, point...
The western world seems pretty darn successful to me. The U.S. effectively left the gold standard in 1933, meaning it neither stopped the bubble...
Source, and once you get that, relevance? The average life of an internet company in 1950 was...oh, there were no internet companies and the...
The law of large numbers I'm familiar with is a theorem in statistics that basically says if you perform an experiment a large number of times,...
I'm serious about the MOOC, especially for someone with your interest in the subject. I think you'll find it really worthwhile, even if you took...
One would think that if you were able to add trillions to an economy without increasing inflation that you should be pretty happy about it! You...
It's going to cause rampant inflation, any minute now...well maybe just any minute now..really, it's just around the corner...actually we're in...
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