If there is one factor that drives the inflation-deflation cycle, it is the effect and trend of interest rates. The bond/note market is the foundation of the stock market, and makes its existence possible. Interest rates compete with all other forms of investment for capital. When rates are rising, the stock market is less attractive because government bond and note yields are guaranteed, while stock market dividends and profits are not. Falling interest rates, which may stimulate inflation, precipitated the largest stock market increase in history. Real interest rate yield equals the inflation rate subtracted from interest rate yields. A 5% bond yield and 7% inflation rate erodes the purchasing power of money annually by two times. Notes and bonds are not really controllable by the FED. The market pretty much decides what those will be. There is a great fallacy perpetrated by the FED which makes people think the FED controls interest rates. The truth is they don't. All the FED ever does is to react to what is happening in the market. When the yield curve gets too far out of alignment, the Fed raises or lowers interest rates. However, there's more. The FED does control the money supply. The FED prints money with no accountability. They create money out of thin air. With the removal of the M3 statistic, the lack of control is even more prominently displayed. The FED is almost entirely responsible for long-term inflation. If you or I were to print money with no accountability, we would be put in prison for counterfeiting. Yet the FED continues to print counterfeit money to the extent that people on fixed incomes suffer tremendously from the falling dollar.
prices increase from higher demand more people bidding up prices..sellers can increase price as lots of demand. job growth and incomes increase inflation. the only people who want inflation are people who have assets but with working class whose wages are same rising prices is not good. tell me an evidence inflation creates jobs? the market is up for all the wrong reasons.
Oh no... Joe Ross has moved on from offering random bits of trading wisdom to commenting on inflation. The end is nigh!
You got it wrong. When interest rates are rising, bond market enters a bear market, and people do not buy bonds until the rates stop rising. Mr. Joe Ross: is it you who wrote that worthless piece or is it ghostwriters hired somewhere in india? Hey readers: who do you think is right in the analysis: my post or the sentence quoted from Mr. Joe Ross? He made so many analysis errors that there is no point to comment.
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price are flate is not deflation a 15% price correction is not deflation. higher prices results in less demand...less demand less jobs. i don't see any evidence of deflation other than lower wages.
1) I said "toying" 2) Interest rates are almost the lowest they have been in Joe's and my lifetime. AND Joe and I are old geezers. 3) Wages have not inflated in the last 10 years who said anything about price corrections?