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Raising interest rates with zero inflation is a hard sell
Yahoo Finance ^ | Wed, Aug 5, 2015 | Mike Dolan

Posted on 08/05/2015 6:10:02 AM PDT by expat_panama

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To: moovova

I remember when Mad Magazine did a spoof on the shrinking candy bar sizes. One of their cartoons had a girl opening up a package with a tiny little candy bar falling out about 1/10 the size of the wrapper.


41 posted on 08/05/2015 9:53:29 AM PDT by Lake Living
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To: jdege
I don't pay any attention to gold prices. But I do pay attention to grocery prices - and the idea that we're not seeing inflation is laughable.

Bingo. It's like I need a mortgage if I want to purchase a piece of steak.

42 posted on 08/05/2015 10:02:30 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: TomGuy
I joke that local stored had to buy new shopping carts with a smaller distance between the slats because too many products were falling through the old cart slats due to product shrinkage.

The size of the plastic bags for packing the groceries seem smaller than I remember too.

43 posted on 08/05/2015 10:06:14 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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No inflation? The stock market bubble is an indication of inflation...that’s where the 0% interest rate money has gone. Normal consumer inflation is way higher than the Feds say. They state 1% inflation or under, but food prices, medical costs, rents, higher education have all gone much higher - 3-10% higher depending on the category. Dr Goebbels could not do a better job of propaganda than Washington.


44 posted on 08/05/2015 1:59:21 PM PDT by DHerion
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To: TomGuy
Where prices have not risen on many products, product reduction has occurred. The size/weight has decreased while the price stayed the same.

AKA "Packaging to price" - TP from COSTCO one year apart:


45 posted on 08/05/2015 3:09:07 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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To: Ohioan
...implied premise--that there is no inflation, because there is little (measured) price inflation...

That would be at odds with the FR meme that there is in fact plenty of inflation that is not and can not be measured becuase everyone simply says it's there.  Everyone feeeeels it.

...considerable monetary inflation...

When most people talk about inflation with regard to money they're talking about prices.  When they talk about the monetary supply getting bigger they say well, it gets bigger.  From the beginning of the recession to now the money supply's expanded by over $5T --68%, while over all observed actually transacted prices in general have only gone up 13%, that's a tad over one percent/year.   The reason we got lots of money w/ little change in prices is nobody's spending their money --money velocity's in the terlet.. 

We're talking about over $5T being socked away here and not just the penny-ante half $T that corporations are sitting on.  imho if the Fed hiked rates now then we'd probably see a lot more than just $5T taken out of circulation.

46 posted on 08/05/2015 3:29:41 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Neat! imho, while that may be hard on one or two econ sectors, over all it’s a big bonus.


47 posted on 08/05/2015 3:30:54 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: moovova
Not to mention, a decade ago would’ve been THE appropriate time to raise mortgage rates to slow the housing bubble.

As you can see, they started raising rates in 2004 to burst the RE bubble.

48 posted on 08/10/2015 1:59:36 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Yes. But 30 year mortgage rates stayed in a rather narrow range...5% to mid-6% (maybe upper 6’s briefly) and then came back down.


49 posted on 08/10/2015 5:11:17 PM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova

The Fed doesn’t control mortgage rates.


50 posted on 08/10/2015 5:38:35 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

I understand.


51 posted on 08/10/2015 6:13:37 PM PDT by moovova
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