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Articles Tagged ‘inflation’
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Our Broken Money – The Root Cause Of Inflation
Ben Mountifield, March 22nd, 2012
Money should perform three roles: First it must act as a medium of exchange, second it should act as a unit of account, and lastly it should provide a store of value. Medium of exchange The primary function of money is to act as a medium of exchange. In this
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Britons Cost Of Living Will Double Over The Next 10 Years
Ben Mountifield, March 13th, 2012
The government underreports the rate of inflation. The true rate is running at around 7% a year, which means your cost of living will double over the next 10 years, which is just another way of saying that your wealth will be cut in half over that time if you
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In Real Terms UK Property Has Fallen 25% Since The 2007 Market Peak
Ben Mountifield, March 6th, 2012
In nominal terms the price of the average UK home has only fallen 10.5% since peaking in Q3 2007 at £184,131. In real terms however, i.e. adjusted for inflation (RPI), the price of the average UK home has fallen 25%. The chart below shows average UK house prices in nominal
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If You’re Not Getting At Least 5.2% On Your Savings, You’re Losing Money. Here’s How Much
Ben Mountifield, September 14th, 2011
In July the official CPI inflation rate rose to 4.5%. But the RPI, which is a more complete measure of inflation as it includes mortgage interest payments, rose to 5.2%. The challenge for Britain’s 38 million savers is to get a return on their money of at least 5.2%, and
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Stocks Begin New Cyclical Decline As Multi-Decade Bear Market Rolls On
Ben Mountifield, September 6th, 2011
Western stock markets have been in a secular bear market since the year 2000 and as the chart below shows they have just begun yet another cyclical decline. 10 year chart of the FTSE 100 During a secular bear market there are shorter-term cyclical bull and bear phases however the
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Will ‘Helicopter Ben’ Live Up To His Name & Deliver More Monetary ‘Shock & Awe’? My Guess Is He Won’t Disappoint
Ben Mountifield, August 18th, 2011
On 21 November 2002 Ben Bernanke made a famous speech in which he made the following statement. “U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows
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Fed Mandate: Maximum Employment & Stable Prices – So How Are They Doing?
Ben Mountifield, August 17th, 2011
The US Federal Reserve – the world’s most influential central bank – has a dual mandate: To ensure maximum employment and maintain stable prices. So let’s look at how the Fed is doing. Maximum Employment According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the unemployment rate in the US is
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How To Cure Inflation (if you really want to)
Ben Mountifield, July 15th, 2011
Curing inflation is not that hard, there’s no secret to it. As I’ve said before interest rates are just a price like any other price, they are the price of money. To cure inflation you have to make the price of money more expensive. More specifically you have to raise
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Why Interest Rates Won’t Rise Anytime Soon
Ben Mountifield, July 11th, 2011
If Britain’s coalition government is serious about moving towards a healthy, ‘normal’ economy and correcting the excesses of the past, then sooner or later interest rates will have to return to their normal 4-6% range. Certainly many believe that a rate rise is necessary in order to bring inflation –
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Would a Rate Rise Really Tame Inflation?
Ben Mountifield, June 29th, 2011
In order to effectively control inflation, policies need to focus on the underlying causes. A rise in interest rates right now assumes that the main cause of rising prices is excess demand for goods and services. As I see it however, our rising cost of living has more to do