At the nudging of the Schiff family, I just read through Ben Bernanke’s speech from Tuesday that generated lots of headlines because he said the word “inflation” and the word “dollar” in the same sentence. In the words of an e-mail blast I got from financial Armageddonist Peter Schiff: Cheered by the fact that Ben [...]
My favorite soccer blog, Du Nord, is being kept up by various guest contributors while its proprietor vacations in Ingerland. In the middle of a long Sunday post by indie-musician-turned-(via an interlude in the advertising business)-landscape-architect Matt Olson, one encounters this arresting passage: I found myself sitting in the lobby of a large, super cool [...]
It is very fashionable these days to declare that the Consumer Price Index is wildly understating actual inflation. I’m dubious, and my dubiousness may eventually lead to some actual reporting and maybe a column, but for the moment I rely on the judgments of people named David. First there was David Leonhardt a couple weeks [...]
