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Will Inflationary Tooth Fairy Payments Ever Be Stopped?
According to surveys and anecdotal evidence, there has been a significant rise in generosity at the high end of the Tooth Fairy payout scale. Instances of kids receiving $5, $10, even $20 per tooth appear to be increasing, and as …
Battle of the Heavy-Hitter Economists: Krugman and Bernanke Slug It Out Over Fed Policy
The lackluster U.S. economic recovery has fueled an unusually public argument between two of the most prominent economists in the country: Nobel prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has accused Fed Chairman Ben …
Are Diamonds An Investor’s Best Friend?
The past decade has been a nearly unqualified success for gold investors. The metal went for roughly $250 an ounce in 2001 and trades at around $1,650 an ounce today. The rise of gold is a complicated and controversial topic, but …
Fed Inflation Hawks Warn More Stimulus Could Fuel Prices
Are inflation hawks preparing to take flight? That’s the sense one gets reading comments made by two U.S. central bank officials Tuesday, including Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, who said that corporate chiefs have been …
7 Ways to Stretch Your Nest Egg
If you thought it was hard to grow a nest egg, try living off one in retirement. Here are seven ways to make what you have last the rest of your life.
Why the Fed’s Latest Interest-Rate Strategy Won’t Have Much Effect
Sterilized bond buying could help lower interest rates and boost the economy a bit without adding to inflation, but don’t expect a major impact.
What’s Your Personal Inflation Rate?
To know what’s really happening to your own standard of living, don’t pay attention to government’s statistics – just go to the grocery store or a department store and look around you.
Is It Time to Start Worrying About Inflation Again?
The greatest threat to any long-term investor is inflation. It not only erodes the value of stocks and bonds, but also depresses economic growth and misleads policymakers.
Cough Up More for Coffee: Price Hikes Coming to Starbucks
Hey coffee lovers, here’s a little jolt that may help wake you up. The asking prices for a half-dozen different Starbucks beverages are getting more expensive at a broad swath of the coffee chain’s locations around the country.
Your Thanksgiving Dinner is Going to Cost 13% More This Year
Thanks to the rising commodity prices, a Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings will cost about 13% more than last year. No word on the costs of a Turducken.
Bond Yield Hits Historic Low: 0%
The Treasury Department set at zero the fixed portion of the yield on Inflation bonds, guaranteeing that new buyers will never earn more than the rate of inflation for the 30-year life of their investment.
