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If you've paid any attention to coverage of business or finance, you've probably seen discussion of the Federal Reserve meeting that's happening on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The Fed has to decide whether to "raise interest rates" for the first...

    India's central bank maintained its benchmark repurchase rate at 8.0 percent, but held out the promise of a rate cut early next year if the current trend of declining inflation continues. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which has been under pressure...

Inflation is back. Here is the change in the consumer price index (CPI) for January 2017, according to ONS: Well, this doesn't look too serious. CPI is barely reaching the Bank of England's target of 2%. It has been much higher for most of the last...

Link to the Column on Quartz Here is the full text of my 21st Quartz column, “This economic theory was born in the blogosphere and could save markets from collapse,” now brought home to supplysideliberal.com and given my preferred title. Even before...

Floyd Norris of the New York Times reports, Inflation? Deflation Is New Risk: “Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.” — Cardinal Thomas Wolsey on King Henry VIII So it is with inflation. A generation...