Monthly Archives: February 2024
Is tipflation even part of inflation?
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Or, to frame the question in a more technical way: is tipflation even counted as part of Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation?
Canada inflation drops to 2.9% in January
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Canada's headline CPI rose 2.9% in January, hitting Bank of Canada's inflation-control target range of 1% - 3% for the first time since March 2021.
UK retail sales rebounds 3.4% in Jan after dismal Christmas figures
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UK retail volume rose 3.4% MoM in January, after it dropped by 3.3% in December
UK inflation holds at 4% in January
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CPI: 4.0% YoY (Dec: 4.0%); Core CPI: 5.1% YoY (Dec: 5.1%)
US payroll growth in Jan beats expectations
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US nonfarm payroll increased 353,000 and Unemployment rate as 3.7% in January
Global Economy
Interviews
Why the Fed should Keep a Sizeable Balance Sheet? | Q&A with Jeremy...
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Jeremy Stein, former Federal Reserve governor, talks to us about his recent research “The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool” and why the Fed should maintain a sizeable balance sheet.
US needs large-scale Covid testing urgently: Nobel winning economist Paul Romer
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In an exclusive interview with EconReporter on Tuesday, Romer, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics Science, urged the US to adopt large-scale testing immediately to halt this most detrimental economic slump ever since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Interview with Paul Romer on large scale Covid testing – Transcript
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Edited transcript of our interview with Paul Romer, on why the US urgently to scale up testing for Covid-19 and why he thinks the covid-crisis amounts an intellectual failure
Why Yellen should have stayed as Fed Governor? | Interview with Conti-Brown
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Peter Conti-Brown, author of one of the best book about the institution of Fed, "The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve", explains what Jay Powell's nomination means to the Fed independence and why Janet Yellen should have stay as governor after his Chair term ended.