Who’s Afraid of the CPI!
Everybody worries about inflation these days. It’s chic. It’s trendy. And it gives me a great comeback to the boss at raise time.
Everybody worries about inflation these days. It’s chic. It’s trendy. And it gives me a great comeback to the boss at raise time.
All action takes time. Humans use time as a tool. Time preference ranking is now, not later, although time preferences will differ over time and for different people, like children who want things right now.
What principles determine the formation of prices on the free market? The equilibrium price between supply and demand determines prices according to the value scales of sellers and buyers and their elastic or inelastic positions.
For the third month in the row, “core” consumer prices, which the Fed and accordingly also financial markets have decided to focus on (
From The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 43, Number 5, October 1935.
When people consider the question of how society should be organized, there is a tendency to portray issues in terms of false alternatives.
Robert Murphy says that linking government deficits to private savings and growth is not merely inaccurate; it is exactly backwards.