Balancing Inflation and Growth Part 5 of 13
Some argue it is the slowing economy. Even if you foresee the most likely U.S. scenario as a period of flat growth for a few quarters, followed later in the year by a return to potential growth of about 3 percent, one cannot help but [...]
Balancing Inflation and Growth Part 6 of 13
The woes of financial operators should not be overlooked, of course. There is a palpable risk that their pathology will lead to credit constriction that will, in turn, trigger an economic contraction. But thus far, the Cassandras on Wall Street, in the press and on [...]
Balancing Inflation and Growth Part 12 of 13
As a result, trade in services is one of the most rapidly growing components of global trade. Thus, even the available supply of architects or petroleum engineers or software designers or medical technicians or lawyers or commodity trading broker must increasingly be considered in the [...]
Balancing Inflation and Growth Part 11 of 13
One would like to think that as the economy slows, inflationary pressures will do likewise. But we cannot always be sure they will, given the globalized commodities trading system nature of the U.S. economy. Demand-pull pressures abroad have an increasingly potent influence on our domestic [...]
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