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Inflation

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Janet Yellen Shows the Need for a 4 Percent Unemployment Target
The Fed should require solid evidence that inflation poses a threat before it tries to slow the economy.

Media Inflate Threat With “ISIS Plots” That Don’t Actually Involve ISIS
The specter of ISIS constantly trying to enlist dozens of Americans is a crucial element in maintaining the current war effort.

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Remember the 1990s?
We're witnessing the coming of the employment truthers.

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Deflation in Europe: We Saw It Coming
Some are panicking over a report showing that the eurozone is in deflation. But panic is the wrong reaction.

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Spreading Inflation Paranoia, No Matter the Cost
The ability of inflation “derp” to persist, and even flourish, in an age of disinflation remains remarkable.

Developers Aren’t Going to Solve the Housing Crisis in San Francisco
The authors deconstruct and refute supply-side myths about how to create affordable housing in San Francisco - or any city - and propose some new approaches to affordable housing.

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Fixated on the True Meaning of Money
We are living in a time of monetary impotence, where central banks that have tried to reflate economies aren't having much success.

Even the Council on Foreign Relations Is Saying It: Time to Rain Money on Main Street
The economy continues to teeter on the edge of deflation. The Fed needs to pump up the money supply and stimulate demand in some other way.

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Truth Has No Place in the Attack of Inflation Hawks
There is a growing push by inflation hawks to get the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates.

The Minimum Wage and Inflation
Would an increase of the minimum wage be inflationary? Would more inflation than we have now be a good or bad thing?