by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on How The US Government Deliberately Understates Inflation
Since rents aren’t fully reflected in the Consumer Price Index, we’re behind the curve. And the Fed, which relies on the PCE index, “won’t even see the curve,” says Lee Adler in this must-see video (and chart) that raised my blood pressure.
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Airbus CEO Calls For Currency War, Shoots Himself in Foot
Boeing got more orders in the first quarter than archrival Airbus. So at the ILA Berlin Air Show, Airbus CEO Fabrice Brégier spoke up against this ridiculous injustice. True to his Frenchness, he exhorted the ECB to do what central banks are supposed to do.
by Contributor • • Comments Off on The Very Brief Phenomenon Of The Gold Standard
By Dr. Bryan Taylor: Europe was on a bimetallic standard, not a Gold Standard, from the Middle Ages until World War I. Gold triumphed in the 19th century because bimetallism had failed. This should have been taken as a sign that the gold standard too would inevitably fail.
