Infrastructure assets, like toll roads, airports, and power generation facilities also throw off income and appreciate during inflation, and are a top choice for larger investors.
But it works out to be 21 months during which inflation and real growth will almost always be boosting GDP.
Whereas during an inflation, you want to get rid of the money.
Mr Weidmann said the period in the 1980s and 1990s during which central banks around the world had been made independent had heralded a period of "great moderation" during which inflation fell.
Its performance during times of inflation and rising interest rates has been excellent, easily outperforming stocks during those times.
The market is pegging 30-year inflation at a slightly higher 2.0 percent rate, which is the spread between long-term 30-year Treasury nominal bonds and 30-year TIPS. Federal Reserve policy to increase the money supply has not led to inflation during this recovery because the demand for money has been lower than in other recoveries when inflation did occur.
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Some of you regular readers thought the government was lying about real GDP growth by understating inflation during this "growth" period.
Mr Greenspan was shaken out of his love affair with the inflation-defying new economy by a sharp rise in inflation during March.
Across Cook County, all property taxes collections rose 48 percent from 2000 to 2010, twice the rate of inflation during that period.
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The Fed was largely oblivious of its handiwork because price indexes weren't shooting up as they did during the Great Inflation of the 1970s.
He was right, in stopped-clock fashion, during the 1979 inflation scare.
IR You correctly recognise one of the key causes of asset-price inflation during the past three years excessive leverage by noting that margin debt has doubled since 1996.
Add in free trade for all imports from countries with cheaper labour, and fears that the budget deficit could bring inflation during the under-demand sound oxymoronic.
That bubble would burst, of course, but during the great inflation Silicon Valley stopped funding technology companies, got greedy, reached beyond its core competency and began funding business models.
German bunds rallied by 37 ticks to 120.41 as investors flocked to its safety despite a mild acceleration in the pace of EU inflation during March, which rose to 2.4%.
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Americans could rediscover inflation during a second Obama term.
You forget that the two main emerging countries that targeted inflation during the 1990s Chile and Israel successfully withstood a major test in 1997-99, in the form of exchange-rate depreciation caused by financial contagion and terms-of-trade deterioration in the wake of the Asian crisis.
Inflation can and did occur during a depression, and that inflation was strictly a monetary phenomenon.
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This is not the first time we have experienced strong food and energy price inflation, and in most similar experiences during the past 30 years, inflation turned meaningfully lower after these price spikes.
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Only three Latin countries had higher inflation rates during 2006 as compared to the previous years.
During periods of rapid inflation, Gold tends to rise in value, keeping up with or even outpacing inflation.
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However, economic history has proven over and over again that real wages actually decrease during periods of rising inflation.
China releases industrial output, retail sales and inflation data during this weekend.
Despite its recent rise, medical inflation fell during most of the 1990s.
Commodities have performed best during periods of rocketing inflation, such as the 1940s and the 1970s, when bonds and stocks have done less well.
It is actually the predominant belief that wages and salaries rise before aggregate price levels in the economy and thus during periods of rising inflation, real wages are always increasing.
The 1998 and 1999 jumps come on top of a huge increase this year in nondefense discretionary spending: 4.7% during a period when inflation has been running about 2.5% (according to the Consumer Price Index) and probably more accurately 1% to 1.5%.
During the late 1970s, inflation roared back, finishing the decade at an annual rate of 13%.
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