That would simply set up a replay of the global inflation of the 1970s.
European Central Banks may need to raise interest rates as global inflation pressures mount.
Hence, we have the beginnings of a global inflation, just as we did in the early 1970s.
As a result, China's great export powerhouse will keep global inflation low and intensify the current deflationary pressures.
Professor Friedman is barely five feet tall, but his shadow falls across the last decade of global inflation.
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If China's prices start to rise, then its export prices start to rise, and that might trigger global inflation.
One example, the iShares Global Inflation-Linked Bond Fund ( GTIP), seeks results that correspond to the BofA Merrill Lynch Global Diversified Inflation-Linked Index.
If China was a source of global disinflation in the past decades, it will become a source of global inflation in the next decade.
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In the 1970s, investors were caught out by a sudden surge in global inflation, and were too slow to push yields higher in response.
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When the rest of the world no longer links their currencies to ours, the Fed will truly not have to worry about fueling global inflation.
In contrast, periods with major gold discoveries lead to global inflation.
Fitch said its expectations for global inflation are higher, and it reduced its global growth estimates to 3.2% in 2011 and 2012 compared with 3.8% last year.
An American slowdown would reduce global inflation and cause other currencies to rise against the dollar, allowing central banks elsewhere to cut interest rates to boost domestic spending.
The first is a rise in global inflation and the second is emerging markets intervening in currency markets and then diversify their holding with more gold and less U.S. dollars.
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As a result, he broadly absolved the Fed of any blame for global inflation, putting it instead on foreign governments for not allowing their currencies to appreciate and for keeping their interest rates too low.
If that were to happen, demand for dollars would sink, and because there is no other currency to take its place in terms of trade, global inflation would rise as important commodities like agricultural goods, oil and precious metals metals would rise substantially to compensate.
We also noted that central bankers around the world, including those in China, had flooded the markets with money in response to the global financial crisis, and therefore concluded that the vast amount of liquidity sloshing around in the global economy would result in global inflation.
How each bond investment style will perform will depend largely on what happens with the U.S. economy, the global economy and inflation.
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But I reckon that China's effect on global manufacturing and inflation is both more diverse and more benign than my colleague Dan believes.
Our fiscal policy, like our monetary policy, is designed to support stability in these uncertain economic times generated by the turbulence in world financial markets and global commodity price inflation.
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He identified real continuing challenges and issues that remain, including inflation and global tensions from commodity price volatility and currency imbalances.
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During recoveries of past recessions, concerns were about market dynamics created by the usual suspects: inflation, global trade, supply and demand, technology disruptions, fear and greed, etc.
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When higher interest rates and as low global growth cut into inflation, the government quickly lowered interest rates and investors returned to Brazil stocks at the end of the year.
That Europe will kick the solution of the Greek debt crisis down the road again, with another temporary bailout payment, has no connection whatever to slowing global economies and rising inflation.
One more reason not to lose sleep over the surge in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the backdrop of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.
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