The "real, " or post-inflation, yield on the 10-year TIPS bond is just 1.25%, that on the 30-year 1.73%.
Lazear noted that unemployment fell to 4.5% in 2006 from 5% in 2005, adding that 2 million payroll jobs were added last year while real wages grew at a post-inflation rate of 1.7%.
By contrast, if the key risk you worry about is the post-inflation value of your savings falling by 50% over the next decade or two, or if you fear being unable to live on the meagre returns from even the best savings policies, then cash looks a bad choice and stock markets a better one.
The IMF's Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance programme had envisioned inflation of only 7% that year.
Russian inflation is at or near its post-Soviet low, and interest rates are also near post-Soviet lows.
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Inflation in Russia is currently near a post-Soviet record low.
Inflation has been the trigger for nearly all post-war recessions.
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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who has been accused by many of setting the stage for an inflationary spiral through his asset purchase programs or QE (quantitative easing), recently said he has the best inflation record of any Fed chief in the post-war era.
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But you have to wonder whether it will also turn out to be another step towards a post-crisis world of monetary policy, where the nominal rate of inflation is no longer the target of choice.
What we find is that core inflation, at 0.6%, as well as trimmed inflation (which takes out the statistical outliers and anomalies) are both at post-war all-time lows.
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In fiscal 2011, more than a third of private colleges and universities rated by Moody's Investors Service failed to post tuition revenue growth at or above the Federal Reserve's target 2% rate of inflation.
Post-Soviet Armenia has embraced trade, made legal reforms, privatized state-owned enterprises and slashed inflation to 2.9% since joining the World Trade Organization in 2003.
The long post-World War II bull market in stocks ended during the 1966 to 1969 era when the rate of inflation began to spike.
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