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POPSChinese Stock Markets Tank Last time the Shanghai market plunged like this it triggered a global sell off of equities. Certainly markets everywhere are increasingly worried by inflation.
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POPSStamp Tax Cut Sends Shanghai Shares Soaring The authorities are worried that Chinese share prices have fallen to far from their peak of last year and have started to underpin the market with regulatory changes. There are particularly concerned about the risk of anger among the small shareholders that dominate trading in the local markets, investors already seething at energy and food inflation.
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POPSA Rising Euro Threatens American Dominance Benn Steil, director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, notes that the dollar's standing has let the U.S. run loose monetary policy without paying the usual prices of capital flight and inflation, but no longer. Steil doesn't use the term banana republic but does outline what happens to the global political clout of banana republics. Not a place the U.S. wants to go.
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POPSChinese Monetary Policy Not sure the FT's Lex is right on this. Wrod coming from PBOC officials is that inflation remains the no 1 preoccupation.
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POPSFed Struggles To Halt March Of Stagflation The London Times' Gerry Baker captures the policy making divide between what he calls "economic pessimists who are optimistic about inflation and economic optimists who are pessimistic about inflation".
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POPSInflation Is Like Absinthe From a thoughtful speech by Fed Governor Richard Fisher on the challenges for monetary policy in a globalized economy and the importance of keeping inflation contained.
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POPSCommodities roar into 2008 Pension funds and other long-term investors have pumped well in excess of $100 billion into commodities over the past five years,
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POPSThat Old Stagflation Dilemma Again Sam Brittain is both a distinguished economics commentator -- one of the best -- and has been around long enough to have seen stagflation more than once. His answer: long-term inflation targets.
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POPSChina Continues To Curb Hot Economy This is state news agency Xinhua catching up with the interest rate rise news but also pointing out that the tax on interest income wlll be cut from to 5% from 20% in an attempt to make bank savings more attractive alternative to stock investing for Chinese.
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POPSFed's Bernanke Says Anchored Expectations Mute Price Swings I guess you just have to believe there won't be inflation for there not to be! But this speech reinforces the point that the Fed is focused on the core inflation number and may be rehearsing some of the points Bernanke will make about the impact of volatile energy prices on the CPI when he gives his semi-annual report to Congress next week.
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