Citizens of both the US and the EU have learned to live, in recent months, with the resurgence of the phenomenon of inflation that has re-emerged sharply since it was last recorded in early 2011. Adapting to the new reality should be done immediately, as the impact on disposable income is already here as well …
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Persistent High Inflation Prices Reflect Changes in the Real Economy
The inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment has been shown to be temporary-short-term and does not stem from inflation per se, but from unexpected inflation, which contributes to maintaining inflation. By the fact that inflation can contribute to the development of an economy, we mean the positive relationship between rising inflation, that is, the increase …
Inflation: A lot of Money chasing Few Goods
Price increases and inflation caused by specific factors, such as product shortages, supply / demand and liquidity. The natural or artificial reduction of the availability of a product contributes to a drastic increase of its price. Lack of duration makes the increase permanent. The ephemeral shortage eventually leads to a return of the price to …
Income Increases in the EU are Imperative
Due to the difficulties faced by households in coping with rising energy costs, EU member-countries’ governments have entered the process of supporting household electricity bills through a subsidy policy. Sure, such a policy – covering subsidized electricity increases – is a humanitarian benefit, but it is not enough, as it only covers part of the …
The Global Economy is losing Momentum
The outlook for the global economy does not seem to be so favorable given the significant challenges it has to face. More specifically, the problem of inflation is major at the moment with most analysts believing that the phenomenon is temporary and once supply chain problems normalize, striking a balance between supply and demand, inflation …
Further Increase in Inflation launches Increase in Social Inequalities
While the global economy has not yet been able to leave the Covid-19 pandemic irrevocably behind and go unaffected, at the same time, distortions are being created in the global socio-economic context which will surely lead to negative developments. Given the very serious and persistent increase in raw material prices combined with the existing negative …
Inflation is Dynamically Back
Households and businesses in both the EU as well as in the US are now under strong inflationary pressures. The increase in inflationary pressures is directly related to the course of the pandemic. During 2020 because of the restrictive measures to tackle the pandemic Covid- 19 inflation fell. In the context of the international economic recovery, prices are rising …
When Real Interest Rates Are Lower Than Growth Rates Help Reduce Public Debt
After the end of World War II, short-term interest rates in the US were less than 1%, while T-Bond bonds with 10-year maturity yielded about 2% (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/ERP-2012/pdf/ERP-2012-table73.pdf) with the US Federal Reserve, the Fed directly purchases Federal Government bonds from the US Treasury Department. At that time (1946) the US national debt reached 119% of …
Boosting Inflation in the EU is Accelerating the Implementation of New Fiscal and Monetary Policies
Both the ECB and especially the governments of the EU member states must deal with two serious issues after the further strengthening of inflation in the Eurozone. The pressure that is already being exerted and will continue to be exerted most strongly on the actual disposable income of households. In weakening the competitiveness of companies …
Commodity Prices Have Exceeded Pre-Pandemic Covid-19 Levels
All commodity prices are now above pre-Covid-19 levels. This is mainly due to pre-pandemic oversupply demand, further declining industrial productivity, supply chain problems, rising shipping costs and incessant demand from China. In the chart below we see the prices on a quarterly basis for WTI Crude Oil, corn, and Lean hogs with the sample starting …