AIER has developed a new and very useful index that measures price changes among goods and services that most of us purchase regularly. This greatly improves our ability to measure the cost of unanticipated price inflation and the impact it might have on investors’ household budgets. It is clear that the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) […]
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On March 26 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reaffirmed the Fed’s desire to hold interest rates low for the foreseeable future. With current annual price inflation (CPI) running close to 3.0 percent and 90-day Treasury bills yielding 0.10 percent, it appears investors will continue to confront negative real returns on cash equivalent assets for some
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