Venezuela’s Bogus Inflation Statistics

Authored by Steve H. Hanke of The Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke.

On Thursday, Venezuela’s central bank released a long-overdue -- and little-trusted -- report claiming that the country’s inflation rate in…

Your Money Explained in GIFs

If we’ve learned anything this month about the history and future of money, it’s that the subject is flat out…

Keeping the Bubble-Boom Going

by Thorsten Polleit

The US Federal Reserve is playing with the idea of raising interest rates, possibly as early as September this year. After a six-year period of virtually zero interest rates, a ramping up of borrowing costs will certainly have…

Inflation and Business Cycles

Price inflation vs. monetary inflation and the full consequences of the…

Department of “Huh?!”: Martin Feldstein and the Interest Rate Path Edition

Over at Equitable Growth: It is the absence of any recognition of the asymmetric power of the Federal Reserve’s policy tools that leaves me most puzzled by the extremely-sharp Marty Feldstein this…

Why Cosmic Inflation’s Last Great Prediction May Fail

And what it means if we don’t see gravitational…

Don’t Be Fooled By Our Current Price Stability

by Frank Shostak, Mises Institute.

The yearly rate of growth of the personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price index adjusted for food and energy stood at 1.3 percent in June — the same figure as in May. Note that on…

Vencendo a Inflação

Um breve resumo de variadas formas de investimento para escapar da inflação na…