David Semmens, a United States economist for Standard Chartered Bank. “Inflation is definitely not a concern in the short or medium term.”If printing all this money (borrowing to spend) was supposed to create upward pressure on prices, as the deficit hawks have complained about, we're not seeing it at all.
Linear thought is a flaw. As a dog, I like to cozy up on the sofa, pull up a glass of coffee and cookies and pretend to be human. I sometimes think that I wasted my time learning new tricks rather than playing outside.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Deficit hawks pay attention.
From a NYT article on the drop of consumer prices in May while the CPI increased only modestly (0.1%):
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