By Editorial Staff
1/10/2012 10:45:00 AM
Many people think that government intervention in the credit markets will cause major inflation. It's a complex issue to understand, but perhaps this analogy will help clarify what has really been happening.
Filed Under: banks, central banks, consumer credit, credit crisis, debt, debt crisis, debt, deflation, Elliott Wave Theorist, hyperinflation, inflation, Robert Prechter, safe haven, U.S., deflation, inflation, prechter
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
9/15/2011 11:00:00 AM
Bursting of the "debt bubble": It's the financial story of our age and it's happening before our eyes. The full scope is hard to keep up with because it's unfolding at various levels, such as...
Filed Under: Club EWI, conquer the crash, consumer credit, debt crisis, European debt crisis, foreclosures, liquidity, Robert Prechter, soverign debt crisis
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
6/30/2011 4:15:00 PM
The build-up of credit in our financial system is beyond rare; it's unprecedented in at least the past 100 years of U.S. history. See the chart...
Filed Under: consumer credit, credit crisis, credit rating, deflation, Elliott Wave Theorist, great depression, gross domestic product (GDP), history, monetary policy, Robert Prechter, safe haven
Category: U.S. Economy
By Nico Isaac
4/8/2010 10:15:00 AM
Most people are confident they can recognize a myth when they hear one: Wearing a hat causes baldness; eating a bunch of carrots gives you perfect vision; 'light' cigarettes are better for your health than the regular kind. But what about this sentence: Inflation is the number one threat to the US economy? Myth? You betcha.
Filed Under: inflation, deflation, Robert Prechter, consumer credit
Category: U.S. Economy
By Susan C. Walker
1/8/2010 4:15:00 PM
The Fed has expanded the U.S. monetary base by more than 150% since the beginning of the recession, thereby assuring inflation, according to many analysts and basic common sense. But hold your horses—even though we agree that the Fed's actions will eventually bring on inflation, our near-term forecast is for deflation first, based in part on the credit implosion.
Filed Under: U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), inflation, deflation, consumer credit
Category: Classic Prechter
By Nico Isaac
11/23/2009 5:30:00 PM
It's official: After a 50%-plus rally in U.S. stocks, the fear of deflation has gone from "real, cataclysmic threat" to imaginary bogeyman hiding under the beds of the few remaining uber-bears. Turn on the "lights" of reality, and said monster supposedly disappears into thin air..
Filed Under: deflation, Robert Prechter, consumer credit
Category: U.S. Economy