Category Archives: Inflation
Travesty of a Free Society
A quick look at the headlines tells us things are looking up. Earlier this week, for instance, the Commerce Department reported that consumer spending rose 0.5 percent in November…notching the seventh consecutive monthly increase. Obviously, this is big news for … Continue reading
How to Get Something for Nothing
The taste of a free lunch is always much richer. The smell is more aromatic. The taste is more flavorful. Most of all, the belly leaves the table more contented. But a free lunch is never really free. We thought … Continue reading
Fed Policy Reduction
To sharpen the mind and calibrate the senses we begin with an old paradox… “A man says that he is lying,” posited fourth century BC Greek philosopher Eubulides of Miletus. “Is what he says true or false?” You tell us… … Continue reading
Mrs. Knott’s Chicken Dinner Restaurant Inflation Instruction
Sometime in the 1920s Walter Knott, an unsuccessful farmer, nursed several dying berry vines back to life at his Buena Park, California, farm. Little did he know, his fortunes were about to change. These unique vines were created by Rudolph … Continue reading
