Tag Archives: Dr. Lacy Hunt

Reviewing my Predictions from Last Year

So here it is, another year. “Another year over, and a new one just begun,” as John Lennon said before Yoko added her cacophonic voice. I just it’s time to look over last year and see look at some of … Continue reading

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Signs of the Times

Here’s some interesting news that has hit the wire in the last couple of days: A new hedge fund dedicated to hyper-inflation is being created. Personally, if you really believe hyper inflation is coming, wouldn’t you just buy gold? Why … Continue reading

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Checking My Scorecard

Every now and then, I make predictions in this blog. Today seemed as good a day as any to take a look at my prior predictions and see how they faired. As a life long Cassandra, I can’t really say … Continue reading

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Can the Fed Tighten the Money Supply in Time?

Lately I’ve been reading opinions about the market that tell their readers not to be too worried about inflation. Sure, they’ll admit that expanding the money supply correlates sharply with inflation, but they tell me that Ben Bernanke will take … Continue reading

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Attention Dr. Lacy Hunt: Your Plan’s Not Going So Hot

The United States and the United Kingdom are both pursuing similar strategies to deal with this global recession: print more money. France and Germany are taking a rather different track and talking about reducing government spending. Germany went so far … Continue reading

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Conspiracy Theories That Surround The Federal Reserve: Part II

My last entry explored the popular conspiracy elements contained in G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve In part two of this series, I’m going to be looking at the particular conspiracies … Continue reading

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Deflation? Only for the Stock Market

I have to take a moment to pat myself on the back. Around the start of the new year, I said that deflation was not going to be the main concern, and instead, it would be inflation that was going … Continue reading

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Out of the Mouths of Economists

I read a lot of different perspectives from different angles on the state of our economy. I expect opinions to vary in what I read. In fact, I need the different perspectives to help give me the complete picture, but … Continue reading

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