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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

Auto Prices and the CPI

…not quickly find the data to update the suggested retail price data. The difference between a 116% price increase and the 371% increase is what you actually have to spend…

Spatial Price Index

Spatial Price Index Despite the importance of the CPI and all the discussion about it one of the things we do not have is data to compare the price of…

New House Price Data

Today the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) released its latest estimates of house prices in the US, covering the first quarter of 2005. Unsurprisingly, house prices continue to…

Housing, the Fed and M3

…from his speech in Berlin titled “Asset Prices and Monetary Liquidity”. In the speech Ferguson discussed possible links between “excess liquidity” and asset prices; both equities and housing. With many…

What’s happening with the Phillips curve ?

…I downloaded are CPIAUCSL “Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items, Index 1982-84=100, Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted” PCECTPI “Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index, Index 2009=100, Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted”…