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NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the growing rate of inflation and how Americans are dealing with the extra costs. According to the government's latest figures, prices made the biggest jump in any 12-month period since October 2008. Origina?

How should governments and central banks use monetary policy to create a healthy economy? Traditionally, policymakers have used such strategies as controlling the growth of the money supply or pegging the exchange rate to a stable currency. In recent years a promising new approach has emerged: publicly announcing and pursuing specific targets for the rate of inflation. This book is an in-depth study of inflation targeting. Combining penetrating theoretical...

An exposition on the present and future value of the United States dollar which states the author's theories regarding inflation and his concerns about OPEC and U.S.-Saudi connections.

"Imagine a world without inflation: prices in the shops rising in some years but falling in others; pay rising by 2 or 3% in the good years, but static or falling in the bad ones; house prices as likely to fall as to rise; interest rates in the range 2-4%."--BOOK JACKET. "In the post-war period of producer power companies could push up prices and groups of workers could push up pay. Now, by contrast, both businesses and workers are tightly constrained....

"Over the past twenty years, Americans have been fed a mash of confusing financial and economic information. Economist Ellen Frank's alternately enlightening and shocking volume shows us how what we've been taught to think about stocks, interest rates, personal opportunities, employment, government spending, and inflation distorts popular understanding of how the economy really operates. But public confusion serves a distinct political goal: to camouflage...

Where does money come from? Who decides how it gets used? And what does that mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when money and finance break down? This documentary presents serious research and verifiable evidence regarding the global financial system from a U.K. perspective. Sections of the program include Notes and Coins, Commercial Bank Money, Central Bank Reserve Currency, Significance of Central Bank Reserves, A Short History...

"Frederic Mishkin is not only an academic expert in the field but also has been a high-level policymaker. He is well positioned to discuss the changes in the conduct of monetary policy in recent years, in particular the turn to inflation targeting. Monetary Policy Strategy describes his work over the last ten years, offering published papers, new introductory material, and a summing up, "Everything You Wanted to Know about Monetary Policy Strategy,...

This unique book deals with the most serious macroeconomic failure experienced in the US in the post-war period, the great inflation of the late 1960s and 1970s. It is the first detailed analysis, using Federal Reserve documents, of the thinking behind the inflationary monetary policy during this period. Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States will be welcomed by economists, political scientists and economic historians interested...