inflation

A change in gas prices can have an outsize effect on consumer wage expectations and budgets.
Look to ETFs that can take advantage of emerging-market GDP strength and protect against a jump in prices.
Sell what you don't need and reposition for defensive growth over time.
Pay attention to where FOMC members differ in their views regarding inflation and how this might affect monetary policy.
Commodoties are pointing to a real downer over there, but haven't we seen this before?
The Fed chief sees inflation in check, but public expectations could undermine that thesis.
Inflation flattening out in China could be just the tonic for stocks suffering from Europe.
It's unlikely that the Fed will rush into further quantitative easing, as perception is crucial in order to keep it from becoming a more persistent problem.
Technical recession or actual recession or neither or both, sometimes you have to ask if it’s good or bad.
German growth slumps, changing very little about its will to help out the periphery countries.

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