From Yahoo! Finance:
By Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer
Bernanke Dismisses Worries About US Economy Returning to ’70s-Style ‘Stagflation’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday that the nation isn’t “anywhere near” the dangerous stagflation situation of the 1970s.
With the economy slowing and inflation rising, fears have grown that the country could be headed […]
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By: Kenneth D. Gartrell
Never mind what the Fed says ….it is already here in relative terms – likely to arrive this summer in real terms.
Recent news reports raise the spectre of stagflation: an abstract economic concept that arose near the end of the last oil crisis in the mid-1970s. It is supposed […]
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By: Kenneth D. Gartrell
The ongoing wave of white-collar crime prosecutions recently led by a spree of option-backdating cases raises some important economic questions about how to measure harm for sentencing purposes and some equally important questions about the relationship of overlapping civil and criminal proceedings.
There appears to be a search in the legal […]
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