Inflation


Markets

Bitcoin Has Best Start to Year Since 2013 as Gold Disappoints

Bitcoin outshines gold as inflation expectations rise.

Despite the memories of recent market choppiness, bitcoin in March gained for the sixth straight month.

Markets

Inflation Watch: US Money Supply to Stay Elevated Despite Coming Slowdown, Pantheon Says

"Nothing like this has ever happened before," says economist Ian Shepherdson.


Videos

Abra Jumps Into the Crypto Borrowing and Lending Business, Questions Inflation Reports

Crypto trading platform Abra has launched Abra Borrow, a new lending program which allows users to take out loans by using their crypto holdings as collateral. Abra's Bill Barhydt explains how the program works. Plus, his take on how institutions should approach crypto investing, and why he doesn't trust official inflation figures.

Recent Videos

Policy

How the Federal Reserve Might Try to Calm Inflation Fears This Week

The question is whether Powell will allow bond yields to keep rising or if the Fed will step in to ward off any unwanted market reaction.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

Markets

Inflation Takes Over From COVID as Biggest Market Risk: Bank of America

Betting on a bitcoin rally remains one of the hottest trades.

Inflation has displaced the coronavirus as the most troublesome outlying risk in the minds of global fund managers, according to Bank of America.

Markets

Nobody Saw Inflation Coming in the 1960s, but It Could Be Back: Economist

Very few of today's bond portfolio managers and traders can remember the last inflation shock, but that does not make a new shock less likely.


Markets

NFT Mania Fits With 'Crippling Inflation' Fear, but Don't Call It a Bubble

A $69 million NFT could end up being a mere pixel in a billion-dollar industry for digital assets.

Crossroad by digital NFT artist Beeple

Markets

ECB Speeds €1.85T Stimulus Program as Lagarde Frets Over 'Premature Tightening'

The overall program's size was left intact, along with the March 2022 end date, but the pace of stimulus is now set to increase.

ECB President Christine Lagarde.

Markets

Record-Breaking $1.9T Relief Bill Passes US House, Heads to Biden’s Desk

The measure may contribute to temporary inflation during the summer, economists say.

congress

Markets

US Inflation Rate Accelerates in February, Could Go Higher as Economy Reheats

The 12-month rate represents an acceleration from January's 1.4% clip, a pickup partly driven by higher gasoline price.

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