Blog: "Soft Landing Predictions" of cycles past
The soft landing bandwagon is getting full, but history is against it.
Topic
Inflation
A collection of 84 issues
Blog: Central Banks and "The Logic of Failure."
Studies of complex decision making may help us understand future monetary policy.
Blog: The Method and Madness Model of irrational behavior
Rational and irrational behavior defined by comparing the types of uncertainty we face with the decision making methods we use.
Blog: Sandpile Monetary Policy and Inflation
Do the dynamics of sandpiles and complexity theory tell us something about monetary policy?
Blog: Hard, soft or aborted landing revisited
Back at the end of February I proposed an "aborted landing" as an alternative to a hard landing (a nice way of describing a crash) or a soft landing for the economy. At the time a "no landing" scenario was also preposed by many analysts. But
Newsletter: El Nino and Commodities
The El Nino Southern Oscillator appears to affect the demand for oil and the supply of grains.
Blog: The Fed's Dueling Mandates are a problem
The Fed's dual mandates of price stability and maximum employment are now dueling mandates.
Blog: Is the Fed truly "Anchoring" Inflation Expectations?
"Well anchored" inflation expectations to the 2% target are another Fed pipe dream particularly if viewed using the Fractal Market Hypothesis.
Blog: Yet another "new normal" for inflation and interest rates?
The stock and bond markets have spoken. We are now in a persistent environment of 4% to 5% inflation and corresponding interest rates. While the phrase “new normal” has roots back to World War I and has been used by people as disparate as market guru, Mohammed El-Erian and science
Newsletter: Fuzzy Sets and AI - Measuring Market Uncertainty
As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision. - The Law of Incompatibility, Lofti Zadeh
In this month’s newsletter, I’m discussing the use of fuzzy set principals embedded in the Market Climatology model. Fuzzy sets are a sub-set of artificial intelligence (AI) that mimics