INFLATION IN SEPTEMBER

The inflation rate continued to inch upward during July, with the consumer price index (Indice Nacional de Precios al Consumidor, INPC) reported at 0.96%. The high INPC for the month brought accumulated inflation for January-June to 9.32%, or less than three percentage points below the government's target of 12% for ......

Mexico's annual inflation target of 3% in 2006 is in jeopardy because of what some economists are calling the "jitomatazo" during the first part of September. This is in reference to the surge in the price of tomatoes during September, which contributed greatly to a 1.01% increase in the consumer ......

Discovering the Link between Inflation Rates and Inflation Uncertainty IT IS WIDELY BELIEVED THAT moderated rates of inflation impose significant economic costs on society through increased inflation uncertainty. In fact many policymakers and economists argue hat moderate rates of inflation merit tough anti-inflationary policies precisely because the benefits from reduced ......

A salient feature of the worldwide disinflation of the past ten to fifteen years is that it includes major episodes of stopping high inflation. These episodes are especially interesting in view of the sharp contrast between some of the observed outcomes and what had been expected, based on conventional wisdom ......

Inflation and Taxation with Optimizing Governments A GOVERNMENT CAN SATISFY ITS BUDGET CONSTRAINT either by printing money or by levying taxes. Each method of finance has efficiency costs. Higher inflation rates may adversely affect the economy's transaction mechanism and lead to inefficiencies in contracting. Higher taxes may distort labor supply, ......

The Mexican economy registered accumulated inflation of only 7.17% for the first half of 1999 because of the strength of the Mexican peso and the tight monetary policies adopted by the Banco de Mexico (central bank). The central bank said the stability of the peso in the past few months ......

Deflation, the opposite of inflation, is a situation of falling general prices. It should not be confused with disinflation, which refers to a declining inflation rate that nevertheless remains positive. It was the successful U.S. disinflation of the 1990s, a disinflation that lowered the inflation rate sufficiently to create concern ......

Thirty-four Percent of All Small Firms are Raising Prices, Confirming Inflation Concerns The National Federation of Independent Business´ Chief Economist William Dunkelberg issued the following statement today in response to the release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation report. The employment figures cited by Dunkelberg are from the ......

The latest economic survey by the nation's leading small business group, takes issue with the Federal Reserve's recent interest rate cuts.

The health insurance crisis grows daily while Washington dithers and debates. Meanwhile, states are taking action.

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