Remove Federal Reserve Data (FRED)
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Data Update 3 for 2021: Currencies, Commodities, Collectibles and Cryptos

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will take a look at these other markets, starting with a way of dividing investments into assets, commodities, currencies and collectibles that I find useful in thinking about what I can (and cannot) do in those markets, and then reviewing how these markets performed during 2020. Currencies : A currency serves three functions.

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James Galbraith: The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022 – A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response

CFO News Room

The modern hyperinflations and currency collapses of (among others) Germany and Zimbabwe conventionally fall into the same category, even though these undoubtedly had differential effects on exports, imports, and non-tradables. It may persist in the data and headlines for longer, as discussed below. in November 2022.

Economics 100
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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: Fred Schwed, right? Is that who wrote the — CHANCELLOR: Fred Schwed. CHANCELLOR: They’re buying them to manipulate the currency of China, most of all. And currency declined with capital controls. And then I thought why wasn’t the security, subprime securities? Yes, that’s right.