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While equity and credit markets did rebound from their May-June dislocation, higher interest rates have hit the housing market quite hard, reflected in a sharp fall in the mortgage-refinance index, lower home affordability, and declining purchases.
On average, since the inception of the Standard and Poor’s composite stock index in 1926, the reward for putting your money in the market has been about 16 percentage points lower per presidential term under Republicans than under Democrats.
The producer price index (PPI) has been in negative territory for 39 consecutive months, since February 2012.
The growth of China’s consumer price index (CPI), though still positive, has also been falling steadily, from 6.5% in July 2011 to 1.2% in May.
The headline consumer-price index (CPI) is near zero, and “core” or underlying inflation – the Fed’s favorite indicator – remains significantly below the seemingly sacrosanct 2% target.
The Fed predicted an annual inflation rate, based on the personal consumption expenditures index, of 1.9% for 2015.
Its index of influence assesses the number of citations for each author, weighted by impact and discounted by citation age (otherwise, Adam Smith and Karl Marx would likely still top the list).
So I compared the rankings from December 2006 and September 2015 to see whether the RePEc index had evolved along with economic reality.
And, according to the World Economic Forum, is topped only by the U.S. and China in an index that combines growth prospects with economic size.
The most recent data show that the price index in January was up by only 0.9% year on year.
A rise in the index signifies real appreciation, meaning that the yen became more expensive relative to other currencies after correcting for relative price-level changes.
From 2007 to 2014, the renminbi appreciated by 32% in real, trade-weighted terms; by May 2015 (the most recent month of the reported index), its total appreciation had reached 40%.
The American Employment Cost index and other indicators of developed-country nominal wage growth show no acceleration of change.
The higher the index is, the less the exchange rate has depreciated to offset inflation – and the more uncompetitive India is.
Someone who wants to blame the exchange rate for India’s export slowdown can look at the index from the low point of September 2013 and argue that it has appreciated 20% (based on the IMF measure).
Ten years later, the US consumer price index (CPI) was up more than 60%, but the price of gold was still $400, having risen to $700 and then fallen back during the intervening years.
And by the year 2000, when the US consumer price index was more than twice its level in 1980, the price of gold had fallen to about $300 an ounce.
Countries that scored poorly in responsiveness to share prices tend also to score badly on the OECD’s index of “red tape” and on university education.
In the widely cited “Fox” index measuring state control of majority and minority religions, in which zero represents the least state control, and figures in the thirties represent the greatest degree of control, all but two current EU member states get scores that are in the zero to six range.
In the UK, the consumer price index is being recalculated to include new products, such as electronic dating services.
A better approach is to think of the longer-term story as being one of changes in relative prices, which are not well handled by a consumer price index.
Another, more structural reason is that the prices of the goods comprising a large part of the consumer price index tend to fall over time, because they can be produced increasingly efficiently in low-wage countries, particularly in Asia.
The European Commission’s economic index is plummeting, purchasing managers indices are down and so are German retail sales.
Core inflation (the consumer price index after excluding volatile food and energy prices) in the eurozone fell to an annual rate of 0.8% in October – a 47-month low – while producer prices fell by 0.5%, suggesting that deflation is already in Europe’s economic pipeline.
The result has been a sharp fall in consumer confidence: the German index of consumer sentiment was small but positive in November 2000; it has since fallen to -20, the sharpest decline in the euro area.
For example, in 2004, China attempted to replace standard GDP accounting with the “Green GDP” index, which accounts for the environmental consequences of economic growth.
Looking at the monetary tightening that began in February 1994 and June 2004, the dollar strengthened substantially in both cases before the first rate hike, but then weakened by around 8% (as gauged by the Fed’s dollar index) in the subsequent six months.
Over the next 2-3 years, the dollar index remained consistently below its level on the day of the first rate hike.
Many countries now have over-heated property and equity markets; in the US, the S&P 500 index since 2009 has closely tracked the expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet.
As a result, price-earnings (P/E) ratios, which reflect investors’ enthusiasm for equities, are now high by historical standards (Swiss Re has a Financial Market Excess index, which has returned to its 2007 level).
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