“I find it funny that people who didn't think there was any inflation in the pipeline are now talking about stagflation. This is nothing like the 1970's, which was a pretty dismal period and not just because of polyester and disco.” PeopleThinkingTalkingPeriodsInflationDiscoPipeline Author:Barry Ritholtz
“For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation. The Boskin Commission... was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can't afford it.” MenMayBrokenFraudCowardiceEconomistWorthlessInflationWeasels Author:Barry Ritholtz