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Briefing

United States: Price Dynamics (Inflation/Deflation)

Critical Issues

U.S. Producer Prices: Any Signs of Pressure in the Pipeline?

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U.S. Consumer Prices: Core Prices Remain Weak

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Does the Risk of Deflation in the U.S. Outweigh the Risk of Inflation?

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Are U.S. Inflation Expectations Still Tame?

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U.S. Import Prices: Any Signs of Upward Pressure?

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Do U.S. Wages Portend a Wage-Price Spiral?

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U.S. Inflation: What Are The Different Indicators Signaling?

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Does U.S. CPI Understate Inflation?

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U.S. Inflation and Unemployment: Any Relation?

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Background:

The slack in labor and goods markets points to a period of subdued unflation or disinflation in the U.S.The negative output gap augurs continued low core inflation though the year, while headline inflation may pick up from the fading base effects of lower commodity prices. In the edium-term downside risks to inflation include sluggish aggregate demand and the negative output gap. First, money supply increases alone will not generate inflation. The velocity of money has slowed and the money multiplier has fallen. Despite growth in excess reserves, credit growth has not yet picked up. Inflation is more a story for the longer-term than the medium term. If and when credit growth does pick up and an economic recovery is clearly underway, the Fed would have to shift into tightening mode, disposing of assets on its balance sheet and shrinking bank reserves to prevent the sharply higher money supply from translating into overly easy credit and high inflation. Some analysts believe the risks of inflation will arise from the Fed having a difficult time exiting from monetary easing, while some analysts believe that the risk to inflation will arise from increasing political pressure to monetize and inflate away the value of public debt.

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Associated Readings

Analysis BNP Paribas Nov 10, 2009 Inflation: Is The Output Gap Wide Enough? Blogs Seeking Alpha Steven Hansen Sep 03, 2009 Scary Drop in Velocity of Money: Is Deflation Knocking? Analysis Van Hoisington via Investor Insight Lacy Hunt Jul 13, 2009 Debt and Deflation Analysis Natixis Jun 23, 2009 Can we be certain that there is no risk of deflation in the United States and Europe? Blogs macroblog David Altig Jun 12, 2009 Price stability and the monetary base Analysis Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco John C. Williams and Justin Weidner Jun 12, 2009 How Big Is the Output Gap? Blogs The Big Picture Barry Ritholtz Jun 07, 2009 Can the Fed Execute a Perfect Landing ?