Inflation

Inflation has been much in the news during the last few years, with notice of whether the rate is up or down a staple of reports. Inflation is the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time. (Historically, prices have rarely decreased; one example of such deflation would be the Great Depression Read more

In recent conversations about the effort to ease inflation, you may have heard about the various landings—from a “soft landing” to a “hard landing” to “no landing” at all. Whichever way we land, we will likely feel some jostling in the economy. What does all of this talk of landings mean? When the Federal Reserve, Read more

We last wrote about inflation in May 2021 in a piece titled “Inflation Worries: Will the Tide Riser Higher?” (https://bowenasset.com/inflation-worries-will-the-tide-rise-higher/) A year later, we have an answer to the question: both the inflation rate and the anxiety it causes have increased. A Pew Research survey in April 2022 showed inflation as the dominant concern of Read more