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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Monetary

News                                                                                                                             
Market Watch | Fed weighed several tools at last meeting: minutes
There was no clear consensus among Federal Reserve officials at their August 9 meeting about what the next easing step would be, according to the minutes of the meeting released on Tuesday.
Market Watch | China inflation winding down: analysts
China’s consumer inflation may have tapered off, with consumer-price-index growth slowing in the remaining months of this year from a three-year high of 6.5% in July.
WSJ | Economy Deeply Divides Fed
New Records Show Central Bank Officials at Odds Over How to Revive Recovery.

Econ Comments                                                                                                             
WSJ | Beyond the Gold and Bond Bubbles
Shouldn't the Fed try to improve incentives to invest in growing businesses?
AEI | It's Time for Plan B from the IMF
By now the IMF must recognize that its strategy for the European periphery of draconian budget belt-tightening, and of wage and price deflation to restore fiscal sustainability and international competitiveness has failed.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Daily Capitalist | The Fed’s War Against Savers v.2.0
The Fed needs to stop this war against savers, raise rates immediately, and stop destroying capital from “printing” money through quantitative easing. Our government should be rewarding savers, not punishing them. Only when savers are rewarded with positive yields will the destruction of capital stop and the economy will grow again.
Minyanville | How the Fed Has Distorted the Nature of the TIPS Market
Both implied real rates and inflation expectations have been distorted by the Fed's money-printing. As a result, the Fed has distorted the information it relies upon and bamboozled itself.