A brief history of inflation in two charts

Over the last few months there have been numerous comments on blogs on the nature of inflation in historical periods, particularly that inflation has always been with us to a certain extent. The below chart demonstrates that this is clearly not the case. Using the...

Krugman, Wicksell and the inflation conundrum

Paul Krugman recently responded to Gavyn Davies’ excellent post on Keynesian Yellen vs Wicksellian BIS. Krugman argued that if an interest rate is set too low the economy overheats and we have accelerating inflation. However as Krugman points out there is no sign of...