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Money Moral Dilemma: Is the Tooth Fairy subject to inflation?
My son's best friend (aged 12) lost a tooth, put it under his pillow and got £10. My son then asked "Mum, am I going to get £10 for my tooth?" I think £10 is a bit much, but times have changed...
Started by MSE Debs on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at moneysavingexpert):
50p max!
Taking a generous 50p from 1989, and using a constant inflation rate of 2.5% a year, my tooth would....
For a moment, and setting aside tooth faries at the age of 12, if the question is really about inflation fairy, it was usually 20p.
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The problem with inflation is not only that prices go up. Since theoretically, a rise in the price of goods can be met with a rise in the price of one's work, so there would be no net change in one's ability to buy goods, overall.
Of course, that is not...
Started by tism on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at graveyardofthegods):
Inflation does not follow immediately from the increase in the supply....
That's why they call it the hidden tax.
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Which do you view as more important? Controlling inflation or unemployment?
As per the title, assume only 1 could be done at a time, which would you say was more important and why?
Started by Herr on
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by 13 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at thestudentroom):
If we had 2% inflation and pay freezes that would have taken years, but say a three year pay freeze in the public sector with inflation 4% a year means around a 13% real terms downwardsRe: Which do you view ....
In real terms.
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CFA mock is saying that if expected inflation is increased, risk tolerance is also increased. I cannot get my mind around this. Here is the CFA rationale: If inflation is expected to increase, then institutional investor would require a higher return ...
Started by passme on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at analystforum):
Heavy inflation eats into your real value more, you don’t simply take on excess would invest in risky stocks that ride on inflation boom such as real estate or stocks engaged * Inflation *....
Not the other way around.
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Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 3.0% in November 2011 according to a flash estimate issued by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. It was also 3.0% in October.
euro-area-inflation-gaining-momentum
Politicians and indebted...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at wilmott):
Euro....
It was also 3.0% in October.
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Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 3.0% in November 2011 according to a flash estimate issued by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. It was also 3.0% in October.
euro-area-inflation-gaining-momentum
Politicians and indebted...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at wilmott):
Euro....
It was also 3.0% in October.
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Molecule The link below, I think, is a well-written discussion of the theoretical problems in cosmology today. This topic and thread is for the discussion of these problems. Discuss known alternatives such as MOND etc., or speculate without bringing up...
Started by pantheory on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at scienceforums):
Molecule This thread was started as a spin-off from a number of science news articles relating to several studies showing that dark matter does not match predictions of theory, and that it can't be found where it was thought that it should be found, in... .
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Not Enough Inflation
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: April 5, 2012
A few days ago, Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, spoke out in defense of his successor. Attacks on Ben Bernanke by Republicans, he told The Financial Times, are “...
Started by by Nilla on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at darwincentral):
Experience shows that when the Fed chokes off inflation, economic disaster invariably ensues the truth is that we’d be better off if the Fed paid less attention to inflation and more attention, the right wants the Fed to obsess over....
Right.
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Http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...-for-u-s-.html
Quote: :
New York University professor Robert Engle said policy makers should consider allowing slightly higher inflation as a way to spur the U.S. economy, joining fellow Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman...
Started by Buster on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at jetsinsider):
Of 2.7%and probably closer to 2 or 3 points below real inflation.
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Seriously... I have over 2 million gold currently. Items are selling for well over 10 million (yes transactions are actually occurring over that value). Inflation is a real thing. If the economy already has this much gold and this many items... are we...
Started by Sinzar on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at battle):
Economy is fine i am making plenty of gold to... .
I see that as a deal.
A 1.00usd to Blizzard and some real money to another guy so we can participate in the "economy that legendary for over 10 million or more? I don't see that as inflation.
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