Category Archives: U.S. Economy

You don’t Use Interest Rates to Control Cabbage Prices: China February CPI +2.7% will Not Trigger Policy Tightening.

Posted on March 22, 2010 by John Rutledge

China CPI – February 2010 (The charts below are courtesy of Andy Rothman at CLSA. Andy is by far the most knowledgeable person I know on Chinese inflation issues.) The worry that rising inflation in China will provoke the government … Continue reading →

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Today's Fed and Treasury Action Could Actually Jump-Start Small Business Lending

Posted on February 5, 2010 by John Rutledge

I don’t often write about government policies that I like. It’s not that I’m crabby; it’s because they are so scarce. But today I will make an exception. Today, the Fed and the Treasury, along with several other financial regulators, … Continue reading →

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