Economia
O mentiroso governo argentino
The Economist explica:
Lies and Argentine statistics Stalinist practices in Buenos Aires
MOST Argentines reacted with a shrug when their government began doctoring its consumer-price index in 2007. Cooking the books cost holders of the country’s inflation-linked bonds at least $2.3 billion last year. But anyone else who needed to know the true inflation rate simply turned to a clutch of private economists who drew on their own price surveys, data from provincial governments and other official statistics. They reckon that inflation is now running at about 25%. That is far above the 10% reported by INDEC, the government statistics agency, but less than the 30% wage increases public employees have received in recent years...
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Veja aqui o índice Big Mac da taxa de inflação. Vale notar que também no Brasil a taxa de inflação tipo Big Mac é maior que a taxa de inflação oficial:
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Ler Os Outros: China’s Approach To Economic Development - Eswar Prasad
Um excelente texto sobre plano quinquenal da China em que destaco a passagem relacionada com o desafio de contenção da inflação: "The major short-term policy challenge is to bring inflation under control. Chinese policymakers are understandably...
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Micro I
Quem quiser a matéria completa pode encontrá-la aqui, mas o extrato abaixo é uma amostra interessante do que ocorre quando, em nome da manutenção da taxa de câmbio depreciada (sem sucesso, diga-se, como discutimos neste post), o governo resolve...
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Taxa De Inflação
Inflation: Not as low as you thinkForget the modest 3.1 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the government's widely used measure of inflation. Everyday prices are up some 8 percent over the past year, according to the American Institute for...
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O Poder Destrutivo Da Inflação
Paul Volcker explica: "...What we know, or should know, from the past is that once inflation becomes anticipated and ingrained — as it eventually would — then the stimulating effects are lost. Once an independent central bank does not simply tolerate...
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Diferentes Medidades Para Obter A "taxa De Inflação"
Cálculo de "Shadow Statistics":
The CPI chart on the home page reflects our estimate of inflation for today as if it were calculated the same way it was in 1990. The CPI on the Alternate Data Series tab here reflects the CPI as if it were calculated...
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