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HOUSTON, Nov. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- ArborInvestmentPlanner.com, an investment management service for the self directed investor, released a special report today detailing the effects of Biflation, a word used to describe deflation and inflation simultaneously in different assets. The report, entitled "Inflation and Deflation Produce Biflationary Economies", details the effect Biflation is having on world economies and how to profit with portfolio asset allocation changes. Ken...
CHANGGE and BEIJING, China, Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Zhongpin Inc. ("Zhongpin", Nasdaq: HOGS), a leading meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, today commented on the outlook for hog and pork prices in China, given the recent measures issued by China's State Council. Mr. Xianfu Zhu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zhongpin Inc., said, "We noticed that China's State Council issued 16 measures to stabilize consumer prices and to ensure...
New program designed to produce a surge in consumption expenditures Bedford, MA (PRWEB) November 19, 2010 In response to the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing (QE2), leading coupon site CouponSurfer.com has devised it's own strategy to jumpstart the economy. CouponSurfer.com is challenging Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, to print coupons instead of printing money. CouponSurfer believes printing coupons offers a non-inflationary sound money policy to spur economic...
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Deloitte Consumer Spending Index (the Index) declined in October, primarily due to softness in the housing market. The Index attempts to track consumer cash flow as an indicator of future consumer spending. "Sustained weakness in housing prices and a tax rate that is creeping higher more than overcame significant improvement in initial jobless claims in October," said Carl Steidtmann, Deloitte's chief economist and author of the monthly Index....
LONDON, November 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Global gold consumption for 2010 will be higher than 2009 as a result of increasing levels of demand in India and China, sustained global demand for gold investment, together with growth in jewellery and industrial demand, the World Gold Council ("WGC") said. According to the WGC's Gold Demand Trends report for Q3 2010, published today, demand for gold in the final quarter of 2010 will be driven by the following factors: - Increasing...
CHICAGO, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- "During the last two years, the price of gold has risen 88%, twice the pace of the broader Commodity Research Bureau Index which increased 44%. This suggests something less fundamental and more emotional is at play," says Adolfo Laurenti, deputy chief economist at Mesirow Financial, in his November issue of Themes on the Global Markets. In his November newsletter, Laurenti notes, "Many investors view gold as a 'safe haven,' which will protect them from...
NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Jeffrey Nichols, Senior Economic Advisor to Rosland Capital (www.roslandcapital.com), had the following commentary based on recent market activity and the week ahead: On November 9, 2010, as gold was registering new all-time highs near $1,425 an ounce, we warned the metal was "certainly vulnerable to a setback, and a substantial one at that." In part, we thought that the influx of speculative buying that contributed to the upward spike over $1,400...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- As college tuition rises and the dollar continues to shrink in buying power, parents and grandparents are seeking alternative investments such as physical gold to protect and grow the long term funds set aside for the college education of their children and grandchildren. The last decade could more accurately be called "the lost decade" when it comes to traditional investments. Gold outperformed the DOW, the NASDAQ, and the S&P 500, as well as...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of healthcare for people with employer-sponsored health insurance climbed an estimated 6.3 percent for the year ending June 30, according to a new Thomson Reuters index. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090507/NY12658LOGO ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090507/NY12658LOGO ) The Thomson Reuters Healthcare Spending Index for Private Insurance measures historical and current levels of per capita healthcare...
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Jeffrey Nichols, Senior Economic Advisor to Rosland Capital (www.roslandcapital.com), had the following commentary based on recent market activity and the week ahead: Having registered new all-time highs over and over again in the past few weeks, gold is certainly vulnerable to a price setback, and a substantial one at that. The influx of speculative buying that has contributed to the upward price spike will inevitably lead to profit taking and...
Latest Inflation Reference Libraries
Quintessence (Dark Energy) -- Quintessence or dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy postulated to exist in order to explain observations of an accelerating universe. This energy would act like a vacuum pressure, pushing things apart. Other attempts to explain these recent observations involve a non-zero cosmological constant, which has the same effect. Indeed, sometimes quintessence is said to result in a non-zero cosmological constant, and conversely a non-zero cosmological...
Cosmological Constant -- The cosmological constant (usually denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda: Λ) is a value occurring in Einstein's theory of general relativity. The units of Λ are 1/second2; its value is unknown but believed to be positive based on recent observations. The constant is proportional to the energy density of the vacuum Ï, where Ï€ is Pi, G is the gravitational constant and c is the speed of light in vacuum. The term can be postive, negative, or...
Inflation -- Inflation is the idea - first proposed by Alan Guth (1981) - that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative vacuum energy density (positive vacuum pressure). This expansion can be modelled by a non-zero cosmological constant. As a direct consequence of this expansion, all of the observable universe is posited to have originated in a small, initially causally-connected region. Quantum fluctuations in this microscopic...
Accelerating universe -- In the late 1990s, observations of type I supernova produced the unexpected result that the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating. These observations appear more firm as new data has appeared. This means that the speed with which a distant galaxy recedes from us increases over time. If this trend continues, eventually we won't be able to see any other galaxies any more. This new theory of the end of the Universe has been called the Big Rip....
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) -- The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was launched on June 30, 2001 at 3:46 p.m. EDT at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. The goal of WMAP was to map out minute differences in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation which would help test theories of the nature of the universe. On February 11, 2003, the public relations group from NASA made a press release regarding the age and composition of the universe....
