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Most dangerously, there is a risk of disruption to our bond and currency markets from the fear of much higher interest rates due to future imbalances or from fear of inflation because of efforts to monetize our debt.

The Fed and Treasury have set out on a deliberate strategy of creating inflation in order to monetize most of the $14.1 trillion national debt— a debt that is growing by well over a trillion dollars per year!

For me, there is no escaping the conclusion that inflation will continue to surge. Inflation is, after all, the increase in money supply.

Ben Bernanke and his fatcats at the Federal Reserve insist they have the economy under control while creating US dollars out of thin air. See the interactive chart at Wall Street Journal.com

Bread riots beginning the unrest? Jerry Bowyer, author of Free Market Capitalists Survival Guide, on global inflation, food riots and their connection to the crisis in Egypt.

Residential real-estate prices dropped in November by the most in a year, signaling housing has yet to join the U.S. rebound.

Judge Napolitano explains how Obama’s continued spending and the federal reserve printing money is enslaving us to debt and inflation.

Irish Central Bank has been printing euros out of thin air to prop up its ailing banks. The whole of Europe will pay for this action, as the result will be increased euro-zone price inflation.

UK inflation has surged to its highest level since April 2010 as the rising cost of food and oil continued to hit consumers and businesses.

Mr. Hu also offered a veiled criticism of efforts by the U.S. Federal Reserve to stimulate growth through huge bond purchases to keep down long-term interest rates, a strategy that China has loudly complained about in the past as fueling inflation in emerging economies, including its own.