Here are links to all of the interviews and podcasts that Michael Ashton has been featured in, quoted in, or produced (in the case of the Inflation Guy podcast) during 2022:
January 4: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 16: The Fundamentals of Risk and Return in Commodities
January 7: Quoted in "Inflation Steers Sector Rotation" from ETF Trends
January 12: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 17: This Month's CPI Report - Are We Volcked?
January 13: Featured in Business Insider article
January 25: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 18: Cash is an Option Whose Cost is Inflation
January 25: Panelist in Institutional Fixed Income Virtual Summit North America 2022
February 4: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 19: Dual Duration - Why TIPS Are Exactly Half the Story
February 9: Quoted in "Inflation, Rising Rates Steer Investors Toward Dividend ETFs" from ETF Trends
February 17: AP News '3 simple rules for cushioning yourself against inflation'
March 2: Barron's 'Overlooked Risk in Ukraine Crisis - How Russian Aggression Stirs China'
March 8: Hearst Media 'Sally Kidd reports' (various national outlets)
March 10: TD Ameritrade Network
March 10: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 22: This Month's CPI Report - Balls in the Air
March 25: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 23: Grumpy Old Man Edition
April 6: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 24: Home is Where the Hedge Is
April 12: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 25: This Month's CPI Report - Peak CPI? Yay?
April 26: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 26: I-Bonds - Smart Money with Small Money
May 4: Inflation Guy podcast Episode 27: Reflections on this Century’s First 50bp Rate Hike
Here are links to all of the interviews and podcasts that Michael Ashton has been featured in during 2021:
RealVision, "Everything You Wanted to Know About Inflation", January 13
RealVision, "Everything You Wanted to Know About Inflation, Round 2, Ask Me Anything", January 22
Orion's The Weighing Machine Podcast, Feb 17
TD Ameritrade Network, April 13
Insurance AUM Journal Podcast, April 21
Money in the Bank with Franck, May 13 (radio)
Hearst Media (various local channels nationwide), June 11
TD Ameritrade Network, July 13
The Watch List with Nicole Petallides, TD Ameritrade, Aug 11
TD Ameritrade Network, October 15
Insurance AUM Journal Podcast, Nov 2
TD Ameritrade Network, December 14
The Retirement Income Journal published "Buy ‘I Bonds’ and Worry Less about Inflation," an I-Series savings bond "manifesto" put forth by Zvi Bodie, Mel Lindauer, Dave Enna, and Enduring's own Michael Ashton.
Michael Ashton, the 'Inflation Guy,' was interviewed about inflation protection for investors, by Clear Path Analysis for their monograph "Defined Contribution Retirement Plans North America 2021." (see Section 1.4)
by Michael Ashton, Andrew Fately, and Susan Joseph: With momentum building behind CBDCs, it is time to ask about how this new form of money will impact our every day lives. Privacy/anonymity issues come to mind as well as what type of impact will these currencies have on inflation. Given the recent extraordinary monetary policies that have been implemented around the world, this article explores the potential impact CBDCs will have on prices as well as on spending.
Beth Stanton has written an outstanding article about Michael Ashton, our founder, known widely as "The Inflation Guy." Here is the article.
Simplify ETFs sponsored a webinar, "Keep it Simple: Understanding and Debating Inflation", on August 12th. The hosts, Harley Bassman and Michael Green, were joined by special guest Michael Ashton (aka Inflation Guy). You can view the replay here.
On June 8th, Icoinic and Novuum Insights hosted a panel on the state of crypto markets, covering topics ranging from inflation to regulation. Michael Ashton was the inflation expert. You can watch this panel here.
On May 6, Michael Ashton participated with Stacey Gilbert of Glenmede and Nancy Davis of Quadratic on a panel about measuring and trading inflation. The link is contained here but you will need to sign up to access the replay.
We don't know whether this is really everything you need to know, but Michael Ashton was quoted several times in this article about crypto: "Bitcoin and Inflation: Everything You Need to Know".
Here are links to all of the interviews and podcasts that Michael Ashton has been featured in during 2020:
Money in the Bank with Franck, January 30 (radio)
Money in the Bank with Franck, February 27 (radio)
Money in the Bank with Franck, March 12 (radio)
Money in the Bank with Franck, April 9 (radio)
Money in the Bank with Franck, April 30 (radio)
TD Ameritrade Network, July 14
TD Ameritrade Network, November 13
This is a really well-written article about the quest to produce bonds that are specifically medical-care-inflation-linked (and other types of explicit linkages), in Bloomberg by Beth Stanton: "For ‘Inflation Guy’ (and Shiller), Medical TIPS Are ‘Holy Grail’"
Here are links to all of the interviews and podcasts that Michael Ashton has been featured in during 2019:
TD Ameritrade Network, January 30
TD Ameritrade Network, March 28
TD Ameritrade Network, July 11
TD Ameritrade Network, September 12
TD Ameritrade Network, November 13
Michael Ashton appeared at the Real Return XII conference organized by Euromoney Conferences. Before the conference, Euromoney published this short thought piece of his.
Here are links to all of the interviews and podcasts that Michael Ashton has been featured in during 2018:
TD Ameritrade Network, February 12
Bloomberg Odd Lots Podcast, March 12
TD Ameritrade Network, March 13
TD Ameritrade Network, April 10
TD Ameritrade Network, April 30
TD Ameritrade Network, August 1
TD Ameritrade Network, September 4
TD Ameritrade Network, October 26
TD Ameritrade Network, November 29
Mike was again on TD Ameritrade Network on April 30th. This time the discussion involved money velocity among other things. Link here.
On April 10th, Michael Ashton was on TD Ameritrade Network again with Oliver Renick.
On Tuesday Mr. Ashton was on the TD Ameritrade Network with Oliver Renick to talk about CPI, and the market's reaction thereto.
Mike Ashton was featured on this week's Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast with Joe Weisenthal. "For The First Time In Years, Why People Are Suddenly Talking About Inflation Again."
It was a busy week in inflation. On February 12th, Michael Ashton was on the TD Ameritrade Network with Oliver Renick; on February 14th he was on Bloomberg for live analysis of the CPI report.
Michael Ashton was on Bloomberg Daybreak Americas with Alix Steel, David Westin, and Jonathan Ferro on September 14, 2017 to discuss the fact that the Phillips Curve isn't broken! You can find a clip of the appearance here.
In perhaps the biggest single advance in inflation hedging for individual investors since TIPS, Enduring Investments and S&P each announced today the launch of the "S&P Target Tuition Inflation Index,” which is meant to capture college tuition inflation over the long term. This index is based on research initially conducted by Enduring and co-developed with S&P. Here is S&P's release.
Michael Ashton was on Bloomberg TV on January 30th to talk about the latest PCE inflation report and the outlook for the Fed. A link to the segment is here.
Michael Ashton was on Bloomberg TV on September 30th to talk about the latest PCE inflation report. A link to the segment is here.
Mike Ashton was on the Bloomberg<GO> program on August 25th. You can find a link to (most of!) the interview here.
Michael Ashton was on Bloomberg TV to talk about the latest CPI report. A link to the segment is here.
Michael Ashton talked about money, and about "What's Wrong With Money?" on the Financial Review radio show with Sinclair Noe. You can link to the podcast here.
Michael Ashton appeared again on "What'd You Miss?" on Bloomberg TV to talk about the CPI report and the Fed, and what investors can do. A link to the program is here.
Michael Ashton appeared on the Prudent Money Radio Show with Bob Brooks on May 2, 2016. A link to the program is here.
Michael Ashton appeared on "What'd You Miss?" on Bloomberg TV to talk about inflation and whether the Fed is misdiagnosing the risk. A link to the program is here.
Michael Ashton appeared on the MoneyLife show with Chuck Jaffe today to talk about inflation. Here is a link to the program.
What's Wrong With Money? The Biggest Bubble of All by Michael Ashton was just published by Wiley You can buy it from Amazon from this link; it is available at other stores as well. From the Amazon blurb: "...Author Michael Ashton is widely regarded as a premier expert on inflation, and in this book, he illustrates how the erosion of trust in central banks is putting us at high risk of both near- and long-term inflation—and a potentially very serious disruption."
Michael Ashton appeared on Bloomberg's "What'd You Miss?" program on September 16, 2015 to talk about whether inflation is actually too low at the moment, and something we need to worry about falling further. You can watch the four-minute clip of his appearance here.
Michael Ashton will be presenting the case for higher inflation at the Global Fixed Income Institute conference in Madrid, on Friday June 12.
Michael Ashton will be presenting his paper, "The Future of Inflation Futures," at the 2015 American Economic Association program in Boston on January 5th.
Michael Ashton co-authored an article for ETF.com with Rusty Vanneman, chief investment officer of Nebraska-based CLS Investments.
Two Risk.net articles cited Enduring Investments recently. Michael Ashton was widely quoted in a Risk.net blog post entitled CME said to have shelved inflation futures plan, and its print version quoted Mr. Ashton in Hedge funds see appeal in inflation anomalies. Contact us for a copy of either article.
One of Enduring Investments' strategies has been implemented by CLS Investments on behalf of clients of their advisor customers. Here is a link to their client brochure. If you are interested, call them (or have your advisor call them)!
Here is a nice picture from the Bloomberg/ICAP Conference. Mr. Ashton is on the left along with Karim Bendouma from Deutsche Bank (middle) and Joe Simpson from HSBC (right).
Michael Ashton has been invited to moderate a panel of inflation experts at a Bloomberg/ICAP conference on January 22nd. Agenda is here.
'The Savvy Investor' had Michael Ashton as a special guest on October 20th , 2013. Here is an edited version of the program focusing on those portions. Warning: large file. (126mb)
Michael Ashton, Enduring's Managing Principal, will be speaking at the 2013 Inside Indexing Conference, which is being held in Boston on April 22-23. His topic will be "Inflation - Problem, Opportunity, or Both?" We've posted the presentation on our blog.
On January 16, 2013 Michael Ashton, Managing Principal of Enduring Investments, was a guest on the "Hays Advantage" program with Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn. You can listen to the recording here.
In mid-December Michael Ashton, Managing Principal of Enduring Investments, was a guest on the "Bloomberg on the Economy" program with Carol Massar. You can listen to the 10-minute recording here.
In May 2012, Michael Ashton led a roundtable discussion about inflation at the Global Derivatives USA Summit in Chicago. In September, he was on a panel at the Euromoney Real Return VI Conference; in November he spoke at the Euromoney Forex Forum.
On March 27th, 2012, Michael Ashton delivered a presentation to the IMN Public Funds conference. Listen here (35 minutes).
Michael Ashton was featured in a roundtable discussion about inflation, appearing in the November/December 2011 Journal of Indices.
Listen to Enduring Investment's Michael Ashton's recent appearance on Bloomberg Radio (the Hays Advantage, November 16, 2011). Listen here (will take you to Bloomberg.com)