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Moderate

Registered: Mar 2006
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06-04-12 07:13 PM

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syswizard

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10-24-12 08:21 PM

See my recent post. We are definitely moving towards deflation. Uncle Benny is trying to stop it however.

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zdreg

Registered: Oct 2003
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10-24-12 10:40 PM

Quote from syswizard:

See my recent post. We are definitely moving towards deflation. Uncle Benny is trying to stop it however.

"definitely"
any gov't that wants to produce inflation can create it. history is not on your side or on the side of deflation.

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syswizard

Registered: Jun 2004
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10-25-12 04:03 PM

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any gov't that wants to produce inflation can create it. History is not on your side or on the side of deflation.

Agreed, but a case can be made for the classic:
"This time it's different".
When is the last time we had record levels of poverty, food stamps, fiscal deficits, public demonstrations, banksters, etc. ?
In addition, there can be no sustainable inflation without commesurate wage gains. That's not happening.

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Scataphagos

Registered: Apr 2009
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10-25-12 04:09 PM

Quote from syswizard:

See my recent post. We are definitely moving towards deflation. Uncle Benny is trying to stop it however.

We have HUGE deflationary forces in our economy... low-wage competition from Asia/Latin America, excess population looking for well-paid work, excess housing (thanks to prior bubble), excessive debt.

Trying to "inflate our way out" of these forces is more damaging that to just "let them happen and take our medicine".

America would survive* the "deflationary adjustment"... we will NOT survive the hyperinflation created to stave off deflation.

*It's not that "America" won't survive (the dirt will still be here)... it just won't survive in its present construct. IOW... America will become owned by outsiders.

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Scataphagos

Registered: Apr 2009
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10-25-12 04:12 PM

Quote from syswizard:

"This time it's different".

Yes, it really IS! Politicos won't acknowledge the fact, and all of Bernanke's efforts are destructive rather than constructive.

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