I've determined that the ability of banks to create credit out of thin air ultimately provides the impetus for the banks to use any marketing...
I've thought about this a lot of times and I can't seem to understand why stock valuations should decrease in times of high inflation. Any...
Wait a second... Why would optimism result in a decline in euro bond prices and an increase in yield...? Increases in yields are associated...
Don't forget exchange rate as a factor influencing supply, it's going to be very important if Bernanke decides to counter deflation even further...
I never understood this logic. When an industry is in trouble with costs or slacking demand, there is likely going to be consolidation among...
That graph's pretty useless since it doesn't show average (or sub-average) quality of life or purchasing power...
Perhaps I shouldn't have added 'non-collusive' to what I wrote since this is tangential to what I was saying. As of now, banks can borrow at...
Gold is not a viable solution. But why not allow (non-collusive) banks to set interest rates as they deem fit to both each other and to...
$30 trillion wasn't just "lost" (oops, I left my $30 trillion at the dry-cleaners, sorry hun). It was wiped out because a corresponding $30...
You should tell him that there are adverse consequences to printing money regardless of whether or not there is inflation in consumer goods markets.
Units are virtually irrelevant. Dollar value represents the willingness to pay of the market for a given commodity and is the most important...
Asset price inflation will inevitably trickle into consumer markets. And if only a small portion of it does (because it's being countered by...
You do realize he means $10,000 right? That's how they write it in foreign countries...
This analysis, while being technically commendable, fails to incorporate the asset-inflationary aspects of the Fed's activities. A comment on...
Stagflation.
This "hedging" you refer to is nothing more than an "efficient market" whereby all participants "arbitrage" prices against new information and new...
Libertad, you're right, I should have been more specific. I didn't mean to say that the oil producers must be the ones behind the recent price...
Or maybe it has to do with the obvious.... Oil is traded in US dollars. Thus, as the US dollar weakens dramatically, in order for foreign...
Has anyone thought this is a massive incentive for bank execs to get their company off TARP funds, even if that means the firm will go bankrupt <...
As I mentioned, the reason why BOJ monetary easing failed to create inflation was due to idiosyncratic characteristics of the banking sector in...
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