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I'm tired of hearing everyone speak about inflation. This piece is not intended to appeal to the highly intelegent but to the everyday man to give him a better understanding in laymans terms what I see happening. I welcome any critique in my logic or if I am not seeing this write. I am not a student...
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Does anyone know of any research, or theory, that helps explain the phenomena where asset prices crash in economies that use fiat currencies? Japan, for example, has seen asset prices for real-estate and stocks decline for nearly 20 years, despite the fact that this nation uses a fiat currency and the...
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Would it be better to back the pound/dollar/euro/whatever with gold or silver? Or both?
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I recently came across an analogy that Paul Krugman has been using to make the case for an inflationary monetary policy to lift the economy out of a recession. I suspected Krugman to be wrong even before I read it (Afterall, how can I trust anybody who claims that world war 2 lifted us out of the depression...
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I have been under the impression that the government's inflationary policies would cause a devaluation of the dollar. This does not appear to be happening. Is it possible that it will not happen because other countries will continue to view the US economy as relatively stable, and so will continue...
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Has anyone seen this? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/4986287/IMF-poised-to-print-billions-of-dollars-in-global-quantitative-easing.html
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http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/charter.exe/fedstl/m1sl this link shows a chart that indicates that m1, since 1990, has about doubled. about a 5% increase per year. i understand m1 to be the AMB plus (as AMB, currency iow, makes its way through the banking system) 'fiduciary media'. many posts...
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Inflation is the debasement of the value of money which sometimes is reflected in rising prices for a particular good. Rising prices for a particular good are not neccessarily due to inflation; and inflation will not neccessarily cause a rise in the price of a particular good. Fractional reserve banking...
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Hello All, I'm trying to clarify something in my mind. Everything is according to my understand at the moment, so if I am wrong, please correct me. I believe that the Austrian school states that recessions occur due to restraining the money supply during an inflationary period. The question often...
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hello this link ... http://www.perc.org/pdf/ps28.pdf contains an article about market distortions and costs of municipal recycling operations and makes comaparisons to 'private' material recycling and reuse. i found this excerpt of interest..... "In a similar vein, 50 years ago, when labor...