Investors understand that the Federal Reserve’s ongoing purchase of U.S. Treasuries in the open market, known as quantitative easing two (QE2), injects newly created money into the U.S. financial system and economy, but the actual means by which newly created money monetizes U.S. government debt...
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on Mon, Feb 21 2011
Filed under: Federal reserve, deflation, debt, inflation, USDX, M3, Hyperinflation, Bailouts, QE2, U.S. Treasuries, QE, S&P500, M1, economic collapse, M2, money supply, Primary Dealers, Ben Bernanks, U.S. federal budget deficit, Nasdaq, Dow Jones Industrial Average
The productive elements of the US economy are caught between powerful financial interests, e.g., banks seeking speculative gains, political constituencies seeking entitlements and government entities at all levels whose budgets and deficits are too large compared to their revenues. All three factions...
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Ron Hera
on Mon, Jul 19 2010
Filed under: Federal reserve, debt, GDP, Asia, Asian Tigers, China, central bank, Federal Budget, unemployment, Deindustrialization, Bailouts, Capitalism, Corporatism, Trade Deficit, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Service Economy
One of the most famous quotations of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is that “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit...
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Ron Hera
on Wed, Jun 2 2010
Filed under: US dollar, deflation, debt, inflation, GDP, M3, Hyperinflation, Ponzi scheme, unemployment, mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures, U-6
Which will stop the deldedefs to ruin us completey. We have to take away the possiblities to mess up with money. So it all ends in, we need to have a stable money. We have to get rid of the central banks. The problems with the current state of affairs just show it over and over and over and over again...
Well our German politicians claim that the speculants are the reason for the turmoils around the EUR. Now let us see whether they may be right or wrong. Let us assume the following situation interest rate at 10%, time-frame 1 year (to avoid compounded interest) Now let us assume the probability on not...