Comments on: Battle of the Flations http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/battle-of-the-flations/ Whiskey and Gunpowder features articles on gold, oil, currencies, emerging markets, energy, and more. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:05:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jocelyne http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/battle-of-the-flations/comment-page-1/#comment-369 jocelyne Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:24:46 +0000 http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/?p=3189#comment-369 Bud Conrad, 2nd paragraph, said: "In our analysis, the truly extraordinary and historic levels of government spending and bailouts being deployed to keep the economy afloat are certain to lead to inflation in the not-too-distant future." I'm assuming he meant price inflation, because we have inflation NOW. Inflation means monetary inflation, of course, which will be followed by price inflation eventually. All this reminds me of the TV ad that had some medieval guys catapulting bags of gold against a fortress wall, as if throwing money at the problem would solve it. Bud Conrad, 2nd paragraph, said: “In our analysis, the truly extraordinary and historic levels of government spending and bailouts being deployed to keep the economy afloat are certain to lead to inflation in the not-too-distant future.”

I’m assuming he meant price inflation, because we have inflation NOW. Inflation means monetary inflation, of course, which will be followed by price inflation eventually.

All this reminds me of the TV ad that had some medieval guys catapulting bags of gold against a fortress wall, as if throwing money at the problem would solve it.

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