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money supply ’
Mar 30th, 2009 |
By Bill Jenkins |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Devaluation has begun. Two weeks ago the Federal Reserve announced its intentions to start “quantitative easing.” Quantitative easing is the "new" term given by officials to printing money. We know it as inflating the money supply. It is also called "increasing liquidity.” Essentially, the government will create money and distribute ...
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Tags: inflation, money supply, Printing money, Quantitative Easing
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Mar 18th, 2009 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
What an absurd old world we live in. The Bank of England is worried about deflation, but only so it can justify the massive inflation it's cooking up. Barack Obama is outraged about US$165 million in bonuses at AIG and will use all legal means to stop them. Like he ...
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Tags: deflation, inflation, money supply
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Aug 14th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Currencies, Oil
When you have a lot of problems you also have a lot of opportunity. I want to start with some wise words from John Templeton. Templeton actually died a few weeks ago at the age of 95. His is a great story.
Born and raised in rural Tennessee, Sir John was ...
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Tags: John Templeton, money supply, paper money, price of oil
Posted in Currencies, Oil |
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Aug 11th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Currencies, Macro Economics
So Alan Greenspan — former chairman of the Federal Reserve — thinks this equals the Great Crash, if not out-bads it.
“It’s getting increasingly evident that this is a once-in-a-century type of phenomenon,” he told the ever-fragrant Maria Bartiromo in an interview with CNBC this week, “not the standard type of ...
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Tags: commodity bubbles, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, government debt, inflation, money supply
Posted in Currencies, Macro Economics |
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May 20th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Currencies, Gold, Oil
Has oil hit its peak price or not? The answer to that question leads us to ask whether or not commodities are a bubble about to burst. Barron’s recent cover story on commodities came down on the side that the party was over.
I believe the charts I have in this ...
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Tags: commodities bubble, credit crisis, falling dollar, money supply, Peak Oil, price of oil
Posted in Currencies, Gold, Oil |
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Apr 3rd, 2008 |
By Ed Bugos |
Category: Currencies, Gold, Macro Economics
WHEN I LOOK AT THE POLICIES THAT CENTRAL BANKS are adopting today, everywhere, I see an inflationary epidemic that is feeding on itself and confirming the bull market in gold. In the U.S. — arguably an epicenter of the modern global monetary system — I see a central bank whose ...
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Tags: ben bernanke, inflation, money supply, the Fed and gold, the Federal Reserve
Posted in Currencies, Gold, Macro Economics |
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Mar 21st, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Commodities, Macro Economics
“Every morning, when you look in the mirror, I want you to think, ‘What am I going to do today to increase the money supply?’”
— John Ehrlichman, assistant to President Richard Nixon,
apocryphally speaking to Charles Pardee,
a Federal Reserve governor,
sometime in the early 1970s
SO WE’RE ALL AGREED, THEN.
“This is clearly the ...
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Tags: money supply, the Fed, U.S. recession, unemployment
Posted in Commodities, Macro Economics |
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Feb 13th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Macro Economics
“The U.S. recession is sure to send inflation to zero — just as it didn’t in four of the last five recessions.”
WORRIED ABOUT INFLATION? Oh, stop your carping and set an extra place at dinner for the fast-looming recession instead.
See, your cost of living can’t possibly keep rising now that ...
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Tags: Bank of England, eurozone, inflation during recession, money supply, U.S. recession
Posted in Macro Economics |
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Jan 15th, 2007 |
By Michael Shedlock |
Category: Macro Economics
The Conference Board publishes various lists of Business Cycle Indicators. Those indicators are categorized as "leading," "coincident," or "lagging." This post will take a look at indicators 6-10 on the list of leading economic indicators. Indicators 1-5 will be covered in a second post at a later date.
Leading Indicators
Average ...
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Tags: Business Cycle Indicators, consumer sentiment, housing permits, money supply, stock market
Posted in Macro Economics |
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