The importance is dependent on your perspective. Those people who are not borrowing money to spend are thus suffering the pangs of a lowering of their lifestyle, which depended on borrowing money to spend;
September 29th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "borrowing money"
The Money Multiplier Goes to Work
Giving people who don’t pay a lot in taxes even more money is even more popular. So in that sense, the arrival of thousands of dollars in government cash to various Aussie households will ‘work’ in the sense that it distracts people from the ongoing disaster that is the world financial crisis. “Look honey! Free bread. Let’s go to the circus!” Please note that shuffling a bit of cash around will not lessen a national debt-to-GDP ratio of around 140%. Nor does it do much to create long-term jobs…
February 4th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 18 comments | Continued
Borrowing Money is no Longer in Fashion
The economic slowdown has been characterized as “consumers are de-leveraging”, which is an interesting turn of phrase that means that people are not borrowing money to spend. The importance is dependent on your perspective. Those people who are not borrowing money to spend are thus suffering the pangs of a lowering of their lifestyle, which depended on borrowing money to spend; and then they come around, whining about stupid things…
September 30th, 2008 | Mogambo Guru | 2 comments | Continued
