There is a risk in holding cash in an environment of asset price inflation – a condition that usually occurs when governments create large fiscal deficits and inflate the money supply.
November 12th, 2009 | Dr. Marc Faber | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "money supply"
An Abundance of New Money that Will Destroy the Dollar’s Buying Power
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 | Continued
You Can Have a Deadly Depression and Dizzying Levels of Inflation Simultaneously
“Inflation can and did occur during a depression, and that inflation was strictly a monetary phenomenon…”
September 24th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
Three-life Leases are Still Alive and Well
It is the end of a long day here in the Normandy countryside and we have jumped online long enough to learn that very little of consequence happened in financial markets today. In the meantime, we learned from our host Bill Bonner tonight that three-life leases are still alive and well.
September 22nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
Gold is More Like a Religion or a Political Position
The price of gold peaked out in real terms in 1979 at over $2,000 in today’s money. Briefly, an ounce of gold was so loved – and stocks so despised – that you could buy all the stocks in the Dow index for just a single ounce of gold.
September 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 23 comments | Continued
Feds Want to Increase the Money Supply and Induce People to Spend Money
The question is when. Our view is that they’ll get more than they expect, but later than they want it. We’re looking for another crack in stocks…followed by more fear and loathing in the economy. This will have two major effects…
September 11th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Cash for Clunkers Cars
This is a subject which is very interesting to me because I happen to be a guy who owned a whole series of clunker cars and trucks over the years because I couldn’t justify the expense of a new vehicle/a good vehicle/a better vehicle/a vehicle…
September 8th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 4 comments | Continued
China Was the Maker and the United States Was the Taker
When we were growing up, China was a ‘Red Menace.’ It was full of mad people doing mad things. They humiliated people by making them wear dunce hats and march through town. The Chinese made steel in backyard barbecues.
August 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Bad News if You Are Afraid of Inflation in Consumer Prices
As for inflation, his calculation of the Consumer Price Index “reflects the CPI as if it were calculated using the methodologies in place in 1980,” which I note is back when inflation was a measurement of the change in prices of things that you buy…
June 30th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 0 comments | Continued
The Actual Money Supply
There is a lot of debate going on about the inflation rate. Are we in an inflationary or deflationary environment? What can we expect going forward? There are no obvious answers, partly because the debaters don’t really know what money is, how to measure the money supply or how to calculate the inflation rate. Paul van Eeden explores…
June 18th, 2009 | Paul Van Eeden | 3 comments | Continued
Inflation Continuing to Wreak Havoc On Our Economy
If you want a real-world example of how inflation in consumer prices follows an increase in the money supply AND how an increase in anti-social, war-like behavior follows increases in prices, then a report from Bloomberg.com is just what you are looking for. It says, “Iran’s annual inflation may accelerate to 50% if a plan to introduce cash payments for the poor is implemented, Sarmayeh reported, citing a parliamentary deputy.”
December 9th, 2008 | Mogambo Guru | 2 comments | Continued
