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Why gold has risen and the dollar fallen »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The value of bank assets fell when the mortgages went bad and housing prices declined. That meant that the assets backing the bank liabilities lost ...
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Inflation Deflation Red-flation Blue-flation »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Most people are led to believe that deflation is a bad thing, but it is not. In fact, it is precisely what the economy requires ...
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Where Did the Wealth Go? »
Posted by: populist 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
A serious worldwide recession was in the cards. Where has the wealth gone? Into mal-investments whose value now is a great deal less than what ...
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Inflationary Period with a Low Prime Rate »
Posted by: jwojdylo 1 week, 6 days ago in Business & Finance
In the month of September inflation in the United States was calculated at 4.94% and even higher in August at 5.37%. The last ...
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More Awful Truths About Republicans »
Posted by: populist 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Harmful military spending, unbalanced budgets, fiscal irresponsibility, protectionist and monopoly handouts to friends is the old style Republican playbook. The new style is audacious, unprecedented ...
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CEO Misery Index »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
10 chiefs in the hotseat.
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Iran's Khamenei Urges Ahmadinejad to Plan for Second Term »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to plan on keeping the top job for a second four-year term but called ...
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America's Economic Myths »
Posted by: populist 2 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
We read and hear them every day: "inflation" is caused by rising oil prices; consumption is the most important element for economic growth; low interest ...
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World Leaders Meet, Pretend They Have a Clue »
Posted by: populist 1 day, 2 hours ago in Politics
Ernest Hemingway is alleged to have said, “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring ...
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Fed to sit tight on rates as oil prices moderate »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady on Tuesday, acknowledging financial conditions remain strained, but making clear it is still ...
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Consumer prices shot up in July »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months ago in Business & Finance
Consumer prices shot up in July at twice the expected rate, pushed higher by surging energy and food costs. The latest surge left inflation running ...
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Ron Paul: Congress Ought to be Ashamed »
Posted by: populist 1 month, 1 week ago in Politics
only in Washington could a bill demonstrably worse than its predecessor be brought back for another vote and actually expect to gain votes. That this ...
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Limits to Monetary Expansion »
Posted by: populist 2 weeks, 5 days ago in Business & Finance
The real question today is whether the Administration and the expansionist element in Congress are sufficiently aware of the danger in trying to stimulate business ...
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The Fed Should Inflate to End the Financial Crisis? It Just Ain't So! »
Posted by: populist 2 months ago in Politics
If the Fed continues to inflate, as Makin recommends, it would simply postpone the day of reckoning. Rather than letting the bad investments be cleared ...
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Supply-Siders: Inflation Is Growth »
Posted by: populist 3 weeks, 1 day ago in Business & Finance
In case it is not immediately obvious why that is wrong, remember that if we use nominal growth numbers to represent economic growth, that would ...
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