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Does QE Create “Deflation”? |
Does QE Create “Deflation”? |. Malinvestment vs. Overinvestment Recently we have come across a very interesting article by Lee Adler, which discusses the connection between the Fed’s money printing activities and the shale oil boom. In this context the possibility is mentioned that QE may actually contribute to “creating deflation”. Obviously, we agree with many, in […]
Central Banks’ 2% Plan to Impoverish You
Central Banks’ 2% Plan to Impoverish You The 2% target is low enough that the household frogs in the kettle of hot water never realize they’re being boiled alive because the increase is so gradual. A comment by correspondent David C. suggested the importance of demonstrating the impoverishing consequences of central banks reaching their 2% […]
Deflation Is Winning: Brian Pretty – PeakProsperity.com | Peak Prosperity
Deflation Is Winning: Brian Pretty – PeakProsperity.com | Peak Prosperity. Remember in the early part of the last decade, long before he was appointed the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke penned an article that caught widespread public attention entitled, “Deflation: It Can’t Happen Here” ? Bernanke was referring to the deflationary pressures Japan […]
Leaked document: Ukraine’s government to eliminate… everything.
Leaked document: Ukraine’s government to eliminate… everything.. As the holiday season approaches you might have mistletoe on your mind for cheery, romantic reasons. What you might not have known however is that the festive flora and its relatives are all actually parasites. Unable to photosynthesize to feed itself, mistletoe latches on to a host plant […]
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Central Banks Have Failed Because They Can’t Push Wages Higher
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Central Banks Have Failed Because They Can’t Push Wages Higher. You can print all the money you want, but it will never boost wages to keep up with prices. Central banks have been pursuing two goals for the past six years: ignite inflation and an expansion of debt that will supposedly […]
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Central Banks Create Deflation, Not Inflation
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Central Banks Create Deflation, Not Inflation. Financial and risk bubbles don’t pop in a vacuum–all the phantom collateral constructed with mal-invested free money for financiers will also implode. If there’s one absolute truism we hear again and again, it’s that central banks are desperately trying to create inflation. Perversely, their easy-money policies actually generate […]
Jim Grant Sums It All Up In 2 Stunning Paragraphs | Zero Hedge
Jim Grant Sums It All Up In 2 Stunning Paragraphs | Zero Hedge. What will futurity make of the [so-called] Ph.D. standard [that runs our world]? Likely it will be even more baffled than we are. Imagine trying to explain the present-day arrangements to your 20-something grandchild a couple of decades hence – after the […]
Deflation v Inflation – Comprehending What Will Come | Armstrong Economics
Deflation v Inflation – Comprehending What Will Come | Armstrong Economics. QUESTION: Martin, While I clearly understand your reasoning for deflation in the US allied to a very strong dollar; does the opposite apply to those countries, like the UK and European economies where their currencies are likely going into freefall? Keep up the brilliant […]
B-Dud Explains The Fed’s Economic Coup—-Or Why Every Asset Price Is Manipulated | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
B-Dud Explains The Fed’s Economic Coup—-Or Why Every Asset Price Is Manipulated | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. Keynesian economists are annoying enough when they are pitching inflated financial assets on Wall Street or the supposed curative powers of fiscal deficits on Capitol Hill. But they become positively dangerous when they populate the Eccles Building and […]
“I am a hard working taxpayer who is getting pretty fed up. . .”
“I am a hard working taxpayer who is getting pretty fed up. . .”. So the Swiss have decided not to force their central bank into underpinning its reserves with harder assets than increasingly worthless euros. At least they had the chance to vote. But in the bigger picture, the rejection of the “Save Our […]
Fed rattled by elusive inflation, but loath to sound alarm yet | Reuters
Fed rattled by elusive inflation, but loath to sound alarm yet | Reuters. (Reuters) – With the U.S. economy humming along at its fastest clip in more than a decade, the Federal Reserve should be confident about its ability to weather a global slowdown and start lifting interest rates around the middle of next year. But then […]
charles hugh smith-Central Banks: When We Succeed, We Fail
charles hugh smith-Central Banks: When We Succeed, We Fail. Goosing stocks ever higher will eventually push wealth inequality to the point that it unleashes social instability. Central banks around the world share a few simple goals: 1. Defeat deflation by sparking inflation–in the cost of goods and services, not wages. 2. Weaken the currency to […]
Moneyness: Sign Wars
Moneyness: Sign Wars. Does a lowering of a central bank’s interest rates create inflation or deflation? Dubbed the ‘Sign Wars‘ by Nick Rowe, this has been a recurring debate in the economics blogosphere since at least as far back as 2010. The conventional view of interest rate policy is that if a central bank keeps […]
RX For Modern Monetary Madness: Mises Explained Sound Money 80 Years Ago | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
RX For Modern Monetary Madness: Mises Explained Sound Money 80 Years Ago | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1934, Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit first appeared in English. It remains one of the most important books on money and inflation penned in the twentieth century, and even […]
Manipulating the Consumer Price Index: Hedonic Quality Adjustments | The Consumer Price Illusion
Manipulating the Consumer Price Index: Hedonic Quality Adjustments | The Consumer Price Illusion. Have you heard the one about CPI? Suppose that a TV manufacturer retires a product and replaces it with a newer, better, and much more expensive one. If the new TV costs 5 times more than the old one, how can we manipulate the […]
