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Wasting the Lehman Crisis: What Was Not Saved Was the Economy

Wasting the Lehman Crisis: What Was Not Saved Was the Economy Photo Source futureatlas.com | CC BY 2.0 Today’s financial malaise for pension funds, state and local budgets and underemployment is largely a result of the 2008 bailout, not the crash. What was saved was not only the banks – or more to the point, […]

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Equity markets and credit contraction

Equity markets and credit contraction There is one class of money that is constantly being created and destroyed, and that is bank credit. Bank credit is created when a bank lends money to a customer; it becomes money because the customer draws down this credit to deposit in other bank accounts and to pay creditors. […]

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Why deflation is unlikely

Why deflation is unlikely Financial markets are becoming aware that the US economy is stalling, so investors increasingly take the view that with demand likely to stagnate or even fall, prices for goods and services will soften. This is already threatening to be the situation in a number of other advanced nations, with negative interest […]

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