In the U.S., the Fed can only control the supply of money; it cannot control the velocity of money or the rate at which it turns over.
The dramatic collapse in securitization over the past 18 months reflects the continuing collapse in velocity as financial engineering goes into reverse.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
The modern economy and the real world
Confusion, uncertainty, doubt, distrust, distrustfulness, incertitude, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, skepticism and suspicion,
That is the modern economy and the real world.
That is the modern economy and the real world.
Monday, November 17, 2008
The system is dysfunctional
There's something very strange about issuing debt to solve a problem caused by too much debt.
If something cannot go on forever, it won't.
The system is dysfunctional.
If something cannot go on forever, it won't.
The system is dysfunctional.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Where does government get the money?
Every dollar government injects into the economy must first be taxed or borrowed out of the economy.
No new spending power is created.
It's merely redistributed from one group of people to another.
Economic growth -- the act of producing more goods and services -- can be accomplished only by making people more productive.
No new spending power is created.
It's merely redistributed from one group of people to another.
Economic growth -- the act of producing more goods and services -- can be accomplished only by making people more productive.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
The current crisis
The current crisis resulted primarily from anticapitalists forcing banks and mortgage companies to lend money to people with little or no means to pay it back.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
What the government gives with one hand
What the government gives with one hand, through increase spending,
it take away with the other, through increase taxation.
it take away with the other, through increase taxation.
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