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Showing posts with label inflation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inflation. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Monetary Sources of Real Wage Stagnation

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  The left-wing Economic Policy Institute posts the chart below, which shows that real wages and productivity began to d...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

The Disadvantages of Trade Are Due to Federal Intervention

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The federal government, not trade, is the source of social losses from the exit of manufacturing firms. Trade always results in making the ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The Superbubble and the Wisdom in Owning Gold

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Gold Prices Since '08--An 18-Month Stagnation Mirrors the 1983-2001 Era Money Supply M1:  Obama Meant Change Monetary Base...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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In the above-linked interview (h/t Kitco ),   Frank Giustra, founder of both Lion's Gate Entertainment and Goldcorp (two multi-bi...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Federal Reseve Bank Has Driven Innovation to China

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I recently subscribed to Gerald Celente's Trends Journal . In the winter issue Celente makes the following point: Innovation, once t...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The Madness of a Lost Society

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The video's description of Americans is demeaning but accurate. The fears it expresses are premature but also accurate.  Perhaps worse t...
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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Is the Ride to $3,000 Gold Going to Hit Air Pockets?

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The graphs above are of the Power Shares DB Commodity Index (DBC) which tracks sweet crude oil, heating oil, RBOB Gasoline, natural gas, ...
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Monday, May 3, 2010

Will the US Hyper-Inflate?

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Kitco's James Turk  cites a useful report by by Stephen G Cecchetti, M S Mohanty and Fabrizio Zampolli published as a working paper of t...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Happy Easter--Enjoy the Coming Economic Collapse

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The Econdata site has posted the above graph of the Consumer Price Index, CPI, since 1800.  I'm not sure how they calculated it for the...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Stock Market Will Be Flat over Next Ten Years--Boomers Will Work 'til They Drop

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The Great Depression lasted nearly ten years. The reason for depressions is that the Federal Reserve Bank creates excessive liquidity. The ...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Multiple Choice Test

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1. America Needs More: (a) Politicians (b) Welfare Mothers (c) Wall Street Investment Bankers (d) Auto Mechanics (e) All of the Above (f) a,...
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China Crash?

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John Derbyshire of National Review.com has an interesting post (h/t Larwyn) concerning the possibility of a China crash. Derbyshire notes t...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Hamlet is Us

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When the market is down in January, don't expect a good year. In 2008, I noticed that the market was down in January and I went ahead an...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Which Is Better: Strong or Weak Dollar?

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My old childhood friend from Queens, Barry (actually, it goes further back because our mothers were friends in the Bronx in the 1930s and 40...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

Have Faith in the Federal Reserve Bank--Buy Lots of Gold

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http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/usfd/page3.pdf Hey Everyone: Check out this graph of the growth of the monetary base. Then go o...

St. Louis Fed Data Is A Scream--Needs to Be Enjoyed Nation-Wide

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I just sent this message to the Webmaster at the St. Louis Fed. Take a look at the monetary base growth numbers. Wow! http://research.stlo...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Coming Chinese Instability

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This is a tale of three nines: 1989, the year of Tiananmen Square; 1999, the year of the tech bubble; and 2009, the year of Chinese support ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

You are Leaving Your Children the Husk: Politics, Debt Addiction and American Decline

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I just had a long conversation with a friend in my neighborhood, Ulster County, New York. My friend owns a construction company that special...