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by confoundedinterest17 The Hollies said it best: Stop, stop, stop. FIAT Money Printing that is. Typically, we look at M2 Money Velocity (GDP/M2) as a measure of how much the economy grows by expanding the money supply. M2 Money Velocity is currently …
Javier Milei explains why printing money hurts the poor the most pic.twitter.com/ZQPs4R8lsc — DutchLibertarian (@LibertarianDuty) December 31, 2023
Want to know why housing prices are unaffordable? 1) Low interest money printing by the Federal Reserve the past few years 2) BlackRock, WEF banks, and hedge funds intentionally buying up single family homes so “you’ll own nothing and be …
The soaring Debt to GDP ratio at 124%, driven by the government’s extensive money printing, poses a heightened risk of long-term economic consequences and increased inflationary pressures. Despite a slight dip from the previous peak in 2020, the current ratio …
In the last 120 years, when a country’s debt got really high, 98% of them ended up not being able to pay it back. Ken Griffin says the government can avoid this by printing more money, but it would mess …
by absoluteunitVolcker For basically all of its history, the Fed is self-funded, turns a profit and sends it to the Treasury (the taxpayer). Now the Fed is rapidly losing money, underwater on its investments and its liabilities will soon exceed …
Economists are forecasting that the price of eggs will reach infinity before Thanksgiving Ideally in capitalism corporations compete with each other to provide better products and services at lower costs. Sadly every industry is an oligopoly in the US now, …
The Dot Com and 9-11 crisis….. the Housing crisis…. the Coronavirus crisis…. what will be the Next Major crisis. When you look at the statistics, after every crisis the wealthy come out even wealthier. While middle and lower class stagnate …
Reality is all that previous excessive money printing has goosed up prices far above the long term core trend. And only a hard landing would even have a shot at bringing it back to trend, otherwise the future is clear: …
Keep printing. You wanted "free money" from government? You got lower real wages. Unemployment and real wage growth. @OECD pic.twitter.com/Xph5GwZRqt — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) August 8, 2023
On top of printing $4 trillion, the Fed lowered rates to 0% overnight in March 2020. Now, we have the fastest rate hike campaign in history. It’s unclear if zero interest rate policy was a net positive. Follow us @KobeissiLetter …
Here comes the pain. The parasite party is over. Afwerki said the quiet part out loud with Putin and Lavrov at the table at the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersberg last week. The President of Eritrea calls out the petro-dollar …
by confoundedinterest17 I love orange juice! Unfortnately, as a diabetic, OJ is off limits. So I have to watch others drink one of my favorite beverages. But like everything else under Bidenomics, orange juice is far more expensive. Orange juice …
People are questioning the exact figures instead of focusing on the core of what RFK’s saying: We’re $32 trillion deep in inflation-financed debt to fund the empire. We have debased the currency in Roman-empire fashion while fighting wars and imposing …