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The Easy Money Path to Deflation

Economics / Deflation May 25, 2008 - 04:05 PM GMT

By: Mick_Phoenix

Economics

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleWelcome to the Weekly Report. Due to family illness, this week's letter will be shorter than usual but all the more powerful. This week we re-visit the scenario used for the Occasional Letter series as another milestone is passed.

The Scenario: bubble, easy money, inflation in fiat money supply, inflation in commodities and hard assets, inflation, fear of inflation, rising rates, YC inverting, flattening, rising and inverting again, tightening, withdrawal of liquidity, corrections, crashes, talk of stagflation, FEAR, withdrawal of speculative funds, further corrections and crashes, demand collapse.....Deflation.


I wrote the above scenario many years ago. My only regret was that I didn't write it more clearly. It was not written as a linear listing of events, it was meant to show an interactive series of events that run parallel to each other. These events overlap, some are a reaction to others but they all move in the same direction. Let me attempt to show you how I "see" this. I am going to quantify the various factors that make the scenario and measure them on a time line. This will give us a visual representation of the various strands. The relationships on the chart are important, not the numerical value.

Don't worry about whether you think EZ money should be a higher value, that's not what I want you to see. Instead think of the trends and how they relate to each other. The diagram displays the historical as well as the future trend. Right now I see a post bubble, low interest rate environment, where EZ money is disappearing as credit contracts. Funds have poured into commodities as unstable stock markets and topped out bond markets make traditional investment havens unattractive. Meanwhile money, real paper and coinage, continues to slow and contract as the real economy suffers.

Which brings us to the milestone. Current interest rates are not reflective of current circumstances. Think of the attractiveness of assets and their returns. Commodities are currently appreciating in capital, prices are rising but they do not pay a dividend or a yield. We have been here before and not that long ago, last time it was tenuous promises of dot.com companies, this time its hard and soft commodities. The "attractiveness" measure of assets is about to change.

The IMF issued a downbeat report on the UK economy earlier this week. Whilst it is country specific, its relevance to other similar economies cannot be ignored, especially the US . (The latest IMF report on the US - http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2007/cr07264.pdf is incredibly inaccurate even though it is less than a year old)

Here are the paragraphs that interested me:

Three elements can help respond to these broader challenges.

First, continued moderation in nominal earnings growth is essential. If secured even in the face of relative price changes, monetary adjustment and associated sterling depreciation may reduce risks to output, the external balance, and employment without compromising the nominal anchor. But if not, monetary flexibility to address these concerns will be diminished.

The risks to nominal wages appear balanced. So far, nominal remuneration has held steady, encouraged by the flexibility of labor market institutions and public sector pay restraint. But key wage settlements remain outstanding, and tolerance for continued low real earnings growth is uncertain.

In this context, we see no scope for further near-term monetary easing absent assurances of continued wage moderation, fiscal policy that is tighter than planned, or signs that house price and credit developments are significantly curbing domestic demand, relative to our central case projection for continued growth. Indeed, given the risks to the nominal anchor, monetary policy should stand ready to tighten at the earliest clear signs of emergent nominal wage inflation.

Second, as the commodity and consequent relative price shocks have a permanent element, the appropriate focus of the policy response is fiscal. In this context, budget consolidation should rebalance demand-away from domestic in favor of external-to the benefit of the current account balance, activity, and employment.

Third, efforts to stabilize financial markets remain essential. This will not only reduce lagged effects on credit flows from past strains, but will reduce remaining tail risks and support more efficient pricing of risk in future.

There is no respite for the UK consumer. If inflation pressures remain.....

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By Mick Phoenix
www.caletters.com

An Occasional Letter in association with Livecharts.co.uk

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10 Oct 08, 02:38
TV Talking About the Payday Loan Industry

On Sunday night, the CW Network ran the pilot episode of a new comedy/drama from the creators of The Sopranos. The new show, called Easy Money, airs on Sunday nights at 9 pm and is about a family who owns and operates a “high-interest loan” business called Prestige Payday Loans. It’s nice to see shows being produced that show misunderstood cultures or lifestyles; as long as it represents those in the show in an unbiased way, i.e. not like Fox News.

However, by taking one look at the trailers for the new show, as well as a few of the episode synopses, I can start to see that the premise for the show might be based exclusively on nasty media stereotypes. With this in mind, think of the last time that you viewed a news story either online or on the TV talking about the payday loan industry. Most likely, the story you saw or read told tales of “real” peoples’ problems fueled by their getting caught down in an “endless cycle of debt.”

The worst part is that according to such “articles,” the problem started when they needed to borrow money to fix their car or pick up the tab on another unforeseen bill. Such stories provide further evidence that for the sake of getting higher ratings, news networks will latch on to and report only the juiciest, most scandalous aspects of whatever they can exploit for the moment and completely ignore everything else. It seems as if the CW network is following this proven way of getting good ratings in an effort to recover viewers lost during the Writer’s Strike. One tagline, for instance, opens, “for this family of loan sharks, money is easy.” Surely, it’ll be interesting to see whether or not the CW or the show’s creators learned how the industry really operates. Chances are, probably not. But it wouldn’t get good ratings if they did.

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