Category: Money Supply
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, May 07, 2007
US Money Supply Scam, Welcome to the Ponzi World / Stock-Markets / Money Supply
By: Dr_William_R_Swagell
Born in Parma, Italy, Ponzi immigrated to America in 1903 and was quick to show his entrepreneurial flair.
In 1908 he was imprisoned for two years in a Canadian prison on forgery charges relating to a fraudulent high-interest scheme. Shortly after his release from jail Ponzi was once again arrested for smuggling illegal Italian immigrants from Canada into the U.S. He spent a further two years in an Atlanta, Georgia prison cell.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The Federal Reserve Monopoly over Money Supply / Economics / Money Supply
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Recently I had the opportunity to question Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when he appeared before the congressional Joint Economic committee. The topic that morning was the state of the American economy, and many of my colleagues raised questions about how the Fed might better "regulate" things to ease fears of an economic downturn. The tenor of my colleagues' questions suggested that Mr. Bernanke's job is nothing less than to run the U.S. economy, like some kind of Soviet central planner.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Real Investment Returns Are What Count...SO BUY GOLD! / Commodities / Money Supply
By: Richard_J_Greene
There is no shortage of commentary in financial newspapers, hemming and hawing over such matters as GDP growth, or the CPI data, or even the same store sales of major retailers. The fact of the matter is that all such releases are virtually worthless since their unit of measure being reported is in a fluctuating measure that is constantly changing – the US dollar; (or any other paper currency for that matter).
It is akin to weighing yourself on a bathroom scale but allowing the amount of ounces in a pound to constantly fluctuate. What good would that kind of data be to anyone? Yet this is precisely what analysts and commentators debate with constantly in the financial press and on stock market shows such as CNBC.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Derivatives Trading Disasters - From LTCM to the 'Ohio Put' in nine years of easy money... / Interest-Rates / Money Supply
By: Adrian_Ash
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO , the giant German industrial conglomerate Metallgesellschaft lost $1.5 billion trading crude oil futures.It admitted afterwards that it knew little-to-nothing about the oil market.
The next year, in 1995, Barings bank – one of Britain's oldest and most respected financial institutions – went bust thanks to a lone trade in Singapore losing some $860 million on Japanese stock futures.
The head office in London claimed it knew nothing about Nick Leeson's repeated strategy of 'double or quits'.
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
The Root Cause Of Unemployment Part 2: Real Bills of Exchange and Employment / Economics / Money Supply
By: Professor_Emeritus
A REVISIONIST THEORY AND HISTORY OF MONEY
In Part I we elaborated on the thesis of the German economist Heinrich Rittershausen that the appalling world-wide unemployment of the 1930's was caused by the coercive legal tender laws of 1909. The chain of causation is as follows: the French and German governments, in preparation for the coming war, wanted to concentrate gold in their own coffers. They stopped paying civil servants in gold coin. To make this practice legal they had to enact legislation that gave bank notes legal tender status.
Scarcely did these governments realize that in doing so they set a slow process into motion which, in the end, destroyed the wage fund out of which workers could be paid even before merchandise has been sold to the ultimate consumer. In this second part we examine in greater detail how the wage fund was financed before 1909. We shall see that the bill market is just the clearing system of the gold standard. If disabled, sooner or later the gold standard will collapse as a result.
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
How the Fed Lost Control of Money Supply / Economics / Money Supply
By: Axel_Merk
The world is awash in money. This money has flown into all asset classes, from stocks to bonds, from real estate to commodities. In a world priced for perfection, should we enjoy the boom or prepare for a bust? Let us listen to Wall Street's adage and "follow the money."
After the tech bubble burst in 2000, policy makers in the U.S. and Asia set a train in motion they have now lost control over. In an effort to preserve U.S. consumer spending, the Federal Reserve (Fed) lowered interest rates; the Administration lowered taxes; and Asian policymakers kept their currencies artificially weak to subsidize exports to American consumers.
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Sunday, March 25, 2007
Investing in Gold - A short history of Monetary Mistrust / Commodities / Money Supply
By: Adrian_Ash
What does it take to stop people hoarding gold instead of cash...?16th SEPT. 1992 – and led by the chancellor in London, Norman Lamont, the Bank of England raised its lending rates from 10% to 12%.
This was the largest hike in 8 years. But the Bank also promised a further increase to 15% later that same day.
Why the sudden urgency? The Old Lady was desperate to defend the Pound Sterling.
Somebody had to.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
Forbidden Research - Re-emergence of the Gold Standard / Economics / Money Supply
By: Professor_Emeritus
In order to soften the coming blow of a credit collapse, a group of concerned citizens has decided to establish, in the year 2007, the Gold Standard University Live, home for the study of monetary issues placed under taboo by other institutions of higher learning. Here is a partial list of forbidden research topics.
1. What is a gold standard?
A gold standard is a mechanism whereby people exercise their God-given right to create or extinguish money, while denying monopoly power of money-creation to would-be crooks. The individual, if he thinks that money is scarce, or the rate of interest is too high, can do something about it.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Money Supply, Gold, S&P and the "Safe Haven" Theory / Commodities / Money Supply
By: Adrian_Ash
ACCORDING to the laws of quantum physics, simply watching an event changes the nature of that event itself.You'll find the same phenomenon at work on Wall Street, too.
The more stock brokers follow a stock, the higher it goes. The best PR money can buy comes in the form of "independent" analysis.
Small-cap stocks suffering "absolute neglect" by professional analysts, for example, can trade at a huge discount to their more research-friendly peers. In the City of London, a study found in 2004, unloved small company stocks were seen to trade 32% lower on a valuation basis!
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Friday, March 16, 2007
Money Supply Bubble, Credit Squeeze and A Lender Who Will .... / Interest-Rates / Money Supply
By: Adrian_Ash
"...The bold step in finance - the market-leading decision - now comes by retreating from credit and refusing all risk..."
INNOVATIVE new debt products so ften sound scary.
Credit default swaps, negative amortization mortgages, synthetic collateralized debt obligations...
Doesn't Wall Street ever get its marketing guys to work on these things? You know, just to make them more friendly.
Because the truth is, innovation in finance isn't scary at all. Entrepreneurs and investors should embrace it if they want to get rich. Money loves innovation, and their offspring's called credit.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Parabolic Money Supply Growth - The End of Money / Economics / Money Supply
By: Dr_Martenson
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
~Dr. Albert Bartlett
While it was operating well, our monetary system was a great system, one that fostered incredible technological innovation and advances in standards of living. But every system has its pros and its cons and our monetary system has a doozy of a flaw.
It is run by humans.
Oh, wait, that's a valid complaint but not the one I was looking for.
Here it is: Our monetary system must continually expand, forever.
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