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Bernanke Continues to Pretend He Has Control

QE (quantitative easing), whether it be QE1 or QE10, is a euphemism. It represents the expansion of the money supply (printing money). An expansion of the money supply is inflation. Rising prices are not inflation, they are an effect of inflation. The disease is printing money (or QE if you want to call a rose [...]

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Rooster Economics

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Pretending that economic health can be returned to an economy via printing more money is a scam used over and over by governments. It does nothing to repair the problems in an economy although may jack up GDP numbers temporarily. Expanding the money supply was a handy scam for central bankers and politicians. The economy [...]

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Gold and The Political Gene

Is Gold Over? For those invested in gold and other precious metals, the last several months have been disappointing.  No one truly knows the reason(s) why gold has not continued its rise, although many pontificate as if they do. Gold could be over in terms of its price climb. Nothing goes on forever, and gold [...]

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Inflation — The Final Blow

The developed economies of the world have opened the money spigots, hardly the policy response one would expect if there were truly signs of an economic recovery underway. The massive money and credit creation is sitting in the banking system like dry tinder just waiting for a spark to set it ablaze. How quickly it [...]

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Inflation and Hyperinflation

Inflation is an expansion of the money supply which ultimately shows up in an increase in prices. The rise in prices is a symptom produced by the increase in the supply of money. To properly understand inflation and hyperinflation, it is necessary to understand Money, specifically the Supply of Money and the Demand for Money. [...]

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