You have completely ignored any facts that I put forward to combat your assumption that food and oil ought to be included in our calculations of...
(edit: I forgot to mention that QE3 was almost certainly not announced as a direct result of a 'conspiracy' between the entirely independent Fed...
I just wanted a link to some wobsite that said the inflation during the OPEC crisis was largely a result of monetizing the vietnam war. Anything...
I want to describe to you the quality of a book I just read, a Pulitzer Prize winner called "Lord of Finance" I highly recommend. In this book,...
I don't think you read a Pulitzer Prize winning book called "Lords of Finance" which I did, and which I found to be extremely excellent. Where...
"Printing money" has been working fairly well since around 1930, when the Great D made it clear that the only previous system, the gold standard,...
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The reason why I have come to this forum I google searched "political forum" and this one was the number one search result...
If someone owns a lot of gold right now They will benefit if a lot of other people buy gold right now The more they buy, the more the price...
For you to convince me that QE3 WILL raise the price of food and oil on the same scale that we saw happening recently (while callously...
They may have over-estimated the value of individual states having their own internal communication method which is more effective than any...
Well yes of course, and I hope that nobody in that time looks upon our opinions in a world pre-nanotech-cyborg-evolution and...
But what if we are only trying to measure one thing: how much monetary policy like QE3 is affecting inflation? What if we only want to know the...
I don't think it is some shallow philosophy to say that combining food and oil into our calculation of the effect of increasing the money supply...
I wish you would acknowledge that we are not trying to measure the negative effect on citizens. We are trying to measure the effect that...
THE WRONG INDEX. Core inflation is 1.6% I would call that deflation. I would also call 3.6% too low since I'm a hyper-Keynesian but that...
Well... its a long term thing.
Well, the fact that it is always only a silly and horrible bubble, based only on the idea that "other people will speculate more stupidly than I...
I think the important question here is: How much should we care about a document written 200 years ago by people who never even heard of the...
I'm sure this trend will continue for some non-zero time period into the future. Therefore, gold is the greatest investment opportunity that ever...
So why doesn't Obama just lie to us about Americans dying in our wars and the entire existence of the recession at all? Why would they stop their...
I would say that this is not "chicanery" one little bit. I am an avid follower of the computer industry. The cost of a new computer used to...
I'm a big fan of these replies, sorry for not returning sooner. I bet the Council of Nicaea was very helpful in consolidating power in a way...
Well maybe that is possible, and then of course it was exacerbated by the civil war in every middle eastern country. Surely you must admit that...
I tried to go with what I call "The Socratic Method" There are many question marks in my post. Please quote them and provide an answer The...
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