Hey Paulista's and Tea Party, what happened to ZOMG! Obama=2012 apocalypse, Bernanke, bla, bla HYPERINFLATION?!?!?! (fast food, Iran)
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JC Penny just slashed prices by 40 percent. Not exactly a sign of the Weimar Republic.
Please explain why we haven't had the widely-predicted hyperinflation disaster scenario -- three years after Obama's stimulus went into effect and after a lot of QE by the Fed?
Also, it's not just JC Penny, but nearly all major retailers slashed prices this holiday season. All fast food enterprises are still advertising buy one, get one free or other package deals. This is indicative of deflationary pressure, not inflationary pressure. How is this happening? I thought Obama was going to make everyone pay $30 for a carton of milk?
Yup, food, energy, tuition, health care and base metal prices are quite stable. It's not like you need any of these to survive or make a better life for yourself, right?
JC Penny just slashed prices by 40 percent. Not exactly a sign of the Weimar Republic.
Please explain why we haven't had the widely-predicted hyperinflation disaster scenario -- three years after Obama's stimulus went into effect and after a lot of QE by the Fed?
1) Wars spreading the use of the dollar to other regions (see Africa)
2) Trouble in the eurozone has propped up the value of the US dollar and continues to make US Treasuries palatable.
3) War with Iran is not "official" yet and oil still flows near the $100/barrel mark
Federal pensions are already being raided to pay the bills per Obama's Treasury Sec. Timmy "tax cheat" Geithner. We continue to rack up billions more in debt in attempts to service the interest payments on our debt alone.
Give it time impatient one; that for which you wish will come. It is not a matter of if but when.
Give it time impatient one; that for which you wish will come. It is not a matter of if but when.
Yeah, well, the problem is, you all keep saying that. And people like me keep saying you're wrong, and you know what? I'm right, and you're not.
These prophecies are beginning to rank right up there with the Y2K predictions of accidental missile launches and cars that just suddenly stop working. At some point, predictions, you know, actually have to become reality.
1) Wars spreading the use of the dollar to other regions (see Africa)
2) Trouble in the eurozone has propped up the value of the US dollar and continues to make US Treasuries palatable.
3) War with Iran is not "official" yet and oil still flows near the $100/barrel mark
Federal pensions are already being raided to pay the bills per Obama's Treasury Sec. Timmy "tax cheat" Geithner. We continue to rack up billions in debt alone in attempts to service the interest payments on our debt.
Give it time impatient one; that for which you wish will come. It is not a matter of if but when.
Exactly right! A bulb burns brightest just before it blows.
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Originally Posted by chickenfriedbananas
Yeah, well, the problem is, you all keep saying that. And people like me keep saying you're wrong, and you know what? I'm right, and you're not.
These prophecies are beginning to rank right up there with the Y2K predictions of accidental missile launches and cars that just suddenly stop working. At some point, predictions, you know, actually have to become reality.
We have a market that is artificially high, food and commodities have all crept up 100-150%, gold is up 300% in 5 years, silver is up 600% in five years.
Incomes have gone down for the first time in 20 years, the value of the dollar is worth 30-40% of what it was in 1990.
In 2010, the relative value of $100 from 1990 ranges from $154.00 to $250.00.
A simplePurchasing Power Calculator would say the relative value is $167.00. This answer is obtained by multiplying $100 by the percentage increase in the CPI from 1990 to 2010.
This is hidden inflation. As long as people think their purchasing power hasn't changed then everything is just fine. Keep playing your fiddle grasshopper, while some of us ants prepare. If nothing happens, great! You'll be right which is important to you. If something blows, we'll be ready and you'll be... well, hungry.
I don't deny that "inflation" occurs; I question the attributed 'causes' of inflation.
Inflation is real, but not because of a government printing press. You're paying more for commodities because the demand for resources is outpacing the known supply. We're paying more for energy, which means we're paying more for everything else.
Incomes are going down but that has nothing to do with a government printing press. That has to do with the demand for American labor, which is in decline. The American worker is doing more with less, and it is in fact the very deflationary pressure that I have mentioned that is going to continue to keep wages low. Deflation requires more human resources to sell more goods, and it means less profit. And less profit means less money to pay higher wages. That also puts American labor at an even greater competitive disadvantage.
I don't deny that "inflation" occurs; I question the attributed 'causes' of inflation.
Inflation is real, but not because of a government printing press. You're paying more for commodities because the demand for resources is outpacing the known supply. We're paying more for energy, which means we're paying more for everything else.
Incomes are going down but that has nothing to do with a government printing press. That has to do with the demand for American labor, which is in decline. The American worker is doing more with less, and it is in fact the very deflationary pressure that I have mentioned that is going to continue to keep wages low. Deflation requires more human resources to sell more goods, and it means less profit. And less profit means less money to pay higher wages. That also puts American labor at an even greater competitive disadvantage.
You are missing the larger picture. The eurozone and the US Dollar are undergoing managed currency collapse. I say managed because Quantitative Easing by the ECB and The FED is being used to try to keep just enough liquidity to keep people from rioting in the streets. It is a very quiet economic coup of Western Governments.
The global central banks create the economic bubbles and then profit from the collapse of those sectors. The same is true with managed currency collapse.
You are missing the larger picture. The eurozone and the US Dollar are undergoing managed currency collapse.
"managed currency collapse"?!
Uh huh.
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Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal
I say managed because Quantitative Easing by the ECB and The FED is being used to try to keep just enough liquidity to keep people from rioting in the streets.
In other words, the nation's inter-bank lender is lending money to stimulate bank to private sector lending and overall consumer activity. What a concept!
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Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal
It is a very quiet economic coup of Western Governments.
And who's leading this hostile takeover?
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Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal
The global central banks create the economic bubbles and then profit from the collapse of those sectors. The same is true with managed currency collapse.
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