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2001 Fed starting pumping billions of dollars into bond markets. From there it spread to other asset classes as investors tried to earn more than a pathetic 1% on their money market accounts. Financial firms were the first to see new money (hedge fund boom, etc). Investment boom sparked since...

How is it price gouging if people willing pay for the gas and company's willingly sell? I thought voluntary trades are a good thing since both people are getting what they want.

US not printing money like crazy? If you call doubling the money supply since 1987 not printing money like crazy then I guess you are right. Will someone explain the difference between the Fed printing money and the Mafia counterfeiting money? I mean, I still get screwed because the Fed is...

Does anybody realise that the Fed has doubled the money supply over 20 years? Can someone explain how the Fed making dollars is any different from my neighbor printing billions of dollars in his basement? Does anybody else think that all these problems with price inflation, real estate...