huge inflation without wage increases in vietnam - How?

Quote from nicbizz:

The one, single, gigantic advantage America has is that its currency is the de facto reserve currency of the world.

Since you know what a reserve currency is, than define it. The only reason why countries accept our reserve currency status. Is by our information, industrial, agricultural, military, economical and nuclear dominance.
 
Quote from jem:

if individual wages are not increasing and individual debt load is not increasing you can still see govt spending go up.

either by printing if the govt controls the presses or by "quantitative easing if the privately owned central back buys govt bonds.

The increasing money supply would mean in your own market more currency is chasing the same goods... inflation

or if the money is spent over seas ... by currency devaluations as it will take more of it to buy oil.


Inflation is a huge tax on the people of a nation. its robs them of their savings. It robs them of the time they spent acquiring money.

*sighs* the biggest form of inflation is the money multiplier effect caused by rapid consumption through the use of credit, by the people of a nation. It's not enough for a government to excessively borrow. It would need an increase in borrowing from the civilians that reside within a nation to debase a currency.
 
Borrowing in general debases a currency, so not only is the US government, or any government robbing others of purchasing power. We the citizens of any nation, that consumes on borrowed money. Is robbing the future purchasing power, for later generations. Again inflation is a natural process that happens over time. AS long as growth is perpetual. Borrowing can be a perpetual process.
 
Well if vietnam used the same methods that USA uses to calculate inflation (leaving out energy prices and food) then you would quickly see that vietnam only has about 2 or 3% inflation!!!
 
Quote from alexandercho:

*sighs* the biggest form of inflation is the money multiplier effect caused by rapid consumption through the use of credit, by the people of a nation. It's not enough for a government to excessively borrow. It would need an increase in borrowing from the civilians that reside within a nation to debase a currency.

I have no idea where you got that idea.

Were hyper inflations caused by excessive borrowing from citizens or excessive printing?


1. Many countries can just turn on the printing presses without borrowing from their citizens to pay their bills. Quantitative easing is very similar to just turning on the printing presses without borrowing. If the govt spends more than it takes in, it will likely cause inflation. If it spends a lot more, it can and probably will lead to hyper inflation.
 
Quote from peilthetraveler:

Well if vietnam used the same methods that USA uses to calculate inflation (leaving out energy prices and food) then you would quickly see that vietnam only has about 2 or 3% inflation!!!

good point.
 
Quote from peilthetraveler:
Well if vietnam used the same methods that USA uses to calculate inflation (leaving out energy prices and food) then you would quickly see that vietnam only has about 2 or 3% inflation!!!
Huh?
 
come on, why feign ignorance.
haven't you seen jim rogers rant about inflation and how it is calculated for more than a decade.

or more importantly have you been to the grocery store to buy food or the gas station to buy beer or soda?

remember when you could get lunch for 5 bucks in the states.
a decade later its 10.

I order a buritto with beans and a coke yesterday...
$9.72. for lunch.

I wonder how people making 10 bucks an hour can eat.
 
And? What's your point? Jim Rogers can talk his book all he likes, it doesn't make what he says into the truth.

What peil says is simply false. You may disagree with the calculation methodology, but to claim food and energy prices are not included in the headline CPI is just silly.

Furthermore, the latest official headline CPI appears to be corroborated by the readings from the MIT Billion Prices Project (BPP). Official headline CPI-U for the month of June was 3.569% YoY. BPP reading (average of daily YoY numbers) was arnd 3.65%.
 
Quote from peilthetraveler:

Well if vietnam used the same methods that USA uses to calculate inflation (leaving out energy prices and food) then you would quickly see that vietnam only has about 2 or 3% inflation!!!

Both CPI and Core CPI are published every month...if you don't like Core CPI because it excludes food and energy, then do your analysis on CPI. Problem solved.
 
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