Agree. These bureaucrats seem to think that they can manipulate the economy by buying something and use it as collateral to sell something else, a true non-sensical shell game, to avoid true financial decision making. They forget that their "opponent" so to speak, the guy/gal on the other side of the chess board, is a business person/business owner who is a lot smarter and a lot better committed to maintaining/growing his/her wealth. They won't move in the direction you want them to go unless they see your commitment to their benefit, why else should they take more risk?Quote from Tsing Tao:
What a bunch of Keynesian horseshit, served up by our own resident ET acolyte of Krugman...

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Let's say the Fed believed inflation was 10%, do you think they'd be announcing rate hikes, even if those would probably increase unemployment? I do, and that's the point of the article.
While standing at the urinal in a convenience store yesterday I noticed one of those coin operated condom machines. It takes a whole dollar to buy one now.Quote from Ricter:
On inflation...
"Gold posts 3.5 percent weekly drop on deflation fear"
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While standing at the urinal in a convenience store yesterday I noticed one of those coin operated condom machines. It takes a whole dollar to buy one now.
I can remember when they were 50 cents. And it wasn't that many years ago.
100% inflation.