Protecting the rentier class

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Ah, if the only point of your comments is that the Fed chooses inflation over unemployment, then I would agree with you. So what is with the title of this thread, then?
Would it make more sense if I had said "creditor" class instead?
 
Quote from Tsing Tao:

No, not really. How does not raising rates protect the creditors?
More about how the suppression of inflation benefits the creditor class (most).
 
Quote from Tsing Tao:

What a bunch of Keynesian horseshit, served up by our own resident ET acolyte of Krugman...
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?

Romney is much more likely to ask "what do you want?" And when the answer he gets is, as expected, "a more business-positive environment and set of decisions on your part," he's much more likely to close the deal and get this economy moving in a good direction again. He knows that, under those circumstances, his chess partners win, and then we are all better off.

And, imo, all those who say "but then the rich win" should be immediately deported to Belarus, that's all :D
 
Quote from Ricter:

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.

As far as I can tell from talking with people who try to buy commercial real estate in blocks... the banks have a ton of it on their books. Right now the whole banking system is insolvent by a wide margin.

if the fed raised interest rates the principle of all that upside down collateral would be worth even less.... Making their member/owner banks even more insolvent.

The fed is desperately engineering inflation. But they have found it very hard to push on the string. So they are going to push some more until they can fill up all that commerical space at old rates.

Its a game of brinkmanship with our economy and standard of living.
 
Ricter has been eviscerated by his economic adversaries so many times. I'd think he'd at least consider modifying his views by now, even if only by a bit.
 
my electricity, water and carne asada burrito, philly cheese, ny strip, burger or filet bill continues to skyrocket.

this commercial does not even makes sense any more. there are 12 dollar burgers all around.

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Quote from Ricter:

On inflation...

"Gold posts 3.5 percent weekly drop on deflation fear"

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.
 
Quote from Lucrum:

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.

Maybe your dick grew and you have to buy the supersize one now.
 
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