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by gt2211
Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:00 pm
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: How sneaky bankers steal all our money.
Replies: 17
Views: 1030

Re: How sneaky bankers steal all our money.

I'm not following where money is supposedly being stolen in the OP
by gt2211
Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:08 pm
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: How sneaky bankers steal all our money.
Replies: 17
Views: 1030

Re: How sneaky bankers steal all our money.

If the fucking Fed would quit printing and giving away money for "quantitative easing" (read: deliberate inflation) investing might be more attractive. Except it isn't deliberate inflation..... If they wanted higher inflation they would announce a higher inflation target, not QE. I think they shoul...
by gt2211
Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:04 pm
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...
Replies: 691
Views: 49629

Re: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...

Food and energy prices are excluded for good reasons, they are volatile and over time converge to the core. http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2011/el2011-24.html To the contrary, in the long run energy prices drive everything else. I am curious, did you actually read said link? EDI...
by gt2211
Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:30 am
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...
Replies: 691
Views: 49629

Re: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...

Food and energy prices are excluded for good reasons, they are volatile and over time converge to the core.
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/econo ... 11-24.html

We have many ways of measuring and inflation expectations, they are showing inflation is coming in below target levels.
by gt2211
Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:23 pm
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...
Replies: 691
Views: 49629

Re: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...

unemployment near 10%!, Unemployment still sucks. The main reason it has gone down at all is that the total number of workers has gone down. People left the job market. Real unemployment and underemployment is still at disaster levels. The U-6 (including discouraged/part-time for economic reasons/m...
by gt2211
Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:22 am
Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
Topic: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...
Replies: 691
Views: 49629

Re: Here comes the other economic shoe dropping...

Coito, look at your first post in this thread (stock market is doomed!, I never promised Svengali-like powers of prediction. This is a discussion thread. That you do not have 'Svengali-like powers of prediction' is not that important. What is important is when you are wrong you make an attempt to u...