Raoul_Luke
I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive.
You know, it would really move the discussion along if you would, you know, make a f*cking point.
A little econ 101 for President Brandon...
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Raoul_Luke
I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive.
Lesson number 2:
Even by the CBO’s optimistic projections, the US government will have a cumulative deficit of over $15 trillion for the next ten years.
So, who is going to finance these incomprehensible shortfalls? The only entity capable is the Fed’s printing presses.
Allow me to simplify it in three steps.
That’s how government spending, deficits, and the federal debt affect inflation.
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Like I keep saying, Spending = Taxes (current + deferred).
Oh, and don't forget to enjoy the decline...
Even by the CBO’s optimistic projections, the US government will have a cumulative deficit of over $15 trillion for the next ten years.
So, who is going to finance these incomprehensible shortfalls? The only entity capable is the Fed’s printing presses.
Allow me to simplify it in three steps.
In short, this insidious process is nothing more than legalized counterfeiting. It’s taxation without consent via currency debasement and is the true source of inflation. Mainstream media and economists perform incredible mental gymnastics to conceal and justify this fraud.
That’s how government spending, deficits, and the federal debt affect inflation.
It's Game-Over For The Fed - Expect A Monetary "Rug Pull" Soon... | ZeroHedge
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Like I keep saying, Spending = Taxes (current + deferred).
Oh, and don't forget to enjoy the decline...
Zam-Zam
Senator
With Biden, you’re never certain if he believes his own lies. Thus, we’ll make it real clear for the big guy just how the numbers work.
Price is the numerical value. Inflation is the first derivative. The monthly increase/decrease in inflation is the second derivative. The second derivative was reported as zero. But inflation itself is still off the charts.
In this respect, should you be happy that your money is only eroding at an annual rate of 8.5 percent instead of 9.1 percent?
...New production may be stimulated by artificial increases to the money supply. But it is only to address false demand created by the resulting price distortions. These price distortions lead to excess production to meet the false demand. This excess production ultimately leads to supply gluts and economic pain.
Similarly, new, freshly created money does not increase people’s claims to goods and services. It does not increase how much they can consume. Rather, it dilutes each individual monetary unit, which is then expressed in rising prices.
The genesis of consumer price inflation can be found in money supply inflation. Money supply inflation is the direct act of central planners. The inflation of the money supply comes first. Consumer prices then follow.
Most academic economists naively believe that lack of money is the source of economic stagnation. They advocate credit creation and money printing as a means to increase consumption. These policies generally lead to higher debt levels and higher asset and consumer prices.
Why price is important…
Why Price is Important
The primary regulator for how money is spent is price. The price of goods and services is what attracts or repels money. Generally, if two goods have equivalent utility and quality, money will be attracted to the lower cost item and repelled by the higher cost item.
Price also conveys information. Rising prices signal to business owners to increase production. Falling prices signal to reduce production.
When central planners monkey with the quantity of money in circulation they monkey with the price of goods and services. Moreover, when they monkey with the price of credit – the rate of interest – they disfigure the entire economy.
Artificially low interest rates stimulate false demand up and down the supply chain. In addition, pumping fabricated credit into financial markets for decades on end pushes the economy to a perilous and unstable state.
Wealth disparities become ever more extreme, as financial assets, which are largely owned by the wealthy, become inflated. Governments – federal, state, and local – use the cheap credit to become bigger, and more interventionist. Consumer price inflation then takes hold.
The Fed’s attempts to smooth out the peaks and valleys of the business cycle have actually magnified them. The consequences to workers, savers, and retirees alike are remarkably harmful.
Eventually the damage is too great for even the Fed to ignore and they must reverse course. After letting credit run wild for over a decade, and making everyone dependent upon it, the Fed then reels it back. This tightening of credit markets has the effect of pulling the rug out from under financial markets and the economy.
Right now, for example, the Fed is operating within the rug yank phase of its monetary policy. As the Fed simultaneously raises the federal funds rate and reduces its balance sheet, credit markets are slipping and tripping all over themselves.
Yet all these money games are based on a flawed understanding of how the world and the economy works…
The prerequisite for more consumption is not more money. It’s more production. The faster and more goods and services the economy produces, the faster and more each individual can consume. Production determines consumption.
This is a critical point. And it’s one the President failed to mention this week. Just one day prior to this week’s CPI report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its second quarter labor productivity report. The results were about as bad as they could possibly be.
In short, labor productivity decreased 4.6 percent in the second quarter of 2022. Output decreased 2.1 percent while hours worked increased 2.6 percent. This marked the sharpest decline in labor productivity since 1948 – roughly 74 years ago.
What this means is that people are working more and producing less. They are, in essence, working in reverse. Hence, there will be less goods and services to consume, which will further drive consumer price inflation.
Why has labor productivity collapsed?
This, no doubt, is an important question. It is especially important if you care about wealth and prosperity.
The push for productive activity is provided by the mental and physical ability of workers to produce new goods and services with the least expenditure of energy and material possible. That is to say, to produce more at a lower cost. The ability to cheapen production leads to economic growth.
Alas, labor productivity has collapsed. The reasons range far and wide. But they all come back to a few critical things. Over regulation, over taxation, money printing, credit market manipulation, and, in summary, a near total intervention of economic and business life by a grossly out of control state.
Remember, production determines consumption. Production has collapsed. An extended period of economic decline will follow.
Why Labor Productivity Has Collapsed | ZeroHedge
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Is Brandon lying about the economy, or is he too stupid to understand it? Same goes for his economic "experts." And, of course, the lefty economic "experts" here who keep telling us the economy is doing fantastic.
I personally don't think the President did himself any favor when he doubled and tripled down on his absurd "zero inflation" rhetoric...The "net" result is likely to be even fewer and fewer people taking him seriously.
You can spin a lot of things in politics (and a friendly media). Inflation isn't one of them - People know how much a gallon of milk costs, no matter what the President or anyone else says. His major accomplishment with this speech was to further illustrate how out of touch he is with most people's reality. He's become a punchline.
It's why dems passed the Inflation Act, CBO say's everyone's taxes will go upLesson number 2:
Even by the CBO’s optimistic projections, the US government will have a cumulative deficit of over $15 trillion for the next ten years.
So, who is going to finance these incomprehensible shortfalls? The only entity capable is the Fed’s printing presses.
Allow me to simplify it in three steps.
In short, this insidious process is nothing more than legalized counterfeiting. It’s taxation without consent via currency debasement and is the true source of inflation. Mainstream media and economists perform incredible mental gymnastics to conceal and justify this fraud.
That’s how government spending, deficits, and the federal debt affect inflation.
It's Game-Over For The Fed - Expect A Monetary "Rug Pull" Soon... | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Like I keep saying, Spending = Taxes (current + deferred).
Oh, and don't forget to enjoy the decline...
ABC's Jon Karl cites CBO report, asks Karine Jean-Pierre if the Inflation Reduction Act is 'Orwellian' (msn.com)
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Zam-Zam
Senator
Talk about trying to have it both ways...We need billions to combat inflation, and by the way, there is zero inflation.
Quite an administration...
Yes, it is quite the administration, if Joe can figure out hoe to get his jacket on and apparently the FBI needs Raid his Delaware homes also:Talk about trying to have it both ways...We need billions to combat inflation, and by the way, there is zero inflation.
Quite an administration...
Romanian tycoon hired Hunter Biden, ex-FBI chief to avoid jail: emails (nypost.com)
or at least Hunter's rent home
