Bubbles

The Fiat Solution My essential claim is that an economy using fiat money can only find a stable equilibrium at short term rates at or near zero, and that the last 40 or so years have been the period during which the economy, led by the markets – ...

Forum topic - scepticus - Nov 12 2010 - 3:29pm - 4 comments

One of the things that many people go through their entire lives without ever realizing is that conditions haven’t always been the way they remember them to be. Due to the length of a typical lifetime and the number of those years that individuals are ...

Forum topic - investorzzo - Mar 24 2010 - 11:19pm - 2 comments

While there is much talk of a recovery on the horizon, commentators are forgetting some crucial aspects of the financial crisis. The crisis is not simply composed of one bubble, the housing real estate bubble, which has already burst. The crisis has ...

Forum topic - investorzzo - Aug 8 2009 - 12:33am - 6 comments

Even under the Gold standard you can have Bubbles. Audio http://marcfaberchannel.blogspot.com/ Re: Marc Faber interview: The case for Inflation or ... Another big downturn?  Text. ...

Forum topic - investorzzo - Jul 9 2009 - 10:11pm - 1 comment

Rolling stone magazine on Goldman Sachs. From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again ...

Forum topic - investorzzo - Jul 5 2009 - 2:22pm - 4 comments

The relationship between Total Credit and GDP puzzles me. I have seen this curve where Total Credit to GDP rises from about 150% of GDP (circa 1960) to 360% of GDP in 2007. I have no doubt that Credit has exploded. However, it is the mechanics of such a ...

Forum topic - montypelerin - Jan 12 2009 - 2:32pm - 0 comments