Thursday, 28 February 2013
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Mark O'Byrne
Gold in USD
Jim Grant, astute monetary economist and respected author of the Interest
Rate Observer said in a Bloomberg interview overnight that the dollar
would crash and a new Gold Standard would be the end result of the U.S.
Federal Reserve’s irresponsibilities.
Although the interviewer
said that Grant’s remarks were inflammatory Grant said that it is
important to examine our monetary affairs over the sweep of time.
“Over
100 years ago the U.S. Fed was founded and in 1944 at Bretton Woods
they decided there would be no more Gold Standard but rather a U.S.
dollar that was backed by gold. If you fast forward to the present we
now have a full blown PhD standard where the former heads of Economic
Departments are running federal institutions. Central Banks across the
world are waging an all out struggle against the price mechanism which
is going against Adam Smith’s invisible hand.”
A guest host said
that no one in academia is calling for a Gold Standard and suggested it
would result in a deflationary period for the U.S.
Grant
disagreed and said that the Gold Standard is the only answer as it was
monetary system good practice for the 100 years ending in 1914, whereas
everything else since has been a “try out”.
Grant says that he
expects more quantitative easing from the U. S. Fed, and likens their
single mindedness to a doctor prescribing to a patient that is clearly
overmedicated.
He notes, credit in the world is an infinite sum
of numerous simultaneous equations. He notes that if humans knew how to
allocate credit than the USSR would have been a success. Socialists
unions over manipulating credit don’t work.
Therefore, just as
central banks are continually try to print their way out of our current
global debt crisis their manipulation is not working.
Gold in USD
Jim Grant, astute monetary economist and respected author of the Interest
Rate Observer said in a Bloomberg interview overnight that the dollar
would crash and a new Gold Standard would be the end result of the U.S.
Federal Reserve’s irresponsibilities.
Although the interviewer
said that Grant’s remarks were inflammatory Grant said that it is
important to examine our monetary affairs over the sweep of time.
“Over
100 years ago the U.S. Fed was founded and in 1944 at Bretton Woods
they decided there would be no more Gold Standard but rather a U.S.
dollar that was backed by gold. If you fast forward to the present we
now have a full blown PhD standard where the former heads of Economic
Departments are running federal institutions. Central Banks across the
world are waging an all out struggle against the price mechanism which
is going against Adam Smith’s invisible hand.”
A guest host said
that no one in academia is calling for a Gold Standard and suggested it
would result in a deflationary period for the U.S.
Grant
disagreed and said that the Gold Standard is the only answer as it was
monetary system good practice for the 100 years ending in 1914, whereas
everything else since has been a “try out”.
Grant says that he
expects more quantitative easing from the U. S. Fed, and likens their
single mindedness to a doctor prescribing to a patient that is clearly
overmedicated.
He notes, credit in the world is an infinite sum
of numerous simultaneous equations. He notes that if humans knew how to
allocate credit than the USSR would have been a success. Socialists
unions over manipulating credit don’t work.
Therefore, just as
central banks are continually try to print their way out of our current
global debt crisis their manipulation is not working.
Monday, 25 February 2013
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1220301-how-the-fed-could-fix-the-economy-and-why-it-hasn-t?source=feed
excerpt :
In his book Princes of the Yen (2003),Werner maintains that in the 1990s, the BOJ consistently foiled government attempts at creating a recovery. As summarized in a review of the book:
excerpt :
In his book Princes of the Yen (2003),Werner maintains that in the 1990s, the BOJ consistently foiled government attempts at creating a recovery. As summarized in a review of the book:
The post-war disappearance of the military triggered a power struggle between the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan for control over the economy. While the Ministry strove to maintain the controlled economic system that created Japan’s post-war economic miracle, the central bank plotted to break free from the Ministry by reverting to the free markets of the 1920s.
. . . They reckoned that the wartime economic system and the vast legal powers of the Ministry of Finance could only be overthrown if there was a large crisis – one that would be blamed on the ministry. While observers assumed that all policy-makers have been trying their best to kick-start Japan’s economy over the past decade, the surprising truth is that one key institution did not try hard at all.
[T]hose central bankers who were in charge of the policies that prolonged the recession were the very same people who were responsible for the creation of the bubble. . . . [They] ordered the banks to expand their lending aggressively during the 1980s. In 1989, [they] suddenly tightened their credit controls, thus bringing down the house of cards that they had built up before. . . .
With banks paralysed by bad debts, the central bank held the key to a recovery: only it could step in and create more credit. It failed to do so, and hence the recession continued for years. Thanks to the long recession, the Ministry of Finance was broken up and lost its powers. The Bank of Japan became independent and its power has now become legal.
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