After demonetizing gold in the 1970s, now we are demonetizing money by debasing and politicizing it.
Like the Philips Curve, promoting exports by debasing the currency effectively pokes the pendulum.
Debasing your money may increase exports and reduce imports, but only for a time.
By making open market purchases, which should be routine, sound like such a big hairy deal printing money, debasing the currency, etc.
The Fed is fundamentally confusing price changes that result from supply and demand with those that result from debasing the currency.
With the connivance of the Treasury Department and the White House, our central bank has been debasing the greenback since 2004.
The Fed is confusing price changes that result from marketplace supply and demand with price changes that result from debasing the dollar.
Keynesians in both parties tried to offset unemployment by debasing the currency.
Flooding the market with new work is like debasing the coinage, a strategy used from Nero to the Weimar Republic with disastrous consequences.
For centuries governments responded to a shortage of small coins by debasing them, ie, reducing the amount of silver required to make a penny.
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The Federal Reserve continues its fundamental error of confusing price changes that result from supply and demand with changes that result from debasing the currency.
Wealthy nations are busy debasing their currency in an attempt to lower debt service costs and make their products more attractive on the world market.
They still cant distinguish between price changes that are a result of supply and demand and changes that are a result of debasing the currency.
And as sometimes demeaning and debasing this process can be, we sometimes easily forget that when politics works, people live better lives and safer lives.
Like many of his brethren, Bernanke confuses price changes that result from supply-and-demand factors in a free market with those that result from debasing the currency.
Japan, unlike nearly every other major economy, did not embark on an aggressive, currency-debasing monetary or fiscal stimulus program during or after the global economic crisis.
But if artists are fed the debased and debasing notion that transgressiveness is all that matters even transgressiveness against artworks the next painting attacked may not be so lucky.
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The Clintonized town meeting is inherently undignified, debasing by design.
They are making a crucial mistake in confusing price changes resulting from fluctuations in supply-and-demand and productivity with price changes that come about from a debasing of the currency.
Taxes for wars and domestic misadventures will have to be raised the old-fashioned way that is to say government money cannot be raised by simply debasing the currency.
The U.S. Federal Reserve is debasing the dollar, and, in lockstep, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are doing the same to the euro and the yen, respectively.
That is called money printing, debasing the currency whatever.
Therefore, in a world where the major economies are debasing their currencies to pay bills and with no hope for real growth anytime soon, gold is the best play for the longer term.
Meeting Rice and Gates at his residence outside Moscow, he mockingly warned the United States not to rush in debasing parts of its planned missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The debasing of the dollar has not stopped.
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Aggressive promotions: Toyota traditionally was the king of incentive restraint, able to disdain the game of buying sales with expensive, brand-debasing financial lures that became part of the undoing of the Detroit Three in the United States.
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And going forward into a world of little economic growth, where money printing and debasing the currency is the standard, I only want to own companies that consistently grow free cash and use that cash to shrink the float.
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The Federal Reserve is debasing the dollar, and, in lockstep, the European Central Bank (other-otc: CHPA.PK - news - people ) and the Bank of Japan are doing the same to the euro and the yen, respectively.
Then, the three of them, Iger, Sweeney and Frons went on to replace such iconic American classics (with millions of LOYAL daytime viewers) with junk programming a la The Spew and The Revulsion in further debasing the American contemporary television medium.
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