David Merkel (Aleph Blog): Currency Wars, by James Rickards, made me think that maybe, just maybe, we will
get commodity money, even a gold standard back one day.
Not exact matches
Economics — How To
Get Rich The TurnKey
Money Making Myth Busted — Auction Winners pay over the Odds The Winners Curse — Herbalife The Great Pyramid Scheme — Diamond vs Water A Debate of
Commodity Prices — What affects house prices?
They believe that far too little QE - created
money reaches its intended targets, hard - pressed national businesses, and that far too much of it
gets diverted into
commodity speculation and generates inflation and poverty.
There's a hint that the «let's
get this woman for her
money» is merely a guise for a broader commentary on sex as
commodity, but it doesn't bother going much deeper into that.
«Like any other consumer, the education consumer has a strong incentive to
get the maximum benefit from a
commodity while investing the minimum amount of time, effort, and
money to obtain it.
Publishers, and some authors, are still caught up in the mind - set of the 1980s —
money, elasticity of demand, making readers wait, trying to
get the most
money out of readers, treating books like a scarce
commodity, siphoning off 90 % of the price to middle - men.
I have been thinking about putting some
money into
commodities for a long time, but these days I
get the sense that
commodities are in a little bit of a bubble phase, so I am going to sit this out.
For many
commodity products, if you are unable or unwilling to monitor the position on a consistent basis, you will most likely
get burned [see also How To Lose
Money Investing In
Commodities].
As
money is harder to
get by, they want functional and durable
commodities.
I would bet that if we could
get numbers on how much
money they saved outsourcing their peanut production to «cheap»
commodity companies that cut corners - it would pale in comparison to the cost this impact is having on their brand and the amount of
money now needed to assure people peanut butter is safe to eat..
He further added that if given more space and flexible regulations, the platform would definitely add more cryptocurrencies, «When we
get to a point that we know which digital currencies and assets are securities, which ones are
commodities,
money or currency, it would be immensely helpful.»
Futures contracts are agreements where the buyer pays now for a
commodity that they will only receive at an agreed later date — if the
commodity goes up in value by the date of delivery, the buyer is
getting a good price; if it goes down, they lose
money.
«But when it comes to selling... it's about merchandising the product to the masses so that the seller
gets the most
money from their most valuable
commodity.»
Ryan and Louis discuss the direction of interest rates and inflation, the reluctance of the Fed to recognize the inflation threat, the impact of foreign countries raising their interest rates to combat inflation; the Fed's Vice Chairman Janis Yellen's view that inflation and the rise of
commodities won't impact the «recovery», blaming rising global demand and disruptions of supply, not the easy
money policy of the Fed; encouraging consumer confidence so they borrow more
money to buy things they don't need to stimulate the economy, loan officer compensation, banks» use of Fed loans and banks» preference of trading operations over mortgage lending; credit squeeze; increased lending standards; the advantage of
getting a low interest loan now before interest rates and inflation rates rise; the problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; the Democrats, Republicans and President avoid a government shutdown and what might have happened if it did; the $ 10 ′ s of billions of dollars saved in light of a $ 1.3 trillion defecit; the disconnect between buyers and sellers article in the Chicago Tribune; the HomeGain first quarter 2011 home values survey; the value of a quality Realtor in buying and selling a home; the HomeGain FSBO vs. REALTOR survey