How is it distributed and where is this growth coming from — organic or merely driven by
inflated asset values?
And even though it's tough to pay tax and cash in those Vancouver properties, you have to balance tax deferral with staying overinvested in what might otherwise be
an inflated asset class.
So we have a false model of money - lending — the reserve idea — driving up asset values when
inflated asset values are part of the problem; they're too high.
It's not because the economy is crashing — which it is — but because the foundation of the massive, money - printing
inflated asset bubble in the U.S. and globally rests on the teetering foundation of zero - percent interest rates.
To illustrate this, just take a look at how our economy has changed since financial institutions
inflated asset prices in the housing market until the bubble burst in 2007.
The Fed's highly accommodative monetary policy has
inflated asset values across global markets.
Before the financial crisis, most every economy was doing well, albeit on a bubble of debt and
inflated asset prices.
CMHC would feel it because it has insured most of the mortgages Vancouverites have used to buy
their inflated assets.
In March, Goldilocks filed a lawsuit with the Singapore High Court against the commodities trader and some of its former and current senior executives, alleging the company
inflated its assets, Reuters reported.
In March, Goldilocks had filed a lawsuit in Singapore alleging that Noble had
inflated its assets.
Lower interest rates will do nothing but
inflate asset - price bubbles if there is reduced demand for goods and services.
The more credit creation takes the form of
inflating asset prices — rather than financing purchases of goods and services or direct investment employing labor — the more deflationary its effects are on the «real» economy of production and consumption.
If you are a price taker without
inflating assets, you are losing.
SS: The rising stock market that resulted from the Chicago Boy's reforms was seen as a way to
inflate asset prices the capital gains of which would be used to pay off debts.
Still, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is attempting to
inflate asset bubbles.
A long period of low rates has encouraged investors to assume greater risk in the stretch for yield,
inflating asset prices.
The solution to our macroeconomic issues has been to inflate new bubbles, to
inflate asset values to soften the blow from the last bubble, all the while creating the conditions for the next one.
Continuing Low Rates Risks Bigger Asset «Bubble» US Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, 54 anni, warns that keeping interest rates near Zero risks
inflating asset - price bubbles, saying officials should raise borrowing costs this year as the economy improves.
The Bush plan to privatize Social Security is basically Pinochet's and Thatcher's «pension fund capitalism» expanded to orchestrate bubbles by
inflating asset prices on credit.
The only way to keep this unproductive debt overhead solvent is to
inflate asset prices more — by untaxing assets to leave more revenue to pay bankers on exponentially growing debts.
Contrary to the incessant spin that debt levels and prices don't matter, they most certainly do when the payments begin to rise on those artificially
inflated assets.
This has led them to press the government for policies to
inflate asset sheets more than provide credit for industry.
It was inflationary — but it was
inflating asset prices, not commodity prices or wages.
Loose monetary policy: Low interest rates, some which are zero or even negative, work to artificially
inflate asset prices.
@reirab Because the gambling of buying and selling shares is a prevalent aspect of the market, then reinvesting to create more value is a viable workaround, but does not add wealth to the investors, only
inflates the asset worth IF it is sold for that value.
QE does not seem to be transmitting its monetary effects to the real economy, just helping to
inflate asset prices instead.
@crampell Post hoc propter hoc fallacy — QE
inflates assets * and * liabilities; it does nothing on net Aug 31, 2012
The present Fed holding action
inflates assets not goods.
The result is an economic nightmare —
inflated assets (destined to correct, as they always do) and inflated debt (which ain't going anywhere).
The reckless borrowing
inflates asset values further.
Because of the demographics, more savers than spenders, the excess money
inflated assets, not goods.
«The prolonged period of rates at or near zero that we've seen since about 2008 has driven investors to find higher yields, and the concern is that that can lead to
inflating asset prices,» Yun says.
Not exact matches
It dragged Telenor ASA (telly), its Norwegian partner in Vimpelcom, through the Russian and Ukrainian courts to force it to accept a strategy that involved buying other Alfa - controlled
assets at
inflated prices.
Relatively easy liquidity has fuelled investment in China's notoriously frothy real estate sector - property investment jumped 22.8 percent in January and February combined from 2012 - pushing up home prices and triggering hawkish talk on property tightening from Beijing policymakers to contain the risk of an
asset bubble rapidly
inflating.
Get people to throw money behind an
asset or opportunity they don't understand all that well; hope the price of the mostly worthless junk
inflates; cash out.
Republican critics say they fear that by flooding the financial system with money, the Fed has
inflated stock and real estate prices and could create
asset bubbles that could pop with dangerous consequences for the economy.
In an interview on «Squawk Box,» the founder of Duquesne Capital said the Fed's policy of quantitative easing was
inflating stocks and other
assets held by wealthy investors like himself.
Debt leveraging
inflates property prices, creating (6) hopes for capital gains, prompting buyers to take on even more debt in the speculative hope that rising
asset prices will more than cover the added interest, which is paid out of capital gains, not out of current income.
The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are
inflating are
asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.
The effect of transfer payments to the financial sector — as well as the $ 5.3 trillion increase in U.S. Treasury debt from taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac onto the public balance sheet — is to support
asset prices (above all those of the banking system), not
inflate commodity prices and wages.
2) BusinessWeek, 1979: «Individuals who are not gobbling up hard
assets are flocking to money market funds to nail down high rates, or into municipal bonds to escape heavy taxes on
inflated incomes.»
The usual priority is to finance short - term
asset - price gains — that is, to
inflate bubbles.
Debt leveraging is depicted as the easiest and even the surest way to accumulate wealth — going into debt to buy
assets whose prices are being
inflated on credit, or to spend in the hope of paying out of rising and more easily earned future income.
Glaucus claims that Blue Sky
inflates the value of its investments, and that its published fee - earning
assets under management figure is not the $ 4 billion the company presents, but less than $ 1.5 billion.
The admission will fuel concerns about Blue Sky's business model, which has come under scrutiny after a report from short - seller Glaucus Research suggested its
assets under management and fees were
inflated.
I HOPE for more inflation b / c
asset prices will therefore
inflate.
Now it's hitting financial
assets,
inflating all financial
assets of all nations, globally.
For example, lower rates have accelerated purchases of cars and other consumer durables and created apparent increases in wealth as
asset prices
inflate.
And if there's runway inflation and sky high interest rates back to the Carter years like you say, then I hope to have the
assets to
inflate with inflation and the cash to buy
assets in a decline.