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U.S. money supply plunges at 1930s pace as Obama eyes fresh stimulus
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 9:40PM BST 26 May 2010 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Posted on 05/27/2010 11:21:12 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Published: 9:40PM BST 26 May 2010

Reverse side of a US twenty dollar bill matched up with the north side of the White House in Washington, DC The stock of money in the US fell from $14.2 trillion to $13.9 trillion in the three months to April, amounting to an annual rate of contraction of 9.6pc Photo: AFP

The M3 figures - which include broad range of bank accounts and are tracked by British and European monetarists for warning signals about the direction of the US economy a year or so in advance - began shrinking last summer. The pace has since quickened.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

41 posted on 05/27/2010 12:41:51 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: jerry557
No, they're just “Keynesian's”
42 posted on 05/27/2010 12:58:47 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: WackySam

“I think this chart tells the real story- that we’ve more than doubled our monetary base in the last couple of years. How can anyone really believe that we’re headed towards deflation? “

I think we are in fact dealing with deflation due to the outrageous bubble that formed in the housing market and its associated industries. The inflation of the cost of houses has to be set back to reality. The fact of the matter is, is that we have way more houses than we need. More supply and less demand equals lower costs = deflation.

The one thing about M3 is that it does not include the amount of money held in the bank’s vaults that is not being used. That is why we are experiencing deflation despite the massive amount of money being pumped out by the central banks. Because no one wants or can get access to that money. Its just sitting there and its not counted in M3.

What i find insane, is that they are going to eventually succeed in creating hyper-inflation because they are not taking this money off the street. They are doing everything they can to try to put it on the street and get it moving. If they succeed, hello hyperinflation.

Historically, hyperinflation is the path central banks/governments choose to get out of massive debt. So this handles two short-term goals of those in power (politicians and the central banks), keep the people burning money and make your debt cost less.


43 posted on 05/27/2010 1:11:56 PM PDT by ChinaThreat (3)
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To: ChinaThreat

I agree that short term deflation is a possibility, but in the long run hyperinflation looks like it’s a certainty.


44 posted on 05/27/2010 1:56:20 PM PDT by WackySam (To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Great! Push harder on the Go pedal and give it all the gas it wants!

Race to the bottom brings us to the top faster.


45 posted on 05/27/2010 2:04:31 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: WackySam

Many others continue to use the same formula; it isn’t magic, it’s the “broadest” of the money supply measures; it’s explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
For a chart, go to www.shadowstats.com and click on the money supply chart.

Many of us have been seing this coming; it’s well known that Greenspan/Geithner have long worried about a Deflationary spiral. Part of the problem is the “velocity” of money, i.e., the amount of money changing hands. It’s not because the Banks aren’t lending.


46 posted on 05/27/2010 2:12:58 PM PDT by glide625
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To: WackySam

Actually the St. Louis Chart reflects the amount of money, and “credit” created and pumped into the economy by the Fed; not the amount of money actually in circulation and held in deposits. A better definition is: “The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ adjusted monetary base combines in a single index Federal Reserve actions that affect the supply base money — open market operations, discount window lending and unsterilized foreign exchange market intervention — with actions that affect depository institutions’ demand for base money — changes in statutory reserve requirements. The adjusted monetary base equals the sum of the monetary base and a reserve adjustment magnitude (RAM) that maps changes in reserve requirements into equivalent changes in the (unadjusted) monetary base. This paper presents a revised measure of the adjusted total reserves component of the monetary base and a new RAM. The revised measure of the adjusted reserves component differs from the current measure by including the aggregate amount of depository institutions’ required clearing balance contracts with the Federal Reserve. The new RAM differs from the current RAM by recognizing that, since the Monetary Control Act of 1980, an increasing number of depository institutions have not significantly changed their demand for base money (vault cash and Federal Reserve deposits) relative to transactions deposits following changes in statutory reserve requirements. The new adjusted reserves data suggest that the stance of monetary policy, measured by the growth rate of adjusted reserves, has been more volatile since 1980 then suggested by the current measure.”

So.....it represents what the Feds have been doing to pump money into the economy. Where’s it all gone? Loss write downs and repayments of TARP. It’s gone right back to the Fed.


47 posted on 05/27/2010 2:19:30 PM PDT by glide625
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To: glide625
"Part of the problem is the “velocity” of money, i.e., the amount of money changing hands. It’s not because the Banks aren’t lending."

The problem is that many of the old economic formulas using the velocity of money weren't updated with the speed of electronic money factored in.

The actual speed that money changes hands now is down to milliseconds in some cases. I can put an item for sale on Ebay and it literally can sell in a few seconds I can then take my Paypal and pay a bill electronically seconds after the Ebay transaction wherein the bank I paid the money to now has it available for a loan. That entire transaction starting with the sale to loan availability can literally be done in under 10 seconds.

15 years ago (or less) the same transaction string would have taken weeks. Now that loans have tightened up and Credit Cards are tightened up these breakneck electronic transactions are ceasing. (Lots of folks have no Credit Limit left on their Credit Cards because each time they pay down the balance 1000 bucks the Credit Card company lowers there credit limit by 1000 bucks. Thus their ability to make electronic transactions is nil and they resort to cash which slows down the present day velocity of money by magnitudes!

48 posted on 05/27/2010 2:26:14 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: ChinaThreat

What about Japan? Declining population, and long-term deflation pressure, which will be spreading elsewhere. Demand is simply not going to match what it is now.

The Fed is fighting the market right now to keep inflating money away to stave off a deflationary spiral.

What are their options?

1, print money.

2, loan money through bailouts. Short-term inflationary pressure, long term deflationary pressure, as the debts hamstring further bailouts.

3, increase taxes. Short term deflationary pressure.

Their biggest tool against deflation is rate cuts, and that’s all spent. They can only borrow so much, before they start hitting the deflationary power of debt. They will borrow to the point, 100 percent, 200 percent of existing US GDP. That gives them a buffer of about 14 trillion dollars or so, given a deficit of about 1.4 trillion a year, that gives them 10 years.

Raising taxes, that hurts them short term, and undoes the purpose of the stimulus.

There aren’t really any good choice out there for Obama to deal with this structural deflation.


49 posted on 05/27/2010 2:49:12 PM PDT by BenKenobi (I want to hear more about Sam! Samwise the stouthearted!)
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To: WackySam

We are currently experiencing deflation. And i agree that the end game is hyper inflation. The powers seem to be hellbent on it.


50 posted on 05/27/2010 5:18:54 PM PDT by ChinaThreat (3)
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To: muddler

I appreciate that!

LLS


51 posted on 05/27/2010 8:39:48 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Interesting that this comes from a UK paper. I haven’t seen this discussion in American ones.


52 posted on 05/27/2010 11:06:26 PM PDT by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: lainie

Right. There are some important U.S. issues which are not talked about in U.S. often.


53 posted on 05/28/2010 1:50:16 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Quite correct; and it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better because of the persistent high unemployment.


54 posted on 05/28/2010 9:13:58 AM PDT by glide625
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