Tag Archives: inflation

Inflation and the Fed

Dur­ing the cur­rent eco­nomic cri­sis, the Fed­eral Reserve has increased its bal­ance sheet sig­nif­i­cantly in order to increase the mon­e­tary liq­uid­ity in the econ­omy. Many peo­ple assume they have done this by “print­ing money” which in the­ory increases the money sup­ply held by the pub­lic and over the long term is infla­tion­ary. How­ever, because the …

July 22, 2009 – 10:00 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Assorted Interesting Links

I tend to col­lect a vari­ety of inter­est­ing links through­out the week, at least to me. I always think that I’ll post them and write a lit­tle about them but in truth, I don’t have that much time and would rather write about things that are more impor­tant to me. So I’m going to just …

May 1, 2009 – 7:52 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)

How Inflation Steals From You

Apro­pos of my post the other day on our impend­ing finan­cial cri­sis, here’s a great source of infor­ma­tion on how infla­tion works and how it’s basi­cally the gov­ern­ment steal­ing from its cit­i­zens. I’m reminded of H.L Mencken a lot these days when he said “Every nor­mal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on …

August 5, 2008 – 9:12 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Our Impending Financial Crisis

This arti­cle in Harpers is a must read for any­one who wants to under­stand the real cur­rent state of the Amer­i­can econ­omy. The US gov­ern­ment has manip­u­lated and mod­i­fied eco­nomic sta­tis­tics for the past 40 years in an effort to hide from the Amer­i­can peo­ple what the true state of the econ­omy is. This has …

August 4, 2008 – 7:17 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Tagged , , | Comments (1)