Inflation – The Rainbow Blog

Unfair Bank Charges

Bill Kruse — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:34:52 +0000

Much in the news lately about unfair bank charges. Plenty about overdraft charges – but what about interest? Let’s examine why we have interest on loans. If you borrow 500K from your mate, while you have it, he doesn’t have use of it. He can’t use it to further his own interest and so it …

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Still No Inflation, Still Not Surprising

Bill Kruse — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:59:41 +0000

The only economic indicators suggesting we’re out of recession are ones that work in the shadow economy, not the real one. when all these things were initially determined as indicators of anything much, there wasn’t any such thing as a shadow economy. We’re being measured against outdated criterion. All the QE has been going straight …

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An Expanding Monetary Base & Inflation…

Bill Kruse — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:55:00 +0000

don’t always follow each other. I know it used to be that way but these are times without precedent. People keep talking about in recession (booooo!) or out of recession (yaaaay!) as if they’re bad or good things but really nowadays they’re irrelevant things. It’s as if money has taken a life of its own, …

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Quantitative Easing Does Not Mean Inflation

Bill Kruse — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:03:27 +0000

Printing money into the economy would normally precipitate inflation. This isn’t happening and won’t happen because the money isn’t going into the economy. It’s going into the banks. The banks are their own world now, they only interface with the wider economy. If they choose not to use this money as a base to create more money …

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