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This gets into the sad reality that whilst the developed countries indulge in the money printing bonanza, inflation is, in the short-term, largely reflected only in the developing world. This has been evident in the past few years, obviously leading to social crisis like the Arab Spring (among other dynamics).
Until the economy recovers and the Fed begins unraveling the massive balance sheet they are accumulating, the second mandate of controlling inflation will seem domestically stable. It's the latter half of the recession that most concerns me
Oh, god, Dilma Rousseff better not read this article, I really don't think I can stand another year listening to her endless speeches about how unfair the cambial war is and how well Brazil is dealing with the crisis.
It would be funny if it were not true...
Brazil has a long tradition of controlling capital inflows (see the rule "63" transactions back in the 1970's and 1980's, which set minimim investment periods.
And Brazil is quite right to do manage its external accounts as carefully as possible.
If you allow the tsunami of hot money to rush in, you better be prepared for the tsunami of liquidity to rush back out.
According to a working paper from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Japan's foreign exchange interventions in 2003-2004 not only depressed U.S. and Japanese bond yields but also the yields of other countries whose bond markets were part of the integrated global bond market.
The authors of that report argue that intervention in currency markets is similar to the large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) that have become popular with central banks as an unconventional tool of monetary policy when interest rates are at the zero bound.
While currency intervention in the 1930s involved gold, today's intervention by central banks typically involves the purchase of bonds. But in addition to affecting the value of a currency through intervention, the purchasing of bonds results in easier monetary conditions. This happens either through the effect on market liquidity or through the balancing effects of portfolios.
One of the more recent examples of a global portfolio balance effect was when international bond yields dropped in response to the U.S. Federal Reserve's asset purchases in 2008-2009.
In 2004, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman, established that U.S. government bond yields declined during the period of Japanese foreign exchange intervention. But this also caused a decline in long-term interest rates around the world.
Insight into the debate over easy monetary policy in advanced economies and its effect on other countries helps to underpin the nature of currency wars, either through currencies or asset prices in countries around the world. This points to how the policies and intervention of a central bank in one country affects other countries, something that should be systematically taken into account by policymakers.
While the Federal Reserve may have welcomed lower bond yields as a side-effect of Japan's intervention in 2003, China's investment in U.S. bonds in 2005-2006 would have been less welcome as it may have contributed to the so-called conundrum of interest rates.
When cycles are not in synchronicity, as in 2011 when emerging market economies were tightening monetary policy as leading economies sought to ease monetary conditions, large bond purchases, whether as unconventional monetary policy or as an incidental consequence of currency intervention, would have been welcome in some places and problematic in others.
The economic performance of a country depends almost entirely on the exchange rate of its currency. When the currency is undervalued, the country enjoys high economic growth rate and low unemployment. But when the currency is overvalued, the country suffers from low or even negative economic growth rate and high unemployment rate.
When a country is suffering from a protracted poor economic performance, it is due to its overvalued currency, for example, Japan from 1990 to present, and the African countries south of the Sahara in thr 1980s and 1990s. The only remedy is to depreciate the currency from its overvalued level to an undervalued level. The foreign exchange market does not bring nor keep the currency of a country to a level which is neither overvalued nor undervalued becaue the foreign exchange market is subject to the strategy of international institution investors and not on the economic situation of the country. Hence, a currency, which is subjectef to the foreign exchange market, may remain overvalued or undervalued for long periods of time.
Furthermore, when the currency of a country is overvalued, an increase in money supply may nitially lead to its depreciation, both nominally and in real terms, but may, in the long run, lead to an appreciation in real terms as a result of an increase in the costs of the factors of production.
Economic policy has a number of goals it has to achieve. A good example is South Africa. A weak currency will not help South Africa because is its major exports is commodities. So depleting more of the commodities, is not advisable. Boosting mineral and metal exports is actually not good for the country. It is surrounded by other mineral rich countries such as Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. The South African labor is also not cheap. So what is the best option in that case? To boost the banking and investment sector, instead of depleting the minerals and metals which have about 45 years of mining left and to offer finance / loans for the other mineral rich countries, which in turn can devalue their currencies to boost their commodity exports / mining activities.
So it depends upon the unique situation an economy finds itself in and the composition - whether really weakening the currency will boosts its income and employment. For example an economy that is largely service based often can't export itself out of trouble. It offers currency stability for investors.
Whether a country's exports are commodities, agricultural products, industrial products or services, an undervalued currency is the necessary condition to ensure high economic growth rates, economic development and employment. If a country does not wish to deplete its natural resources, it just have to limit or prohibit their extraction, but it should not use an overvalued (strong) currency to achieve this goal. An overvalued currency not only makes the export products of a country less competitive, it also boosts imports so that local producers not only find it difficult to compete in the export markets but equally difficult to compete in the local market too because of more competitive imported products.
If you want to increase production - does that mean more people or more machines? Can a bulldozer do the same work as 100 men? Yes. Technology is just as important as labour, if not more important than labour. In fact if you look at the factors that increase production the most, it is technology - the 3rd world small scale farmers cannot keep up with the 1st world large scale farmers, because of their production technology - they have better tractors, farming equipment etc. The same can be said about manufacturing. There has to be a balance between the import and employment of new technology and the use of labor in order to maximize economic growth. It is not a simple matter of just constantly devaluing the currency and economic growth is higher than competitors. Whatever you hope to gain in increased sales, you can easily lose in terms of higher import costs of petroleum, machinery, computers, tractors, trucks, all that imported technology which is needed in all modern businesses and that forms a huge part of modern business costs.
In terms of the commodities - you cannot add value to the final product, for example the gold price is fixed. Most commodity prices are fixed. If you want to gain an advantage with commodities, more sales volumes doesn't really help you as much as with manufacturing. It is easier to gain a monopoly in say Iron and to control the supply than to hope a weak currency will boost your economy. It is not like in manufacturing where super low price increases your market share, your brand, your sales volumes. To extract the commodities costs petrol, that is why commodity prices are so high when the oil price is higher. You actually want to move away from commodity extraction as soon as possible towards businesses where you have a competitive advantage. The commodities unfortunately is only 10% - 15% of a modern economy. So you need a balance between the demands in the economy. If your country is spending a lot on infrastructure and transport development, a stronger currency helps to lower the import prices of trains, trucks, nuclear plants, air planes, ships. It is not a simple matter of devaluation. It sometimes help to devalue and sometimes help to allow the currency to appreciate in order to reach specific goals.
Technology (which most probably you mean capital products) is one of the factors of production and the more you have it, the more you can produce. But capital products must be acquired first before you can use them. And in order to acquire them, a country must produce more than it consumes. The surplus of production over consumption is used to acquire capital products. And in order to have a surplus of production over consumption, acountry must be able to sell more of its products to other countries. And for that, its export products must be competitive and for this, the currency of the country must be undervalued and not overvalued.
Actually a country does not need to constantly devaluing its currency in order for the latter to be undervalued. Once it is undervalued, it will remain undervalued unless it appreciates. It is like high and low. If an object is at a lower position compared to another object, it does not need to be constantly lowered in order to be in a lower position. It will remain in its lower position unless it is raised.
I'm no economist, but on the face of it I'd rather hold a currency that may depreciate somewhat because of QE, than the currency of a market that might collapse due to too much debt. So a bit of QE, where necessary, is okay.
More in general, my non-expert view is that we may be reaching the end of a paradigm: that of positive interest on capital. That works well with an expanding world, but not with a world in which it becomes ever clearer that resources are finite. Peak fossil fuels, other minerals getting harder to dig up, population aging, climate change and food riots all suggest change is going to come. Japan was there first, but now Europe's population stopped growing also, and the US is not far behind. This has consequences.
There are various theories for alternative currency systems, which typically center on currencies that carry negative interest. With such currencies it does not pay to hoard and living off the rent of capital is over, but money still serves as a useful tool in trade.
The problem with such alternative currencies, I thought, was that they were never going to replace the current system, unless it is on the ashes of it.
Now I am thinking that we may have already arrived at such alternative currencies. Take the USD: could the exception of zero interest given by the central bank, plus QE on top, be the new normal?
"than the currency of a market that might collapse due to too much debt. So a bit of QE, where necessary, is okay."
Well the reason why national currencies becomes weak (trades lower on a free market) due to high debt is because of the fear that governments need to print money (or QE) in order to meet this debt.
Obviously more paper money printing -> inflation -> weaker currency.
So using QE to buy government bonds by depressing yields and thus reducing the debt load is essentially already realizing investor fears of money printing and inflation. So to summarize QE, or money printing, and a "currency that might collapse due to too much debt" are not two separate matters. They are one and the same.
The champions of Gold dinars have all been sent back to their makers for challenging the only fiat currency.
"Bad money drives out good".
false. we have an incentive to spend bad money, not to accept it.
The weak shall inherit the world. In other words, the economy of the country that has the most undervalued currency grows more rapidly than the economies of the other countries and in the long run will be the richest.
Nothing is more true than this statement; yet, for the present moment, if a country is given the choice between an undervalued (weak) currency and an overvalued (strong) currency, it would choose the overvalued currency because it will be able to buy more products with an overvalued currency than with an undervalued currency.
So far, no economic theory has been put forward with respect to the effect of an overvalued and undervalued currency on the economy of a country both in the short and in the long run. And no theory exists that analyzes the effects of the depreciation or appreciation of a currency on the economy of a country in the short and the long run. In my opinion, the absence of such a theory explains why Economic Science cannot, at the present moment, explain the mechanics of an economy nor make correct prediction nor propose suitable remedies to steer an economy towards a desired goal.
"The weak shall inherit the world. In other words, the economy of the country that has the most undervalued currency grows more rapidly than the economies of the other countries and in the long run will be the richest."
Then why not just replace national currencies with Monopoly money? Hey it's easy to devalue a currency.
No actually today central banks are intervening to keep currencies in a certain "acceptable band" that the banks are targeting, for the sake of stability to the economy. In the long run such manipulations may lead to lower economic growth, but politicians today are after stability above more-volatile but net-higher long term economic growth.
That you claim it is easy to devalue a currency (which, actually, it is not) does not change the fact that an undervalued currency results in higher growth rates and an overvalued currency leads to lower growth rates.
"That you claim it is easy to devalue a currency (which, actually, it is not)"
Umm give me a printing press and I'll show you how easy it is to devalue a currency.
It is not the mechanism of devaluation of a currency which is difficult but the decision to devaluate is. You have to understand that when a country devaluates its currency, there are many negative short-term effects such as the sudden increase in the prices of imported products as well as the sudden increase in the cost of travelling abroad, the sudden drop in the level of economic activities (meaning a sudden rise in unemployment). Countries are reluctant to devaluate because of these negative effects and because people cannot see the long term benefits.
So why is Zimbabwe not the world's richest country right now? Hey they've had the world's weakest and devalued currency for so long.
The currency of Zimbabwe is not undervalued. Despite its nominal depreciation resulting from the rash printing of the notes, it has not depreciated in real terms because of the increase in the cost of the factors of production (labour, land and capital) due to the high rate of inflation.
For a currency to depreciate in real terms, the unit cost of the local factors of production must decrease in relation to the unit cost of the factors of production in other countries. This was not the case in Zimbabwe at the time of the rash printing of bank notes accompanied by hyper inflation. The rate of increase of the cost of the local factors of production was superior to the nominal depreciation of the currency, which therefore led to a real appreciation instead of a real depreciation of the currency.
A country is said to have an undervalued currency when the unit cost of its local factors of production is less than the average unit cost of the factors of production in other countries. This is what makes its products to be more competitive in general.
On the other hand, a country has got an overvalued currency when the unit cost of its factors of production is higher than the average unit cost of the factors of production in other countries. This is what makes its products to be less competitive.
A country is said to have an undervalued currency when the unit cost of its local factors of production is less than the average unit cost of the factors of production in other countries. This is what makes its products to be more competitive in general.
On the other hand, a country has got an overvalued currency when the unit cost of its factors of production is higher than the average unit cost of the factors of production in other countries. This is what makes its products to be less competitive.
"For a currency to depreciate in real terms, the unit cost of the local factors of production must decrease in relation to the unit cost of the factors of production in other countries."
... which occurs when a currency is devalued because the nominal pay to local workers remain the same while the real pay (relative to the USD, gold, or some other benchmark) is decreased.
"This was not the case in Zimbabwe at the time of the rash printing of bank notes accompanied by hyper inflation."
Actually this was the case for many years (25 years or so, from 1980 to 2005) until workers decided that it wasn't worth working anymore because their salaries had been devalued by too much. That's when the economy completely blew up.
Even during the decade the Zimbabwe economy was functioning while the currency was being devalued by a modest 10-30% a year (go read the Wikipedia article), the Zimbabwe economy wasn't doing so hot.
We might not be talking of the same thing. However, whenever there is a sudden devaluation without any increase in the cost of the factors of production measured in terms of the currency of the country, in the short term (that is, for the first year) there is a sudden increase in the average price of the products, a sudden decrease in the level of economic activities and a sudden drop in employment. After one year and for a number of years thereafter, the levels of economic activities and of employment gradually and steadily increase. Eventually, the GDP of the country would be much higher than just before the devaluation.
There is always a resistance against devaluation for several reasons. First, assets denominated in the local currency suddenly lose their value witrh respect to foreign currenciesw. in proportion with the rate of devalutation. Usually, financial institutions are the main stakeholders who are very much concerned with the loss of the value of their assets in terms of foreign currencies. Second, the sudden increase in the prices, the sudden decrease in the level of economic activities and the sudden decrease in employment are not appreciated by many people and firms in the country. Third, in the first year, the devaluation is more detrimental to the rich than the poor people in the country because the rich people consume much more imported products and travel abroad more frequently than the poor people. Fourth, devaluation has always had a bad reputation and the opposition parties usually take advantage of it at the expense of the Government. For all these reasons, Governments usually do not like to devaluate their currencies unless they are forced to, though if they knew the long term effects of the devaluation, they should not hesitate or be afraid to do it.
In the case of Zimbabwe, there was rapid nominal depriciation of its currency but not real depreciation because the cost of the local factors of production were rising faster than the nominal rate of depreciation.
If everyone devalues their currency with nobody becoming stronger than the result will be a huge money supply. If that doesn't cause inflation then I have no idea.
currency values are a mirage will over simplify how currency baskets are weighted. But US dollar is determined by a basket of X, Y, and Z currencies and x,y, and z are determined by a basket that includes the US as well as the others.
lets say a perfect 1 (US)= 1-1-1. US dollars devalues, lowering its exchange rate so it is now .7-1.1-1.2-1 Then X, devalues by increasing money supply so now .8-1-1.2-1, then Y devalues so now it is .9,1-1-1.1, then Z devalues so that they are all back at their previous stance of 1-1-1-1. However, the underlying money supply has increased whatever the US did by FOUR FOLD to maintain the currency rates. ridiculous
1. The Europeans are devaluing because it's an indirect way to mutualizing debt between member nations. Since the governments won't mutualize debt in order to solve their debt-inbalance-crisis, the central bank had to step in.
2. The Americans are doing it because they can. They know that the USD, as the world's reserve currency, in the short-medium term will remain strong regardless of what they do, so an easy way to obtain some extra cash is simply to print it and have foreigners be forced to buy it because there are no alternative global reserve currency ATM.
3. Japan and China are doing it because their economies are export-heavy and because both countries want to amass large foreign reserves for strategic reasons.
Hey it is what it is.
The fact is that countries are very reluctant to devalue their currencies because prices (especially the prices of imported products) rise abruptly, the level of unemployment tends to increase and the population in general feel that they are relatively poorer; however, in the long run, prices tend to stabilises, the level of economic activities increases and eventually the country becomes much richer. Economists and other people, too, focus on the negative short-term effects of a devaluation (or depreciation) and they cannot see nor evaluate the long-term effects. This is due to a lack of a proper theory that explains the matter.
As a market observer, the current situation is alarming. The argument isn't whether QE will create problems longer term, it is whether it's better than the alternative. Inherent in all of this is that economies NEED growth and growth is not consistent with deleveraging. On paper, the Greek people should welcome plans to take the austerity pill and deleverage with the light at the end of the tunnel being similar net debt/GDP of Spain by 2025. For humans individually, we are incentivized by the prospect of progress. Absolutes matter less, but direction is more important. A middle-class worker getting job promotions while struggling to put his kids through college is likely still happier than a wealthy individual with college trust funds in place for all of their children that is getting demoted or faced with the prospect of a lifestyle downgrade. This is what's happening to the developed world. This is an extreme case and a bit of a digression, but illustrates a point for other developed nations. QE is the answer to make this transition less painful and grow out of it although it prolongs the adjustment phase.
The irony here is that EM countries are held captive as we export inflation to them. While it's not a problem for us, it will be for nations that need to keep interest rates low to avoid hurting exporters by allowing their currency to depreciate. Talk to anybody in the know in China and they are very resentful of QE (one could make a counter argument indicating that it just forces them to allow a rebalance of the imbalances they've helped to create by depressing their currency for years).
Looking at the situation from a 10,000 view (I'm bullish on the market over the next 12 months) this will not end well. More elections will need to happen and citizens in Europe won't swallow an austerity pill forced on them by technocrats in Brussels. It's really like watching a bad marriage where the actors involved need to go their separate ways. In the real world, when someone can't pay you back, sometimes you need to take a hit on the loan you extended and factor that into any further loan extending decision to said individual. The absolute last thing I would do is mutualize debt liabilities with said individual and pretend they'll suffer for eternity to pay me back...that's moral hazard to the Nth degree and it's illogical to believe you'll get your money back. Now imagine that in said scenario, it's not individuals involved but instead entire nations of individuals that require convincing...the elections will continue to send shockwaves in Europe as we approach them as the idea of union is swimming firmly against the tide.
The US is taking full advantage of being the reserve currency. Printing money and borrowing at record low interest rates to finance a deficit that we need to pay back in our own magic currency. If only mortgage holders in Hungary had this luxury a few years back. It won't change near term, but indirectly screwing your creditors will come back to bite you taking a very long term view. As a country, the US is being set up for the long con. Give us your paper and we'll give you goods and services. Sounds like a good deal for those looking for instant gratification and can't see more than 5 years in front of them, but eventually you have to pay the piper and the idea that economic and political unrest rears it's ugly head when an economy moves backward for too long for the populous to bear. (As a very devout US citizen, I really hope I'm wrong about this)
Historically we've had large wars that change the landscape and perhaps that create large changes to the world order. Economic warfare among sovereign nations is now taking place more subtley. Hopefully this uncomfortable rebalance will not lead to desparation and actual wars from those actors that are on the losing end.
Its a rush to the bottom by most of the globe with some exceptions. Because the dollar has been the reserve currency, the US has been able to buy stuff globally, not by producing goods and services to export in exchange, but by producing DOLLARS and paying for the imports with new dollars. So why is everyone in the US surprised than our manufacturing jobs have gone overseas, and that the income gap between rich and poor has increased?
And guess what? China is accumulating gold and starting to diversify away from the dollar. Hmmm, could they be preparing for a dollar collapse, ready to step in with a new gold backed reserve currency?
The danger of another currency replacing the US dollar as the currency for international trade and as a reserves currency for many countries is real. In fact, it might even have started. Indeed, some international trade is being done by using the Chinese Remnimbi. This amount can only increase at the expense of the US dollar. The US is in fact in the position of the UK some one hundred years ago.
The Chinese currency replacing the US dollar? Uh, Poe's law?
Is it written somewhere in stone that the dollar is supreme?
No, it isn't. But it is accepted everywhere, as of now. Whatever replaces it also must be accepted everywhere. Go ahead, put all your money on the bet that it is going to be the Chinese currency. Who or what prevents you from doing so? If my memory serves me right, not that long ago there was quite a hubbub about the Euro replacing the Dollar, wasn't there? Well, how did that work out?...
Hah. At this juncture assuming anything will be around tomorrow is probably a bad bet. Only betting on the dollar is as bad idea as jumping into any other currency which will probably go bye bye as well because we'd be seeing the world economy tank.
Investing in rice and beans seems like the best idea. You can eat it, if you're hungry.
" Investing in rice and beans seems like the best idea. You can eat it, if you're hungry."
Could not agree with you more. The only universal commodity is food; the rest is what you believe in - once your stomach is full...
Until five years ago, no trade was done in the Chinese Remnimbi; during the first half of 2012, goods worth several billions of Remnimbi were traded between China and other countries. Is this not a sign that the Remnimbi is being gradually accepted by an increasing number of countries?
Being accepted is very far from being universally accepted - not to mention being preferred; or being dominant... Those differences may seem subtle to some, but those differences make a currency the go-to one; and others merely one of the many being accepted. Don't let volume mislead you. Which currency do you think is considered more preferred, by far? The Swiss or the Chinese? Ask some currency traders in Hong Kong; or Singapore; or Sydney; or Frankfurt...
If you knew the meaning of a trend, you would have understand the very grave danger facing the USA.
Five years ago, the US dollar was practically the sole currency used for international trade. 100% of all international trade were done in US dollars and all countries were keeping US as foreign exchange reserves.
In 2011, many countries of the Asia Pacific region, Central Asia and Africa started to trade goods with China using the Chinese currency and by-passing the US dollar. This trend not only persisted in 2012 but increased several folds during the first half of 2012.
There is no doubt that the importance of the Chinese Remnimbi as a currency for internationalo trade will increase and though, it might not completely replace the US dollar, it will at the very least assume a greater place at the expense of the US dollar.
"Five years ago, the US dollar was practically the sole currency used for international trade. 100% of all international trade were done in US dollars and all countries were keeping US as foreign exchange reserves."
Really? It may come as a surprise to currency traders and trading partners of the European Community. A hefty portion of the world trade was/is quoted in EU. 100% of international trade was done in US dollars five years ago? I never can tell with your posts whether you are invoking Poe's Law; or you are serious. Well, at least you keep the blogs amusing...
According to Cheng's law, you are a fool.
Are you familiar with the concept of "projecting"...
I suppose you have never heard of Cheng's law.
Would you be so kind and provide a link? I am always ready to learn from my betters... All Western sources seem to be lacking that vital piece of information; but no doubt that you will provide a source, won't you?
Increasing money supply in order to depreciate a currency with respect to other currencies is not the best way.
Though in the short run the currency does depreciate both nominally and in real terms, in the long run, the increased money supply will lead to an increase in inflation (meaning an increase in the cost of the factors of production) thereby causing the currency to appreciate in real terms with respect to other currencies. In the end, the currency would not have depreciated at all in real terms compared to its initial position.
The country will then have to resort to another round of increase in money supply, resulting in another short-term depreciation of the currency and followed by a long-term appreciation to bring the currency again to its initial level.
Is this not the reason why the US is having a series of QEs - 1, 2, 3, etc.?
Bond Yields are very low, so what is currently drawing investment? Foreign businesses / countries that show growth. Even if they boost their domestic economies through low interest rates, the businesses are not making losses in their domestic currencies like most other countries are doing. So investors are taking the currency risk to get better investment returns.
South Africans are finding out that an overvalued Rand currency leads to lower growth rates, with lower interest rates hurting pensioners while workers drown in a sea of 'cheap' debt they cannot repay.
Despite social pain, widespread national wildcat strikes roll across many sectors of the economy, in an orgy of anger at union politicians inability to fulfill unrealistic promises of a culture of entitlement.
Despite a modest fall in the rand, South Africa Government Bond 10Years increased to 6.57% on October 4 of 2012 - very attractive compared to the near zero rates on offer in the US and UK. As a result, the chances of an undervaluation of the ZAR are remote, almost irrespective of Government policy which increasingly leans towards the Chinese and left.
I have to ask: how do you know the Rand is overvalued? How will a weak currency lower the debt of workers? The more a currency weakens, the more it costs for the country to import oil / petrol. People make more debt when interest rates are lower than when interest rates are higher. There's inconsistencies in your line of reasoning. Spending way over your budget depends not upon low interest rates or a weak currency, but upon simple financial management. South African interest rates and inflation is fairly stable.
In my view, the Rand is not overvalued - it was trading at R6.50/$ three years ago, it is almost R9/$ now.
In spite having rich resources, many Riichi Oligarchs there in developing countries like Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Iran etc. are fleeing to the safe haven currency regardless of the Bernarke infinite printing, thereby further improvishing their masses and not allowing the local economies to reach the true potentials.
How deceiving, our creative economic manipulations have brought us to where we are now, at the edge of a fiscal cliff. It is only a matter of time, and some more of these creative economic gigs and we will be at the rock bottom of the cliff. We should stop listing to these con-economists, and adhere it the eternal Laws of Economics. For your information Google The World Monetary Order to Come.
There is only one way by which a country (or an individual) can become rich: it is to produce more products (consumption products and capital products) than it consumes.
There is one way by which a country (or an individual) seems to be rich without being so: it is to borrow money while at the same time consumes more products than it produces.
Over the last 30 years, China has become richer and richer by producing much more products than it consumed. As a result, it has accumulated large amounts of capital products in the form of infrastructure, machines, equipment and human capital and at the same time it has accumulated a large amount of foreign reserves.
By contrast, the USA seems to be a very rich country by accumulating large amounts of debts. Over the last 30 years, USA has borrowed more than one hundred trillion dollars from other countries in the form of short-term and long term bonds and, more significantly, by creating dollar notes which all the other countries willingly used for international trade and as foreign exchange reserves.
But, like an individual who has borrowed money, a time must come when the USA will have to reimburse all the money it has borrowed. A time will come when another currency will replace the US dollar as the currency for international trade and as the currency used for foreign reserves. And when this time comes, USA will have to produce more products than it consumes in order to reimburse this large amount of debts it has accumulated. Unfortunately, it is a different generation who will have to reimburse the debts accumulated by a previous generation. Un fortunately also, only a small percentage of the US population benefitted from the debts accumulated.
In the United States...a debt induced econonmic collapse will occur...and its cause is simple: The markets want to punish bad financial & economic behavior...but our democratically elected leaders do not want these voters who have made bad economic decisions to be punished by the market...so instead our leaders will bring the whole system crashing down.
In other words, the allegedly free market, aka trader power, is finished. Rightly, so, methinks.
Buying up Gold, Silver, equities in military-industrial complex, farmlands, oil fields and mines etc. if you can afford it is the only way to avoid the Mugabe-ism of the economy as promoted by the Obama-Bernarke duo.
I believe that the only way for a country to survive and become richer is to produce more than it consumes and to use the surplus to acquire capital products such as infrastructure, machines (or technology, if you prefer) and human capital (education, research and development, etc.). It is the same with an individual: an individual survives and becomes richer when his income (that is, the amount of products it produces) exceeds his consumption and he uses the surplus income to acquire investment products or assets.
All of the countries will bring each other down.
The USA is down by the same amount that is banked in tax havens by the people who HAVE made money and cheated us by evading taxes. I wrote Obama and told him to take the money back but progress on the endeavor is always on the back pages of the business section of your paper. Your bosses probably know but nobody talks about it because knowledge is power. Add to that the fact that anytime it IS discussed by the 'bought and paid for media' they act like they do not fully understand derivatives.
Some, the last time I heard was three years ago, estimate the formulas could generate a 'bump in the markets' by 694,000,000,000,000.00 six hundred and ninety four trillion. Nobody would guess what it is now or if they ever knew.
Any panic for any reason that the financial planner can not persuade people to 'sit tight' through will trigger many wealthy people to jump ship and the rest of us will drown.
"Brian Elwin Pomeroy"
Kudos to he guy who got every one to agree on ditching the gold standard. He used Hitlers' philosophy that when masses (the finance ministers / IMF/ WB / PMs and Presidents)think, the level of intelligence drops.
An organised market has turned in to a monster and the OECD rode the monster till Lehman and are not dying under it's weight.
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Hello GWers - My husband and I are building our new home. We are the General Contractors (DH works in building/trades industry so we feel comfortable doing this.) I have been pricing out cabinets for the new home. I have a bid from a local custom cabinet maker and another bid from a local company that sells Medallion. My bid is for the Medallion Silverline series. My kitchen cabinets will be shaker style white on the perimeter. The island will be a dark stain. I am having difficulty making a decision. I love that I can see the finish of the Medallion cabinets now. They also come with a lot more add-ons/organizers (peg boards, pull-out spice rack, cutlery storage). Also the KD has been great to work with. These cabinets will be maple, soft-close drawers with full extension The Custom Cabinet maker does a lot of work for a high end builder in town. He uses birch wood. I will have to get the painter to paint/stain the cabinets. The drawers are soft close but not full extension. After adding in the paint/stain cost to the custom cabinets, they are about $2,000 less than the Medallion Cabinets. Will the factory painted finish last longer than the custom painted? Are the full extension drawers and the extra accessories worth it? What other factors should I consider? 2K is a lot of money I could use elsewhere but I really liked the Medallion cabinets and working with the KD. Please help me make this decision. Thanks! |
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For $2k (I'm thinking that is 10- 15% of the cabinet cost?) you get the full extension, a superior finish, better organization accessories, and the services of the KD? If this is correct, I'd say go with Medallion. Do you have all the accessories you want included in the bids - the prices of those could vary a lot, I'd guess? If your design works well without a lot of customization, and you like the factory finishes, what are the benefits to you of custom cabinets? Is your design totally set or still evolving? Would the cabinet maker bring any creative, helpful design ideas to the project? |
I'll let the pros chime in, but from a consumer standpoint you should get at least one more quotation, at least, from another line or cabinet maker. Make sure the details between are truly comparable -- the construction details, the accessories can get expensive and a good hinge is required. Some of these details -- full extensions soft close drawers, pullouts -- are what separate the line between happy and thrilled for many people. Some, like cutlery trays, can be easily added after the fact. |
- Posted by OldTimeCarpenter1 (My Page) on Tue, Jun 25, 13 at 0:56
Did you find out what the finish on the local cabinets will cost? I'd get this information before deciding. It may well wipe out any savings. Custom finishes can be expensive. I also don't understand the "soft-close but not full extension" slides. I am not aware that such a thing is made. All soft-close I know about (and I think I know them all) are full extension. |
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I basically live on campus between my own classes, teaching labs, office hours and doing my own research. And, FYI, I'm finally getting a decent amount of awesome cell growth, it only took 3 months to get 6 total kick ass culture flasks, some mediocre ones, and then a slough of crappy ones. But hey, that's science right? However, because it's taken so long, I watch over those babies like a hawk. You know how a lioness protects her cubs at the cost of her life? Forget that, I'll protect them at the cost of your life because if anyone jacks with them I fear I will not be able to control my inner beast! Rawr.
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A few weeks ago I flew home for a whirlwind trip to LA and Disneyland to run the half marathon again. We finished, 10 minutes faster than last year amazingly enough, but my god was it bloody painful. That's what happens when you move several months before a major run and have zero time to train. But it was great to see the fam, especially that ADORABLE and chubby nephew of mine. He's absolutely gorgeous!
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Yesterday i read about some guy who grew some disappointingly small pumpkins after all that he's done to grow them, like fighting squash bugs, cucumber beetles, aphids and some others. Almost all of his fruits were 7 inches or less. He's given up growing pumpkins altogether after that. This really remind me of my own experience last year. The place where i live is full of all sorts of squash growers, and they mostly don't rotate their crop, which makes every type of curcubit plant I grow attract nearby familiar pests. Because of my ignorance, I didn't really fight the cucumber beetles last year and neglected my pumpkins by letting the weeds do as they pleased. That was the worst mistake a gardener could make growing curcubit plants, to tolerate pests damage and weeds near their plants. The result was a lot of small 5 to 7 inches pumpkins that drop from the vine and dried very fast. This year I fought the pests with extreme vigilance. Because I'm not into using pesticide, I wake up early in the morning to go to my pumpkin plant and catch every cucumber beetle and squash beetle(sometimes their numbers are overwhelming) that I can see. I also turned any damaged leaves, found a lot of cucumber beetles youngster(larva) and crushed them. I am lucky to not have SVB in my area which makes such a difference. Sometimes I found the underside of the leaves infested with aphids(I've seen a lot of lady beetles in my garden but apparently they are not enough) and I would cut off the leaves and step on them to crush them. After I learn about pumpkin nodes setting roots, I treat my pumpkin patch very differently. I pulled every single weed I could for my pumpkin vines to touch the bare ground underneath. And I changed the fertilizers I used last year to something that has more magnesium and sulfur in it. I also applied certain micro-nutrient mix such as Boron, Cobalt, Copper, Manganese, Zinc in small amount periodically. I think this change of fertilizers is really one of the decisive factor that my pumpkin this year is so lovely and so much bigger than last year's. To those who love growing pumpkin and did not manage to get a satisfying yield, please do not give up after a single try. Grow it for a few more times and change the way you treat them and their surroundings. Your effort could really pay off one day. Here is my pumpkin this year that has not grown to its fullest potential yet: |
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Congratulations on your success and thanks for sharing what you've learned! I sure do know what it's like to make mistakes and be disappointed, but I am trying to learn from my first-time pumpkin-growing mistakes and have a bigger, better crop next year. I didn't even identify the spotted cucumber beetle until a week ago, and those little guys have probably been munching on my plants for months! And weeds? I have definitely learned about weed competition with my own struggling plants! It's been a great year for learning. For anyone else who doesn't yet know about them, here's a link to the cucumber beetle page on wikipedia. Look at the pictures. There are striped AND spotted varieties. No, those are not yellow-green ladybugs. They are pests! Squish 'em! Squish 'em, now! |
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I believe the key criteria for large multi-departmental NAS implementations are the reduced cost of managing data for all the departments. Assume a single IT organization manages everything for all departments. A large NAS system with data management capabilities provides ease of management benefits for all departments simultaneously.
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