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To: RightWhale
If the fed fires up the presses and we return to the Carter years, i'll leverage what I have into real estate. Used right, inflation is a real wealth creator.
15 posted on 12/02/2002 5:39:53 PM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed
Used right, inflation is a real wealth creator.

It can be, no doubt about it.

18 posted on 12/02/2002 5:43:03 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: dalereed
If the fed fires up the presses and we return to the Carter years, i'll leverage what I have into real estate. Used right, inflation is a real wealth creator.

No, it simply allows debtors to escape their obligations. This makes people less willing to engage in collaborative activity. I.E. economic contraction. A destruction, not creation of wealth.

I would argue that we've already created a spectacular amount of money. The supply has already been inflated but the Fed could not control where it went.

The value of real estate has already been distorted by the runaway creation of dollars, the GSE money pumps, and artificial tax incentives.

Even if they fire up the printing presses there is no guarantee that they can stop deflation. Japan has been printing money like mad, but they still haven't managed to increase the aggregate money supply.

33 posted on 12/02/2002 8:48:48 PM PST by AdamSelene235
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