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1. Yes, but they're monetizing debt because there would be zero growth without it, and they are terrified of deflation. |
2. If they stop monetizing debt they will trigger recessions. |
Therefore, low yields are a reflection of weak global economies. Current inflation is speculation-based, not demand-based, and will sink through over-supply. Take the U.S. as an example: Despite $ 4 trillion of QE, real wages have actually declined over the past 5 years. The consumer is dead in the world's largest econ... |
Anyway, looking forward to reading both articles. |
You answered your own question. Central banks will NOT ALLOW DEFLATION to take place! |
There can be an infinite number of IF's but thats all they remain IFs, rather than what IS. |
But, whilst you answer your own question, you then revert back to saying low yields are because of ......., when they are because of Central banks monetizing debt! |
The key thing to do is to forget about what IF's and focus on what IS. That's what I do. Inflation is not what if, it is an exponential trend that compounds each year around which asset prices are leveraged to and osciliate to. |
Sept. 30th: Eurozone flash CPI has slipped to a 3 1/2 year low of +1.1% on year in September from +1.3% in August and come in below consensus of +1.2%. Food, alcohol and tobacco have experienced the highest rate of inflation, while energy prices have fallen. The CPI reading is well below the ECB's target of just under ... |
I would like to add that when the money printing leads to the inevitable bond market and currency crisis this still in my opinion not lead to deflation. Rather we will have a loss of confidence, a flight to hard assets and a rise in interest rates that will push up the cost structure. I admit in all humility to not bei... |
Yes the argument has become circular, ignoring the facts won't make them go away. |
and if you haven't noticed the bond market bubble has burst. |
Even the Fed keeps reducing its forecast, and this was before the latest U.S. budget disaster which will reduce growth even more than already anticipated. |
U.K. house prices notwithstanding, you cannot have inflation, at least not in the world's largest economy, in an atmosphere of doom and gloom. All we need now is another massive 20 % - 30 % stock market correction to sound the inflation death knell, at least for the next 5 years. |
Not just UK but US house prices - 30% gain by early 2016 (as of Jan 2013 forecast). |
Okay, we disagree, that's fine. Just one closing thought that you have not considered - WHO BENEFITS FROM RISING INTEREST RATES! - Everyone with CASH, corporations, retirees, and savers. So all those corporations with cash mountains will be marked UP. |
Here are 11-15 of MIT's Technology Review's 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2011. We're posting in increments of five every few days as not to overwhelm you with info and required reading. |
Click here for 1-5 of TR's most innovative companies of 2011. |
Click here for 6-10 of TR's most innovative companies of 2011. |
Why: New sequencing projects that the company announced in 2011 include one aimed at predicting preterm births and another that will sequence cancer genomes. |
Key innovation: A computational platform allows it to assemble DNA sequences into genomes more accurately. |
Why: Speeding up production of digitally animated movies will also benefit gaming and augmented reality. |
Key innovation: Software that can take maximum advantage of a multicore processor allows animators to create scenes in minutes instead of hours. |
Why: Its technology makes it easier for users to sync and share files on smart phones, laptops, and desktops. |
Key innovation: Cloud-based systems are the basis for a consumer-focused service that works across multiple platforms. |
Why: Using lightweight parts will decrease the fuel consumption of the company's aircraft and make its satellites cheaper to launch. |
Key innovation: Redesigning select parts to take advantage of the capabilities of 3-D printers has cut their weight in half. |
Why: The social network has become the means by which many online users communicate, get news, and find entertainment. |
Key innovation: New features automatically integrate casual online activity, such as listening to music or reading newspaper articles, into the social sphere. |
YORK -- Henry Wylie Murray, 70, of 2922 Sexton Road died Thursday, June 19, 2008, at his home in York, S.C. |
The funeral will be 3 p.m. Saturday, June 21, 2008, at Haven Ministries Church of God of Prophecy in Clover, S.C. The Rev Olivene Martin will be officiating. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery in York. |
A native of York, Wylie was a son of the late Henry Wylie and Ellen Doster Murray . He was a member of Haven Ministries Church of God of Prophecy. He worked as a supervisor at Comporium Communications. |
He is survived by his wife, Ella Quinn Murray of York; two daughters, Sharon M. Parker of York and Kim M. Blaine of Inman, S.C.; two sons, Ronnie Murray of York and Robert Putnam Sr. of Clover, S.C.; six sisters, Gaynelle Pardon, Faye Stewart and Bonnie Carson, all of York, Betty Comer of Union, S.C., Diane Jackson of ... |
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland said on Tuesday that the risk of Britain dropping out of the European Union with no agreement on post-Brexit ties “cannot be ruled out” and it would spike if London and the bloc fail to agree details in October. |
Britain’s political meltdown and disagreements with the bloc over issues including the Irish border cast an increasingly long shadow over chances for a broad deal to regulate their relationship from day one after Brexit, which is due next March. |
A no-deal Brexit is widely expected to sow chaos for people and businesses alike as there would be little clarity over what replaces more than four decades of collaboration on everything from food safety standards to airline regulations. |
“The European Council sitting ... to be held in October, 2018, will be a key moment,” the Polish government said in a statement referring to a meeting of EU leaders planned in Brussels. |
Talks with Prime Minister Theresa May will be followed by discussions between the remaining 27 leaders on whether they find acceptable whatever deal emerges with London by then. |
“If there is no binding agreements, the risk of a fiasco of talks will rise significantly,” Warsaw said, adding it would then move to safeguard the interests of its entrepreneurs and citizens, of which there are about one million living in Britain. |
Social discontent with workers arriving in masses from the poorer eastern EU states like Poland in search for better-paid jobs in Britain played a big role in the 2016 Brexit referendum. |
EU immigration to Britain, including from Poland, has fallen since. |
“EU net migration continues to add to the UK population with around 100,000 more EU citizens coming to the UK than leaving,” the country’s Office for National Statistics said this month. |
More than 900,000 people across the UK could be misusing over-the-counter painkillers containing codeine, a drug derived from morphine, the Tonight programme has found. |
There are no firm figures about the scale of this problem yet so Tonight commissioned a survey. We asked 2000 people whether they took these drugs, what they used them for and if they took them in accordance with the guidance of 6-8 tablets a day for a maximum of three days. |
75% of those asked had used these painkillers and of those, one in five admitted to using more than the recommended daily dose. Almost half of the people who had used over-the-counter painkillers said they took them for more than three days in a row and almost six percent of this group said they had taken them for more... |
Guidelines for the sale of codeine-based painkillers were tightened in 2009 to minimise the risk of overuse. Prominent warnings were placed on packets about the risk of addiction and the importance of not taking them for longer than three days was emphasised. However, in our survey almost of third of those who took the... |
Codeine-based medicines are used to treat moderate pain, such as headaches or dental pain, if regular pain medicines such as paracetamol or ibuprofen are insufficient. But they are opioids – part of the opiate family - and they can induce feelings of calm, relaxation and lethargy. If used for longer than the recommende... |
While pure codeine is only available on prescription, small doses of codeine are combined with aspirin, ibuprofen or paracetamol in many over-the-counter medicines. Taken correctly, these drugs are safe and effective but the Tonight programme found that despite the guidelines being tightened in 2009, it is still possib... |
Ash Soni, President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, commented that Fiona Foster’s findings were “very disappointing from a pharmacist’s perspective”. |
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) responded to Tonight by saying that the “risk minimisation measures” introduced in 2009 enabled the drugs to “remain available for sale in pharmacies” for the vast majority of people who use them appropriately, while “safeguarding against inappropriate use”... |
But Noreen Oliver who is the MD and founder of the Burton Addiction Centre is concerned about the impact of people feeding a codeine dependency with over-the-counter products. These drugs combine codeine with paracetamol, ibuprofen or aspirin and if people are taking more as their tolerance to codeine increases then th... |
Tonight spoke to one of their clients Chris, who was proscribed codeine by his GP for a back problem. He went on to buy medicines containing codeine over the pharmacy counter sometimes taking as many as 64 tablets a day. |
“I ended up having to go and have endoscopies and had major stomach problems, but, I was addicted to the Codeine, it was the only way I could get it” Chris told Fiona Foster, saying that he would have been better off on heroin because the impact of the paracetamol and ibuprofen on his health. |
So what if one didn’t get a chance to see much of Rahul Dev in both ASOKA and INDIAN? But it was enough for Mani Ratnam to sign him for his next film. It is learnt that Rahul Dev has already met Ratnam and an official statement should be issued shortly. Rahul doesn’t mind the length of a role. “It is the strength of th... |
MOSCOW - A helicopter packed with passengers crashed in Siberia on Tuesday, killing at least 19 of the 28 people aboard, Russia's civil aviation commission said. |
The Mi-8 aircraft operated by Polar Airlines caught fire after crashing in the Sakha region with 25 passengers and three crew on board, the Interstate Aviation Committee said.Citing a surviving crew member, the committee said on its website that 19 people were killed. State-run Itar-Tass later cited a regional governme... |
Sakha, also known as Yakutia, is a vast region stretching north of the Arctic circle and helicopters are frequently used to transport people to remote areas. |
The new mandatory minimum wage laws set to take effect in 12 states and the District of Columbia in 2018 will have disastrous effects on job growth and the longevity of small businesses, according to a new study provided exclusively to The Daily Caller News Foundation. |
The study, conducted by the free market advocacy group American Action Forum, found that incremental minimum wage increases implemented in 2018 alone will cost the nation roughly 261,000 jobs. Once the minimum wage increases are fully phased in, they are expected to cost approximately 1.7 million jobs, using each state... |
The predictions are based on a 2015 peer reviewed study in the Journal of Human Resources, which found that a 10 percent increase in real minimum wage is associated with a 0.3 to 0.5 percentage-point decline in the annual net job growth rate. The study further demonstrated that minimum wage increases lead to a reductio... |
Based on those findings, AAF researchers project New York’s assorted minimum wage increases (18.2 percent in New York City, 10 percent in the surrounding counties and 7.2 percent in the rest of the state) will cost the Empire state 98,000 jobs in 2018. The policy impact will be nearly as destructive in California, wher... |
The remaining 10 states and the District of Columbia, some which implemented incremental minimum wage increases on January 1 and some which will implement the increases on July 1, are expected to lose between 1,000 jobs, in the case of Vermont, and 21,000, in the case of Colorado. |
The 2015 Meer and West study relied upon by AAF researchers is not above reproach, it has been criticized for its failure to take into account differences across employment sectors, as associate professor of economics at Umass Amherst, Arindrajit Dube points out. |
“The negative association between job growth and minimum wages is in the wrong place: it shows up in a sector like manufacturing that has few minimum wage workers, but is absent in low-wage sectors like food services and retail. In other words, it is likely a statistical artifact, and not a causal relationship,” Dube w... |
Democrats have increasingly embraced a $15 national mandatory minimum wage, advancing the concept as part of their “A Better Deal” economic platform despite worrying results in cites like Seattle and San Francisco, both of which are currently building to a $15 minimum wage through incremental annual increases. |
Michael Saltsman, managing director at the Employment Policy Institute, called the plan a “backward approach to building the economy and creating jobs,” arguing Democrats will hurt job growth by mandating the $15 minimum wage and then seek to curtail some of that damage through tax breaks. |
“What we know about the $15 minimum wage is that, for full time workers they end up working fewer hours and for part time workers, many of them end up losing their jobs,” Saltsman told TheDCNF. |
Saltsman cited studies conducted in Seattle and San Francisco, which show local businesses are struggling to adapt to the increased burden of an increased government mandated wage. |
A similar study conducted by the University of Washington (UW) found that low-wage workers experienced a 9 percent decrease in work hours after Seattle raised the minimum wage to $13 per hour in 2016. |
Minimum wage in Seattle currently stands between $11 and $16 per hour depending on the size and location of the business, but all firms will be required to reach $15 per hour by 2021. According to the study, released in June, workers lost an average of $125 per month as a result of the 2016 $13 per hour wage mandate. |
Researchers at the Economic Policy Institute have criticized the UW study, arguing it “suffers from a number of data and methodological problems that bias the study in the direction of finding job loss, even where there may have been no job loss at all.” One central criticism alleges UW researchers skewed the results b... |
A group of large American corporations, including Walmart and Jet Blue, have announced wage increases in the wake of the GOP tax overhaul signed into law in December, which reduces the corporate rate from 35 to 21 percent. |
BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 16 (PIA) -– Crowd favorite Libertad National High School (LNHS) bested four other contingents to win the grand championship in the 2012 Kahimunan Festival in a breath-taking performance on Sunday, held at the city’s sports complex. |
LNHS performance wowed the members of the Board of Judges and captured the attention of the crowd as the contingent performed a neo-ethnic inspired performance, winning all the special awards such as Best in Musicality, Best in Costume and Best in Streetdancing, winning P5,000 each. |
The contingent received P50,000 for bagging the championship title, while contingent number two from a women’s organization in the said barangay received P30,000 as 2nd place winner. They also won the grand prize in the Higante (Giant) competition and Kiddie Kahimunan. Entry number 3, on the other hand was declared 3rd... |
Despite the heavy downpour just before the performance of the first contingent, it did not hinder the crowd at around 3,000 from witnessing the city’s only featured streetdancing competition, held annually in time with the feast of Brgy. Libertad here, in honor of patron saint – Senior Santo Niño. |
The 2012 Kahimunan Festival was exclusively participated by the puroks and organizations in Barangay Libertad. |
In an earlier interview, Barangay Captain Vincent Rizal Rosario said this year’s festival is exclusive for Barangay Libertad contingents only. He said this is because they experienced financial and time constraints in the preparation of the annual festival. |
However, the official said the contingents can hire instrumentalists from the neighboring provinces and cities in the region so that performance will still be colorful, festive and entertaining to the crowd. |
Kahimunan is the local version of Cebu City’s Sinulog Festival which is also held every 3rd Sunday of January. |
Meanwhile, Butuan City Mayor Ferdinand Amante, Jr. expressed his elation over the success of the festival as police officers reported no violence during the whole day activity. |
Pity the poor doctors. A panel of five health experts met face to face with 1,200 very vocal women Friday in the first "Women And Doctors," a luncheon and briefing on major women's health issues held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. |
The event, sponsored in association with the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research Program, featured questions on such issues as osteoporosis, breast and ovarian cancer and heart disease. The questions often centered on the inequity in women's health research. |
"Today's issues in women's health are frightening, frustrating and infuriating," said program co-chair Lilly Tartikoff. "I hope we can shed some light on these complicated issues." |
David Cameron attended a post-shoot stag dinner at which guests were served a stag's liver oozing blood but hid it under a pile of salad to avoid eating it, it has been revealed. |
Bruce Anderson, the political commentator and friend of the Prime Minister, said Mr Cameron was "among the wetties" at the meal who were put off by the sight of the bloody offal on their plates. |
The episode, a fresh reminder of the premier's privileged background, was described by one Labour MP as part of the kind of "elitist" upper class rituals that most people found "bizarre" and would not indulge in. |
Mr Anderson described the dinner - which took place in the the 1990s at a shooting lodge in Scotland - in his column in the Spectator magazine. |
The meal had featured "a fresh liver from a young stag, cooked rare so that it seeps with blood - saignant, not bleu". The dish had "a fluffy quality, reminiscent of foie gras - that livery taste to the point of sweetness", wrote Mr Anderson. |
He went on: "There were some wetties who were put off by the sight. Among their number, I regret to say, was the present Prime Minister. |
David Cameron, Lord Lucan or Basil Fawlty? |
"Afterwards he confessed to a crime which he had not committed since prep school. To hide his failure to eat the liver, he had concealed it under some rabbit food garnish." |
Mr Cameron was not thought to have shot the stag himself but Mr Anderson said the Prime Minister was an "excellent shot" and said it was a "great pity" that he had given up the pursuit since going into Government. |
"Shooting is a form of complete relaxation, and if you are Prime Minister and want to switch off it is perfect," he told the Daily Mail. |
Kerry McCarthy, a Labour MP who campaigns against blood sports, said of the episode: "I think most people would find this pretty disgusting but the old school, elitist, hunting, shooting, land-owning aristocratic classes have these bizarre rituals that most people wouldn't indulge in." |
Meanwhile a key Conservative moderniser, planning minister Nick Boles, said that the party leadership had become "carried away" with talking about "fluffy" issues such as the environment and "work-life balance stuff" instead of pressing home the party's message on the economy. |
Initiatives taken by Mr Cameron after he became party leader included travelling to the Arctic, putting a windmill on his house to stress his green credentials, and criticising retailers for promoting cut-price chocolate oranges at a time of rising obesity. |
Mr Boles, who is the founder of the Policy Exchange think-tank, told the Spectator magazine: "For classic, relatively low-income Midlands and northern towns and cities there was something missing. |
"We got side-tracked a bit from what is now clear should have been our proper concern - we didn't have a strong economic message." |
My good buddy, Richard “Zeke” Zimmerman, was a zany Jewish-Mormon kid from the Los Angeles area who came to BYU in the ’60s. He was short, brash, irreverent, and at his best was the life of the party. Zeke was a sprinter on the BYU track team, and also ran the 330 yard intermediate hurdles. |
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