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It's not velocity - that's a red herring (complete misunderstanding of monetary behaviour by Rothbard et. al.)

There are a few things going on simultaneously, one is that a lot of the new money is going into the finance sector, so there is inflation, but it's in share prices which doesn´t get captured by the CPI measurement. The other thing is that banking regulation no longer depends on the reserve requirement, but on the capital reserve requirement which controls how much lending the banks can do (and through that the amount of money creation.) So the inflationary spiral is now, banks increase capital, which increases lending, which increases the money supply, which increases the value of existing capital, etc. It is fortunately a lot slower than what would have happened if the old asset reserve requirement was still all that controlled the system. You can see it starting to affect M2, but it will take a while to feed through.



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