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- Subject: Re: Boom Boom Boom Boom :)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.145158.4034@desire.wright.edu>
- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
- Date: 10 Sep 92 14:51:58 EST
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- <1992Aug27.105013.3773@desire.wright.edu> <thompson.715041679@kiyotaki.econ.umn.edu> <37013@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
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- In article <37013@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
- >>_Why_ business cycles happen is perhaps the biggest open question in
- >>economics today, and has been since at least the turn of the century.
- >>No professional economist of whom I am aware considers the question of
- >>causality for business cycles to be a closed topic. This is an area
- >>of great controversy and very active research within the profession,
- >>so it should come as no surprise that there is so much controversy and
- >>confusion about it among the general population. The available data
- >>are inconclusive enough to support many opposing viewpoints.
- >
- > Anyone here heard of Ludwig von Mises? His theory of the business cycle
- > seems to be the only one which holds water:
- >
- > Government inflation of the money supply causes the boom, and
- > when the inflation is ceased the recession occurs.
-
- Except history doesn't bear out that theory:
-
- > 3) During the 1980's the Federal reserve increased the money supply from
- > $400 billion to $800 billion. When the inflation stopped accelerating,
- > we entered this current recession. For the boom to continue under inflation,
- > the growth in the money supply must acclerate, not remain constant.
-
- Inflation died long before the economy went into a recession.
-
- > The interesting thing about inflation is that if it were merely stopped,
- > the economy would get going again on its own. The recession is actually
- > the GOOD part of the business cycle because during the recession the
- > market realigns itself, correcting the malinvestments caused by inflation.
- > Our government officals cannot seem to resist temptation, however.
-
- Adjustments can be made without resorting to a recession. Unemployment
- is not a necessary condition for economic realignment.
-
- > The Fed just recently cut interest rates again, insuring that the ten-dollar
- > bill you have in your wallet will be worth less tomorrow.
-
- Cutting interest rates will not devalue the dollar.
-
- > Another interesting thing about inflation is that is redistributes goods
- > and services from the consumers to the government. When the government buys
- > goods and services with freshly printed money--it gets them for the current
- > price. However, once this money is put into circulation, prices rise, and
- > the dollar for everyone else becomes worth less.
- >
- > Cool, huh?
-
- Out of sight.
- :)
-
- Brett
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