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... On yet a Third Track... Are these Excess Reserves the reasons the Inflation Vince has been predicting has NOT occurred ... Yet ? I think so. And just like short term bonds will not be rolled over and provide a flood of new cash, so will these. Because nobody ever paid interest on excess reserve...

US and UK government debt in historic perspective http://www.simontaylorsblog.com/2011/12/05/us-and-uk-government-debt-in-historic-perspective/ After the war ends they cut the military way back. The total government spending is cut in half and there is no deficit. Once there is no deficit there is ...

PDF page 25 of the second linked Treasury Report, ( the page I specifically suggested you read in the post you were raising the 26% question about ) includes: Fiscal 2011 26.8% History Fiscal 2012 26.3% History now. 2012 ( Fiscal ) ended on September 30th, 2012. Fiscal 2013 24.4% Projection Fiscal ...

Can anyone see any reason why the banks, with excess reserves of some 1.x Trillion in Federal Reserve Accounts credited to the banks, can not just request all of those excess reserves be converted into printed "Federal Reserve Notes" and distributed to the commercial banks that made the requests ? ...

The debt maturities - and what percentage needs refinancing over 12 months - for the 11.347 Trillion in Marketable Debt Held by the Public is widely available from the U.S. Treasury. That is where the "highest year" percentage of 26% ( of 11.347 Trillion ) came from. U.S. Treasury.gov links related...

More than $8 trillion of the $16 trillion debt matures in less than 12 months. This appears to be complete fiction. Only about $11 Trillion of that $16 Trillion is Marketable Debt, the average maturity on that $11 Trillion is more than 5 years. The largest percentage of Marketable Debt coming due i...

Knowing the final effects of a law as complex as the affordable healthcare act is not possible until after full implementation, and then you'll have to wait for adjustments to the law and the adjustments society will make to the change in the law. It might be possible to know the full effect about ...

My post on why Mish was wrong about hyperinflation has gotten 8,500 hits so far. This is my most popular post ever. I decided to try to address all the Hyperinflation skeptic questions and so have a new post, "FAQ for Hyperinflation Skeptics". http://howfiatdies.blogspot.com/2012/10/faq-for-hyperinf...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-10/18/c_131914856.htm Now this I found incredibly funny on a number of levels. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/jp-morgan-finds-obama-and-us-central-planning-has-broken-economic-virtuous-cycle This is just too funny. First the claim that an observation of a...

With respect to gold or any commodity there is more than one mechanism to drive up price. Primary drivers are normally inflation of money and supply/demand for the product. I have no problem with saying either of those can drive up prices, nor do I have a problem with saying both can occur at once....