Dec 01 2008

Hot off the presses

Published by Matthew at 11:39 am under Apolitical Blues

Bernankes Money Printing Helicopters are Here :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

Newly printed dollars are being used to replace the capital losses of America’s corporations. If it were possible to replace wealth simply by printing money, humanity would have eliminated poverty shortly after discovering the printing press. Instead, it always results in the same fate - destruction of the currency through the process of hyperinflation .

The following chart using data from the Federal Reserve of St. Louis visually reveals just how extreme the latest measures from the US Federal Reserve have impacted the monetary base.

Expansion of the U.S. Monetary Base since 1960

The last three months have seen an increase of $636.7 billion which is equivalent to the increase of the previous eighteen years.

Courtesy of http://www.marketoracle.co.uk

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