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  • Posted By: misschinagirl @ 05/14/2008 7:08:55 PM

    libertyeconomics, you can't argue Austrian economics with a firm believer in the Neoclassical-Keynesian synthesis like Bernanke.

  • Posted By: misschinagirl @ 05/14/2008 7:06:04 PM

    Inflation is NOT an expansion of the money supply. Inflation is a general rise in the price level. Look it up. Inflation may rise because of an expansion in the money supply OR because of a change in velocity OR because production does not keep up. Remember that P = MV/Y

  • Posted By: tony0211 @ 04/25/2008 4:35:30 AM

    You state the "Lenders would increase interest rates or down payments to compensate for the risk that a court might modify or nullify their loans They are going to do this anyway to compensate for the "loss" of modifying the loan. You seem to support letting the market "work its will". If this is so, why save Bear Sterns or the monoline insurance companies. You can't save one without helping the other. They are just putting it on the backs of the homeowners. We got in this mess because of one reason only... GREED. You can't legislate greed; it will always find its way.

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