Re: [TML] Currency Phil Pugliese (12 Jul 2016 19:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Currency Bruce Johnson (12 Jul 2016 19:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] Currency Michael Houghton (12 Jul 2016 21:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] Currency Peter Vernon (12 Jul 2016 21:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] Currency David Shaw (12 Jul 2016 20:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Currency Abu Dhabi (12 Jul 2016 20:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] Currency Bruce Johnson (12 Jul 2016 21:45 UTC)
Re: [TML] Currency Tim (13 Jul 2016 01:32 UTC)

Re: [TML] Currency Michael Houghton 12 Jul 2016 21:17 UTC

Howdy!

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Bruce  Johnson
<xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 12, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>>
>> NorthKorea & Iran & (?) have been counterfeiting $100US for, literally, decades. In fact, years ago, my father showed me a newspaper article that stated that it was well known that anywhere from 1/3 - 1/2 of the US 100 dollar bills in circulation in parts of asia were counterfeit.
>
> The same holds true for other parts of the world as well, yet note: we’re not suffering hyperinflation as a result…Inflation is not merely a factor of currency supply.
>
In fact, with interest rates at the lower bound of zero, printing money has no
inflationary effect. Take note of the wild inflation over the past
eight years as
the US money supply tripled.

yours,
Michael

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