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Velocity of Money and the Crack-Up Boom - John Rubino - Dollar Collapse

Velocity of money is also highly dependent upon disposable income. Unlike 1999, there could be as much as 40% and possibly more US families that have NO disposable income and no investments. Don't look for those folks to contribute to the velocity of money anytime soon.

Despite some rising real estate prices, it should be obvious that real estate is not an investment. Just look at an amortization table and you will see that for the first few years of a mortgage, you pay almost nothing on the principle. Without rising prices, you will effectively be paying rent. Without a buyer, you have NO investment. There is NO ROI until the money changes hands.

Yah, this is gonna end well.

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Beginning of the headline :Based on both recent history and mainstream economic theory the past few years should not have been possible. When you cut interest rates to near-zero, run deficits of 10% of GDP and buy up every government bond in sight with newly created currency, you get a boom, end of story. That's just the way capitalism works. But this time was different. After four years of QE and ZIRP and all the other easy-money acronyms, we entered the month of May with Europe in a deepening recession... Read More

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