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Subject: Bonds

Bonds are any interest-bearing or discounted debt security that normally obliges the issuer to pay the bondholder a contracted sum of money and to repay the principal amount of the debt.

Deflation Economics

When cash is an investment strategy

Sometimes even cash is not a good idea. "Money to burn" showing Confederate Dollars.

Deflation is said to occur when general price levels fall. The last important example of general deflation in the United States occurred during the Great Depression. Federal Reserve officials and central bankers around the world often regard deflation as a greater risk than inflation. Under the Obama administration, US central bankers are now wary of both deflation and inflation.

Stagflation watch

When will inflation kick in?

Forecasting when inflation will kick in is impossible, because the political situation is so uncertain and conflicted.

The lack of fiscal restraint of President Obama on the healthcare issue, the ’stimulus bill’, and other ‘progressive’ legislation in the pipeline, combined with the jobs-firsts-inflation-last attitude of Fed Chairman Bernanke — leave little room to doubt that sooner or later the United States is likely to enter the realm of double-digit inflation.

Inflation is likely be the final and deadliest blow to the retirement dreams of many Baby Boomers. When the stock market crashes, one can hope for a recovery some day. With inflation, the losses are permanent and final.

US tax policy

Why are the Super-Rich often liberals?

Colonial dining in British India, 1895.  See here, boy! Give another pull on that punkah

If we are to believe the old adage that, ‘people vote their pocketbooks’, why are so many of the Super-Rich ardent supporters of the Democratic Party?

Why do the liberal Super-Rich seem to act in a way that is so contrary to their selfish interests and economic well-being?

Here I show how capital flow analysis of the Federal Reserve flow of funds accounts provides an answer to this apparent conundrum.

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Households save more and invest in equities

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