very good over view, and it proves we are in a deflationary environment, not a hyper-inflationary scenario. deflation is a depression. deflation is driven by a lack of demand, demand is driven by wages. the graphs illustrate quite effectively a downward deflationary spiral, it bodes ill for the suckers, err, investors who bought the recovery scam, and the hyper-inflationary scam used by wall street hucksters to pump up stocks and commodities. it also proves that dividends plummeted during the depression, just as they are now, and the dividend myth during the depression that offset the losses of paper value allowing for a quicker rebound in portfolio's, was also a scam. many companies simply abandoned their dividends, slashed them to the bare bones, or went under. so dividends cannot be counted on as a reliable growth revenue to off set the stock market crash of 1929, and the fact that stocks barley broke even, let alone any gains again some 25 years later.
We have this very strange situation today in America where we have given banks hundreds of billions of dollars and the president has to beg the banks to lend and they refuse, the recession is nowhere near its end, rising unemployment, weak demand
Stiglitz Says U.S. Is Paying for Failure to Nationalize Banks
By Bloomberg News
Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said the world’s biggest economy is suffering because of the U.S. government’s failure to nationalize banks during the financial crisis. “It we had done the right thing, we would be able to have more influence over the banks,” Stiglitz told reporters at an economic conference in Shanghai yesterday. “They would be lending and the economy would be stronger.” Stiglitz has stuck with his view even after the U.S. economy returned to growth in the third quarter and as banks’ share prices climbed this year. President Barack Obama said on Oct. 24 that the nation’s lenders, supported by taxpayers in the crisis, need to “fulfill their responsibility” by lending to small businesses still struggling to get credit. Companies such as Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. benefited from a $700 billion taxpayer-funded bailout package last year. In contrast, Obama said that too many small businesses are still short of money, adding that his administration will “take every appropriate step” to encourage banks to lend. “We have this very strange situation today in America where we have given banks hundreds of billions of dollars and the president has to beg the banks to lend and they refuse,” Stiglitz said yesterday. “What we did was the wrong thing. It has weakened the economy and has increased our deficit, making it more difficult for the future.” While the U.S. economy grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the first expansion in more than a year, the economist said the recession is “nowhere near” its end, citing rising unemployment and weak demand. The U.S. government plans to alter the way that a similar rescue would be handled in the future. Draft legislation proposes that banks, hedge funds and other financial firms holding more than $10 billion in assets would pay to rescue companies whose collapse would shake the financial system. Citigroup and Bank of America shares have quadrupled from this year’s lows in March. To contact the reporter on this story: Judy Chen in Shanghai at xche...@bloomberg.net Last Updated: November 1, 2009 02:33 EST
"Jesus'sPedoBoy" <jismqu...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:a548a7f0-d67b-4b0f- b50e-7d6fc8f41...@p28g2000vbi.googlegroups.com:
> If you can hold off buying durable goods until 2011, when the > unemployment rate hits 13.5 percent, you'll REALLY make out!
U6 is already at 18%... by 2011 unemployment will be near 100% (meet the new boss, same as the old boss), bankers and guiottines will be the next big attraction.
'scuse me whilst I go buy some more ammo, canned goods, and bottled water..
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