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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rarebird who wrote (28408)	3/20/2005 10:34:03 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

if it were Definition 1, Japan would have had rampant inflation this past decade. that favorite definition of the Austrians has been discredited.

To: Rarebird who wrote (28408)	3/20/2005 4:47:39 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

1. An increase in the total stock of money. 2. Measured by the CPI and the PPI. 3. Rising prices of things which everyone has to BUY. I use Definition 1 and 3. Definition 2 has no meaning to me because that is the Government's Definition and the later changes the basket of goods which are measured to suit themselves so they can manipulate the public mentality By keeping #2 artificially low doesn't that just exacerbate the problem by overinflating home prices? Also it allows consumers to spend beyond their means to a greater degree than normal to buy furniture, big screen TV's, cars and boats on credit. Along with cash out refi's my guess is way too much future demand has been spent in the present and many American's will find themsleves slaves to their mortgages and credit card debt.