Sunday, May 25, 2008

You're Unbelievable

Click images to ENLARGE Pictures ARE worth a thousand words. Data-dependent, the Helicopter Speech. "What has this got to do with monetary policy? Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even