I'm no economist and don't know much about money flows and what the real situation is , if we are standing on the edge of the abyss or actually making any progress at all .. some of the things I see and read makes me wonder if my hat shouldn't be made of tin foil as well...
The Euro , wtf is that , it didn't start so long ago and when it did many citizens lost 30% of their "wealth" and more and now what?, it seems to me that nobody has a clue or even realistic options that don't end up with more lying, cheating and looting from the rest of us.
Housing, I see signs of Banks and the "1%" loading up on real estate and housing around the world while everyone becomes homeless , on the one hand it seems that prices need to reach a level of reality, but on the other hand it seems like there is no reality and "they" are just suppressing prices until loading up and selling back to us.... I get it capitalism, whatever, I'd just like to know more about what actually is going on and happening behind the scenes, I'm sure there are people here on the forum who know about this stuff and can share some insight....
The Fed and Central Banks , what are they really doing? Just sloshing fake money back and forth to keep the plates spinning and depositing from one country to another, or is there any actual progress being made? I remember reading about the Deflationary death spiral back in '08
DEFLATIONARY SPIRALS (
I guess just from human nature when there is enough pessimism and dire expectations things seem to get exhausted in any one direction but burying one's head in the sand doesn't work so well either so it would be nice to hear some views and perspectives that aren't coming from the media and have a better understanding of how things work and what options and outcomes to look for ....
I was looking through some of the money supply data from Velocity of M2 Money Stock (M2V) - FRED - St. Louis Fed (
Velocity of M2 Money Stock
and not really knowing what I'm looking at found this article
SparkNotes: Money: Quantity theory of money (
Here is the M2 Chart
So I guess the velocity of money is how often money is changing hands?
And this due to the HUGE money supply? Because if there were less , would change hands more? So with Velocity of money now at the lowest point in the history of the chart provided by the Fed what happens now while inflation is still "low" according to the masters and I imagine would be lower if they decrease money supply? With zero interest rates etc... what's next?
It's been a long day so just trying to have a place where knowledge collects because I'm sure there is a ton of info on this here but maybe not so easy to find and see all together....