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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Skene, G. Leigh. Cycles of inflation and deflation. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1992 (OCoLC)654807473 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
G Leigh Skene |
| ISBN: | 0275944255 9780275944254 |
| OCLC Number: | 25787476 |
| Description: | x, 167 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. Demystifying Dollars. 1. Was the Gold Standard a Curse or a Blessing? Definitely! Convertible Currencies Were Constant. The Gold Standard Was an Automatic Stabilizer. Government Wants Instant and Easy Solutions. The Domino Effect. 2. What Is Money? Interest Is the Price of Money. Banks Are Borrowers, Too. Is Anybody Minding the Store? 3. Cycles in Consumption and Credit. How Many People Can Our Earth Support? Cycles. The Dilemma of Debt. LDCs and America Have Big Debt Problems -- Pt. 2. Debt Causes Depression. 4. Debt Was Our Most Important Product. Leverage and Inflation Encourage Borrowing. The Federal Government Was Last -- but Not Least. 5. Big Brother Believes in Inflation. Are Government Deficits Always Inflationary? Managing Bank Reserves. Do Interest Rates Control the Fed? 6. Winds of Change. The Problems of Welfare. The United States Is Not an Island unto Itself. Size Makes a Difference. Bank Loans: Engine of Inflation and Deflation. The Velocity of Money Is As Important As the Amount of Money. The Unseen Hand Rules. 7. Economyths. Is Democracy Always Inflationary? Governments Will Print Money to Solve Their Problems. Government Rescues Raise Inflation. Stabilizing the Value of Money Would Solve All Our Problems. We Will Have Inflation Forever -- Pt. 3. Depression Is Not the End of the World. 8. Can Prices Really Fall? How Bad Was the Great Depression? Why Prosperity Turns to Depression. Excess Debt Will Cause a Depression. What Is a Depression Anyway? Small Is Beautiful. 9. Making Deflation Work for Us. Things May Not Be What They Seem. Always a Creditor. Never a Debtor Be. 10. You Cannot Analyze an Irrational Subject. Cycles Are Emotional Phenomena. How Far Can a Trend Go? The Stock Market in a Deflation. 11. If You Believe in Crystal Balls. Liquidity Trap -- What on Earth Is That? The Cost-Push Phase of the Cycle. Can We Repeal the Divine Rights of Government? 12. The Future Is Not What It Used to Be. Have We Become More Stable or Less Stable? No Growth Industry? Quality -- A New Way of Life. 13. Investing in the Future. Making Money in Muddled Markets -- App. A: Are Government Deficits Always Inflationary? -- App. B: How Much Control Does the Fed Really Have? |
| Responsibility: | G. Leigh Skene. |
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- Inflation (Finance)
- Deflation (Finance)
- Monetary policy -- United States.
- Business cycles -- United States.
- Deflación (Finanzas)
- Política monetaria -- EE.UU.
- Ciclos comerciales -- EE.UU.
- Conjunctuurbewegingen.
- Monetaire politiek.
- Inflatie.
- Déflation.
- Inflation.
- Politique monétaire -- États-Unis.
- Cycles économiques -- États-Unis.
- Wirtschaftspolitik
- Konjunkturzyklus
- Geldpolitik
- Geschichte 1920-1992.
- Öffentliche Schulden
- USA
- Business -- United States
- Monetary -- United States
