[quote author="awgee" date=1227075165][quote author="upperlowerclass" date=1227073494][quote author="awgee" date=1227061145]Is there any significance to this, or is $4.28 trillion of created currency offset by "deflation"? And if so, or not, are there any consequences, and what are they?
<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/27719011">$4.28 trillion</a></blockquote>
Can't the offset of deflation only be temporary? Since the actual currency base isn't decreasing, only a brief period of unwinding credit. Thus once the velocity of money returns, credit will then be a multiplier of a much larger currency base and we see the real fun inflation. At the same time the FED will be unable to reel in the money base because more than likely the assets they own now will never be able to sell for as much as they paid for them.</blockquote>
Along those lines, I think it is important to distinguish between credit destruction and asset depreciation. Currency created to offset credit destruction is offset, but currency created to balance asset destruction offsets nothing in the money supply and the only way that I am aware of to decrease the money supply is to destroy portions of the money supply which also destroys the false economy built on money supply increase. In order to avoid hyperinflation, it will be necessary to destroy the economy, a option our government and Federal Reserve will not choose. I am wondering how long it will take before folks realize that an expanding economy built on inflation of the money supply via credit expansion is not an expanding economy at all, but rather a false affluence built on debt and the spending our children's future. My experience so far, is that most folks choose not to think about it. They figure someone in power can always fix it. Or they just console themselves with whatever inane explanation they hear on CNBC.
Query: As tax revenue falls, where will the cities, states, and federal government make up for the shortfall? If you think tax revenues are not decreasing and this is a false assumption, I wish you luck.</blockquote>
The cities, counties, and states will go to the federal gov't for money. The federal gov't will have the treasury keep the printing presses going to fund those grants.