1/17/2012 Portland, Oregon - Pop in your mints…
It is turning out to be an unusually dry winter here in Portland. It is a refreshing break from the usual incessant pounding of rain which blesses this part of the world between November and May each year. Perhaps we are just now getting back the lost months of June and July of 2011, as nature has a way of evening things out over time.We have observed that there is a perfect balance in God’s creation. Some call it a yin and yang, male and female, mercy and justice, freedom and slavery, heat and cold. For every extreme, there is a force which, given enough time, will work to counteract the excesses wrought by the seemingly uninhibited operation of its polar opposite.
It should come as no surprise, then, that in the economic sphere, debt and money fall into the same category of opposing natural forces.
Yes, debt and money are two completely different forces. One takes from the future to provide for the present, the other takes from the past towards the same end.
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| Yin Yang - A picture of balance |
Simple, right? Male, female, Yin, Yang, case closed.
Yet circa 2012, for some odd reason, there seems to be an abundance of debt and a dearth of money in the world. The world as we know it is perilously out of balance.
How can this be? Why are things so far out of balance? In the interest of time, we will sum up what is otherwise a long and painful explanation in the following way. Roughly 100 years ago, by decree of the financial authorities, debt was declared to be money.
Ever since then, man has lived in a state of economic confusion. On one hand, He has seen an unprecedented level of technological advances and a resulting rise in his standard of living. On the other hand, on net, he, or someone acting in his name, has borrowed an unprecedented amount of money from the future in order to achieve these advances and consequent rise in his living standards.
How is this possible? Didn’t simply declaring debt is money relieve man of having to save? After all, if everyone simply assents to accepting promises to pay in the future for goods or services delivered or performed today, haven’t we trumped the need for savings, the Yang, as it were?
More to the point, have the laws of nature with regards to money been permanently altered?
If only it were so. Unfortunately, the longer man labors under the false assumption that debt is money, the greater the pain which will be incurred by mankind as nature unilaterally brings the earth into balance.
More to come…
Stay tuned and Trust Jesus.
Stay Fresh!
David Mint
Email: davidminteconomics@gmail.com
P.S. For more ideas and commentary please check out The Mint at http://www.davidmint.com/
Key Indicators for January 17, 2012
Corn Price per Bushel: $6.04
10 Yr US Treasury Bond: 1.85%
FED Target Rate: 0.08% ON AUTOPILOT, THE FED IS DEAD!
10 Yr US Treasury Bond: 1.85%
FED Target Rate: 0.08% ON AUTOPILOT, THE FED IS DEAD!
Gold Price Per Ounce: $1,653 PERMANENT UNCERTAINTY
MINT Perceived Target Rate*: 1.50%
Unemployment Rate: 8.5%
Inflation Rate (CPI): 0.0%
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 12,485
Unemployment Rate: 8.5%
Inflation Rate (CPI): 0.0%
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 12,485
M1 Monetary Base: $2,380,300,000,000 RED ALERT!!! THE ANIMALS ARE LEAVING THE ZOO!!!
M2 Monetary Base: $9,829,100,000,000 YIKES UP $1 Trillion in one year!!!!!!!
M2 Monetary Base: $9,829,100,000,000 YIKES UP $1 Trillion in one year!!!!!!!
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