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July 17, 2010 at 8:46 AM #580378July 17, 2010 at 8:49 AM #579337capemanParticipant
Rich – You don’t take into account the loss of money through leveraged losses in the markets. If banks will lend 1:1 for margin on stocks and a stock goes to 50% then upon liquidation the former stock owners value goes from 100% to zero. This is even more severe when looking at the leverage in futures trading and currencies. Does this destroy money? No but the deflationary effects on the former owner of the securities is multiplied much more. So when Alice goes from 3 million to zero instead of 3 million to 2 million her effect on the economy will be from something to nothing while the bank will naturally tighten it’s margin requirements thereby destroying what was liquid money. That is an apparent loss of money.
July 17, 2010 at 8:49 AM #579430capemanParticipantRich – You don’t take into account the loss of money through leveraged losses in the markets. If banks will lend 1:1 for margin on stocks and a stock goes to 50% then upon liquidation the former stock owners value goes from 100% to zero. This is even more severe when looking at the leverage in futures trading and currencies. Does this destroy money? No but the deflationary effects on the former owner of the securities is multiplied much more. So when Alice goes from 3 million to zero instead of 3 million to 2 million her effect on the economy will be from something to nothing while the bank will naturally tighten it’s margin requirements thereby destroying what was liquid money. That is an apparent loss of money.
July 17, 2010 at 8:49 AM #579962capemanParticipantRich – You don’t take into account the loss of money through leveraged losses in the markets. If banks will lend 1:1 for margin on stocks and a stock goes to 50% then upon liquidation the former stock owners value goes from 100% to zero. This is even more severe when looking at the leverage in futures trading and currencies. Does this destroy money? No but the deflationary effects on the former owner of the securities is multiplied much more. So when Alice goes from 3 million to zero instead of 3 million to 2 million her effect on the economy will be from something to nothing while the bank will naturally tighten it’s margin requirements thereby destroying what was liquid money. That is an apparent loss of money.
July 17, 2010 at 8:49 AM #580069capemanParticipantRich – You don’t take into account the loss of money through leveraged losses in the markets. If banks will lend 1:1 for margin on stocks and a stock goes to 50% then upon liquidation the former stock owners value goes from 100% to zero. This is even more severe when looking at the leverage in futures trading and currencies. Does this destroy money? No but the deflationary effects on the former owner of the securities is multiplied much more. So when Alice goes from 3 million to zero instead of 3 million to 2 million her effect on the economy will be from something to nothing while the bank will naturally tighten it’s margin requirements thereby destroying what was liquid money. That is an apparent loss of money.
July 17, 2010 at 8:49 AM #580373capemanParticipantRich – You don’t take into account the loss of money through leveraged losses in the markets. If banks will lend 1:1 for margin on stocks and a stock goes to 50% then upon liquidation the former stock owners value goes from 100% to zero. This is even more severe when looking at the leverage in futures trading and currencies. Does this destroy money? No but the deflationary effects on the former owner of the securities is multiplied much more. So when Alice goes from 3 million to zero instead of 3 million to 2 million her effect on the economy will be from something to nothing while the bank will naturally tighten it’s margin requirements thereby destroying what was liquid money. That is an apparent loss of money.
July 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM #579374scaredyclassicParticipantI guess I can see this in terms of housing. When prices dropped from a million to a half million, I as a potential buyer had more potential money available, right. Instead of putting x down and having a y payment I only put 1/2 x down and have a 1/2 y payment to make. I have a lot more money …. But only theoretically in the future and only if I buy. What about when stock or housing markets plummet and become relatively illiquid? Isn’t wealth destroyed then. There may not always be a buyer. A whole suburb could become unsaleable… Or maybe just too much housing
July 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM #579468scaredyclassicParticipantI guess I can see this in terms of housing. When prices dropped from a million to a half million, I as a potential buyer had more potential money available, right. Instead of putting x down and having a y payment I only put 1/2 x down and have a 1/2 y payment to make. I have a lot more money …. But only theoretically in the future and only if I buy. What about when stock or housing markets plummet and become relatively illiquid? Isn’t wealth destroyed then. There may not always be a buyer. A whole suburb could become unsaleable… Or maybe just too much housing
July 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM #579999scaredyclassicParticipantI guess I can see this in terms of housing. When prices dropped from a million to a half million, I as a potential buyer had more potential money available, right. Instead of putting x down and having a y payment I only put 1/2 x down and have a 1/2 y payment to make. I have a lot more money …. But only theoretically in the future and only if I buy. What about when stock or housing markets plummet and become relatively illiquid? Isn’t wealth destroyed then. There may not always be a buyer. A whole suburb could become unsaleable… Or maybe just too much housing
July 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM #580106scaredyclassicParticipantI guess I can see this in terms of housing. When prices dropped from a million to a half million, I as a potential buyer had more potential money available, right. Instead of putting x down and having a y payment I only put 1/2 x down and have a 1/2 y payment to make. I have a lot more money …. But only theoretically in the future and only if I buy. What about when stock or housing markets plummet and become relatively illiquid? Isn’t wealth destroyed then. There may not always be a buyer. A whole suburb could become unsaleable… Or maybe just too much housing
July 17, 2010 at 9:35 AM #580411scaredyclassicParticipantI guess I can see this in terms of housing. When prices dropped from a million to a half million, I as a potential buyer had more potential money available, right. Instead of putting x down and having a y payment I only put 1/2 x down and have a 1/2 y payment to make. I have a lot more money …. But only theoretically in the future and only if I buy. What about when stock or housing markets plummet and become relatively illiquid? Isn’t wealth destroyed then. There may not always be a buyer. A whole suburb could become unsaleable… Or maybe just too much housing
July 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM #579379scaredyclassicParticipantAlso stocks can and do go to zero. Isn’t money destroyed then? What if things get so bad that starts happening a lot
July 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM #579473scaredyclassicParticipantAlso stocks can and do go to zero. Isn’t money destroyed then? What if things get so bad that starts happening a lot
July 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM #580004scaredyclassicParticipantAlso stocks can and do go to zero. Isn’t money destroyed then? What if things get so bad that starts happening a lot
July 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM #580111scaredyclassicParticipantAlso stocks can and do go to zero. Isn’t money destroyed then? What if things get so bad that starts happening a lot
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