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- From: jfh@beach.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: GM Plant Closures and Economic Problems
- Message-ID: <38089@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:10:26 GMT
- References: <38015@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <58004@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Dec26.160846.8549@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec26.160846.8549@Princeton.EDU> nfs@volkl (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
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- >The end of price stability in 1860 was caused by civil war financing
- >via greenbacks. Libertarians will argue that the end of price
- >stability in 1913 is a direct result of the creation of the Federal
- >Reserve system that year, but prices really didn't take off until 1917
- >when the U.S. entered the war.
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- >Norbert
- >nfs@cs.princeton.edu
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- This was when the Fed began lowering reserve requirements and began
- printing up more money. The price instability was a direct result of
- Fed internvention in the economy, and so was the boom of the 20's, and
- the depression of the 30's.
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- Let's here it for the Fed--our dollar has lost >95% of its purchasing
- power since then. Hooray.
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- Jim Hranicky (jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu)
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