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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: GM Plant Closures and Economic Problems
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:12:43 GMT
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- In article <38089@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> jfh@beach.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec26.160846.8549@Princeton.EDU> nfs@volkl (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >>
- >>Norbert
- >>nfs@cs.princeton.edu
- >
- >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.
- >
- >Let's here it for the Fed--our dollar has lost >95% of its purchasing
- >power since then. Hooray.
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- How do you account for the numerous boom/bust cycles that predated
- the Federal reserve?
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- >
- >Jim Hranicky (jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu)
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