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2009-03-18 -Lurid Crime Tales-

IMF poised to print billions of dollars in 'global quantitative easing'

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Posted by Seafarious 2009-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Whatever happened to the notion that money represents goods and services?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-18 04:52|| 2009-03-18 04:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Watch it devalue as fast as Zimbucks.

Posted by ed 2009-03-18 08:23|| 2009-03-18 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 ..by printing billions of dollars worth of a global "super-currency" in an unprecedented new effort to address the economic crisis.

New uses for 'carbon credits' that have been the darlings of international commerce? /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-18 09:10|| 2009-03-18 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 key step towards OWG in the longer term and undercutting the US $ in the short term.

Posted by lotp 2009-03-18 10:48|| 2009-03-18 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 It begins: Consumer prices rise 0.4 percent in February

Posted by Seafarious 2009-03-18 11:57|| 2009-03-18 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Whatever happened to the notion that money represents goods and services?

The notion died soon after the gold standard did. Nowadays the only thing money represents is the government guarantee to print more money.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-03-18 15:29|| 2009-03-18 15:29|| Front Page Top

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