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The Anti-Concepts of Money: Stagflation

Anti-Concept Stagflation

If you’ve read the Inflation essay from this Anti-Concepts of Money Series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept of Stagflation. The Anti-Concept of Stagflation  Stagflation. This is a curious term. Wikipedia’s definition has the tell-tale signs of an anti-concept:  “In economics, stagflation or recession-inflation is a situation in which the inflation rate is high, the […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: What is GDP?

What is GDP?

If you’ve read the Introduction from this Anti-Concepts of Money series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept: GDP The Anti-Concept of GDP Let’s discuss thet anti-concept, Gross Domestic Product or GDP for short. Armed with an understanding of anti-concepts, it should be obvious from one of the ways it’s calculated. From Wikipedia:  Y = C […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Store of Value

Anti-Concept Store of Value

If you’ve read the previous essays on Purchasing Power, Inflation, and Money from this Anti-Concepts of Money series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept: Store of Value The Anti-Concept of a Store of Value Another anti-concept is store of value. The very term evokes a picture of a container. You pour water into the container, […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Inflation

Anti-Concept Inflation

If you’ve read the previous essays on Purchasing Power, Velocity, and Money from this Anti-Concepts of Money series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept of Inflation The Anti-Concept of Inflation  The Anti-Concept of Purchasing Power leads us to the Anti-Concept of Inflation.  That pseudo-equation already smuggles that any increase in the quantity of money causes […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Purchasing Power

Anti-Concept Purchasing Power

If you’ve read the previous essays on Velocity and Money from this Anti-Concepts of Money series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept of Purchasing Power. The Anti-Concept of Purchasing Power  Let’s look at another anti-concept, purchasing power. Wikipedia defines it as:  “the amount of goods and services that can be purchased with a unit of […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Risk-Free

Anti-Concept Risk-Free

If you’ve read the What Is Money? essay from this Anti-Concepts of Money Series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept “Risk-Free”. The Anti-Concept of Risk-Free Recall, that the anti-concept money is supposed to mean anything used as medium of exchange. But in reality, money is what you hold, when you do not wish to take […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Wealth Effect

Anti-Concept The Wealth Effect

If you’ve read the Purchasing Power and Inflation essays from this Anti-Concepts of Money Series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept of The Wealth Effect. The Anti-Concept of The Wealth Effect Here is the definition of wealth effect from Wikipedia:  “The wealth effect is the change in spending that accompanies a change in perceived wealth.”  […]

Raising Rates to Fight Inflation, Report 24 Nov

Physics students study mechanical systems in which pulleys are massless and frictionless. Economics students study monetary systems in which rising prices are everywhere and always caused by rising quantity of currency. There is a similarity between this pair of assumptions. Both are facile. They oversimplify reality, and if one is not careful they can lead […]

The Purchasing Power of Capital, Report 29 Sep

We discuss capital consumption all the time, because it is the megatrend of our era. However, capital consumption is an abstract idea. So let’s consider some concrete examples, to help make it clearer. Flipping Homes, Consuming Capital First, let’s look at the case of Timothy Housetrader. Tim has a small two-bedroom house. Next door, his […]

Asset Inflation vs. Consumer Goods Inflation, Report 1 Sep

A paradigm is a mental framework. It has a both a positive pressure and a negative filter. It structures one’s thoughts, orients them in a certain direction, and rules out certain ideas. Paradigms can be very useful, for example the scientific method directs one to begin with facts, explain them in a consistent way, and […]