Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Public and Private Debt has Dropped and Not Inflation Concern



This graph shows that non-financial debt rose rapidly during the housing bubble and it fell rapidly after the bust. Inflation hawks keep telling everyone that increases in the money supply will create inflationary pressure. If debt is falling then money supply is not rising. Besides money can't cause inflation unless it is being spent. GDP is certainly not growing fast enough to spike inflation. Maybe the inflation hawks are really gold bugs.

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