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This is not really currency that circulates. It’s like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in a while somebody will buy a 50-year-old bottle of wine and say, “Wait a minute. This has gone bad.” The answer is, “Well, that wine isn’t for drinking; that’s for trading.”

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Once the speculative demand ended, all of a sudden the added production facilities that had been brought into production by the high prices went out of production again, and there was a glut.
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Demand Ended Glut Once Production
The United States and Europe are in a state of debt deflation, where people and businesses have to pay banks instead of spending their income on goods and services. So markets shrink, sales and profits fall, and the stock market turns down.
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Country Deflation Fall People
Either you can save the economy, or you can save the One Percent from losing a single penny.
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Economy Losing Pennies
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that’s taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.
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Gains Income People
The companies aren’t hiring, because consumers don’t have enough money to buy the goods and services.
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Consumers Enough Hiring Services
you’ll load the company you take over with debt. But you don’t have to pay taxes on the profits that you pay out in this way. You can deduct the interest from your tax liability.
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Company Liability Over Pay Profit Tax
Education is something that should not be organized on a for-profit basis, because in that case its purpose is not really to provide an education.
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Fall Government Opportunity
In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.
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Fairytale Order Rich
The seeming irony is that it’s so bad that it enables the Democratic Party to think, “A-ha, all we have to do is be the lesser evil.
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Enable Evil Lesser
This is not really currency that circulates. It’s like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in a while somebody will buy a 50-year-old bottle of wine and say, “Wait a minute. This has gone bad.” The answer is, “Well, that wine isn’t for drinking; that’s for trading.”
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Circulate Drinking Like Somebody Wine Years
The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity and fewer people are going to walk away from the mortgages. That will save the from taking a loss on their junk mortgage loans.
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House Loss Payments People Promoting
I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it into an offshore account.
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Chocolate Country Guess People Promised
Europe is sort of like the Soviet Union in the ’30s and ’40s. There was an argument, is it reformable or not? There is a feeling, and I think it’s correct, that the European Union, the eurozone, and the euro, is not reformable, as a result of the Lisbon treaties and the other treaties that have created the euro.
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Correct Feelings Reformable Taken Thinking
Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces.
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Country Real Thinking
I think we’re in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.
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Bankers Running Thinking
Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.
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Economy Helping Wages

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