Just flip the chart top-to-bottom in your mind. The point is that in response to a change in inputs, the value will attempt to adjust to a new level, overshoot (not always. Google over-damped and critical damping) and in a series of decreasing oscillations settle at the new value. Then the inputs change again and it happens all over.

No, it's called a negative feedback loop and should probably respond like any other damped oscillation.



You'll see this same thing in Bitcoin price changes too. Not surprising since the mechanisms are essentially the same.

So if I were to offer you 10BTC at, say $5 a pop, you'd send me packing?

Tricky question because if people aren't willing to pay it, the price goes down, miners switch off their gear and bitcoins become cheaper to produce.

He's a wily one, that Mr Satoshi.

It's the too-much-stuffing-and-wine bump

It sounds like his problem may be with 0 itself. Given that that is 50% of your job, I can see the potential for conflict.

Merry Christmas all. God bless us, every one.

Sweet. I got in the top two of those though got out a little early on the Netflix. That was way underpriced.

I'm detecting shenanigans. >1k was pre-Jan-1st

I ran across this gif the other day and wondered why I haven't seen it on here yet:



Oh, obviously because the image proxy is shit.

How about now?

FTFY

Meh, I'd rather have the poor richer than the rich poorer. Honest money, honest taxation.

What part of "GDP is rising, inflation adjusted average wages remain stagnant" are you having trouble with?

Yes because anyone who, say, makes an extra $10 in tips tonight will be straight on the phone to Scottrade in the morning. No, rather they will put a little aside, perhaps in a jar or maybe a low-yield savings account and build their wealth until it is large enough to actually do something with.

Then, of course, we are entering the era of negative interest rates on savings. So perhaps the mattress is better. Of course, even if you aren't in this kind of situation, it's impossible to operate a checking account without keeping a balance so the government is helping itself there too, even when bail-ins are not happening.

Ah, and, the stock market. That's where all these inflated dollars are going, indeed. Nice fat bubble there. Nice if you happen to have some extra money to put in there. At least until the inevitable happens. Don't worry, the big boys who buddy up to the government will be able to make a tidy exit in good time. There will be plenty of people wondering where their retirement money went though.

This would correspond with that "projected" wage thing in your other chart. So this only back up the wealth being stolen by inflation proposition.

Though if this was a Bitcoin chart, you would be bemoaning that income had fallen 20% over the last 40 years, no?

See that gap between the "projected" and "actual"? That's what your fiat currency gets you.

Which is great if you live paycheck-to-paycheck and don't plan to retire (and believe the government inflation figures which differ significantly from those calculated by independent bodies).

I disagree. Property taxes (which inflation essentially is) are much worse than taxes based on income or transactions as one is forced to labor to pay them.

Also, though this no doubt varies from country to country, inflation typically distributes wealth to the already wealthy. Only the very, very poor who are not attempting to better their lives benefit at the lower end of the scale.

Yup.

Christmas is coming. No doubt many of us will settle down, full of ham, turkey, duck (or whatever your local seasonal dish is) around the television with the family and tune into that enduring classic, "It's a wonderful life".

If you're familiar with this movie, at one point, $8000 dollars is misplaced. This is seen as a catastrophe. Chaos ensues: Businesses are at risk, careers threatened, jail time looms, suicide considered.

Over $8000?

Well, see "It's a Wonderful Life" was released in 1946. Care to guess how much that would be worth in modern money? We're talking close to $100,000 dollars (give or take pocket change) and that's using government figures which have been diddled over the years.

Merry Christmas.