The Central Bank Needs To

House Prices Have Risen By Nearly 25 Percent Over The Past Two Years. Although Speculative Activity Has Increased In Some Areas, At A National Level These Price Increases Largely Reflect Strong Economic Fundamentals.

The Economic Repercussions Of A Stock Market Crash Depend Less On The Severity Of The Crash Itself Than On The Response Of Economic Policymakers, Particularly Central Bankers.

Like Gold, U.s. Dollars Have Value Only To The Extent That They Are Strictly Limited In Supply. But The U.s. Government Has A Technology, Called A Printing Press (or, Today, Its Electronic Equivalent), That Allows It To Produce As Many U.s. Dollars As It Wishes At Essentially No Cost. By Increasing The Number Of U.s. Dollars In Circulation, Or Even By Credibly Threatening To Do So, The U.s. Government Can Also Reduce The Value Of A Dollar In Terms Of Goods And Services, Which Is Equivalent To Raising The Prices In Dollars Of Those Goods And Services.

The Crisis And Recession Have Led To Very Low Interest Rates, It Is True, But These Events Have Also Destroyed Jobs, Hamstrung Economic Growth And Led To Sharp Declines In The Values Of Many Homes And Businesses.

A Meritocracy Is A System In Which The People Who Are The Luckiest In Their Health And Genetic Endowment; Luckiest In Terms Of Family Support, Encouragement And, Probably, Income; Luckiest In Their Educational And Career Opportunities; And Luckiest In So Many Other Ways Difficult To Enumerate - These Are The Folks Who Reap The Largest Rewards.