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Have you given a thought to the fact that M3 measu...

2006-04-02T05:54:00.000-06:00

Have you given a thought to the fact that M3 measures monetary instruments that are not liquid, i.e. bonds and other post dated debentures. If you look at the gap that has buit up between the M1+M2 measures (liquid and convertible) to the M3 bonds, you will see the "systemic problem" that Greenspan talked about. This is excess fiat currency that has no value, since it can not be absorbed into the economy other than placing it at a future insertion date. The Fed is worried that amount of Cum = M3-(M1+M2) that has been generated since Reaganomics will be astounding. See http://vantari.com/economics

With regard to anyone who thinks that the imminent...

2006-02-13T16:06:00.000-07:00

With regard to anyone who thinks that the imminent Iranian Oil Bourse and its global currency ramifications aren't really significant factors for either the US/UK-run oil markets or US economic sanctity, please see the following inter-department communication from the US Treasury, circa 1978:

"...confidence in the dollar remains fragile. Recent and more frequent news reports regarding OPEC's growing disenchantment with use of [the] dollar for oil pricing further disturb the market. If OPEC changed the unit of accounting for oil pricing it ciould precipitate a major market reaction which would be in the interest neither of the Saudis, other OPEC members, nor the US."

-- Assistant US Treasury Secretary C. Fred Bergsten to Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, in a Treasury department internal memorandum entitled, "Briefing for your Meeting with Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, John C. West", 10 March 1978, P. 1-2.

There’s also this ditty, which might in part explain why people discount to the public the issues related above between government officials:

“The Monday evening news on the networks tells people how much the Dow Jones Industrial averages went up or down that day, but not … the rates at that day’s weekly auction of U.S. Treasury bills – though the money spent to buy the Treasury bills at this one weekly auction exceeds the total trading in the Dow in the entire 31.5 hours that the market is open each week.”

-- Martin Mayer, from the book, "Stealing the Market", P. 2.

Good story: and one seemingly under-reported by ma...

2006-02-07T12:37:00.000-07:00

Good story: and one seemingly under-reported by mainstream media. I have a hard time figuring out why - even if an international oil bourse in Iran is just a PR stunt it should be significant and newsworthy?

Can anyone provide a link to any mainstream coverage of this?

-andreas

To the anonymous Brahmin: If you consider not bein...

2006-02-04T15:38:00.000-07:00

To the anonymous Brahmin:

If you consider not being nuked by Iran to be a superficial notion of happiness for the Israelis, what would be a menaingful notion of happiness? I understand that your great saint Ghandi advocated Jews walking into incinerators to protest Nazism, but let us separate the issue of American interests in maintaining oil denominated in dollars from the very explicit threats to incinerate millions of people in an unprovoked nuclear attack.

I am posting this Jan 13 2006 from Europe.A few po...

2006-01-13T07:27:00.000-07:00

I am posting this Jan 13 2006 from Europe.

A few points:

European Countries and countries doing most of its trade in Euros will surely like to have Oil priced in Euros, this of course will reduce the currency risk and the need to keep dollar reserves.

Many countries will have, if the IOB succeeds, a better way to settle political grievances with the USA in the monetary arena. China has significant dollar reserves. China is also an important holder of US debt and has also long term oil supply contracts with IRAN.

Iraq DID great shifting to Euros. The Euro was around .75 of a dollar back then and it is now 1.2 of a dollar. Great investment, first thing the American governor did was to go back to the dollar.

Adding "site:jeffvail.net" to a Google search is a...

2005-12-21T14:34:00.000-07:00

Adding "site:jeffvail.net" to a Google search is a good workaround.

Dude,Fix your archive links. Right now your archiv...

2005-12-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

Dude,

Fix your archive links. Right now your archives are inaccessible. I wanted to reference your for argument against globalization but can't find the page.

Please god, let the americans and israelis win and...

2005-12-21T00:21:00.000-07:00

Please god, let the americans and israelis win and take all the oil and the gold aand whatevver and let them have the notion of superficial happiness. LET THERE BE NO MORE WARS. PERIOD. MAY BE IRANIANS SHOUD DONATE THEIR OIL FIELDS TO ISRAEL JUST LIKE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ IS DOING.
THE PROBLEM: Americans have been accustomed to cheap oil, cheap labor, cheap goods and of course cheap credit, free medicare. Any disruption of any of the above is basically met with violence.
Full Disclosure. I am a brahmin hindu from India and may be want to see a few deeply devout people of the judeochristian faith to dwell on the absolute.

As an Israeli, I've got quite tired of having my c...

2005-12-17T08:53:00.000-07:00

As an Israeli, I've got quite tired of having my country, and the army where I had to serve - both serving American interests. Most of the wars we suffered were intiated by Arab regimes or groups which had previously been supported or maintained by the west.
However, Israel and the US have defferent reasons to strike on Iran. Israel has a very good reason to be afraid from Iranian weapons. America wouldn't give a damn about that, but they have oil fields to take care of there.

Saddam switched in 2000 if I remember correctly--t...

2005-12-16T21:43:00.000-07:00

Saddam switched in 2000 if I remember correctly--that didn't work out too well for him. Again, there are a lot of theories that this was the real impetus for the invasion, but the actual causation can't be proved. About the only thing that we can be sure of is that we didn't invade for the reasons that we claimed to invade. A very close friend was an intelligence officer at the Central Command headquarters in Tampa, and he very clearly and explicitly laid out the evidence that there was NOT a connection between Saddam and al-Qa'ida--if anything, that Saddam was effectively preventing al-Qa'ida from gaining inroads in Iraq. Whatever the leaders said, they definitely knew that there was no connection. "WMD" is another story for another time...

Uh, didn't Saddam switch from the dollar to the eu...

2005-12-16T19:08:00.000-07:00

Uh, didn't Saddam switch from the dollar to the euro right before, before-- Well, I forget exactly what, but I'm pretty sure something big happened right afterward.

"Denominating the price of a key industrial commod...

2005-12-12T22:50:00.000-07:00

"Denominating the price of a key industrial commodity in a currency other than that in which the products are priced" is exactly what the petrodollar system is all about. It only carries a significant exposure to exchange rate fluctuations if the oil-consumer doesn't use that currency as their reserve currency--which is exactly the point.

Significantly, early adopters stand to benefit as those who shift their reserves to the Euro first will see the relative value of those reserves appreciate if the Euro gains ground as a reserve against the dollar (Excess demand for Euros will increase its price). An incentive to be an early adopter creates the potential for a run on the Euro.

As I mentioned earlier, I certainly can't prove that the Fed is abandoning M3 reporting beacuse of the Iranian bourse. But I can't think of anything that makes MORE sense: if people have specific alternative motivations, please speak up...

A blogger I forwarded this to commented with the f...

2005-12-12T21:52:00.000-07:00

A blogger I forwarded this to commented with the following:

"I can understand why the Iranians would want to dissociate themselves from the dollar, but the euro would be a poor substitute. Denominating the price of a key industrial commodity in a currency other than that in which the products are priced would add a whole new level of currency risk. Im any case, I doubt whether the Fed is dropping M3 for any such reason."

(I'm Nicholas' from earlier)Peter,Yeah, that would...

2005-12-12T20:57:00.000-07:00

(I'm Nicholas' from earlier)

Peter,

Yeah, that would be quite a coincidence. But... I don't like leaping based on just one coincidence, even if it is somehow very convincing. What worries me is that we are missing part of the plot by just connecting these two dots without knowing more. Also, I wonder if this change in reporting protocol could really effectively conceal anything. Certainly (?) there are other economic indicators that will demonstrate this potential shift of international holdings. I don't know.
Who does?

Nicholas,Think about this sentence for a moment, "...

2005-12-12T08:37:00.000-07:00

Nicholas,

Think about this sentence for a moment, "And, of course, the timing of the discontinuation of M3 data just happens to coincide with the opening of Iran's euro-denominated oil bourse."

The operative word here is "coincide".

That's quite the coincidence then, if it's only a coincidence.

I've heard it said elsewhere that the impact of th...

2005-12-11T11:05:00.000-07:00

I've heard it said elsewhere that the impact of this oil bourse is being greatly exaggerated. The argument being that the holders of US debt will still have significant motivation to maintain their stores of dollar denominated assets and that even if the bourse is widely participated in, which may take years for the exchange to build up that kind of credibility, its effect will be negligible. This argument seems rather convincing.
What other explanantions for this shift on reporting policy by the Fed are out there? Who uses M3 data?

Thoughts? Anyone?

Nicholas Begley

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Kudos for covering this story, Jeff. I first heard...

2005-12-11T09:43:00.000-07:00

Kudos for covering this story, Jeff. I first heard about this move by the FED shortly after the press release came out and started digging around into M3. It was tough divining exactly what it meant. Even a few so-called experts didn't really know. You, on the other hand, have done an excellent job of explaining what it means and why we now have even more reason to be leery of the Fed, which is a private corporation despite the deliberately misleading name.

More fuel for the fire: Ariel Sharon has aparentl...

2005-12-11T00:19:00.000-07:00

More fuel for the fire: Ariel Sharon has aparently ordered the Israeli military to be ready to strike Iran's nuclear facilities by the end of March. Nice timing...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1920074,00.html