| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Definition of inflation | | Date: | Thursday, February 16, 2006 08:02:03 (-0800) | | From: | Joe Thomson <thomsonhiyu @....ca>
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| In reply to: | Message 3426 (written by Martin Hattersley) |
I think this is borne out by what happened in both Canada and the USA in the
Second World War. While many 'consumer goods' weren't being made, and there
was 'rationing' that largely controlled the overall supply available of what
was being made, the 'market' demand for 'labour' couldn't anywhere near be
as effecively controlled.
In regards to under-the-table ways employed by many firms to try to pay
their crews competitive enough wages to keep them on the job in the face of
government imposed 'wage' controls, there most certainly was a 'black
market' of sorts operating. The problem for firms then was lots of market
(the entire 'war machine'), but a definite shortage of labour, and
particularly skilled or experienced labour to keep producing the product and
fill the demand. .
This was a very big problem in both the BC and US Pacific Northwest lumber
industries. The US had considerable difficulties keeping woods workers from
taking higher-paid, closer-to-'civilization', jobs in the burgeoning
shipyards that sprang up in various large West Coast urban centres. In BC,
despite the exemption of forest industry workers from military
'conscription', and the release from active duty of many who had joined up
early in the war, retaining experienced crews was such an enormous problem
that some operators, late in the war, encouraged their crews to 'Unionize'
and strike for the higher pay they were quite willing to pay them, if only
the 'government' would allow them to.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Hattersley" <hattersleyjm@interbaun.com>
To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Definition of inflation
> My own researches lead me to believe that, although "wage and price
control"
> may limit both wages ane prices in the short run, especially if backed up
by
> some patriotic salesmanship, they inevitably break down as a "black
market"
> develops. At which time prices and wages rise to what they would have
been,
> based on money supply factors, had the controls never been put in place.
>
> Martin Hattersley
> 1970-10123-99 St.,
> EDMONTON AB CANADA
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Palmerton" <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
> To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
> Cc: <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:40 AM
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>
>
> > In-Reply-To: <00a801c63211$5e7fbb60$6400a8c0@cdv73pbgpo6eny>
> > Hi Wally.
> >
> > My apologies if I have provoked you into a monologue upon your feelings
> > about the Soviet system. And though I agree with you about the downside
s,
> > that provocation was NOT my intention.
> >
> > I wished to challenge the orthodox assumption, that is universally
taught
> > in the west, that if there is an increase in the money supply, there HAS
> > to be an increase in prices.
> >
> > I have pointed out Galbraith s job of price control in WW2 in the US,
> > though to suggest it now would almost certainly give the Gurus of Wall
> > Street apoplexy :-)))
> >
> > Our experience here in the UK at that time was that Keynes invented a
form
> > of compulsory saving, euphemistically called "Post War Credits". In
which
> > the high wages of the workers left at home, and not unproductive and in
> > uniform, were syphoned off from immediate purchasing power.
> >
> > So that cast iron "law" that we are all taught is not so cast iron after
> > all :-))
> >
> > Ken.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
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> > Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Definition of inflation
> > X-Envelope-To: kenpalmerton@cixcouk.cix.co.uk
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> >
> > Precisely, Joe.
> >
> > I was in Russia (and the Ukraine) around 1980 prior to the "fall" of
> > "communism." They did not even have refrigeration. There were only two
> > bookstores in Moscow--with nothing displayed (although McGraw-Hill
> > textbooks were being unpacked in the back!) other than the works of
Marx,
> > Lenin, and other communist authors. We flew on AeroFlot--but even our
> > guide, Luba, was white-knuckled and admitted she didn't like flying..
The
> > food in the hotel was most unsavoury--and, although the paper menu in
the
> > dining room was decidedly "gourmet", an attempt to order revealed that
> > only about two dishes could actually be obtained--Stroganoff and chicken
> > which latter was so tough it was impossible to cut! I suggested to
our
> > guide that it must have been run over by a Russian tank! Oddly, caviar
> > (which I can't stand) was served at a special dinner! Any building in
the
> > country-side looked like a dilapidated relic from out of a previous
> > century. Of course, I was aware that the state elite had special
> > accommodation, imported food, special medical care, etc. The
distribution
> > of income was actually much more unequal than in the West--with the
> > existence of the Nomenklatura, a more or less secret class of
> > millionaires. Sombre middle-aged men on aircraft pretended to be
reading
> > newspapers while their eyes were trained on the back of the seat in
front,
> > listening to whatever they could hear of other passengers' talk. A
friend
> > of mine, raised to be sympathetic to communism, assisted in the conduct
of
> > guided tours from Canada to the U.S.S.R. He was picked up and
> > interrogated at nights by the K.G.B. and shown extensive scrapbooks
> > listing people in Northern Alberta and asked what were their politics
and
> > activities. Needless to say, my friend did an about face when
confronted
> > with this priority given to "security" and "intelligence" by the
"supreme
> > state." The socialist Utopia was seen to have "feet of clay."
> >
> > The point is, the scarcity and lack of elementary freedom
characteristic
> > of the Soviet "system" represented inefficiency in delivering abundance
> > and freedom to the consuming (or better, "working" or "slaving") public.
> > The command economic (and political) system allocated resources
according
> > to "state" priorities and was heavily skewed toward capital vs consumer
> > goods--and was grossly inefficient from the standpoint of delivering
> > consumer satisfaction. Money was plentiful because of the Soviet system
> > of accountancy and controlled or administered prices, but motivational
and
> > organizational problems resulted in shortages of real consumer goods
and
> > services. The Soviet "economy" was more a mechanism designed for
"people
> > control" than a genuine production system.
> >
> > Social Credit recognizes that excess and unnecessary production of
capital
> > (and wasteful consumer) goods, merely to provide purchasing-power for
> > purchase of earlier production, and so to "keep the system going", is
> > inefficiency in terms of the Social Credit objective of a
> > consumer-motivated economy. In both "capitalism" and "communism" an
> > increasing and unwarranted
> > emphasis is given to capital production--as a means of "people control."
> > So although prices were controlled in a system of central
> > state-administered "production" in communist U.S.S.R., this was merely
a
> > masking of inflation by arbitrary means. The price to be paid in real
> > terms was scarcity, misdirection of resources and political tyranny.
> > Thus, according to the Social Credit concept of "inflation" as a measure
> > or reflection of inefficiency, the U.S.S.R. was characterized by a very
> > high level of "inflation."
> >
> > The inefficiency and misdirection of resources toward wasteful and
> > destructive (e.g. war) ends in the West is a measure of the real
> > "inflation" in this part of the world. Because the consumer is charged
in
> > prices with capital depreciation but not credited with capital
> > appreciation the consumer is robbed of the real benefits of modern
> > technology by being allowed to access the results which flow from it
only
> > by increasing work. The citizenry is, thereby, denied the increased
> > potential leisure by which to enjoy not only the actual, but also the
> > potential, real abundance which does, and which might, flow from the
ever
> > modernizing productive system. All existing systems which employ tools
to
> > produce goods and services are "capitalist." They merely vary in degree
> > of centralized control and administration. They all are firmly based
upon
> > the concept of work as the essential requisite and justification for
> > consumption--as I have previously noted, upon the unChristian (and
> > un-Social Credit) notion of Salvation through Works, as opposed to the
> > concept of Salvation through Grace.
> >
> > Social Credit is distributist and offers a very different dispensation,
> > where access to wealth is increasingly based upon right by general
> > inheritance and increasingly less upon industrial, commercial or
> > institutional "work", now essentially forced upon the individual by the
> > necessity of survival in the context of excess overall financial
> > costs--"payable" only by means of exponentially expanding debt claims
> > against the future.
> >
> > Wally
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joe Thomson" <thomsonhiyu@shaw.ca>
> > To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Definition of inflation
> >
> >
> >> Who wants to live in any of those Russian apartments and have a
lifelong
> >> diet of only one kind of bread?
> >>
> >> Joe
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Kenneth Palmerton" <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
> >> To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
> >> Cc: <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
> >> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 12:56 PM
> >> Subject: RE: [socialcredit] Definition of inflation
> >>
> >>
> >>> In-Reply-To: <NCBBKCEMIKELNEFLLFEHIEFGGIAB.dan@danmorin.com>
> >>> Hi Dan.
> >>>
> >>> If Webster is to be elevated to the rank of biblical truth, then maybe
> >>> you
> >>> can offer me an explanation of why it was that in the USSR between
1917
> >>> and 1970 the price of a loaf of bread, and the rent of a Moscow flat
did
> >>> not increase.
> >>>
> >>> Despite the working population having huge amounts of un-spendable
> > money>> in their bank accounts.
> >>>
> >>> This was a classic case of increasing money supply, with inadequate
> > goods>> for sale.
> >>>
> >>> Why no price rise ?
> >>>
> >>> Ken.
> >>>
> >>> -------- Original Message --------
> >>>
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> >>> Before making your own definition of inflation to fit your A+B model,
> >>> here
> >>> is the definition of Inflation according to my Webster Dictionary:
> >>>
> >>> "An increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available
> >>> goods
> >>> and services resulting in a continuing rise in the general price
level."
> >>>
> >>> Source: Webster Collegial Dictionary, 1996.
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: John G Rawson [mailto:johngrawson@hotmail.com]
> >>> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:02 PM
> >>> To: socialcredit@elistas.com
> >>> Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Social Credit and Inflation--and related
> >>> issues
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> First, define inflation. Invariably, it is measured as "rising
> >>> prices",
> >>> which therefore that is my, and I think our Party's, definition of it.
> >>> It
> >>> may be caused by "too much money ...", when it is "demand-pull
> >>> inflation",
> >>> or by other factors (e.g. rising oil prices or higher interest rates)
> >>> when
> >>> it is "cost-push inflation".
> >>>
> >>> And, once again, the A+B model postulates as a corollary that we
have
> >>> cost-push inflation more than demand-pull. "There are factors in the
> >>> economy (B costs) that push the cost of goods above the level of
> > consumer>> purchasing power." So of course economists who deny the
Douglas
> > analkysis>> don't understand where inflation is coming from.
> >>>
> >>> Regards. John R.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > -
> >>> -
> >>> From: "W. McGunnigle" <wmcgunn@maxnet.co.nz>
> >>> Reply-To: socialcredit@elistas.com
> >>> To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Social Credit and Inflation--and
related
> >>> issues
> >>> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:04:53 +1300
> >>> >Hi Kenneth
> >>> > I had not really considered that question of "inflation"
> >>> >as it operated in our economy, but was intrigued by your comment
> >>> that
> >>> >socalled "economic experts" have never produced a really
> >>> satisfactory
> >>> answer
> >>> >as to why it happens. I find that, on reflection, all their
> >>> "explanations"
> >>> >appear to be waffle with little or no substance to back up their
> >>> comments.
> >>> >They are very good at manipulating figures, but very short on
> >>> statisdtical
> >>> >analysis of those figures. They always have an excuse as to why
> >>> their
> >>> >forecasts are incorrect. My youngest brother has a theory that
> >>> inflation has
> >>> >nothing to do with money or product availablity, but is the
direct
> >>> result of
> >>> >propaganda perpetrated by banking organisations who encourage
price
> >>> >increases by simply stating that inflation is increasing and
prices
> >>> must
> >>> >increase to compensate for it. They don't have to state any
> > reasons,>> but
> >>> >simply create an atmosphere whereby price increases are accepted.
> >>> Inflation,
> >>> >i.e. increased costs for goods and services, follows on as a
> >>> self-induced,
> >>> >self-fullfilling prophesy. Effectively "inflation" is a mind set
> >>> rather >than an economic consequence. I cannot see how this can be
> >>> quantified,but I
> >>> >can see the logic in his argument. It certainly explains the
> >>> "stagflation"
> >>> >phenomena where costs still increased despite falling industrial
> >>> production
> >>> >and increasing unemployment.
> >>> > Bill Mc Gunnigle
> >>> >----- Original Message -----
> >>> >From: "Kenneth Palmerton" <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
> >>> >To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
> >>> >Cc: <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
> >>> >Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 5:40 AM
> >>> >Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Social Credit and Inflation--and
> > related>> issues
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > > In-Reply-To: <00aa01c62844$b0b3d320$6400a8c0@cdv73pbgpo6eny>
> >>> > > Hi Wallace.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > For a very long time I have been of the opinion that
economists
> >>> do
> >>> NOT
> >>> > > understand "inflation". Even their attempts to describe it,
and
> >>> offer a
> >>> > > definition leave me much less than convinced of their
> > competence.>> > >
> >>> > > They seem to offer no logical explanation of why prices rise.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I have sat with fellow directors of a manufacturing company
> >>> around
> >>> our
> >>> > > board room table looking at each other wondering if our
> >> competitors
> >>> would
> >>> > > let us get away with a price rise of our products.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > This was not so much an exercise in maximising our profits, as
> >>> trying
> >>> > > desperately to cover our costs. This I believe is a common
> >>> scenario, > > common to most companies in mature markets.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Coming to understand later the rightness of A+B has helped,
with
> >>> its > > reference to purchasing power, which was the other thing we
> >>> Directors
> >>> > > agonised over. Would our customers have the money in their
> >>> pockets
> >>> when
> >>> > > they chose our products ?
> >>> > >
> >>> > > This enlightenment came too late for me and mine I fear :-))
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Ken.
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>>
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> >>> size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> John G Rawson=20
> >>> [mailto:johngrawson@hotmail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February
12,
> > =
> >>> 2006=20
> >>> 3:02 PM<BR><B>To:</B> socialcredit@elistas.com<BR><B>Subject:</B>
> >>> Re:=20
> >>> [socialcredit] Social Credit and Inflation--and related=20
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> >>> <P>First, define inflation. Invariably, it is measured as =
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> >>> "demand-pull=20
> >>> inflation", or by other factors (e.g. rising oil prices or higher =
> >>> interest=20
> >>> rates) when it is "cost-push inflation".</P>
> >>> <P>And, once again, the A+B model postulates as a corollary that we
=
> >>> have=20
> >>> cost-push inflation more than demand-pull. "There are factors
> > in >> =
> >>> the=20
> >>> economy (B costs) that push the cost of goods above the level of =
> >>> consumer=20
> >>> purchasing power." So of course economists who deny the Douglas =
> >>> analkysis=20
> >>> don't understand where inflation is coming from.</P>
> >>> <P>Regards. <FONT color=3D#339933 size=3D4>John =
> >>> R.</FONT></P>
> >>> <BLOCKQUOTE=20
> >>> style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5
> >>> 2px =
> >>> solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT=20
> >>> style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif">
> >>> <HR color=3D#a0c6e5 SIZE=3D1>
> >>> From: <I>"W. McGunnigle" =
> >>> <wmcgunn@maxnet.co.nz></I><BR>Reply-To:=20
> >>> <I>socialcredit@elistas.com</I><BR>To:=20
> >>> <I><socialcredit@elistas.com></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: =
> >>> [socialcredit]=20
> >>> Social Credit and Inflation--and related issues</I><BR>Date:
> > <I>Sun, >> =
> >>> 12 Feb=20
> >>> 2006 23:04:53 +1300</I><BR>>Hi Kenneth<BR>> I had not
> > really=20>> considered that question of "inflation"<BR>>as it
> > operated in our >> =
> >>>
> >>> economy, but was intrigued by your comment that<BR>>socalled =
> >>> "economic=20
> >>> experts" have never produced a really satisfactory
answer<BR>>as
> > =>> to why=20
> >>> it happens. I find that, on reflection, all their=20
> >>> "explanations"<BR>>appear to be waffle with little or no =
> >>> substance to=20
> >>> back up their comments.<BR>>They are very good at manipulating
=
> >>> figures,=20
> >>> but very short on statisdtical<BR>>analysis of those figures. =
> >>> They always=20
> >>> have an excuse as to why their<BR>>forecasts are incorrect. My
=
> >>> youngest=20
> >>> brother has a theory that inflation has<BR>>nothing to do with
=
> >>> money or=20
> >>> product availablity, but is the direct result
> > of<BR>>propaganda=20>> perpetrated by banking organisations who
> > encourage =>> price<BR>>increases by=20
> >>> simply stating that inflation is increasing and prices =
> >>> must<BR>>increase=20
> >>> to compensate for it. They don't have to state any reasons,=20
> >>> but<BR>>simply create an atmosphere whereby price increases are
=
> >>> accepted.=20
> >>> Inflation,<BR>>i.e. increased costs for goods and services, =
> >>> follows on as=20
> >>> a self-induced,<BR>>self-fullfilling prophesy. Effectively =
> >>> "inflation" is=20
> >>> a mind set rather<BR>>than an economic consequence. I cannot
see
> > =>> how this=20
> >>> can be quantified, but I<BR>>can see the logic in his argument.
=
> >>> It=20
> >>> certainly explains the "stagflation"<BR>>phenomena where costs
=
> >>> still=20
> >>> increased despite falling industrial production<BR>>and =
> >>> increasing=20
> >>> unemployment.<BR>> Bill Mc Gunnigle<BR>>----- Original
> > Message >> =
> >>>
> >>> -----<BR>>From: "Kenneth Palmerton"=20
> >>> <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk><BR>>To:=20
> >>> <socialcredit@elistas.com><BR>>Cc:=20
> >>> <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk><BR>>Sent: Friday, =
> >>> February 10,=20
> >>> 2006 5:40 AM<BR>>Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Social Credit
and=20
> >>> Inflation--and related issues<BR>><BR>><BR>> > =
> >>> In-Reply-To:=20
> >>> <00aa01c62844$b0b3d320$6400a8c0@cdv73pbgpo6eny><BR>>
> > >
> >>> =
> >>> Hi=20
> >>> Wallace.<BR>> ><BR>> > For a very long time I have
been
> > =>> of the=20
> >>> opinion that economists do NOT<BR>> > understand
"inflation".
> > =>> Even=20
> >>> their attempts to describe it, and offer a<BR>> > definition
=
> >>> leave me=20
> >>> much less than convinced of their competence.<BR>> ><BR>>
=
> >>> > They=20
> >>> seem to offer no logical explanation of why prices
rise.<BR>>=20
> >>> ><BR>> > I have sat with fellow directors of a =
> >>> manufacturing=20
> >>> company around our<BR>> > board room table looking at each =
> >>> other=20
> >>> wondering if our competitors would<BR>> > let us get away
> > with >> =
> >>> a price=20
> >>> rise of our products.<BR>> ><BR>> > This was not so
> > much >> =
> >>> an=20
> >>> exercise in maximising our profits, as trying<BR>> > =
> >>> desperately to=20
> >>> cover our costs. This I believe is a common scenario,<BR>> >
=
> >>> common to=20
> >>> most companies in mature markets.<BR>> ><BR>> > Coming
=
> >>> to=20
> >>> understand later the rightness of A+B has helped, with its<BR>>
=
> >>> >=20
> >>> reference to purchasing power, which was the other thing we=20
> >>> Directors<BR>> > agonised over. Would our customers have the
=
> >>> money in=20
> >>> their pockets when<BR>> > they chose our products
?<BR>>=20
> >>> ><BR>> > This enlightenment came too late for me and mine
> > I >> =
> >>> fear=20
> >>> :-))<BR>> ><BR>> > Ken.<BR>> ><BR>>=20
> >>> =
> >>>
> >
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