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• 18:19, 3 June 2024 Derekmc talk contribs created page The interest rate is the continuous "own rate" of inflation (Created page with "In chapter 17 of keynes' general theory, various ideas of interest are discussed. In particular, he uses a concept of the "own rate". This is the interest of any good or service, denominated in that same unit. So the own rate for apples, is how many apples you have to sell today to lock in a futures contract for some fixed amount of apples at a future date. Like many rates, this "own rate" relates to other rates, such as interest or inflation, in specific ways. While...")
• 20:29, 28 March 2024 Derekmc talk contribs created page Maximizing Total Wealth Implies that the return of the Marginal Investment is Negative (Created page with "Suppose you have ''k'' possible assets to invest in. For the sake of this argument, we will make two assumptions. First that each investment has a different default rate ''r'' of appreciation. Secondly we will assume that each investment has a limited capacity. Once the limit is reached, it is not possible to invest more. For this specific example consider 10 investment assets, that range in returns from -3% to +7%. We will assume that each has a capacity of $200 mi...")
• 05:41, 19 March 2024 Derekmc talk contribs created page A mathematical proof that negative interest rate policy can neutralize any instance of inflation in nominal terms (Created page with "Okay, this is just a really quick note. The claim is that negative interest rate policy can neutralize any inflation in nominal terms. What an interest rate does, is separate the unit of account and store of value functions. First, we need to define a few variables. * Let g_debt : The total public debt, regardless of account type(reserves, treasuries, cash) * Let cpi_basket_price : the price of a basket of goods used to measure cpi, in dollars * Let g_value : The num...")
• 04:23, 21 February 2024 Derekmc talk contribs created page Hot and Cold Assets and Money Demonstrate Divergent Yet Stable Relative Value Paths (Created page with "== Contending with equilibrium == One of the central concepts of conventional theory that I try to contend with in my work, is the concept of interest equilibriums. A couple ways we have addressed this issue in the past is with the notion of adaptive equilibrium, rather than a competitive equilibrium, as well disparate learning and discounting horizons, leading to a diversity of rates and asset performance. Time discounting to reflect a uniform rate of return, after a...")
• 15:02, 4 February 2024 Derekmc talk contribs moved page File:Moneffect romerromer.JPG to File:Moneffectromerromer.JPG
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• 13:29, 12 January 2024 Derekmc talk contribs created page What is a Post Monetarist Economy (Created page with "== Post Monetarism is an Absence of a Money Supply Target in an Endogenous Money System == Monetarism was a the dominant economic paradigm from 1971 to 2001, and the basic template for the US economic . I define monetarism as a fiat money system which tries to control the price level and/or balance economic activity by targeting the "money supply" directly. The quantity of money in circulation as it relates to the price level. I am defining post monetarism as a fiat m...")
• 11:49, 12 January 2024 Derekmc talk contribs created page How to learn to unicycle (Created page with "== Why I learned to unicycle == Recently I learned to unicycle. The main reason I like the idea of unicycling, is it is personal mobility sport that is lower impact compared to skateboard, but more minimal and mobile than cycling: it is much easier to throw a unicycle in a car or even hike with it while you aren't riding. Finally, unicycles can be a great tool to help develop handling skills that can be used in cycling or skateboarding, such as wheelies, riding fakie,...")
• 11:07, 12 January 2024 Derekmc talk contribs created page How to write a book using a wiki (Created page with "== Why Write a Book? Probably not for book sales == First of all, why should you try to write a book? To aim for making money with book sales is probably the worst reason. While I think books are the best form of media to spend money on for a number of reasons, and virtually the only form of media I spend money on, the prospects of making an ROI from book sales are very low for most authors, especially first time authors. There are a few reasons I decided to write a b...")
• 05:21, 6 January 2024 Derekmc talk contribs created page File:Spring interest analogy.png
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• 04:46, 6 January 2024 Derekmc talk contribs moved page File:Screenshot 2024-01-05 21-41-38.png to File:Fisher3ways.png without leaving a redirect
• 04:46, 6 January 2024 Derekmc talk contribs deleted page File:Fisher3ways.png
• 04:45, 6 January 2024 Derekmc talk contribs undeleted page File:Screenshot 2024-01-05 21-41-38.png (1 revision and 1 file)
• 04:44, 6 January 2024 Derekmc talk contribs deleted page File:Screenshot 2024-01-05 21-41-38.png
• 04:44, 6 January 2024 Derekmc talk contribs created page File:Screenshot 2024-01-05 21-41-38.png
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• 16:49, 23 December 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page Real Currency/Bond Yields and Fiscal Space (Created page with "=== Do Real Yields in currency Accounts Increase Fiscal Space? === Real yields certainly make assets more attractive to markets, having a consistent history of growth and strong performance, is very encouraging to traders trying to bet on future trends, who influence relative asset value today, and therefore the sensitivity to asset issuance. Importantly, this issue is true across the board for financial assets, and not specific to currencies and bonds. Importantly, I...")
• 17:14, 20 December 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page Apathy is more harmful than ignorance (Created page with "This is just a quick thought or note here, it is not so much about finance or economics, as it is about epistemology. In finance and economics, there are a lot of different viewpoints and ideas. There seems to be a good deal of emphasis on "getting the correct answer", that is, if you are able to correctly answer a question from a technical perspective, then that is seen as social valuable and commendable. Well, my experience discussing finance and economics has led...")
• 17:34, 19 December 2023 Derekmc talk contribs deleted page File:Luke11 24.png
• 17:39, 18 December 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page File:Fisher3ways.png
• 17:39, 18 December 2023 Derekmc talk contribs uploaded File:Fisher3ways.png
• 17:00, 18 December 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page Should we expect consensus in economics? Probably more than we have now. (Created page with "For intellectual disciplines, not all of them should expect the same degree of consensus and agreement among experts. For example, philosophy, religion, anthropology, and history, will almost certainly have differing viewpoints among equally qualified and credentialed experts. And while credentials and qualifications may not be the best measure of what makes someone able in a discipline, that's the most general way to immediately assess that from the outside. Meanwhile,...")
• 14:06, 15 December 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page Should the fed pick winners and losers? They can't not. (Created page with "== The Fisher Equation Rate Hike Puzzle == Raising interest rates is a matter of using nominal rate increases, to increase the cpi adjusted ex post rate by even more, thus reducing inflation. The fact that a nominal rate increase is relied on to increase real rates by even more, seems to indicate that it would be possible to increase real rates ''without'' messing with the nominal rate setting. This is exactly my thesis. So in this viewpoint, the nominal rate increa...")
• 11:08, 19 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page When to actually use Supply and Demand, and when Not To (Created page with "Supply and Demand is a useful model when both provisioning and utilization of a resource vary dynamically across the economy, especially for real resources with many different producers and consumers. However, supply and demand is NOT useful for understanding the macroeconomic balance of power that emerges hierarchically within economies. This includes both economies with strong and weak property. Weak property is what I am using to refer to a situation where resource...")
• 15:49, 16 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page Math You Should Definitely Know About To Study Economics (Created page with "This is just a quick note here. To study economics effectively, you at least have to know accounting math and probably basic calculus/analysis. Even Marx learned some calculus, so there's not much excuse to not master that level. But this article is not "Math you should definitely know", it is "Math you should definitely know ''about''", and there is an important difference. In this case, I am talking about the basics of algorithms and computer science, complexity theor...")
• 15:47, 16 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page File:Luke11 24.png (biblical quote)
• 15:47, 16 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs uploaded File:Luke11 24.png (biblical quote)
• 15:28, 13 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page File:Fisherequation.png
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• 02:47, 8 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page How to Make Money Online (Created page with "=== How to Make Money Online === In order to understand how to make money online, the first thing you have to understand is what networks are and how they work. Economically, networks tend to create or amplify === Poor to Rich === The internet, by its very nature, will never be universal vehicle for people to find productive and financially rewarding activity. In most ways, the internet is open and democratic, and gives the most power and influence to end users. Bu...")
• 14:26, 2 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Mainpage-title (Created page with "-Rate Disparity")
• 14:24, 2 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs moved page MediaWiki:Mainpage to Rate Disparity over redirect
• 14:24, 2 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs deleted redirect Rate Disparity by overwriting (Deleted to make way for move from "MediaWiki:Mainpage")
• 14:22, 2 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs moved page Rate Disparity to MediaWiki:Mainpage
• 14:19, 2 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs moved page Main Page to Rate Disparity without leaving a redirect
• 14:19, 2 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs deleted page Rate Disparity (Deleted to make way for move from "Main Page")
• 14:18, 2 November 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page The Currency Talk (Created page with "== Money vs Credit == So you want to understand what money and currency are? We all end up asking ourselves this question sooner or later. The first thing to understand is that money and credit are different. Credit is an outstanding unreciprocated balance.")
• 14:10, 30 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs moved page Gambler's Half Life to The Gambler's Half Life
• 14:10, 30 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs moved page Investment Half Life to Gambler's Half Life
• 14:09, 30 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs moved page Gambling half life to Investment Half Life
• 14:05, 30 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page Gambling half life (Created page with "== Gambling and the Half Life of Deficient Investing Strategies == ''Why returns are so hard to measure especially after the fact'' Mainstream economic theory relies heavily on the concept of equilibrium, especially, that interest rates are highly competitive at a given point in time, and thus assets like government securities will get discounted quickly to zero across an infinite discounting horizon. According to this viewpoint, this happens whenever the yield on gov...")
• 21:33, 24 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs moved page Rate Disparity to Rate Disparity Book
• 21:23, 24 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs moved page Rate Disparity:Rate Disparity to Rate Disparity
• 21:23, 24 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs moved page Main Page to Rate Disparity:Rate Disparity
• 21:22, 24 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs deleted page Book (content was: "= Cold Open: how we all got interest rates backwards = == Here's for some central banking tough love == Listening to Perry Mehrling talk about the history of central banking is enthralling. He is obviously passionate and knowledgeable, an expert on our institutional structures and their history. But in the middle of this history, there is a great mystery, how did everyone g...", and the only contributor was "Derekmc" (talk))
• 21:22, 24 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page Book (Created page with "= Cold Open: how we all got interest rates backwards = == Here's for some central banking tough love == Listening to Perry Mehrling talk about the history of central banking is enthralling. He is obviously passionate and knowledgeable, an expert on our institutional structures and their history. But in the middle of this history, there is a great mystery, how did everyone get interest rates backwards? As anyone versed in finance can tell you, central banks, as a "ban...")
• 17:10, 13 October 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page The Value Of Labor (Created page with "== The Value of Labor == Far too much time has been wasted discussing the labor theory of value. To put it simply, what should have been said is that labor is what human beings should receive compensation for. If you get compensation based on something else, then that may be considered unfair. We could then call this "the labor basis for compensation". Similar to the idea of democracy, that people should be allowed authority based on popular support properly document...")
• 17:27, 22 April 2023 Derekmc talk contribs created page Observing Rates (Created page with "<h1> The Difficulty of Observing Interest Rates </h1> <h2> Present Value and Risk Adjusted Returns</h2> <p> Understanding risk management, expected values and even gambling are important to finance and economics. Much of conventional economic theory depends on a notion of an "equilibrium" rate of interest. To compute the present value of various assets, you need to discount "cash flows" up to some time horizon, according to some expected risk adjusted rate of return. </...")