Monthly Archives: December 2013

Creating Demand

Commercial-investment banks enterprise to “make markets.” Their business is to create demand, but not necessarily to demand the supply “unfettered” in a free-market environment. A free market demands the supply from the bottom up, not the top down. While entrepreneurs … Continue reading

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The Normative Model

It is possible to have a reliably mechanical, operational framework that ensures freedom outside the box without boxing anybody in. Look at how effectively market mechanics works to deflate labor costs. Utilizing a contractual obligation now twenty years old, NAFTA, … Continue reading

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Operant Modeling

Behavioralist modeling is what Adam Smith was all about. Smith’s model of a free-and-unconsolidated marketplace is a legitimately sure means of accountability, mechanically operating with intendency. It is everything the capitalist freely enterprises to avoid, achieving a clearly measurable level … Continue reading

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Why Not Market Mechanics?

LIBOR is not based on market mechanics because a free market is democratic. Power that derives from a democratic process, on demand, is not legitimately exclusive, but in the republican (re-presentational) form, to control, or rationalize market risk presented by … Continue reading

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Mechanical Devices

Mechanical devices are pre-meditated then rationalized to fit an exculpatory philosophy of the risk. The capitalist, for example, argues there is a spooky, metaphysical, force of nature at work that premeditates the outcome, invisibly selecting who wins and loses. This … Continue reading

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The Timing Function

Physicists see a Zen-like quality to the mechanics of nature. On the one hand, sub-atomic particles seem to be random and formlessly chaotic but, paradoxically, appear to have an orderly, predictable outcome that can be easily explained and demonstrably manipulated … Continue reading

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A Low-Inflation Environment

Following an easy Fed tapering (a quintessentially regulated market described as self-regulation), business analysts identify a low-inflation environment. That environment is confirmed with three consecutive declines in sales of existing homes, for example. Remember that home prices went up. The … Continue reading

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The Zen of Market Mechanics

“Being” on demand is a kind of spooky matter. It has both divisible and indivisible attributes. The self, the id, the ego, is intutively enlightened. Operantly conditioned, we meditate preservation of the self, mitigated by stupidity, in a self-determined, on-demand … Continue reading

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The Contractual Obligation

Being “on demand” is transformed into an “on command” dimension by means of contractual obligation, which also includes the social contract that Rousseau, for example, said is our natural condition. By aggregating the risk into the power of the sovereign, … Continue reading

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The Volcker Rule

When big banks use derivatives, leveraged from deposits, for example, to “bet” on MBS’s, the method yields the risk to be avoided. The loss, which was a massive zero-sum liquidation and accumulation of net worth into the upper class, can … Continue reading

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