Hussman Funds: Stock-Flow Accounting And The Coming $10 Trillion Loss In Paper Wealth

Stock-Flow Accounting And The Coming $10 Trillion Loss In Paper Wealth by John Hussman, Hussman Funds.

Many of the misconceptions that investors hold about the economy and the financial markets can be clarified by understanding the relationship between the “flow” and “stock” of various quantities in the economy.

Before going further, let's take a minute for some background. The total quantity of currency and bank reserves in the economy – what’s known as the “monetary base” – is uniquely determined by the Federal Reserve, and is equal to the stock of Treasury and mortgage securities on the Fed’s balance sheet. Once the Fed creates a dollar of monetary base (which the Fed does by purchasing a government security and...