amassing wealth and hoarding it .

amassing wealth and hoarding it .

Further investigations also revealed a likely cartel of distributors who were alleged to be hoarding the product and thus creating an artificial shortage in the marketplace, leading to higher prices.

For pork and other commodities with tight supply and quicker price increase, the frequency of inspections should be increased, and illegal activities such as hoarding, raising prices, and colluding with price increases shall be seriously investigated and handled.

Indeed, the spike in oil prices actually gives independent producers an incentive to boost production. The last time real oil prices reached current levels was 1980, which shows that hoarding oil in the ground can be bad business.

Indeed, empirical research suggests that countries without explicit or implicit access to liquidity tend to hold much higher reserves than the privileged few only to be blamed by the same privileged few for contributing to global imbalances by hoarding excess reserves.

The reason is simple while base money is soaring, the velocity of money has collapsed, with banks hoarding the liquidity in the form of excess reserves. Ongoing private and public debt deleveraging has kept global demand growth below that of supply.

The day when it will be heated in the fire of hell, and their foreheads and their sides and their backs will be branded with them Here is what you hoarded for yourselves so now taste the joy of your hoarding!

The day when it will be heated in the fire of hell, and their foreheads and their sides and their backs will be branded with them Here is what you hoarded for yourselves so now taste the joy of your hoarding!

Many middle income countries central banks are hoarding dollars today in order to prevent their currencies from appreciating too much against the sinking dollar. China alone, with over 600 billion in reserves, holds more than enough dollars to recapitalize the IMF four times over.

on the Day their treasure is heated up in the fire of hell, their foreheads and their sides and their backs shall be branded with it, and they will be told, This is what you hoarded up for yourselves. Taste then what you were hoarding.

on the Day their treasure is heated up in the fire of hell, their foreheads and their sides and their backs shall be branded with it, and they will be told, This is what you hoarded up for yourselves. Taste then what you were hoarding.

Because many contracts are sticky (that is, not easily revised) in monetary terms, inflation and deflation would both inflict damage on the economy. Rising prices reduce the value of savings and pensions, while falling prices reduce profit expectations, encourage hoarding, and increase the real burden of debt.

But it is rising because the private sector is hoarding money rather than spending it. By providing extra liquidity, central banks merely reduce the amount of money withdrawn from expenditure on goods and services, which mitigates, but does not reverse, the negative demand shock that hit the world economy.

The conclusions that we might draw for the future depend heavily on how central banks and regulators react to the crisis. At present, financial firms are learning the lessons for themselves, reducing leverage and hoarding capital and cash, whereas the authorities are trying to persuade banks to expand lending precisely the strategy that led to the current crisis.

Egypt is running low on cash before recent rescue loans, currency reserves covered less than three months of imports and Egyptians are hoarding fuel and foodstuffs in anticipation of future shortages. More frequent and longer lasting power outages foretell worse to come in an economy already struggling with mass unemployment, widespread exclusion, and deep pockets of poverty.

In theory, simultaneous fiscal consolidation and supply side reform facilitates economic recovery, because it increases confidence among consumers and investors, thereby inducing higher spending and production. But this does not necessarily work in an imperfectly functioning monetary union, such as the eurozone, where the continual appearance of systemic flaws erodes confidence in such circumstances, the result may be hoarding and capital outflows, rather than increased spending.