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Global Credit Crunch
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The User Requirements have been drafted from a brief review of the press and TV.

After a little thought it became obvious that what I needed was a Data Mart approach.
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Global Credit Crunch Data Model

Giles, from Vanderbilt U, made these interesting comments on April 8th. :-
I really liked your site and was intrigued by your data model on the Global Credit Crunch.
It misses the most obvious phenomena: monetary entanglement which is an analog of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect in quantum field theory ie instantaneous action at a distance. When the Central Bank creates money, call it counterfeiting, call it liquidity injection whatever moniker assuages guilt it is nonetheless a monotonically decreasing function of value. The miracle is that when the Bank prints/creates/injects one it takes a little nip out of every other one in existence from everyone�s pocket around the world. The perfect scam! The problem is the money is doled out to the connected who always mal-invest it, thus distorting the market from where it would otherwise go.

You could just add a real number field call it �nippage� and it will be a probablilty of value so it will range from 1 at the start and move asymptotically to zero, just the constant 1 divided by an identity integer times 1 minus an infinitesimal unit of time where the nippage is applied for every unit of �injection� to every unit of value in the db. Call it Austrian Economy of Value in honor of Ludwig Von Mises. Over the long run it will be a much better econometric tool than others."

Barry Williams
April 8th. 2009
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London, England

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