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The Biggest Bear Market You’re Not Hearing About By, Simon
Maierhofer Tuesday October 15, 2013 Money isn’t created equal,
just as economic growth isn’t created equal. There’s real
organic growth and there’s artificial growth. The same is true
for money. Although the system is flush with money, it’s lazy
money.  What is ‘lazy money?’  Lazy money doesn’t move. It keeps
to itself and doesn’t spread the love. Lazy money is like a
couch potato, it plops itself down and stays down.  Today’s U.S.
money supply is lazy, it has no motility or (to use Wall Street
jargon) velocity.  What is money velocity?   In simple terms,
money velocity measures how often one dollar is used to buy
goods and services. Decreasing money velocity means that there
are fewer transactions between individuals in an economy.  Lower
money velocity means that each dollar is touching fewer lives.
To illustrate:  A dollar earned by an employee, spent in a
restaurant, paid in wages to a