Is Foreign Demand for U.S Treasuries as Strong as It Looks? [View article]
I would propose instead to abolish the Fed altogether. They encouraged and allowed the creation of the $1/2-1 QAUDRILLION derivatives bubble (including the shadow banking system) that has led to our current financial collaose, and is currently sucking out what is left of our economy.
> Dave, I think you're being harsh on Bernanke who (like all of us > in the real world) is trying to find a solution to a problem that > has been evident for a long time (from Nixon going off the gold standard > in 1971) and results from the fact that successive US governments, > of both parties, overspend and print money to borrow (the only possibly > exception to this is Clinton). Republicans tend to favor the military-industrial > complex, and the Democrats, social transfer payments. Both parties > backed the pathways to the financial crisis we have today. > > Bernanke certainly understands this; he's a brilliant person as all > can testify. However, he can't singlehandedly reverse what has been > the American MO historically (and into the future). > > If Bernanke is replaced by Summers, which seems increasingly likely, > we will have true sorrow. A guy who was ejected as President of Harvard > and is a luminary of the private equity firm D.E. Shaw --- he's brilliant > too, but he has his buddies to protect. Seems to be doing a pretty > good job of it.
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BRAVO!
I said something similar last year:
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Is Foreign Demand for U.S Treasuries as Strong as It Looks? [View article]
I would propose instead to abolish the Fed altogether. They encouraged and allowed the creation of the $1/2-1 QAUDRILLION derivatives bubble (including the shadow banking system) that has led to our current financial collaose, and is currently sucking out what is left of our economy.
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On Jun 26 10:41 AM coreopsis wrote:
> Dave, I think you're being harsh on Bernanke who (like all of us
> in the real world) is trying to find a solution to a problem that
> has been evident for a long time (from Nixon going off the gold standard
> in 1971) and results from the fact that successive US governments,
> of both parties, overspend and print money to borrow (the only possibly
> exception to this is Clinton). Republicans tend to favor the military-industrial
> complex, and the Democrats, social transfer payments. Both parties
> backed the pathways to the financial crisis we have today.
>
> Bernanke certainly understands this; he's a brilliant person as all
> can testify. However, he can't singlehandedly reverse what has been
> the American MO historically (and into the future).
>
> If Bernanke is replaced by Summers, which seems increasingly likely,
> we will have true sorrow. A guy who was ejected as President of Harvard
> and is a luminary of the private equity firm D.E. Shaw --- he's brilliant
> too, but he has his buddies to protect. Seems to be doing a pretty
> good job of it.
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