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A Critical Turning Point In American History
Flopping Aces ^ | 02-11-13 | James Raider

Posted on 02/11/2013 11:20:37 AM PST by Starman417

We progress, marching forward leaving behind us a trail of yesterdays, filled with events large and small, assembling memories, but some of the more momentous occurrences rise to a superior level which we include in our collective “history.” In that wake of our advance some of those momentous waves swell further, rising to become events that only hindsight can identify as pivotal moments in that shared recollection.

UTOPIA
UTOPIA

Such hindsight is not always 20/20.  We may be aware of the events as they unfold, but their significance and impact on our march forward is not always self evident and years may pass before they become so.  Self-serving motivations too often imbue the retrospective lenses with prisms which deliver infinite varieties of perspectives.

For over four years we have been instructed by those supposedly most knowledgeable and most insightful, occupying positions of leadership advancing society forward beyond the now and into the great unknown, that a new and magically wondrous elixir named “QE” would be the salve to all anxieties.  It matters little that QE stands for Quantitative Easing, and may as well conjure up notions of a long-reigning monarch, since its true long-term consequences appear beyond our collective comprehension. Nevertheless, its impact is not as benign as one queen’s influence on ‘her people’.  With minimal scrutiny or analysis by most of our media, but with the unrestrained approval of Congress and the Administration, The Federal Reserve proceeds with its unrestrained expansionary monetary policy. It pretends that this is good medicine for a Nation yearning for a return to economic growth, unaware that a printing press, while capable of printing unlimited dollars, cannot print a single job. It also pretends that its expansionary fiscal policy is enabling the hoped-for purchase of homes and cars. It pretends that low interests rates render the escalating debt load inconsequential.  The reality is very different.

QE, QE1, QE2, QE3, and QE4 ad infinitum, indulge the Federal government’s insatiable expectations of unrestrained spending.  The Fed will continue to buy up billions in Treasuries and Mortgage Backed Securities from member banks well into the future (on your behalf - and remember that those major too-big-to-fail banks are still burdened with toxic debt). The Fed’s actions will also enable Tim Geithner to sustain his schemes for financing friends of the Administration such as he did the unions in the GM bailout, or the brilliantly invested hundreds of millions in Solyndra.

The QE program is to continue until unemployment falls below 6.5%, or inflation rises above 2.5%, and the interest rate of 0% will be held until at least 2015. Other than those who watch their savings shrink each month, does anyone care?  Not Congress, certainly. We may have structurally experienced the boiling frog metaphor.

The mandate of The Fed is supposedly to support job creation and to keep inflation in check. It pretends to be concerned with inflation while creating truckloads of debt.  How is this not going to produce run-away inflation in the long-term?  It can be argued that real inflation has been running at well above the government published 2% - your own cost of all goods will provide some indication.  Additionally, 0% interest has not and will not launch a rush to banks for loans.  0% interest is, however, rewarding The Fed’s friends with the cheapest money they’ve ever had access to, enabling them to make money without risk – enabling never before seen executive bonuses. This action by Ben Bernanke in fact works against new or riskier businesses looking for loans from their local B. of A. or Wells Fargo bank managers.

‘Liquidity’ is not the barrier preventing the creation of jobs by corporate America, large or small. What else do we know?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: economy; fed; qe

1 posted on 02/11/2013 11:20:49 AM PST by Starman417
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To: Starman417
Utopia? This will answer the age old question, Can a country print itself to prosperity?

In a sane world the answer would be self evident. Look out below, its a very long fall.

2 posted on 02/11/2013 11:39:24 AM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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