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Wall St boosts QE3 expectations after May jobs data
Reuters ^ | 06/02/12 | Chris Reese

Posted on 06/02/2012 6:32:33 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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To: TigerLikesRooster

I knew they’d find a way - and excuse - to do QE3...


21 posted on 06/02/2012 2:26:23 PM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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OK.

Imagine you are the gummint.

I am a “bank” (lender).

You come to me to borrow “money”.

I say OK, but here’s the deal.

I will cash your checks, but only with my “money”, which I chose to call “djf Reserve Notes”.

You go off your merry way and print checks and send them out.

I open a few more branches, and print the “notes” I need to honor the checks.

Now I don’t care about who or what the checks are for. The ONLY thing I care about is “Are you, the gummint, able to pay me back?” And when I say “pay me back”, I’m NOT talking about “djf Reserve Notes”. As far as I am concerned, “djf Reserve Notes” are junk, just pieces of paper, valueless, they are one and one thing only:

Evidence of debt.

When I say “pay me back”, I mean something REAL! Real money, real power, real estate, influence, SOMETHING!

Realize something else:

If you, the gummint, gets too extravagant in one area or another, I (the lender) have the ABSOLUTE OPTION to TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN OR CANNOT SPEND “money” ON!
Because I can say at any time to someone who comes in with a “check”, “Sorry. The person who wrote that check doesn’t have enough in his account. Call your Congressperson and ask why.”

See?
That’s how it’s working today. That’s the power “the lenders” have. That’s also why they cannot tolerate any other form of money, be it gold, silver, United States Notes, baked beans, or sea shells...

Sure, the Senators and Congressmen make some “rules” and some “laws” in the Capitol, but nothing of significance that would change the above relationship.


22 posted on 06/02/2012 8:05:47 PM PDT by djf ("There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin)
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Definition of 'Quantitative Easing'

A government monetary policy occasionally used to increase the money supply by buying government securities or other securities from the market. Quantitative easing increases the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital, in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity.

Central banks tend to use quantitative easing when interest rates have already been lowered to near 0% levels and have failed to produce the desired effect. The major risk of quantitative easing is that, although more money is floating around, there is still a fixed amount of goods for sale. This will eventually lead to higher prices or inflation.

23 posted on 06/03/2012 7:11:54 AM PDT by kabar
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