Skip the Happy Talk
This Depression is just beginning
By Mike Whitney
August 03, 2009
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23182.htm
“・・・Keep in mind that Wall Street veterans knew from the very beginning that Bernanke's quantitative easing (QE) was a load of malarkey intended to justify keeping toxic asset prices artificially high while pumping trillions into the stock market. Here's former hedge fund manager Andy Kessler's analysis way back in May:
‘On March 18, the Federal Reserve announced it would purchase up to $300 billion of long-term bonds as well as $750 billion of mortgage-backed securities. Of all the Fed's moves, this "quantitative easing" gets money into the economy the fastest -- basically by cranking the handle of the printing press and flooding the market with dollars (in reality, with additional bank credit). Since these dollars are not going into home building, coal-fired electric plants or auto factories, they end up in the stock market.
A rising market means that banks are able to raise much-needed equity from private money funds instead of from the feds. .....It's almost as if someone engineered a stock-market rally to entice private investors to fund the banks rather than taxpayers.’ (Andy Kessler "Was it a Sucker's Rally" Wall Street Journal)
TheMoneyIllusion A slightly off-center perspective on monetary problems.
http://blogsandwikis.bentley.edu/themoneyillusion/?p=3316
We’re all Austrians now . . . make that Keynesians.
"So are we fated to keep endlessly circling between the Austrian pessimism, the Keynesian fiscal follies and the new Keynesian inflation targeting? I’m not that pessimistic. ・・・・I still refuse to give up hope. Someday we will say “we are all NGDP futures targeters now.”"