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KRUGMAN: The Fed May Have Just Made A Historic Mistake, And Done More Damage Than It Realizes
Business Insider ^ | 6-22-2013 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 06/22/2013 6:04:33 PM PDT by blam

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To: blam

FWIW I was listening to Larry Kudlow’s radio show today and he said basically the same thing.
I think.
This monetary stuff is very obscure to me.


21 posted on 06/22/2013 7:03:23 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Roccus

What we are seeing in this “recovery” is the reduction of the middle class. The elite are still the elite, the poor are still bought off with EBT cards and bling. And it is deliberate. Jarrett and Axelrod are doing what all good communists do.


22 posted on 06/22/2013 7:04:25 PM PDT by henkster (The 0bama regime isn't a train wreck, it's a B 17 raid on the rail yard.)
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To: cripplecreek; All
Image and video hosting by TinyPic"Fast Cash" by Dorian Electra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4L_-4LbWRk&list=PL-B3B24cmBA2gPR8Ur36zUQTAGxqjX6ki

A fun explanation of what happened and what will happen.

23 posted on 06/22/2013 7:05:23 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: jocon307

see post 23...it won’t be so obscure. :)


24 posted on 06/22/2013 7:09:21 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: henkster

Absolutely. That’s why the wheelbarrow analogy doesn’t fit. Yes, the currency will be inflated causing prices to rise, but the paychecks will remain the same.

In a talk with another FReeper the other day, she told of a meeting with all the managers in her firm. Cut, cut, cut was the buzzword of the day. They were told that keeping their jobs was their raise this year.


25 posted on 06/22/2013 7:09:57 PM PDT by Roccus
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To: blam

And they ask me why I buy gold.


26 posted on 06/22/2013 7:12:42 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: blam

But Bernanke said he isn’t worried.


27 posted on 06/22/2013 7:12:46 PM PDT by beautress1 (Make today a masterpiece.)
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To: henkster
I can’t imagine issuing any bonds and getting any buyers at these rates.

Apple did not too long ago. Their CFO must be laughing now.

28 posted on 06/22/2013 8:24:46 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: blam

This house of cards has been carefully constructed. But, like all houses of cards, it has no stamina.

We shall soon see the horrific collapse of this house. Look at all the hell released when Bernanke gave the slightest, barest hint he may slow down or turn off the money machine.

Imagine what will happen when he finally does slow it down.


29 posted on 06/22/2013 8:29:19 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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Wall St thinks we should have ZERO interest rates forever. They love their cheap labor & cheap money. It’s going to end....


30 posted on 06/22/2013 8:33:50 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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sfl


31 posted on 06/22/2013 9:43:50 PM PDT by phockthis (http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...)
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To: blam

Fact is, Bernanke did not say this. Fwiw, he will continue the stupid QE fake fiat electronic money. The rumour drove the drop in the market, and shorts took their profits.

Krugman, goes without saying... is a complete obamaumau moron, and a true fool.


32 posted on 06/22/2013 10:16:10 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: blam

My name for Bernanke is “Pedro Bernanke” ... This from the fact that he was once a waiter (kid you not) at “Pedro’s South of the Border” on the SC state line on I-95. Don’t believe me? There is an interchange there named “Ben Bernanke Interchange” Kid you not.

Family has been in Dillon, SC since the war of northern aggression. Merchants since before 1860. Jewish fwiw.


33 posted on 06/22/2013 10:19:24 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: blam

34 posted on 06/22/2013 11:13:23 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Roccus
“They were told that keeping their jobs was their raise this year.”

I can relate to that ..though last year...they announced no employee appraisal which equals no raises. Cost of living went up so we basically got a pay cut...to keep our jobs.

35 posted on 06/22/2013 11:27:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: Mount Athos

When did they take out the things I need to live from the inflation index?

You know, food, gas, heating oil, natural gas, health insurance premiums...


36 posted on 06/22/2013 11:44:38 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: LongWayHome

Wall Street has been dead through the QE years. Interest rates have remained stable seemingly without risk. Investors sacrificed quality for higher risk to realize any yield. The FED has leveraged their balance sheet, buying back MBS, treasury bills, bonds and notes to an unimaginable amount ! Reminds me of the little Dutch boy plugging the dike with his wee finger. Bernake is about to stick his finger in his own hole. Free markets can’t and won’t absorb all this worthless debt. The market is always right and like God almighty, judgement day is coming when true values will once more be determined on the street.


37 posted on 06/23/2013 12:01:00 AM PDT by Broker (Obama, the devils fart.)
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To: cripplecreek

Bush’s Fault!


38 posted on 06/23/2013 4:12:04 AM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: LachlanMinnesota

Yeah, what is that government-produced graph must be based on?


39 posted on 06/23/2013 4:57:48 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: blam

Hey Paul, you can’t dodge bubbles forever. And Shalom has just kicked the can down the road to his successor.


40 posted on 06/23/2013 5:25:12 AM PDT by gotribe (Limit The Government's Right To Bear Arms)
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