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*****Fed planning 15-Fold Increase in US monetary base*****
Market Skeptics ^ | March 20, 2009 | Eric deCarbonnei

Posted on 03/20/2009 10:11:56 AM PDT by givemELL

"The fed is planning moves that would more than double its balance-sheet assets by September to $4.5 trillion from $1.9 trillion. Whether expressing approval or concern over the fed’s move, most commentators fail to understand the real magnitude of the projected expansion of the US monetary base because they don’t take into account the amount of dollars circulating abroad......................The fed’s planned balance sheet expansion results in a 15-fold increase in the base money supply.

262 Billion = US monetary base as of September 2008 (minus dollars held abroad) 3,818 Billion = projected US monetary base in September 2009 (minus dollars held abroad)

3,818 Billion / 262 Billion = 15-Fold Increase in US monetary base

This is a staggering devaluation of the US currency! That means for every dollar that existed in America in September 2008, the fed is going to created fourteen more of them! Below is a rough sketch of what this Increase in US monetary base would look like:

>GRAPH<

This 15-Fold Increase will be impossible to reverse

Next September, when the fed realizes it has gone too far and tries to reverse its balance sheet expansion, it will be unable to do so. The realities which will hinder the fed’s control of the money supply are:"

(Excerpt) Read more at marketskeptics.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 15fold; base; clowardpiven; increase; manufacturedcrisis; monetary; stimulusepicfail; ukraine; weimar; zimbabwe
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To: givemELL

H Y P E R I N F L A T I O N COMING..........

The ONLY safe investments will be land, property, and HOLDING precious metals like Silver and Platinum.
(Gold is WAY oversold, imho)
Physical Holding, not funds...

On the bright side, passbook savings yields will go up, but it won’t keep pace with Inflation.


21 posted on 03/20/2009 10:54:16 AM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: givemELL
Can anyone explain to me how this won't cause double digit inflation / hyper-inflation?
22 posted on 03/20/2009 10:54:19 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: Califreak

This is on purpose. The zero plans to make the dollar worthless so he can “pay off the national debt” with worthless dollars. Never mind that it will take a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread.


23 posted on 03/20/2009 10:55:32 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: All

There is one place that makes the paper for the currency. Is there a way to check their output and see if it’s either rising or planning a significant increase?


24 posted on 03/20/2009 10:57:22 AM PDT by newnhdad (The longest of journeys begins with one step.)
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To: givemELL

mark


25 posted on 03/20/2009 10:57:59 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name now that we have the most conservative government in the world?)
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To: old curmudgeon
HR875 is aimed a criminalizing your ability to be self sufficient in producing your own food. The Marxists are pressing us towards Zimbabwe. Currency devaluation and crushing regulations to make life unbearable.
26 posted on 03/20/2009 10:57:59 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That is exactly why I’ve been thinking about the Soviet Famine so much lately.

I have never been so afraid of the government as I am now.


27 posted on 03/20/2009 10:58:22 AM PDT by Califreak (111th Congress: Destroying America With Reckless Abandon)
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To: wideminded
This would mean the the US monetary base is increasing by a factor of about 3 rather than 15

Whew, I was worried there for a minute.

28 posted on 03/20/2009 11:01:12 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Will trade sex for ammo)
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To: Tunehead54
Why are we in this hand basket and where are we going?

Because we haven't been paying attention. The elitists in our government have been playing shell games. AIG is a smokescreen. Just a ruse so that no one would notice what they were doing Wednesday afternoon. The government is making things happen so quickly, WE don't have time to digest the news until days after the fact. Guys, Think silver and gold. A silver coin waved in front of a store clerk can get you a loaf of bread quicker than paper, and it is so much cheaper than gold.

29 posted on 03/20/2009 11:02:39 AM PDT by lucky american (Glenn Beck Rocks!!!)
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To: mysterio

That’s not the question, really.

They KNOW it will cause hyperinflation,

and THEY DON’T CARE.

They look forward to the day when whitey has a tire burning around his neck.


30 posted on 03/20/2009 11:04:51 AM PDT by MrB (irreconcilable: One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.)
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To: givemELL
Everybody needs to see THIS VIDEO
31 posted on 03/20/2009 11:06:58 AM PDT by mvruckman
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To: razorback-bert

And when anyone says anything-”fold”, most likely they are using it wrong.

There’s a big difference between three times and three fold.

Three times, of course, is 3X. Three fold is 8X (2 ^ 3).

Think of it as “folding” a piece of paper. Fold it once, it has two layers, fold it again, 4, again, 8, etc.


32 posted on 03/20/2009 11:07:09 AM PDT by MrB (irreconcilable: One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.)
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To: Myrddin

We just ordered heirloom seeds today and paid extra to go to the top of the incoming orders.
Best money we’ve ever spent.


33 posted on 03/20/2009 11:11:20 AM PDT by AirForceMom (Locked and loaded, and sharpening my pitchfork.)
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To: givemELL
4.5 trillion quatloos on the US economy!


34 posted on 03/20/2009 11:12:03 AM PDT by xp38
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To: MrB
Great, back to worrying about being broke, poor and hungry again.
35 posted on 03/20/2009 11:12:59 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Will trade sex for ammo)
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To: givemELL
This article needs to get their facts correct.

They mention that 70% of US currency is circulating abroad - which is true to a point. That number is "PHYSICAL" currency, a.k.a. Federal Reserve Notes.

The article then goes on to state how 70% of the current money in circulation (FRN's AND computer entries) is overseas. This is completely incorrect.

FRN's make up about 3% of the currency in circulation. Of that 3%, 70% of those FRN's are held overseas.

36 posted on 03/20/2009 11:16:21 AM PDT by politicket (1 1/2 million attended Obama's coronation - only 14 missed work!)
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To: AirForceMom
Hope you can plant them in an Hybrid Free area. The do not do well in cross pollination with Hybrid species. You will not be able to reuse your seeds.
37 posted on 03/20/2009 11:19:15 AM PDT by lucky american (Glenn Beck Rocks!!!)
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To: Myrddin
I get a kick out of a particular young girl I work with, nice kid but misguided, who thinks that i am just predicting things are going to get bad because i didn't vote for BHO.

I present all the things he is doing or proposing and her reply is, “I just have faith that none of that will happen.”

See what we are up against

38 posted on 03/20/2009 11:22:29 AM PDT by lakertaker (Libertarian Party since 1998)
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To: mvruckman

Link doesn’t work....

CA....


39 posted on 03/20/2009 11:24:40 AM PDT by Chances Are (Whew! It seems I've at last found that silly grin!)
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To: givemELL

Ping for later


40 posted on 03/20/2009 11:25:30 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Get the bats and light the hay)
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