[Toddsterpatriot]

Is the Next Bubble Unavoidable?

Of course. We've always had bubbles. Even (shhhh) before the Fed.

[RatRipper]

What good are low interest rates when business owners know Zer0 is going to tax and regulate their businesses into oblivion when the economy picks up a little???

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The Fed knows no other way to operate. This is like asking “if I drive 15 miles to the store will I encounter a traffic light?”

It’s accepted by most that the Fed has been captured by Wall St. but it’ll be interesting to see Congress feign ignorance of this phenomenon as they pretend to be working “for da peeple”. Of course, Congress needs very little in the way of remedial training to exhibit ignorance.

[marstegreg]

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble...

[InterceptPoint]

When business is really strong we find that businesses tend to raise prices. Good old supply and demand. But not to the Fed. The Fed calls that INFLATION.

When the Fed prints money and flushes it into the banking system they are, in the Fed's Humble Option, simply working to keep the economy going. The Fed would NEVER call that INFLATIONARY. As long as business is NOT TOO GOOD, prices don't creep up and the Fed is HAPPY. But if business gets really going that's BAD. Time to raise interest rates.

This is the way things really are and it's simply NUTS. Ron Paul is right. Kill this thing before it eats all of us.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"the operations of the Federal Reserve need to be subject to political review because it is clear that the New York Fed has been captured by Wall Street."

So the Captains of Wall Street will get their profits (again) and we, the taxpayer, will provide the funds when the bubble bursts.

[LomanBill]

"When Bubbles Attack..."

[Nathan Zachary]

"The Federal Reserve is now faced with a challenge that is akin to threading a needle by throwing a spool of thread across a football field. It is attempting to keep loose money and quantitative easing policies in place long enough not to stymie the nascent recovery..."

Nascent recovery? Not in this country. The Fed Reserve needs to stop reading the news coming out of other countries. Their "nascent recoveries" have nothing to do with whats happening in this country, in fact they are happening IN SPITE of what's happening in this country, which is a slow, but continuing economic slide into a third world status.