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12%  
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  • Bernanke's Cowardice Has Sealed Our Fate

    11/09/2010 2:08:18 AM PST · by Scanian · 25 replies
    The American Thinker ^ | November 09, 2010 | Monty Pelerin
    The day after the election, the Federal Reserve launched QE2, the second round of Quantitative Easing. This public relations euphemism attempts to hide the fact that the Fed is "printing money" (the Fed actually does it electronically these days). "Cheating, debasing and inflating," as in stealing from the public, is a more accurate description. Bernanke indicated from 600 to 850 billion additional dollars would be created. To put this in perspective, the Tarp package was in this range. The total Federal Reserve balance sheet was $829 billion at the end of 2004 and only $869 billion in August 2007. At...