Excessive leverage and risk in the financial system, e.g., using customer funds to speculate, never ends well. Stock market crashes, bank and investment firm failures or economic recessions are all potential consequences. Following the failure of the United States to regulate over the counter (OTC) derivatives...
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Fri, Nov 16 2012
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Filed under: Federal reserve, CPI, deflation, inflation, GDP, IMF, Great Depression, CDS, unemployment, debt monetization, too big to fail, International Monetary Fund, Gross Domestic Product, Consumer Price Index, MBS, mortgage backed securities, over the counter derivatives, European Central Bank, ECB, Baltic Dry Index, sovereign default, bank failure, credit default swaps, BDI, monetary policy, OMT, recession, stock market crash, liquidity, QE3, quantitative easing III, systemic collapse, outright monetary transactions, market intervention, stagflation, tax increases, austerity measures, savings, U.S. Treasury, bank credit, stagnation, economic opportunity, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, instability, entrepreneurship, public funds, jobs, financial crisis, operation twist, bond yields, living standards, financial repression, Carmen M. Reinhart, OTC derivatives. Glass-Steagall Act, interest rates, net loss, middle class, consumer incomes, innovation, economic recovery
Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, faces a Sisyphean task because US banks are experiencing debt deflation and, because lending is now at much lower levels, monetary deflation is encumbering the domestic US economy as existing debts continue to be serviced. Government deficit spending...
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Ron Hera
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Wed, Mar 10 2010
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Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, CPI, deflation, debt, inflation, GDP, central banks, money supply, US economy, central bank, M3
If a lawless gang of madmen, gamblers and alcoholics seized control of a large company, how would you expect the business to perform? How would you expect the story to end? What if, instead of a company, they seized control of the world's largest economy, thus, to some extent, the world financial...
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Tue, Dec 1 2009
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Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, CPI, deflation, inflation, GDP, USDX, central banks, Gold, US economy, central bank
The US economy has been in crisis since 2008 and despite optimistic statements by officials and commentators there are no fundamental signs that the crisis will end in the foreseeable future. Current economic data suggests a number of diverging and unsustainable trends. The US economy has suffered a...