Investors understand that the Federal Reserve’s ongoing purchase of U.S. Treasuries in the open market, known as quantitative easing two (QE2), injects newly created money into the U.S. financial system and economy, but the actual means by which newly created money monetizes U.S. government debt...
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Filed under: Federal reserve, deflation, debt, inflation, USDX, M3, Hyperinflation, Bailouts, QE2, U.S. Treasuries, QE, S&P500, M1, economic collapse, M2, money supply, Primary Dealers, Ben Bernanks, U.S. federal budget deficit, Nasdaq, Dow Jones Industrial Average
The productive elements of the US economy are caught between powerful financial interests, e.g., banks seeking speculative gains, political constituencies seeking entitlements and government entities at all levels whose budgets and deficits are too large compared to their revenues. All three factions...
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Filed under: Federal reserve, debt, GDP, Asia, Asian Tigers, China, central bank, Federal Budget, unemployment, Deindustrialization, Bailouts, Capitalism, Corporatism, Trade Deficit, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Service Economy