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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Ron Hera
on Mon, Feb 21 2011
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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Ron Hera
on Mon, Jul 19 2010
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
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
on Wed, Mar 10 2010
Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, CPI, deflation, debt, inflation, GDP, central banks, money supply, US economy, central bank, M3
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...
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Ron Hera
on Sun, Oct 11 2009
Filed under: Federal reserve, S&P 500, US dollar, CPI, deflation, debt, inflation, GDP