Today Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will give his last press conference as Fed chairman. Mainstream media is fawning all over Bernanke and what he has done as Fed chairman. I say, good riddance.
Phil Izzo at WSJ reminds us of how great an increase in the monetary base has occurred under Bernanke:
A good chunk of this money has ended up as excess reserves at the Fed and is not in the system, but it is a massive overhang that threatens to deliver a giagantic wallop of price inflation if it does enter the system.No matter what the Fed decides to do today with its $85 billion of bond purchases a month, the assets on its balance sheet are likely to surpass $4 trillion for the first time this week.
Assets on the Fed’s balance sheet sat at around $3.99 trillion as of Wednesday Dec. 11. The level has climbed by more than $1 trillion over the course of 2013 as the central bank continued its bond-buying program launched in September 2012.
The balance sheet is up from less than $1 trillion prior to the recession.
Meanwhile, the new money that has entered the system has distorted the economic structure of the economy, which has resulted in a booming manipulated stock market that will ultimately result in a crash. Nice job Bernanke. Good riddance.
They're here to help:)....not sure by the comments the people are buying this story.
ReplyDelete5 myths debunked about the Federal Reserve
Assassination, foreign control and money printing: the stuff of a motion picture thriller?
Not in this case. They're all the fodder for wild and surprisingly popular myths surrounding the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve.
It does wield considerable power, evident in the extraordinary measures taken during and after the financial crisis. But it's amazing the things that otherwise reasonable people say about this admittedly complex U.S. government institution.
Read more: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/federal-reserve/myths-federal-reserve-1.aspx
U.S. government institution????
ReplyDeleteIf you were not being at least a tad facetious here, you just discredited your post as they are private; not a government anything!