Fed's Lockhart Speaks: Ignore Reality, Inflation Is Transitory
• ZeroHedge.com"As I've said before, my expectation is that commodity price increases that are now translating into accelerating headline inflation will be transitory.
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Marc Faber: QE Is How The Elites Are Getting Their Revenge On The Poor
• BusinessInsider.com/By printing money, the earnings power of the proletariat is diminishing, while the assets held by the wealthy are going up. And at the same time, the wealthy are outsourcing more and more production to China, to further rob the masses.
Bretton Woods and the Limits of American Tolerance
Melinda Pillsbury-fosterThis weekend 200 economists will meet in Bretton Woods at the Washington Hotel for a reprise of previous, devious, devisings. Be there with your camera and attitude and imagine Murray Rothbard smiling.
The Fed Undermines Foreign Policy
• dailybell.comLast week I was both surprised and pleased when the Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions requiring the Federal Reserve Bank to comply with requests for information made by Bloomberg under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA").
San Francisco Fed: QE2 Money Printing Causes Prices to Drop
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comTwo economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, they have just reached the conclusion that Fed money printing doesn't cause price inflation. In fact they go one better, they claim that Federal Reserve asset purchases are deflationary.
QE3 On - QE3 Off: Bizarro World Wins
• ZeroHedge.comEven modestly bad news even if of a secondary importance nature, sends the market surging higher as expectations that QE3 is inevitable, hit 100%. Then when good news comes, and QE3 is deemed to be impossible, the market plunges.
Gasoline Prices: Until Bernanke Is Brought To Heel
• Market-ticker.orgOur economy will not "withstand" these oil and gas prices. Not without a massive contraction. I am already seeing it - again - on the roads around this area. Less traffic, fewer shoppers. The so-called "recovery" that was spiked through all...
Ron Paul Texas Straight Talk 4/4/11: The Fed Undermines Foreign Policy
• dailypaul.comLast week I was both surprised and pleased when the Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions requiring the Federal Reserve Bank to comply with requests for information made by Bloomberg under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA").
Chris Martenson: A Global Tsunami, Courtesy Of The Fed
• ZeroHedge.comStopping quantitative easing (QE) risks plunging the economy and financial system into another period of turbulent decline. It looks like they are going to choose the latter.
Rep. Paul planning hearing on Fed foreign lending
• Reuters"I was surprised and deeply disturbed ... to learn the staggering amount of money that went to foreign banks. These lending activities provided no benefit to American taxpayers, the American economy, or even directly to American banks," Paul said.
G20 Considers Global Currency
• dailybell.comThings are bad all over. With so much going on in the world, it's time for everybody to pull together and come up with a global solution. The world is inter-dependent after all. It is because we say it is.
Nursed Back to Health: Bernanke Provided Billions In Loans to Gaddafi
• ZeroHedge.comSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today questioned why the Federal Reserve provided more than $26 billion in credit to an Arab intermediary for the Central Bank of Libya.
Ron Paul on the Fed Bailing Out Foreign Banks
• youtubeCongressman Paul discusses the documents the Fed released by court order on Bloomberg TV
Nanjing Meeting: World Leaders Are Discussing How To Abandon The Dollar
• BusinessInsider.com/So there is this meeting in Nanjing where all countries but one are trying to figure out how to get rid of the USD as the world's major reserve currency, one country is trying to keep it's currency as the world's major reserve currency but have it...
Global Elitist Pushing for World Currency Wants $390 Billion SDRs Issued Every Year
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comBut aside from the SDR eventually being forced upon us all, Stiglitz clearly wants to make the SDR the money of central bankers, now. Stiglitz, Geithner, Bernanke and the rest of crew know the days are limited for the dollar as the reserve currency
Foreign Banks Tapped Fed’s Secret Lifeline Most at Crisis Peak
• BloombergU.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company
Libya-Owned Arab Banking Corp. Drew at Least $5 Billion From Fed in Crisis
• BloombergArab Banking Corp., the lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a New York branch to get 73 loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve in the 18 months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed. The bank, then 29 percent-owned by the Li
The Fed Bailed Out a Libya-Owned Bank
• Zero HedgeHere's one for the WTF files. While it is neither a secret that back in 2009 America had a thriving relationship with the world's suddenly most hated man Moammar Gaddafi only to turn around and bomb him, nor is it surprising since after
Traders Worry That April 27 Could Derail the Bull Market
• www.cnbc.comTraders are saying the scariest moment of the second quarter will be on April 27, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold the first ever press briefing following a monetary policy decision by the central bank.
Fed Releases Discount-Window Loan Records Under Order
• Craig Torres, Bloomberg.comThe Federal Reserve released thousands of pages of secret loan documents under court order, almost three years after Bloomberg LP first requested details of the central bank’s unprecedented support to banks during the financial crisis. The record
"Skunked": Bill Gross On How "The U.S. Will Likely Default On Its Debt"
• ZeroHedge.comI am confident that this country will default on its debt; not in conventional ways, but by picking the pocket of savers via a combination of less observable, yet historically verifiable policies – inflation, currency devaluation...
G. Edward Griffin on Glenn Beck
• RealityReport.tvG. Edward Griffin on Glenn Beck to discuss the federal reserve. Join the discussion at our RTR Group: http://rtr.org/group/745 Become a Fan at our Facebook Page: http://facebook.com/realityreport Share the Reality Report on Facebook:
Anne Tompkins: Tyranny's Whore
Larken RoseTo describe evil in polite, neutral terms is to insult the victims of it. So this won't be polite.
Bill Bonner: Printing Money to Save the World
• LewRockwell.comOh…and you can imagine what this does to the poor householder. He’s caught in the middle. The real economy pushes the value of his main asset down…while the feds push up the cost of his most important supplies – food and energy.
Thoughts On The Liberty Dollar Debacle
• By Brandon Smith[off the chart read ED] I was in the midst of the Save America Convention in Tampa, Florida when I heard, first, that Libya was under bombardment by the UN (led by U.S. forces), and, that Bernard von NotHaus of Liberty Dollar had been convicted of “c
Federal Reserve Tells: Something Big Is Going Down And It's Not Good
• ZeroHedge.comAnd rest assured, by the time the mainstream media announces what it is, it will already be in full swing.
Bernanke's Choice
• Richard Duncan for The Daily ReckoningFor twelve years the US trade deficit financed the US budget deficit and held down US interest rates. From 1996 to 2008, the US trade deficit exceeded the government’s budget deficit every year. The dollars sent abroad to pay for the trade deficit we
Gonzalo Lira: How Likely is QE-Three?
• Gonzalolira.blogspot.comThe fact is, there is no one outside the United States that I can think of who would willingly buy Treasury bonds—not to the tune of +$75 billion a month.
Safe-Haven Status Withers: Dollar Falls Versus Swiss Franc
• BusinessInsider.com/The Swiss Franc, also a traditional safe-haven currency, has quietly made its way towards successive new records against the US Dollar.
Meanwhile Afterhours...
• ZeroHedge.comIt appears that someone may have called the bluff on our earlier post of a possible commencement of trading in advance of QE3 (and how anyone could be surprised that QE3 is coming is beyond us - it has been our conviction that the Fed...
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