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Money, dollars, gold, bitcoin

04 Tuesday Jan 2022

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Misc.

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bitcoin, Economics, fiat currency, gold, money, us dollar

A good read on an old and new topic https://monetary-metals.com/the-zombie-ship-of-theseus/

Fed Admits it Created $1.3 Trillion Out Of Thin Air

29 Thursday Apr 2010

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Economics, Political

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dollar, Economics, federal reserve, money

Here’s a must read, and short, article

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted the central bank created $1.3 trillion out of thin air to buy mortgage backed securities.  This shocking admission came from the Joint Economic Committee hearing on Capital Hill last week.  I was dumbfounded when I saw Bernanke shake his head in the affirmative as Representative Ron Paul said, “Well, where did you get the money? You created this money. So you did monetize debt, and that went into the banking system.”


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Fed to Print $300 Billion

18 Wednesday Mar 2009

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Economics, financial

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economy, financial, money

Yahoo Finance reports:

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday, in a surprise move, said it will buy up to $300 billion worth of longer-term U.S. government debt over the next six months …

This is outright money printing, and in time will devalue the dollar and any assets held in dollars.

Update 3/20/2009:  Here’s Richard Russel‘s take on this from his 3/19 post (subscription web site, well worth it IMHO)

Russell Comment — They’re calling it “The Rambo Fed.” Bernanke is not fooling around any longer. He’s playing all his cards. He’s going to put a floor under housing and boost asset prices in an all-out attack on the bear market. Bernanke wants to drive mortgage rates down and refinance housing at 3-4%. On the news, the dollar swooned, the Euro surged, the long T-bond exploded higher by six points, and the yield on the ten-year Treasury bond sank to 1.51%. Whew, what a day and what an announcement.

Late comment — We’ve now entered into the what I call “the land of unintended consequences.”

Here’s Peter Schiff’s take. Who’s he? Just someone who predicted the financial crisis about a year before it happened!

There is an old adage on Wall Street that no one rings a bell at major market tops or bottoms. That may be true in normal times, but as many have noticed, we are now completely through the looking glass. In this parallel reality, Ben Bernanke has just rung the loudest bell ever heard in the foreign exchange and government debt markets.

While nearly every facet of America’s economy has been devastated over the past six months, our national currency has thus far skipped through the carnage with nary a scratch.

This week the Federal Reserve finally made clear what should have been obvious for some time – the only weapon that the Fed is willing to use to fight the economic downturn is a continuing torrent of pure, undiluted, inflation. The announcement should be seen as a game changer that redirects the fury of the financial storm directly onto our shores.

In its statement, the Fed announced its intention to purchase an additional $1 trillion worth of U.S. treasury and agency debt. The purchases, of course, will be made with money created out of thin air through the Fed’s printing presses.

Now that the Fed has recklessly shown its hand, the mad dash to get out of Treasuries and dollars should not be far off. The more the Fed prints to buy bonds the less the dollar is worth.

His conclusion:

With such a policy in place, America has now become a banana republic. It won’t be too long before our living standards reflect our new status. Got Gold?






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