The Bear Market Economics Phenomenon

“The Bear Market Economics Phenomenon” is an observation of Political Economics. Wall Street Admits: ‘We Got Rich Off the Backs of Workers’ thus creating the Bear Market. The Bear Market is America's default war. The ethic of Wall Street is the ethic of celebrity. It is fused into one bizarre, perverted belief system and it has banished the possibility of the country returning to a reality-based world or avoiding internal collapse. A society that cannot distinguish reality from illusion dies.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

"Deception and Abuse at the Fed"

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January 29, 2010
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"Deception and Abuse at the Fed"

WASHINGTON - January 29 - The Senate voted yesterday to approve a second term for Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chairman.

ROBERT AUERBACH
Professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, Auerbach is author of the book Deception and Abuse at the Fed. His recent articles include "Stop the Federal Reserve From Shredding Its Records."

Auerbach said today: "The Fed has no effective way of examining these monstrosities that its policies have allowed to become so large -- like Bank of America or Citibank or Goldman Sachs.

"With bank reserves rising from $68 billion in September 2008 to an astounding $1.14 trillion in December 2009, what has been the Fed's real interest policy since September 2008? It began to pay interest on their reserves, a clear incentive to hold the reserves rather than to lend them.

"William T. Gavin, a Federal Reserve economist, wrote: 'First, for the individual bank, the risk-free rate of 1/4 percent must be the bank's perception of its best investment opportunity.' (March/April 2009 St. Louis Federal Reserve Review)

"The Federal Reserve should phase out these interest payments and end Chairman Bernanke's false argument (National Press Club luncheon, February 18, 2009) that the billions of dollars in interest payments are a method of insuring banks do not lend at a lower rate. Given that the target Fed short-term interest rate is zero to 1/4 of one percent, is he afraid the banks will pay borrowers to take the reserves at less than zero percent interest if the Fed does not pay interest on them?"

See "Did Ben Bernanke Pull the TARP Over Eyes?"

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Friday, January 29, 2010

"Deception and Abuse at the Fed"

"Deception and Abuse at the Fed"

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