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U.S. Could Use Crisis to Wage 'Financial Warfare'
By Noah Shachtman March 16, 2009 | 7:17:00 AMCategories: Strategery
There's growing concern in defense and intelligence circles that the global recession has the potential to threaten America's national interests. But a small group of academics and Pentagon policy-makers believe that the U.S. could benefit from the financial havoc.
With economies around the world on edge...
Originally posted by andy1033
Amazing, the bs they are spinning. They simply do not know.
Originally posted by withpride09
Today on CNN they said the economy is on it's way up. They had graphs etc. What are they doing? Trying to get us spending again(like I have any to spend)? Berneke said we'll recover this year. Is this all BS?
Originally posted by Dermo
It doesn't mean that things will be back the way they were a couple of years ago.. That could take a decade.
In some ways.. this was the perfect recession.. Massive collapse, minimum timeframe.
~ from www.republicbroadcasting.com~
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The Fed and the Treasury are in the process this week of starting a joint venture called the Consumer and Business Lending Initiative in their latest effort to revive the credit markets. The program will start out by offering $200 billion worth of financing for consumer loans, small business loans and some corporate purposes like equipment leasing.
Fed officials have said they hoped to expand the program next month, possibly to include the huge market for commercial mortgages, and both the Fed and Treasury hoped the program would eventually provide up to $1 trillion in total financing. END
Originally posted by St Udio
is the fact that the Primary Dealer banks are not lending
they are hoarding the bailout money/ the lending window money/ the 'Facilities' where they Swap some toxic paper for Treasury Bonds/bills
The is No 'Velocity' in the Liquidity the banks received from the Fed. ~ i have a suspicion as to whats the purpose of hoarding the trillion$ ~
Originally posted by St Udio
What is completely different with this 'turndown/recession/whatever'is the fact that the Primary Dealer banks are not lending
they are hoarding the bailout money