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As if there was any doubt before which way the arrow of control, and particularly causality, points in America’s financial system, the following stunner just released from Bloomberg confirms it once and for all. According to Rebecca Christie and Craig Torres, the New York Fed has issued a survey to Primary Dealers, which asks for suggestions on the size of QE2 as well as the time over which it would be completed. It also asks firms how often they anticipate the Fed will re-evaluate the program, and to estimate its ultimate size.
This is nothing short of a stunning indication of three things:
i) that the Fed is most likely completely paralyzed due to the escalating confrontation between the Hawks and the Doves, and that not even Bernanke believes has has sufficient clout to prevent what Time magazine has dubbed a potential opening salvo into a chain of events that could lead to civil war: in effect Bernanke will use the PD’s decision as a trump card to the Hawks and say the market will plunge unless at least this much money is printed,
ii) that the Fed is effectively asking the Primary Dealers to act as underwriters on whatever announcement the Fed will come up with, and thus prop the market, and, most importantly,
iii) that the PDs will most likely demand the highest possible amount, using Goldman’s $2-4 trillion as a benchmark, and not only frontrun the ultimate issuance knowing full well what the syndicate of 18 will decide in advance of what the final amount will be, but will also ramp stocks on November 3 to make the actual QE announcement seem like a surprise.
This also means that the Primary Dealers of America, which include among them such hedge funds as Goldman Sachs, such mortgage frauds as Bank of America, such insolvent foreign banks as Deutsche, RBS, UBS and RBS, and such middle-market excuses for banks as Jefferies, are now in control of US monetary, and as we explain below fiscal, policy.
Originally posted by sligtlyskeptical
I always believed the Fed should buy all the debt outstanding and then the Congress should abolish them and all the debt along with them. That would mean printing money hand over fist but if it was accompanied by a large reduction in permissable leverage then it would not neccesarily be all that inflationary. The economy would need much more money in it if financial leverage was reduced to say 3 to 1 or something along those lines. It would allow America to hit the reset button and put this mess behind us. We would still have all the Treasuries to pay off but a revitalized America woud mean a huge boost in tax collected so we could probably handle this. .
Originally posted by Realtruth
Smoke and mirrors.
The Fed is not run by the government period, it was always privately run, with congressional oversight.
Originally posted by mnemeth1
Originally posted by sligtlyskeptical
I always believed the Fed should buy all the debt outstanding and then the Congress should abolish them and all the debt along with them. That would mean printing money hand over fist but if it was accompanied by a large reduction in permissable leverage then it would not neccesarily be all that inflationary. The economy would need much more money in it if financial leverage was reduced to say 3 to 1 or something along those lines. It would allow America to hit the reset button and put this mess behind us. We would still have all the Treasuries to pay off but a revitalized America woud mean a huge boost in tax collected so we could probably handle this. .
That sounds utterly ridiculous.
Why in the hell should the banks get to stay in business after they have looted the public dry?
If you were a doughnut shop owner and you consistently made bad business decisions, should the Fed come and buy all of your bad debt at full price?
Is it fair to your competitors who made good business decisions that the Fed should prop up your doughnut shop?
Originally posted by sligtlyskeptical
Why cut off your arm to save your hand?
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
Originally posted by sligtlyskeptical
Why cut off your arm to save your hand?
If that hand is choking the life out of the body then it needs chopping off.
I wonder how much actual wealth the Federal Reserve has plundered from the Nation over the last 87 years - $30, $40, $50 Trillion or so?
No wonder they can get away with anything they want.
Welcome to Babylon, the great whore