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Duh!! Low interest rates failing to rescue Brits from £1.45 trillion debt burden

Stacy Summary:  Of course low interest rates aren’t helping households, for they were designed to help funnel household wealth into the pockets of the banking elite.  And I suppose this is why people snapping in the streets of London. We’ll find out soon as Max and I make our way there. I guess we’ll have to do some sort of meet up there!? Anyone interested?

Stacy – mostly because any savings on lower mortgage rates is being eaten up by credit card rates rising:

The research contradicts comments made by Lord Young, the Tory peer who resigned as an adviser to David Cameron after saying “the vast majority of people in the country today have never had it so good” since the Bank slashed rates to 0.5pc.

Despite record low interest rates, half of respondents reported a fall in monthly disposable income after tax, mortgage, rent, bills and other loan payments. Nearly a third, 29pc, said their debt concerns had risen over the past two years, compared with just 12pc who are now less worried.

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‘All Powers’ Jibber Jabber

Stacy Summary: Lots of central bankers this week promising all sorts of cartoon super powers; this morning it is the Bank of England.

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A Lehman style tsunami of bad debt and suspending QE

Stacy Summary:  More on that next leg down.

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BoE will remain open to Ponzi scheme operators

Stacy Summary: What do you think about Tucker’s argument that he prefers not to target asset bubbles but to ‘strengthen resilience’ of the banking system during credit booms?  By giving them more taxpayer money?  If so then those taxpayers who will have to bailout the scheme when it busts would be chumps not to play the next ponzi scheme game because at least then they have a remote chance of winning.

[Tucker] said that, alongside inflation targeting, the Bank was considering whether to try to control asset price bubbles, credit growth or “strengthening the resilience of the banking system during credit booms”. He added he was minded to favour the final objective, which could in turn help control asset-price booms indirectly. Many had assumed that the Bank would embark on an asset-price targeting system, because the recent boom had at its heart increases in the price of houses.

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Floods, deficits and corporate marketing

Stacy Summary:    Thanks to @maxkeiser for the Pilger link.  The other headlines are just as awful for what they hold for the near future of our economies . . . especially for those in the age group here.  Anyway, looks like a lot of ‘good’ headlines out there today, so post what you find and I will be posting more soon . . .

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Output gaps, 21st century jobs and new lending [UPDATED]

Stacy Summary: First, here is a link and commentary to our last episode of On the Edge from Mish Shedlock, who is a great source of information especially on the inflation / deflation debate.  You can go join that discussion there if you would like.  In the meantime, here are the headlines I am looking at . . .

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Fox News on the ‘strange’ buying of S&P futures contracts in last 10 minutes of every trading day

Stacy Summary:   This is really too funny and sad at the same time.  Let the market decide.  It’s all seeing and all knowing.  It’s the Wizard of Oz!  What do you think?  Will people finally realize that there is no free market in the US?  And would they even know how to do anything about it?   I’d like to know who gets the insider privilege to place these trades on behalf of Geithner/Bernanke?

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Max Keiser Blog – The Old Lady keeping the poor poor, the rich rich

In the US, the rhetoric damning the Federal Reserve Bank in Washington D.C. is well known to anyone who listens to Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff and the rest of the ‘hard money’ crowd that are enlisted by Bloomberg TV to point out the blindingly obvious to the deaf and dumb masses.

But where is the outcry against the Bank of England?  Started in 1694 as a clawback of power by England’s aristocracy after having lost the Divine Right of Kings clause when Charles the 1st was beheaded, the BoE, the ‘Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’ is the mother of all central banks. From her loins springs the sum and in-substance of fiat fantasies fanning the flames of a monetary foolhardiness guaranteed to keep the poor poor and the rich rich.

Social mobility in Britain is restricted due to the 300 yrs of corrupt and insidious machinations of the Old Lady.  We are seeing this play out today as millions of home owners sink back into poverty after having been victimized by ponzi scheme wielding bankers in the City and by the largesse of easy student loans that are now the blight of millions of students in the UK.  This next generation will graduate with onerous debts that got piled high on top of the innocent sounding ‘top up fees’ introduced not too long ago when ‘growth’ was eternal and students weren’t forced to take relatively high paying jobs in defense or surveillance as the only way to stay ahead of banking reapers.

Protesters in the US can complain about Ben Bernanke and the Fed all they want, but until we see some solidarity with London, the primary source of the globe’s financial derangement, the Bank of England, will continue to pump class war, cronyism and fiat money into the British and world economy with the shameless glee of an invisible arsonist.

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