Entries Tagged as 'federal reserve'

[Audio] Max Keiser on Thom Hartmann

November 19th, 2009 124 Comments

Stacy Summary: In case you missed it, here is Max on Thom Hartmann Show.

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“People want to kill somebody, but they don’t know who to shoot at”

October 20th, 2009 42 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Swaps wiping out counties, countries and financial systems across the world . . .

How the Federal Reserve Bailed out the World

Interest rate swap Armageddon in Alabama

“People want to kill somebody, but they don’t know who to shoot at”
Jefferson County’s debacle is a parable for billions of dollars lost by state and local governments [...]

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‘Tight’ credit undermines Fed easy money ‘growth’ efforts

September 23rd, 2009 45 Comments

Stacy Summary:  The Bloomberg headline is the deflationary argument you have been hearing from Steve Keen, Mish, etc.; I have linked to a blog entry by Keen that discusses what this credit contraction means in terms of the flations.

Fed growth effort may be undermined by ‘tight’ credit

It’s hard being a bear:  rescued?

So has the government [...]

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Multiple simultaneous ‘debt explosions’

July 6th, 2009 60 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Okay, I have eyewitness deflation report for you.  A rather posh restaurant only 50 yards from our apartment has had a fixed lunch menu for 4 years now set at 25 euros.  This included three courses and a glass of wine and the place was always packed (it’s not exactly an enormous restaurant).  [...]

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Gold vending machines, Spanish downgrades and Federal Reserve’s power grab

June 17th, 2009 44 Comments

Stacy Summary:   How are all these stories related?

Federal body that created crisis granted more authority to create future crises

Suitcase packing $134 billion puts dollar . . . on the edge

Banking crisis in Southern Europe sends world running

Buying gold from a vending machine

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Federal Reserve to gain sweeping new powers under Obama plan

June 16th, 2009 32 Comments

Stacy Summary:   So, I guess my out with the old, make way for the new isn’t going to happen any time soon.  

Federal Reserve to gain new powers

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Fed needs to raise rates soon but needs to end the bailout mentality now

May 13th, 2009 27 Comments

Stacy Summary:  The Fed needs to do a lot of things.  First, it needs to disarm and disband.  What do you think the Fed needs to do?  Or do you think something needs to be done to the Federal Reserve?

Taylor says Fed may need to raise rates soon

Is it time to stress test the Federal [...]

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

April 16th, 2009 17 Comments

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 [...]

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 10 April 2009

April 9th, 2009 21 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Banks resembling mafia organizations in the headlines today as the banks are forced to take an oath of omerta to Geithner and the Australian bank cartels shakedown the people.

Banks told to stay silent on stress test results

Australian ‘bank cartels’ slammed for pocketing rate cuts

BT slashes contractors’ pay by 30%

Credit default spreads show speculative [...]

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 27 March 2009

March 27th, 2009 15 Comments

Pimco trial balloons, unaffordable mistresses, toxic bailout plans and, as we predicted in our 2005 hit, “Whitey is doing a runner” – whitey gets the blame for the financial crisis.

Pimco says Fed needs to double balance sheet to $6 trillion to ‘replace the amount of wealth lost’

The financial crisis is the fault of ‘the white [...]

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