Posts Tagged ‘Crisis’
March 16 (Bloomberg) — Frederic Mishkin, a former Federal Reserve governor, now a professor of economics at Columbia University, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about Federal Reserve monetary policy.
Mishkin, speaking from Westchester, New York, says it’s too early to raise interest rates while unemployment remains high. The Federal Open Market Committee meets today. (This report is an excerpt. Source: Bloomberg)
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March 11 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, talks with Bloomberg’s Lori Rothman about the outlook for financial regulation and the Federal Reserve’s authority.
Paul, a former Libertarian Party presidential candidate, also discusses prospects of a run for the 2012 Republican U.S. presidential nomination. (Source: Bloomberg)
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March 11 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Hugh Son talks with Erik Schatzker about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and American International Group Inc.’s agreement to shoulder as much as $450 million in losses tied to the insurer’s Japan real estate bets as part of the sale of a division to MetLife Inc. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Federal Reserve Bank
The Federal Reserve Act – passed by 3 (THREE) senators in a unanimous voice vote on 23 December 1913 – while everyone else was home for the holidays.
Some people think of the Federal Reserve Banks as United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.
The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a missalocation of resources and an artificial “boom” followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.
From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the burst of the dotcom bubble, to the housing market crisis, every economic downturn suffered by the country over the last 80 years can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.
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Bill Murphy of GATA.org and LeMetropoleCafe.com discusses the economy and the gold and silver markets with Mike Maloney of GoldSilver.com
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Milton Friedman says that the purpose of the federal reserve is to provide cash when there is a run on the banks. This is part of a 10 hour series which can be viewed at: http://www.ideachannel.tv/
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According to steve forbes.
The following video was broadcast on MSNBCs Morning Meeting, Friday, July 24, 2009:
Federal Reserve is a Ponzi scheme, an inside job
Source: RawStory
The Federal Reserve — the quasi-autonomous body that controls the USs money supply — is a Ponzi scheme that created bubble after bubble in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York.
In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBCs Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks.
Spitzer — who built a reputation as the Sheriff of Wall Street for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New Yorks attorney-general and then resigned as the states governor over revelations he had paid for prostitutes — seemed to agree with Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to Americas greatest theft and cover-up ever.
Advocating in favor of a House bill to audit the Federal Reserve, Spitzer said: The Federal Reserve has benefited for decades from the notion that it is quasi-autonomous, its supposed to be independent. Let me tell you a dirty secret: The Fed has done an absolutely disastrous job since [former Fed Chairman] Paul Volcker left.
The reality is the Fed has blown it. Time and time again, they blew it. Bubble after bubble, they failed to understand what they were doing to the economy.
The most poignant example for me is the AIG bailout, where they gave tens of billions of dollars that went right through — conduit payments — to the investment banks that are now solvent. We [taxpayers] didnt get stock in those banks, they didnt ask what was going on — this begs and cries out for hard, tough examination.
You look at the governing structure of the New York [Federal Reserve], it was run by the very banks that got the money. This is a Ponzi scheme, an inside job. It is outrageous, it is time for Congress to say enough of this. And to give them more power now is crazy.
The Fed needs to be examined carefully.
Spitzer resigned as governor of New York in March, 2008, after news reports stated Spitzer had paid for a $1,000-an-hour New York City call girl.
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