Feds

The Lost Decade U.S. Style

August 10, 2011

Different name but same style.

Japan reacted to a huge downturn to their economy by cutting interest rates and printing inflation, all which contributed to their EXTREME national debt.

Now the Feds have announced that record low interest rates, which started dropping in 2008 and are now near zero, are going to continue until 2013 at least.

So we’re half way to Japan but this will get us through the elections. Right?

We know who to thank but will we remember?

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Dollar Tumbling To Record Low Against Swiss Franc, New Lows Against Yen | ZeroHedge

August 7, 2011

Recently I did a post, Dollar Up, Market Down – Dollar Down, Market Up.

If you read that read this:

Dollar Tumbling To Record Low Against Swiss Franc, New Lows Against Yen | ZeroHedge

Macro-economics has supplanted the reasoning behind the theory.  But as the saying goes, “It works until it doesn’t.”

So goes another tool of the Feds., don’t you think?

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Musings on the Fed’s Payday Loans

April 19, 2011

This is the U.S. borrowing from the Feds to pay off a previous loan akin to rolling over a payday loan.

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End The Fed and Other Musings

November 20, 2009

Well, the taxes and regulations are are on their way. That got me thinking.

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