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Nice read.... very relaxing
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... 0751473884" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some quotes:
"That was when I realized the Fed had lost any remaining ability to think independently from Wall Street.."

"QE isn't really working...
Unless you're Wall Street. Having racked up hundreds of billions of dollars in opaque Fed subsidies, U.S. banks have seen their collective stock price triple since March 2009. The biggest ones have only become more of a cartel: 0.2% of them now control more than 70% of the U.S. bank assets..."

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I meant: What is QE?
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Tell me we've not become Europe.

Sad thing is, Chizzang...

...most people don't understand the relevance or magnitude of this data.

The American Dream has ended.

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SuperHornet wrote:I meant: What is QE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitati ... 2C_and_QE3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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SuperHornet wrote:I meant: What is QE?
Its a new women's football team...the Queen Elizabeth's...backed financially by wealthy men who want to watch women wrestle each other in panties and bras while some idiots actually think the league is about football.

Very complex stuff...not for the Mensa or testosterone challenged.
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Chizzang wrote:Nice read.... very relaxing
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... 0751473884" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some quotes:
"That was when I realized the Fed had lost any remaining ability to think independently from Wall Street.."

"QE isn't really working...
Unless you're Wall Street. Having racked up hundreds of billions of dollars in opaque Fed subsidies, U.S. banks have seen their collective stock price triple since March 2009. The biggest ones have only become more of a cartel: 0.2% of them now control more than 70% of the U.S. bank assets..."

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QE has created about $2.2 trillion in bank reserves at this point. Less than half (about 1 trillion) has been created in domestic banks. The rest, about 1.2 trillion has been created in foreign banks.

QE is a massive program of wealth transference from American taxpayers to the global banking cartel. For this alone, Obama should be impeached and Bernanke should be imprisoned.
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I didn't see THAT in the linked Wiki, CG, but if true, it DOES sound pretty bad.

On the surface, at least, if I understood it right (and I'm not exactly sure I did), it sounded quite similar to a publically traded company conducting a massive stock buy-back.

Economics was never my strong suit, though. Easing of what? That implies that there's a pressure of some sort (probably inflation, but it could be something else). How does the governmental purchase of stocks, bonds, and the like relieve whatever pressure it's purported to relieve?
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SuperHornet wrote:I didn't see THAT in the linked Wiki, CG, but if true, it DOES sound pretty bad.

On the surface, at least, if I understood it right (and I'm not exactly sure I did), it sounded quite similar to a publically traded company conducting a massive stock buy-back.

Economics was never my strong suit, though. Easing of what? That implies that there's a pressure of some sort (probably inflation, but it could be something else). How does the governmental purchase of stocks, bonds, and the like relieve whatever pressure it's purported to relieve?
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SuperHornet wrote:I meant: What is QE?
I meant "Let's play tic-tac-toe". :lol:
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SuperHornet wrote:I didn't see THAT in the linked Wiki, CG, but if true, it DOES sound pretty bad.

On the surface, at least, if I understood it right (and I'm not exactly sure I did), it sounded quite similar to a publically traded company conducting a massive stock buy-back.

Economics was never my strong suit, though. Easing of what? That implies that there's a pressure of some sort (probably inflation, but it could be something else). How does the governmental purchase of stocks, bonds, and the like relieve whatever pressure it's purported to relieve?
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SuperEunuch - another dumb fucking conk. :nod: :ohno: :dunce:
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It's a fact, not a conspiracy theory, that the fed is a collection of private banks that prints money not backed by anything and then charges us large sums of taxes to pay interest on the debt. Is it any surprise they look out for Wall Street first?

Henry Ford was right...if Americans understood our banking system there would be blood in the streets.
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Fight the power! Down with elitist scum!

I'm digging the conk populist front on this here thread. :lol:

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Pwns wrote:It's a fact, not a conspiracy theory, that the fed is a collection of private banks that prints money not backed by anything and then charges us large sums of taxes to pay interest on the debt. Is it any surprise they look out for Wall Street first?

Henry Ford was right...if Americans understood our banking system there would be blood in the streets.

This ^ is correct :nod:
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CitadelGrad wrote:
QE is a massive program of wealth transference from American taxpayers to the global banking cartel. For this alone, Obama should be impeached and Bernanke should be imprisoned.
:geek: You realize that Romney said (out loud) that he would effectively "fire" Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke if he were elected... so you see there was NO WAY after that statement that Romney would get anywhere near the Presidency

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kalm wrote:Fight the power! Down with elitist scum!

I'm digging the conk populist front on this here thread. :lol:

Baldy, Graddy, Pwns, see ya at the next OWS coffee clutch! :rofl:
I'm far from a populist. OWS is a bunch of socialist idiots. They are far from populist as well.
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Chizzang wrote:
CitadelGrad wrote:
QE is a massive program of wealth transference from American taxpayers to the global banking cartel. For this alone, Obama should be impeached and Bernanke should be imprisoned.
:geek: You realize that Romney said (out loud) that he would effectively "fire" Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke if he were elected... so you see there was NO WAY after that statement that Romney would get anywhere near the Presidency

In order to BE president in this country Now Days
You MUST be subservient to the Fed and The Street

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Um, Romney wasn't going to be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office anyway.
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kalm wrote:Fight the power! Down with elitist scum!

I'm digging the conk populist front on this here thread. :lol:

Baldy, Graddy, Pwns, see ya at the next OWS coffee clutch! :rofl:
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Baldy wrote:
kalm wrote:Fight the power! Down with elitist scum!

I'm digging the conk populist front on this here thread. :lol:

Baldy, Graddy, Pwns, see ya at the next OWS coffee clutch! :rofl:
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Baldy wrote:
kalm wrote:Fight the power! Down with elitist scum!

I'm digging the conk populist front on this here thread. :lol:

Baldy, Graddy, Pwns, see ya at the next OWS coffee clutch! :rofl:
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kalm wrote:
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How's about we swing you guys by Literally Anonymous on the way? :lol:

Only if Bunco's there.
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Wall Street fears even a discussion of these things. Pussy faux capitalists...

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/w ... 99697.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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