(AJC) – Okay, the Fed’s recent decision to boost its monetary stimulus (a.k.a. “money printing,” “quantitative easing,” or simply “QE”) by another $45 billion a month to a combined $85 billion per month demonstrates an almost complete departure from what a normal person might consider sensible.

To borrow a phrase from Joel Salatin: Folks, this ain’t normal. To this I will add …and it will end badly. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonsBlog) – The Fed has just announced its fourth round of “quantitative easing”.

While the mainstream financial press pretends that quantitative easing is a “liberal” economic policy, nothing could be further from the truth. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – Alex welcomes British Author and renowned New World Order investigator David Icke to expose the large strides towards bringing about total financial collapse and public enslavement. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss flash crashes, reputation woes on the U.S. exchanges and sheep screaming at all the fraud. Max also talks to one of the Queen’s sheep for its opinion on quantitative easing. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talks to Jim Rickards, author of Currency Wars, about QE to infinity, the dollar, the euro and a gold standard. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss that after five years of depressing depressed savers, the government and Central Bank reaps the rewards while Americans have given up hope and now concede to being ‘lower class.’ In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talks to Chris Cook about the price of chickens in Tehran and petrol in the United Kingdom and the role of ETFs in destroying markets. Read the rest of this entry »

(CNBC) – In one of the most bullish gold calls since the Federal Reserve announced a new round of easing last week, one strategist sees a 36 percent jump in the metal’s price, to $2,400 an ounce, by the end of 2014. Read the rest of this entry »

(NewAmerican) – Everybody knew it was coming. With the economy continuing to founder, it was only a matter of time before Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve decided to turn once again — like the proverbial pig to its wallow — to printing money in a vain attempt to jolt the moribund American economy back to life. As with the first two such feckless efforts, they’re dressing this one in fancy verbiage — “quantitative easing” — that fools no one. Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – In a reversal of earlier statements, Republican candidate Mitt Romney “opened fire on Friday after the Fed began an open-ended third round of quantitative easing (QE3), under which it will buy $40bn of mortgage-backed securities a month,” the Financial Times reports. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – On Friday, the independent and nationally recognized statistical rating organization lowered “the U.S. government to ‘AA-’ from ‘AA,’ citing its opinion that quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve would hurt the U.S. economy and the country’s credit quality,” CNBC reported. Read the rest of this entry »

(Youtube) – September 15th, 2012 – Read the rest of this entry »

(Bloomberg) – In response to Bernanke’s announcement of open-ended QE Ron Paul Perfectly sums up Bernanke’s justification for doing so “We’ve Lost Control!” Read the rest of this entry »

Latest move represents huge transfer of wealth from the middle class to the elite

(AlexJonesPaulWatson) – While Ben Bernanke’s announcement that the Federal Reserve will embark on an open ended scheme to purchase $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities each month has been touted by the establishment media as the beginning of “QE3″ it is in fact nothing less than another banker bailout in disguise. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – In the latest round of government “stimulus” the Fed has announced that it will be buying $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities each month for an indefinite period of time. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – Bernanke skipped right over QE 3/4 and directly announced open-ended QE with plans to purchase $1 trillion in mortgage backed securities over the next 2 years. Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – After holding steady at above $1,700 this past week, gold’s price per ounce has surged close to $40 in response to the announcement of QE3, which allows the Federal Reserve to buy up “$85 billion in new assets, including $40 billion mortgage-backed securities every month until the end of the year.” Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – The privately owned Federal Reserve will pump more fiat dollars into the economy as job growth showed a sharp decline in August. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss what happens when ersatz money heroin stops working and Treasury bonds are sold by hucksters and everything is guaranteed by the state. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talks to John Rubino of Dollarcollapse.com about fiat currencies, how they collapse and how fast it happens. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – During his Jackson Hole speech on Thursday, Fed boss Ben Bernanke said the privately owned bankster cartel “will provide additional policy accommodation as needed” and may engage in more so-called quantitative easing. Read the rest of this entry »

(ETFDailyNews) – Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Desperate to print Wiemar-style to fight off the most viscous Kondratiev Winter on record, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may not satisfy ‘inflation trade’ onlookers at the close of his Jackson Hole speech scheduled Friday.  He may, instead, merely allow months of anticipatory front-running of stocks do the work of propping up asset prices for him.  Read the rest of this entry »

(SchiffReport) – August 17th, 2012 – Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (GlobalResearch) – Human Life: Beyong Money, Ideology and Productive Forces – Part III – Prof. John McMurtry – Read More Here

(InternationalForecaster) – The hand of the US elitists shows more each day in the decisions being made in Europe. Mario Draghi, ex-Goldman Sachs, Trilateralist and Bilderberg, is putting everything in place just the way the US elitists want. We are about to see full scale quantitative easing. Read the rest of this entry »

(VisionVictory) – December 16th, 2011 – Read the rest of this entry »

Inflation Is A Tax

(WashingtonsBlog) – The father of the theory that government stimulus is the way to fight severe downturns – John Maynard Keynes – famously said about inflation:

By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke also admits that inflation is a tax on the American people: Read the rest of this entry »

(PrisonPlanet) – If the Fed stops QE, confidence in the US dollar would rise. Money would flow into US investments, both supporting the US stock market and helping to finance the large US budget deficit. Gold and silver prices would decline. Negative dollar expectations would be squeezed out of oil and grain prices, although drought, flood, and supply factors would continue to impact grain prices and the administration’s wars can impact oil prices. Read the rest of this entry »

(GlobalResearch) – The deficit hawks are circling, hovering over QE2, calling it just another inflationary bank bailout.  But unlike QE1, QE2 is not about saving the banks.  It’s about funding the federal deficit without increasing the interest tab, something that may be necessary in this gridlocked political climate just to keep the government functioning.

On November 15, the Wall Street Journal published an open letter to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke from 23 noted economists, professors and fund managers, urging him to abandon his new “quantitative easing” policy called QE2.  The letter said: Read the rest of this entry »

(Truthout) – Unlike QE1, QE2 is not about saving the banks. It’s about saving the country from Greek-like austerity measures necessitated by a burgeoning federal debt. The debt is never paid, but is just rolled over from year to year; but the interest is paid, and it is here that QE2 relieves the pressure, since the Fed rebates its interest to the Treasury.

The inflation hawks are circling, warning of the dire consequences of the Fed’s new QE2 scheme. “Quantitative easing” (QE) is Fedspeak for creating money out of nothing with a computer keystroke. Read More Here

(EconomicCollapse) – Buckle up and hold on – a new round of quantitative easing is here and things could start getting very ugly in the financial world over the coming months.  The truth is that many economists fear that an out of control Federal Reserve is “crossing the Rubicon” by announcing another wave of quantitative easing.  Have we now reached a point where the Federal Reserve is simply going to fire up the printing presses and shower massive wads of cash into the financial system whenever the U.S. economy is not growing fast enough?  If so, what does the mean for inflation, the stability of the world financial system and the future of the U.S. dollar?  Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Earlier today, the Federal Reserve decided to create and unleash destructive asset bubbles that will ultimately devastate the global economy.

QE2, or quantitative easing, has commenced, as feared. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – This time, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, ponder a Federal Reserve induced civil war as Ben Bernanke throws Granny down the stairs. In the second half of the show Max talks to James Howard Kunstler about post peak oil America. Read the rest of this entry »

Howard Davies, chairman of the London School of Economics, and Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citigroup Inc., talk about the potential impact of additional quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve on the U.S. economy. Davies and Buiter say “Savage Austerity” coming to America as they talk with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television’s “Surveillance Midday.” Read the rest of this entry »

(EconomicCollapse) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is getting ready to conduct another gigantic bailout of the big banks, but this time virtually nobody in the mainstream media will use the term “bailout” and the American people are going to get a lot less upset about it. You see, one lesson that was learned during the last round of bank bailouts was that the American people really, really do not like it when the U.S. Congress votes to give money to the big banks. So this time, the financial “powers that be” have figured out a way around that. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s great debate basically between the US and Europe is – should the Fed go full bore by implementing a second quantitative easing? In part it is a moot point, because they have been doing just that in the repo market for four months without letting anyone know what they were up too. Their mandate is to reduce inflation and create full employment. Real inflation is 7% and unemployment is 22-3/4%. Read the rest of this entry »

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(EconomicCollapse) – When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a speech about the U.S. economy, it gets a whole lot more attention than when Barack Obama gives a speech about the U.S. economy.  Why is this true?  Well, it is because Bernanke has a whole lot more control over the U.S. economy than Obama does. It is the Federal Reserve that controls monetary policy and interest rates. It is the Federal Reserve that can create money out of thin air. Read the rest of this entry »

Ed Yardley notes:

Two economists, Seth B. Carpenter and Selva Demiralp, recently posted a discussion paper on the Federal Reserve Board’s website, titled “Money, Reserves, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: Does the Money Multiplier Exist?” [Here's the link.] – Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) – Precious metal hits new record high as greenback plummets in reaction to expectation of Fed’s quantitative easing policy Read the rest of this entry »

A fundamental change is taking place in the markets which has signaled doom for the dollar. This week the Dow, Long term treasuries and the dollar all went down at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »