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Federal Reserve’s New Quantitative Easing: Why It Won’t Work

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Politics, tagged , , , , on August 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

ATLANTA— The Federal Reserve announced yesterday that it will begin using proceeds from its maturing mortgage bonds to buy more government debt, thereby restarting on a smaller scale the quantitative easing policy the Federal Reserve had discontinued back in March.   The purpose of quantitative easing is to purchase debt in large volumes so as to lower, or ”ease,” long-term interest rates.   [...]

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How Bad is the U.S. Dollar Crisis Going to Get?

Posted in Economy, Foreign Affairs, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »

ATLANTA— I keep watching the headlines, waiting for the big day to come.  Will it come in a bang?  Or will it play out over a year or two of painful, elongated decline?  The continued debasement of the dollar by our federal government through Barack Obama’s record deficit spending and through Ben Bernanke’s quantitative easing [...]

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OBAMAFLATION: Obama Tells Hollywood “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!” …and He’s Right!

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

ATLANTA— The spread between interest rates on 2-year Treasury notes and 10-year Treasury notes spiked to the highest on record in daily trading yesterday, driven by fears the burgeoning U.S. federal deficits and quantitative easing at the Fed might exacerbate inflation in the upcoming years.  A spike of this variety suggests investors are increasingly demanding higher interest [...]

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Bank Stress Tests: Nouriel Roubini’s Case for Letting Big Banks Fail

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

…the question we really should be asking is: why keep insolvent banks afloat? We believe there is no convincing answer; we should instead find ways to manage the systemic risk of bank failures,” Nouriel Roubini and Matthew Richardson, May 6, 2009. ATLANTA— From the beginning, I have been opposed to the government bailouts of major financial [...]

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First 100 Days: How Barack Obama is Laying the Foundations for BIG-TIME Inflation

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. —Barack Obama, Dover, New Hampshire, September 12, 2008

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Top 3 WORST Decisions Barack Obama Has Made in His First 100 Days

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

ATLANTA— Barack Obama has now been in office for 100 days, which marks the traditional starting point for assessing how his presidency is doing. Mr. Obama’s first 100 days have been incredibly active.  In reality, they have had to be.  He faces two ongoing wars and a crippling, global financial crisis. Additionally, he is a [...]

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One More Way Barack Obama is Setting Himself Up for Failure

Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »

ATLANTA— The Obama Administration is declaring its intent to centrally regulate our economy in such a way as to avoid the creation of new asset bubbles in the future.  To achieve this, they would commission a central regulator to identify and stop bubbles before they reach a destructive size and scope.  I have pasted an article from Politico discussing this intent [...]

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