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The Self-Rehypothecation of Ben Bernanke | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust
Aug. 26, 2013
How then did Ben Bernanke finally summon the fortitude to entertain tapering Federal Reserve bond purchases from $85 billion a month to, say, $84.7 billion a month come Sept. 18th, the world may never know, but now the deed appears to be done, in his absence, by remote paranormal transmission, while the other Fed board members, with their attendant economist factotums, servelings, and catamites all beamed the message out of horsey Jackson Hole that they expected -- even pined for -- the vaunted return to a normal economy.
Which left many bystanders wondering if that meant a Dow Jones industrial average at, say 3,847 around Columbus Day, the 10-year bond at 5 percent, and every pension fund in world bleeding out from a sucking chest wound -- not to mention a Hindenberg-like conflagration of the U.S. Treasury as debt payments went beyond critical.
Pardon me for saying that I dont think these mooks of finance know what theyve been paying for with the QE series of monkeyshines. Theyve been creating money for five years to offset the collapse of a no-longer-cheap-oil economy. Its really that simple. If any of these poobahs thinks they can run a normal economy at $106-a-barrel then they should run out and get a realtors license and buy as many Arizona REOs as the foundering banks will admit to holding on their books, and then become landlord to renters working 29 hours a week on the WalMart loading dock.
Actually, I dont think they will have to wait that long to see the consequences of their loose, silly talk. Americas major export is now working its hoodoo in many other parts of the world as currencies become unglued and economies look down at the flimsy bamboo scaffolding that holds them up so high. Americas major export these days is economic uncertainty, specifically the question of what, exactly, will maintain the pretense that the hopelessly intertwined financial affairs of China, India, Brazil, Japan, Euroland, Russia, and everybody else, really, including ourselves, are not unraveling like some kind of cosmic sweater knitted with one needle by a cross-eyed god with the jim-jams.
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The Self-Rehypothecation of Ben Bernanke | James Howard Kunstler (Original Post)
Tace
Aug 2013
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madrchsod
(58,162 posts)1. excellent! two thumbs up!
god are we screwed
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)2. Yep, screwed. nt