Friday, September 21, 2012

The Federal Reserve Bank's True Goal

As posted by the best economics site on the web, Zerohedge:

Saving the banks by dumping trillions into housing is classic marginal return. Since the mechanism is broken--housing as the "wealth effect" generator and the source of billions in profits for banks--every $1 trillion in subsidies, give-aways, guarantees and mortgage purchases by the Fed yield fewer benefits to the real economy. Once again the question arises: rather than loan $16 trillion to banks at 0%, why doesn't the Fed just buy all residential mortgages for $10 trillion and charge 0.25% interest on the lot? That would cut out the banks, and that is the point here: the Fed's policies are not aimed at "helping housing," they're aimed at protecting the banks' income streams, assets and political power. Since the banks own $10 trillion in mortgages, housing is a key concern of the Fed's "save and enrich the banks" campaign.

Here's the Fed's policy in plain English: Debt-serfdom is good because it enriches the banks. All hail debt-serfdom, our goal and our god!

You can read the entire article here.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Right On Point

This video is completely on point.  Please Visit Webster Griffin Tarpley's site.  He's one of the best political historians out there.

Tarpley.net


For those of you that want solutions, here's one of the best, presented by Tarpley.