The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Well, men, I have to say I think Jimmy Rogers hit the nail on the head perfectly.
Chalk all and any losses up to Bernanke and the Federal Reserve's seeming insistence that RECESSIONS are always bad, and should be fought.
In fact, recessions are a healthy part of the business cycle, and should be welcomed as a means of clearing the deck of the weak and sickly, and preparing the ground for fertile ground going forward.
Bernanke cut rates when he should have been raising them. Bernanke failed to raise rates when he should have. Bernanke printed money, expanding the money supply, when he should have been shrinking it.
Bernanke used tax payer dollars, yours and mine, to selectively rescue the most reckless firms, such as Bear Stearns, and to open the discount window in perpetuity to financial institutions engaging in pure moral hazard, thus sheltering them from the folly of their actions, and even encouraging others to make even riskier bets, while knowing the Ben would be 'there for them,' in case those bets soured.
And SOUR those bets have.
And now we all pay for the sheer folly and utter incompetence that is the federal reserve and Mr. Benjamin Bernanke.
Watch, absorb and bask in the sheer brilliance and directness of a true genius:
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-- Thomas Jefferson
Well, men, I have to say I think Jimmy Rogers hit the nail on the head perfectly.
Chalk all and any losses up to Bernanke and the Federal Reserve's seeming insistence that RECESSIONS are always bad, and should be fought.
In fact, recessions are a healthy part of the business cycle, and should be welcomed as a means of clearing the deck of the weak and sickly, and preparing the ground for fertile ground going forward.
Bernanke cut rates when he should have been raising them. Bernanke failed to raise rates when he should have. Bernanke printed money, expanding the money supply, when he should have been shrinking it.
Bernanke used tax payer dollars, yours and mine, to selectively rescue the most reckless firms, such as Bear Stearns, and to open the discount window in perpetuity to financial institutions engaging in pure moral hazard, thus sheltering them from the folly of their actions, and even encouraging others to make even riskier bets, while knowing the Ben would be 'there for them,' in case those bets soured.
And SOUR those bets have.
And now we all pay for the sheer folly and utter incompetence that is the federal reserve and Mr. Benjamin Bernanke.
Watch, absorb and bask in the sheer brilliance and directness of a true genius:
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