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]]> By: Jonas Barbarossa http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/financial-crises-and-the-federal-reserves-punch-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-31920 Jonas Barbarossa Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:05:46 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13707#comment-31920 Quote: Why did the U.S. financial system nearly collapse last year? Nearly? If it was a Russian invention then it DID collapse! I sometimes wonder if the people in the higher echelons are actually from the same planet as the rest of us. As one blogger put it (please provide reference): privatize profit and socialize cost/expense/loss. Have we become so disenfranchised that we sit idly and jabber while the governments and big business gamble away our future and the future of the planet? How is it possible that governments can get away with murder by mere denial? Quote: Why did the U.S. financial system nearly collapse last year?

Nearly? If it was a Russian invention then it DID collapse! I sometimes wonder if the people in the higher echelons are actually from the same planet as the rest of us. As one blogger put it (please provide reference): privatize profit and socialize cost/expense/loss.

Have we become so disenfranchised that we sit idly and jabber while the governments and big business gamble away our future and the future of the planet? How is it possible that governments can get away with murder by mere denial?

]]> By: john hosemann http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/financial-crises-and-the-federal-reserves-punch-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-31915 john hosemann Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:09:39 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13707#comment-31915 It seems to me that absent the availability of the information/data necessary to keep monetary policy on some sort of 'stable' path ala friedman/taylor and others it is first necessary to figure out just who benefits from bubbles and busts and why/how they benefit. It is surely not taxpayers/and those who try to plan productive activity. Would it not be somewhat useful to figure out just what a gold standard would do/does in practice? Some of us are already using gold in order to 'stabilize'our own personal financial situatiion. Or is it so simple that a gold standard prevents the politicization of the money supply and that is why it is fought against so hard. What say you? It seems to me that absent the availability of the information/data necessary to keep monetary policy on some sort of ‘stable’ path ala friedman/taylor and others it is first necessary to figure out just who benefits from bubbles and busts and why/how they benefit. It is surely not taxpayers/and those who try to plan productive activity. Would it not be somewhat useful to figure out just what a gold standard would do/does in practice? Some of us are already using gold in order to ‘stabilize’our own personal financial situatiion. Or is it so simple that a gold standard prevents the politicization of the money supply and that is why it is fought against so hard. What say you?

]]> By: Fed Is Winner in Senate Financial Overhaul | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/financial-crises-and-the-federal-reserves-punch-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-27041 Fed Is Winner in Senate Financial Overhaul | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty Tue, 25 May 2010 12:51:15 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13707#comment-27041 [...] Timely Classic “Financial Crises and the Federal Reserve’s Punch Bowl” by Chidem [...] [...] Timely Classic “Financial Crises and the Federal Reserve’s Punch Bowl” by Chidem [...]

]]> By: Atlas Sound Money Project » Blog Archive » “Financial Crises and the Federal Reserve’s Punch Bowl” http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/financial-crises-and-the-federal-reserves-punch-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-22559 Atlas Sound Money Project » Blog Archive » “Financial Crises and the Federal Reserve’s Punch Bowl” Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:43:22 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13707#comment-22559 [...] “Why did the U.S. financial system nearly collapse last year? People blame Wall Street’s excessive greed and risk-taking. But without easy money, the massive risk-taking could not have happened. To be sure, financial firms leveraged up—that is, they did a lot of business with borrowed money. That juiced up revenues and bonuses in the boom—and exacerbated losses in the downturn. Selling notes based on questionable mortgages as collateral was one method for tapping into the money sloshing around.” Read more. [...] [...] “Why did the U.S. financial system nearly collapse last year? People blame Wall Street’s excessive greed and risk-taking. But without easy money, the massive risk-taking could not have happened. To be sure, financial firms leveraged up—that is, they did a lot of business with borrowed money. That juiced up revenues and bonuses in the boom—and exacerbated losses in the downturn. Selling notes based on questionable mortgages as collateral was one method for tapping into the money sloshing around.” Read more. [...]

]]> By: Bernanke Says “Better” Regulation Key to Avoiding Crisis « Conservative Thoughts and Profundity http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/financial-crises-and-the-federal-reserves-punch-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-20877 Bernanke Says “Better” Regulation Key to Avoiding Crisis « Conservative Thoughts and Profundity Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:31:03 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13707#comment-20877 [...] Timely Classic: “Financial Crisis and the Federal Reserve’s Punch Bowl” by Chidem Kurdas Leave a [...] [...] Timely Classic: “Financial Crisis and the Federal Reserve’s Punch Bowl” by Chidem Kurdas Leave a [...]

]]> By: Chidem Kurdas http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/financial-crises-and-the-federal-reserves-punch-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-20832 Chidem Kurdas Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:49:49 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13707#comment-20832 Dearon, if not having full information is reason not to make try to make sense of what's going on, then we'd have to keep quiet about almost any topic! Should we give up on efforts to understand because full information is unavailable? Dearon, if not having full information is reason not to make try to make sense of what’s going on, then we’d have to keep quiet about almost any topic! Should we give up on efforts to understand because full information is unavailable?

]]> By: Dearon Malcom http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/financial-crises-and-the-federal-reserves-punch-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-20828 Dearon Malcom Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:03:33 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13707#comment-20828 This is interesting rationalization, but of no actual relevance to the facts. The Chairs figured out years ago that "regulation" is synonymous with "license to steal" as long as two conditions exist: 1) Barriers to access of information; and, 2) the continued ability to self-police themself. The author has distilled as much logic as possible given the information available. The problem is, of course, the available information is not the problem, and the information not available is deliberately inaccessible. This is interesting rationalization, but of no actual relevance to the facts. The Chairs figured out years ago that “regulation” is synonymous with “license to steal” as long as two conditions exist: 1) Barriers to access of information; and, 2) the continued ability to self-police themself.
The author has distilled as much logic as possible given the information available. The problem is, of course, the available information is not the problem, and the information not available is deliberately inaccessible.

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