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Originally Posted by FARMER
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I don't think QE is ending anytime soon (actually, I think it's impossible. The US has far gone past the Minsky Moment. The Fed is the single largest buyer of Treasury's and with the Fed running $1+ trillion deficits/year [and that's not counting the $16+ trillion on-balance-sheet debt and $70-100 trillion in unfunded liabilities] there is no way for the Fed to end QE. Bernanke et al. have been bluffing that they "may taper" ever since they started QE).
Anyways, I think in time even with the continuation (and expansion) of massive money printing ie. "Quantitate Easing", interest rates will rise because the US budget deficit will continue to grow, total funded and unfunded liabilities will grow and investors will start to move out of US debt. The largest foreign buyers (ie. China) have already begun to diversify their portfolios (into gold, Euro bonds, etc.).
And as for the US "recovering," record numbers of people on food stamps (est. 50 million) doesn't sound like much of a recovery to me.
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Can't disagree more on the end of qe and the recovery, the first point is just a difference of opinion, so we can agree to disagree, as for the latter, yes more ppl today than before are on food stamps, that is true, so what? Corporations are more efficient than ever, and with offshoring of more and more jobs, uneducated people will continue to struggle - that sucks for them, I'm sorry for them, how this effects us all is that Obama is making America weak through more socialism, hence more ppl on food stamps - it's messed up, and really sad - the American dream is dying because of greedy large corps and lazy peons who can suckle off the teat of the government