Ben Bernanke

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• Gold - The Other View

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  With gold now dislocating from its ordained function as a dollar collapse safe haven, and today being a rare example of when both gold spot and the DXY are up, it would appear there is nothing left that can prevent gold from hitting escape velocity in the immediate future, as more and more investors tell the Fed they ...
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• A Primer On Balance Sheet Recessions

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Lately, much of the economic debate has been force-shifted by the economic pundits to observations of a financial rebound framed merely as a consequence of a manufacturing recession, when the core of the issue is and continues to revolve in a balance sheet recession context. As the later has a unique set of ...
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• High Unemployment Will Dog 2010

  
  AskCherLock.com — Authority: 126
  Shortly the Thanksgiving holiday will be here, the Christmas season will move into high gear, and the year of 2009 will close its books for good. For millions of Americans 2009 will be remembered as a year of high anxiety and looming uncertainty. The economy at the start the year was in a free fall, near to total ...
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• Should Geithner Resign?

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  So far the members of Congress who think the Treasury Secretary should go dont quite constitute a full-blown caucus, much less anything resembling a majority. But theyre expressing their opinions with increasing passion. Early this month Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell confessed that she was "not sure" why ...
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• PIMCOs Total Return Fund Sells Over $80 Billion Of Mortgage Securities To US Taxpayers Year-To-Date

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Bill Gross PIMCO is selling mortgage securities like there is no tomorrow. In October, the Newport Beach firms Total Return Fund held the lowest amount of mortgages in recent (or distant) history: at 16% of the total $193 billion in fund total net assets, securities backed by the housing bubble (v1 and/or v2) ...
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• Health Care Hiatus

  
  The Melting Pot Project — Authority: 431
  Apologies for the silent week - Ive been in bed with what seems to be pneumonia, and seeing as its being overly persistent and the holidays are coming up, I figure this would be a good time to make some...
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• Quotes For The Week

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 571
  As long as Mr. Bernanke is the Fed Chairman, gold will be a very good investment . -Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report , in a November 16 Bloomberg TV interview Since 2000, my columns have covered many warnings of major debt accumulation, market meltdowns, and the psychological failings of ...
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• Mortgage Rates Fell to 2009 Low

  
  HSH Associates Financial News Blog — Authority: 133
  Mortgage rates are on a roll. Rates fell last week to their lowest levels seen all year. According to the latest issue of HSH’s Market Trends Newsletter, “ Mortgage Rates Downshift, Match Year’s Low ,” the conforming 30-year fixed rate dipped below the 5% mark. “Although one might have thought that ...
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• Here Is Why The Dollar Is Now Effectively Worthless

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  A picture is worth a thousand Krugman essays, which is why we present a chart comparing the US Monetary Base (and by subtracting Reserve Balances with Fed Reserve Banks, Currency in Circulation), and the Feds holdings of MBS and Agency paper (worthless GSE/FHA garbage). In summary: Currency in Circulation: $920 ...
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• Bernanke rage boils over

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 167
  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has a tough road ahead.
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• Why is Obama Championing Bush’s Financial Wrecking Crew?

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 142
  Bill Black lays out a near-term list of financial priorities. Item #1: Team Obama must be purged of the ‘Wrecking Crew’ who drove the economy over a cliff. Tom Frank’s book, The Wrecking Crew explains how the Bush administration destroyed effective government and damaged our social fabric and our economy. ...
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• CNBC With A Good Preview Of Bernankes Policy In Practice

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Oil at $1,170 should translate to about $50/gallon at the pump. Then again gold, oil, all the same to CNBC - just buy, buy, buy. In other news, bonuses set to top one quadrillion at Goldman Sachs oil propaganda desk. h/t deadhead
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• Congress Grows Fed Up

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  The Wall Street Journal reported that Congress likes Fed Chairman Bernanke, but not the institution that he heads. There is growing consensus that the Fed needs to be reformed and restructured.  Most notably, there are calls to strip the Fed of its supervisory authority.  In practice, the new sentiment reflects ...
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• The Federal Reserve is fundamentally a scam, run by big international and foreign banksters.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 155
  They have monetary diarrhea because it benefits the big banks, right at this moment, to have that. The actions of the Fed have absolutely NOTHING to do with the best interest of the people of the U.S.A., or, for that matter, small to medium sized financial institutions. It is all about the big international casino ...
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• Fed rage boils over on Capitol Hill

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 150
  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has a tough road ahead.
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• Is It Time for an Inflation Target?

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  The Feds dual mandate is to aim for full employment and price stability, but since Paul Volckers day, its safe to say the central bank has been more concerned with the latter than the former. But with unemployment at 10%, the Feds popularity is suffering badly, and theres a real risk that the institution could ...
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• Rebalancing in the Baltics - A Preliminary Assessment

  
  Alpha.Sources blog — Authority: 498
  "In my view … it is impossible to understand this crisis without reference to the global imbalances in trade and capital flows that began in the latter half of the 1990s." Bernanke (2009)   Executive Summary Compared with the average quarterly value of GDP in 2007-08, the first two quarters of 2009 are down ...
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• Janet Tavakoli Retracts Her Apology To Goldman Sachs, Calls For More Regulation Of The Government Backstopped Hedge Fund

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Submitted by Janet Tavakoli of Tavakoli Structured Finance I Retract My Apology and Call for More Regulation of Goldman Sachs TSF – Opinion Commentary – November 22, 2009 (see also Apology ) According to SIGTARP 1 , both the Federal Reserve and Treasury agreed that an AIG failure posed ...
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• A Different Sort of Anti-Fed Protest

  
  Jr Deputy Accountant — Authority: 140
  An aerial view of the Fed, Life, September 1945 WSJ shares the tale of a different sort of anti-Fed protest : In the early 1980s, farmers surrounded the Federal Reserve with tractors to protest the impact of high interest rates on their industry. Since then, the Eccles Building on Constitution Avenue ...
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• Words from the (Investment) Wise (November 22, 2009)

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 439
  Stock markets succumbed to a bout of profit-taking last week, sparked by concerns that the rally has overshot the pace of economic recovery. Riskier assets were showing signs of fatigue as the US dollar - the catalyst of many recent moves - stabilized and was perceived to be near its trough (if only short-term in the ...
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