Ben Bernanke

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• Dodd Finance Regs Would Gut the Fed’s Powers

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is set today to unveil legislation overhauling the way the banking industry is regulated. On certain points, the Dodd bill mirrors the wish list outlined by the Obama administration over the summer, including the creation of a new federal agency designed to protect consumers from the ...
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• The Worlds Most Important Trading Desk Is Not At Goldman, But Is On The 9th Floor Of 33 Liberty Street

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Even though our good Samaritan friends at One New York Plaza may take offense to this designation, the trading desk that controls the formerly free world is not located anywhere on the premises of Goldman Sachs, but is instead situated on the 9th floor of 33 Liberty Street, also known as the home New York Fed. From a ...
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• Too Big to Fail: Sanders Says "Break These Babies Up"

  
  POPULAR PROGRESSIVE — Authority: 119
  Sen. Bernie Sanders makes some very good points. Whether you agree with his assessment that the "to big to fail" companies need to be broken up, the point that these companies are costing us all is irrefutable. More than a year has gone by since Congress passed the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. The Federal ...
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• The Feds Nemesis: Exters $2 Quadrillion Of "Liquidity"

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Another representation of what will likely become a prevalent topic in upcoming days: the Exter pyramid. When the system works, the various layers are in equilibrium. When the system is broken, like it is now, the Fed and all Central Banks try to refill the pyramid from the bottom-up with every single dollar they ...
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• Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency (Usurpership) Of Barack H Obama

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 499
  Granted it is a pretty lengthy playlist consisting of 14 videos but Patriots it certainly worth it. -David Crockett Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be ...
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• If only they had been in Charge instead of Geithner/Bernanke and Paulson

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 134
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• Reverse Repo Failure Confirmation, Primary Dealers Want Exemption From Tier One Capital Requirements To Do Reverse Repos

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  A few weeks ago we speculated that the Federal Reserves attempt to conduct a reverse repo test as part of a liquidity drainage failed. In a stunning piece of news, Zero Hedge friend Jim Bianco sent us the following. Little commentary is necessary: the banks are about to unleash the massive leverage ploy all over ...
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• September Consumer Credit Lower By $14.8 Billion, Worse Than ($10) Billion Estimate; Consumers Refuse To Borrow

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Total consumer credit has dropped for the 8th straight month as consumers refuse to buy stocks while maxing out their credit cards, contrary to what GE, Bernstein and Bernanke want them to do. 4 more months and the US consumer will have given the administration the reflation finger for one straight year. Excess ...
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• Dollar retreats despite fears from job market – weekly roundup

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 435
  The dollar finishes the week lower against most currencies this week. The fear that ruled last week wasn’t fueled by the terrible American job market, and the blurry rate decision by the Fed. The horizon isn’t clear with this jobless recovery. Here’s an overview of this week in forex trading.The US Dollar Index ...
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• When the Dollar Rallies, the Market will Crash By Mike Whitney

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 147
  When the financial system blows up and credit is sucked down a capital-hole, the economy goes into a downward spiral. Businesses slash inventory and lay off workers, workers have to cut back on spending and credit. That creates less demand for products, which leads to more lay offs. This is the vicious circle ...
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• Ben Bernanke Makes 3rd Major Mistake: Its Solvency, Not Liquidity

  
  BASIL & SPICE--FINANCIAL WELL BEING — Authority: 129
    John M. Mason- The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank are all keeping interest rates exceedingly low and are continuing to engage in “quantitative easing.” The central banks have claimed that they are caught in a “liquidity trap” and cannot force interest ...
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• How Ben Bernanke Is Literally Herding Investors Into Stocks

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ben-bernanke-is-literally-herding-investors-into-stocks-2009-11 “Bubbly Ben has engineered one of the most incredible liquidity driven rallies in the history of the stock market. The reflation trade, made famous by John Paulson, has been a huge winner for investors ...
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• Beware of the creature from Jekyll Island

  
  Student Life — Authority: 602
  In a previous article, I discussed the push to audit the Federal Reserve System. Since that time, Congress has made major progress in bringing about a transparent central bank. Now, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 (H.R. 1207) has more than 300 co-sponsors in the House, and efforts have been made to gut ...
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• RE: Banks Prepping for Kibosh (2) Old Congressional poker foes resurface

  
  Pokerati | Texas Hold'em and Las Vegas Poker Blog — Authority: 542
  via the PPA … Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) have submitted their petition asking Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to ignore requests seeking to delay enforcement of the UIGEA. [DC] Bachus Kyl Letter (11/03/09) Related Posts Banks ...
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• Guest Post: Why Gold Has a LONG Way to Go

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Why Gold Has a LONG Way to Go By Jeff Clark, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report A couple weeks ago, I had my TV tuned to a business show that loves to give predictions on the markets and the economy. On that day, one of the program’s regular guests declared it was time to “short” gold, that it had ...
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• Pension Funds, Facing $1 Trillion Gap, Next In Line For Government Pittance

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  It was just a matter of time: with the government set to take over every aspect of the economy, its next holding will be the perpetually underfunded and soon to be bankrupt State and local pension system. Bloomberg notes that state and local governmentpensions are underfunded by $1 trillion and may need toseek ...
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• PIMCOs McCulley On Vs, Us and Ws

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  We appreciate PIMCOs conceptual insights, however at this point it is now clear that the Chairman will keep interest rates at 0, in perpetuity or until the biggest stock market bubblr in the history of western markets finally implodes, whichever comes first (presumably the latter). In the meantime, it is time to ...
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• No Help From Fed As CD Rates Slide Again

  
  CD (Certificate of Deposit) Rates, Money Market Rates, High Interest Savings Accounts — Authority: 426
  The Federal Reserve said it will continue to hold interest rates down for an “extended period” as CD rates reached new record lows this week.The Fed’s rate-setting committee met on Wednesday and concluded that the weak economic recovery continues to make cheap credit more important than reasonable returns for ...
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• OPINION: The Racial Ignorance Of Barack Obama’s Financial “Gurus”

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 626
  Many prominent black scholars were absolutely stunned by the racially misinformed remarks made by President Obama’s Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. During a visit to Morehouse College, Bernanke stated that the reason for the massive wealth gap between blacks and whites in America is due to ...
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• Federal Reserve news

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 124
  The Federal Open Market committee (FOMC) have decided to keep ‘exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period’. Below is a verbatim excerpt: “Activity in the housing sector has increased over recent months. Household spending appears to be expanding but remains constrained by ...
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