Central Banking is Socialism

[MisterBeale]

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

That means today's dollar would be worth less than 4 cents back in 1913.

~S~

Does that mean that without the Fed every American today would have 25 times the income they currently have?

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

...and curating the strongest, most stable economy in the history of the world. Get that gold standard nonsense out of here...

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

So painfully stupid. Ugh.

 

[MisterBeale]

So painfully stupid. Ugh.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

So painfully stupid. Ugh.

No, let's not ask the fools at zero hedge. Let's ask the experts.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why do you feel bankers like/benefit from inflation?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

So painfully stupid. Ugh.

Who thinks we need to/should "pay off all debt"?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Why do you feel bankers like/benefit from inflation?

Good question, because they don't. Inflation harms institutions that hold loans as assets.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why do you feel bankers like/benefit from inflation?

Good question, because they don't. Inflation harms institutions that hold loans as assets.

I also love the claim that insiders somehow get this "new" Fed money first and they get to buy/invest before the jump in inflation/prices happens.

Because no one can sell Treasuries at the same time and buy/invest with their proceeds.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Why do you feel bankers like/benefit from inflation?

Good question, because they don't. Inflation harms institutions that hold loans as assets.

I also love the claim that insiders somehow get this "new" Fed money first and they get to buy/invest before the jump in inflation/prices happens.

Because no one can sell Treasuries at the same time and buy/invest with their proceeds.

True, that's a myth. These things are kind of hard to understand. So, people think we are just gifting $1.5 trillion to rich people, which is not the case.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why do you feel bankers like/benefit from inflation?

Good question, because they don't. Inflation harms institutions that hold loans as assets.

I also love the claim that insiders somehow get this "new" Fed money first and they get to buy/invest before the jump in inflation/prices happens.

Because no one can sell Treasuries at the same time and buy/invest with their proceeds.

True, that's a myth. These things are kind of hard to understand. So, people think we are just gifting $1.5 trillion to rich people, which is not the case.

Everything the Fed does is just handing out free money to people.

Federal Reserve Board announces Reserve Bank income and expense data and transfers to the Treasury for 2019


That's how they made so much profit.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Why do you feel bankers like/benefit from inflation?

Good question, because they don't. Inflation harms institutions that hold loans as assets.

I also love the claim that insiders somehow get this "new" Fed money first and they get to buy/invest before the jump in inflation/prices happens.

Because no one can sell Treasuries at the same time and buy/invest with their proceeds.

True, that's a myth. These things are kind of hard to understand. So, people think we are just gifting $1.5 trillion to rich people, which is not the case.

Everything the Fed does is just handing out free money to people.

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Federal Reserve Board announces Reserve Bank income and expense data and transfers to the Treasury for 2019


That's how they made so much profit.

Yep. People don't get this. And why would they? It's ot intuitive, ot tauight in schools, etc.

Unfortunately, though, the Fed was slow to react for 10 years to an improving economy, and its usefulness has taken a hit. Not raising the rates more quickly was bad policy. Compound that with the bad Tax policy of the Obama and Trump administrations (and their Conresses), and we are ill-prepared right now for a large economic downturn.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

482 Gallons vs 7 Gallons?????????? Well I'll be darned. Without the Fed we'd all be 70 times richer!!! Who knew except libertarian economists!

But with gas so expensive how can we afford to run 260 million cars while in 1913 they could only afford 500,000 cars???

 

[gipper]

It's a rather timely op-ed, I think. Particularly since so much of the recent discussion involving the market problems is so misguided.


Anyway...

Last week, the Federal Reserve responded to Wall Street’s coronavirus panic with an “emergency” interest rate cut. This emergency cut failed to revive the stock market, leading to predictions that the Fed will again cut rates later this month. More rate cuts would drive interest rates to near, or even below, zero. Lowering interest rates punishes people for saving, thus encouraging consumers and businesses to spend every penny they make. This may give the economy a short-term boost. But, it inhibits long-term economic growth by depleting the savings necessary for investments in businesses and jobs. The result of this policy will be more pressure on the Fed to indefinitely maintain low interest rates and on the Congress and president to create another explosion of government “stimulus” spending.

The essence of socialist economics is government allocation of resources either by seizing direct control of the “means of production” or by setting prices business can charge. Federal Reserve manipulation of interest rates is an attempt to set the price of money. Federal Reserve attempts to set interest rates distort the signals sent by the rates to investors and business. This results in a Fed-created boom, which is inevitably followed by a Fed-created bust.

Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren has suggested that Congress allow the Federal Reserve to add assets of private companies to the Fed’s already large balance sheet. Allowing the central bank to buy assets of, and thus assume a partial ownership interest in, private companies would give the Federal Reserve even greater influence over the economy.

Economic elites benefit when the Federal Reserve pumps new money into the economy because they have access to the money created before there are widespread price increases. Artificially low interest rates also facilitate the growth of the welfare-warfare state. The Federal Reserve’s inflationary policies harm the average American by eroding the dollar’s purchasing power. This forces consumers to rely on credit cards and other forms of debt to maintain their standard of living...

Continued - Central Banking is Socialism

We sure have plenty of money for the banks and the war machine but government helping the poor and middle class...FUCK YOU COMMIE.

CRAZY!!!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It's a rather timely op-ed, I think. Particularly since so much of the recent discussion involving the market problems is so misguided.


Anyway...

Last week, the Federal Reserve responded to Wall Street’s coronavirus panic with an “emergency” interest rate cut. This emergency cut failed to revive the stock market, leading to predictions that the Fed will again cut rates later this month. More rate cuts would drive interest rates to near, or even below, zero. Lowering interest rates punishes people for saving, thus encouraging consumers and businesses to spend every penny they make. This may give the economy a short-term boost. But, it inhibits long-term economic growth by depleting the savings necessary for investments in businesses and jobs. The result of this policy will be more pressure on the Fed to indefinitely maintain low interest rates and on the Congress and president to create another explosion of government “stimulus” spending.

The essence of socialist economics is government allocation of resources either by seizing direct control of the “means of production” or by setting prices business can charge. Federal Reserve manipulation of interest rates is an attempt to set the price of money. Federal Reserve attempts to set interest rates distort the signals sent by the rates to investors and business. This results in a Fed-created boom, which is inevitably followed by a Fed-created bust.

Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren has suggested that Congress allow the Federal Reserve to add assets of private companies to the Fed’s already large balance sheet. Allowing the central bank to buy assets of, and thus assume a partial ownership interest in, private companies would give the Federal Reserve even greater influence over the economy.

Economic elites benefit when the Federal Reserve pumps new money into the economy because they have access to the money created before there are widespread price increases. Artificially low interest rates also facilitate the growth of the welfare-warfare state. The Federal Reserve’s inflationary policies harm the average American by eroding the dollar’s purchasing power. This forces consumers to rely on credit cards and other forms of debt to maintain their standard of living...

Continued - Central Banking is Socialism

We sure have plenty of money for the banks and the war machine but government helping the poor and middle class...FUCK YOU COMMIE.

CRAZY!!!

The majority of government spending is on "helping the poor and middle class".

 

[gipper]

It's a rather timely op-ed, I think. Particularly since so much of the recent discussion involving the market problems is so misguided.


Anyway...

Last week, the Federal Reserve responded to Wall Street’s coronavirus panic with an “emergency” interest rate cut. This emergency cut failed to revive the stock market, leading to predictions that the Fed will again cut rates later this month. More rate cuts would drive interest rates to near, or even below, zero. Lowering interest rates punishes people for saving, thus encouraging consumers and businesses to spend every penny they make. This may give the economy a short-term boost. But, it inhibits long-term economic growth by depleting the savings necessary for investments in businesses and jobs. The result of this policy will be more pressure on the Fed to indefinitely maintain low interest rates and on the Congress and president to create another explosion of government “stimulus” spending.

The essence of socialist economics is government allocation of resources either by seizing direct control of the “means of production” or by setting prices business can charge. Federal Reserve manipulation of interest rates is an attempt to set the price of money. Federal Reserve attempts to set interest rates distort the signals sent by the rates to investors and business. This results in a Fed-created boom, which is inevitably followed by a Fed-created bust.

Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren has suggested that Congress allow the Federal Reserve to add assets of private companies to the Fed’s already large balance sheet. Allowing the central bank to buy assets of, and thus assume a partial ownership interest in, private companies would give the Federal Reserve even greater influence over the economy.

Economic elites benefit when the Federal Reserve pumps new money into the economy because they have access to the money created before there are widespread price increases. Artificially low interest rates also facilitate the growth of the welfare-warfare state. The Federal Reserve’s inflationary policies harm the average American by eroding the dollar’s purchasing power. This forces consumers to rely on credit cards and other forms of debt to maintain their standard of living...

Continued - Central Banking is Socialism

We sure have plenty of money for the banks and the war machine but government helping the poor and middle class...FUCK YOU COMMIE.

CRAZY!!!

The majority of government spending is on "helping the poor and middle class".

It needs increasing. Eliminate the war department, CIA, NSA, FBI, ETC...