Saturday, September 15, 2012

Operation Screw

Operation Screw: The Fed goes all-in on QE - YouTube: "The geniuses at the Federal Reserve have concocted a bold new plan to revive the U.S. economy -- print a bunch of money, loan it to Americans at super low interest rates so they can speculate on rising real estate prices, extract the appreciated equity and spend it on consumer goods. In other words, build an economy of real estate, by real estate, and for real estate. The only problem is we've been there and done that. The last time it almost destroyed the U.S.economy. I guess almost isn't quite good enough for the Fed, so now it's determined to finish the job."
The only way that disaster is averted on this is if folks stop taking out mortgages and thereby thwart the operation of the Fed's policy. I don't think that's likely -- but even if it happens it still leaves the economy in its current downward spiraling torpor...

We're actually screwed if we do and screwed if we don't. But what else is new?