tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post7301733923410946505..comments2024-03-12T16:31:22.046-03:00Comments on Viable Opposition: Ben Bernanke's - A Retrospective Look at His EffectivenessA Political Junkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342345936277964422noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-47621620051358537722012-08-22T16:57:53.202-03:002012-08-22T16:57:53.202-03:00I agree that much of our current problems started ...I agree that much of our current problems started under the disasterous chairmanship of Mr. Greenspan... but sadly for us Mr. Bernanke is even worse in almost every regard as Mr. Greenspan... when we talked about a Greenspan put, today we need to talk about the Bernanke CDO squared put... back when greenspan was hiking rates in 2004, bernanke was going on about dropping money from helicopters... the guy is a total loose cannon who should be run out of dodge (Washington) after being tarred and feathered.Macroboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00942522663109806195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-24451741434464243552012-07-19T15:37:35.156-03:002012-07-19T15:37:35.156-03:00Delete this comment
Are you on Twitter? Just anot...Delete this comment<br /><br />Are you on Twitter? Just another way to getting the message out.<br /><br />Ben Bernanke - A Retrospective Look at His Effectiveness http://bit.ly/SK0i9x #FederalReserve #BenBernanke #finances #economyWilliam Quincy Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14337095766556949027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-23541804634861838242012-07-18T20:26:29.670-03:002012-07-18T20:26:29.670-03:00The data shows that things haven't gone well w...The data shows that things haven't gone well while Bernanke's been in office. A reasonable interpretation is that Bernanke has done a terrible job. However, this mistakes <b><a href="http://moderatepoli.blogspot.com/2011/12/species-identification-lousy-arguments.html" rel="nofollow">correlation with causation</a></b>. For example, someone could slam the Democratic House with the same data because they became the majority in 2006. <br /><br />This isn't fair unless you subscribe to the idea that he had the power to fix the situation. I don't happen to believe that. As you point out, the Fed has certain tools, and these tools may not be enough. In fact, the additional tools that elected governments haven't been enough either, as the $800B stimulus for 2009-2010 show.<br /><br />I'm not sure <b><a href="http://moderatepoli.blogspot.com/2012/06/pity-bernanke-and-his-difficult-task.html" rel="nofollow">what Bernanke should have done</a></b> when he was handed a bubble economy with generally low inflation but speculation in housing and financial products. <br /><br />The time to have reined this in was on his predecessor's watch. I'm not surprised that Bernanke has miserable results because there's no magic wand for such a huge financial crisis.ModeratePolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01721945380057992971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-17353306965843646522012-07-17T11:54:49.375-03:002012-07-17T11:54:49.375-03:0017th July 2012
The FEDS are now coming clean to t...17th July 2012 <br />The FEDS are now coming clean to the public. If you recollect, during the last 25 years, the fed has been saying that all is fine with the economy and if it is not fine, they have enough ammo to deal with any crisis.<br /><br />All these years, the Americans and the West Europeans were being drugged with a combination of high credit and protection. These people forgot what utilisation of LIMITED resources was. They were drugged in to compliance. <br /><br />Bernanke (and the US administration) is merely treating the symptom. The underlying cause is huge money supply (the cancerous growth) that is not backed with a sound business plan. Well, I guess that the US will implode under it's own drug overdose by 2016. Before that, . I expect Some European governments will topple and chaos will reign in the BAD 3 (US, Western Europe and Japan - Japan may escape). And not treating will bring the chaos closer and more violent.<br /><br />What will happen is that the stock markets will die a natural death and at the same time you will see an increase in PE and VC funds. These funds will increasing invest in companies bearing in mind that their exit routes will not be through the stock market but sale to strategic investors. George Soros has returned money to out side investors in the fund, stock markets are going in to lower orbits over a period of time with short spikes (very high) because growth is lacking in the OECD countries. <br /><br /><br /><br />Best wishes<br /><br />Kishore Nair from MumbaiKishore Nairhttp://www.soffina.comnoreply@blogger.com