Posts Tagged ‘Reserve’

The Rant – America’s Workers Losing Faith in Retirement Funds

by Mike McCune –   The Employment Benefit Research Institute finished a survey of working Americans during the closing days of March. It reported the ‘startling’ fact a mere 13% of working Americans are “very confident” when it comes to having enough financial support to retire.   To those of us in fly-over America this [...]

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Wall Street, Main Street Do Not Agree

by Mike McCune –   The jobs report for February came in nicely and Wall Street cheered. Meanwhile the January jobs report was slashed by 25% from a gain of 157,000 to 119,000 and Wall Street yawned.   That is because the deceit must be maintained. According to Washington, America has been in a recovery since [...]

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Wall Street Thinks Bull Will Continue

by Michael McCune –   There is some amazement among Wall Street observers about how well the market is doing in the face of so many stern headwinds. Their continued amazement is either a sign of stupidity or culpability.   These analysts say there can be no major bear market and that the market has [...]

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Obama’s economy: Fed predicts high unemployment through 2015

by Peter Grady –   The Federal Reserve has said it is expecting unemployment levels to remain high until at least late 2015, despite its plans to spend billions of dollars a month to keep interest rates low.   Following its final meeting for the year, the Fed announced it would only consider interest rate [...]

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The Rant — Food Supply Not Keeping Pace with Demand

The United Nations just issued numbers on food inflation that contradicts Federal Reserve Chairman Ben “BS” Bernanke’s assessments. “Hunger Games” may not be just a movie much longer.   The UN food agency reported Friday that food prices are “rising again.” Old BS just began QE3 precisely because there was no movement in the economy and a little inflation couldn’t [...]

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The Rant – Crisis Bubbles Form From Fed’s QE3

The Federal Reserve’s decision to proceed on an open-ended asset-buying policy is being well-received by other central banks but few others.(1)   The problem for Ben Bernanke and the U.S. dollar is the move’s aim and its outcome are not the same. Bernanke wanted to address unemployment but, by buying American debt–caused by too much demand [...]

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Fed plans Forceful non-traditional actions

By Craig Masters Recovery slope for US is still rising Friday, as expected, Ben Bernanke announced that the Fed would need to take action to adjust the markets. Analysts who study the language of the Bernankes of the world so they can interpret for the rest of us have said that Friday’s remarks were especially [...]

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Are Democrats looking for QE-3 to save Obama’s economy?

All eyes of the ‘one-percenters’ will be on Wyoming tomorrowBy Craig Masters Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the resort area adjacent to the Grand Tetons, is once again the site for an economic summit called The Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. This a conference of leading central bankers and international finance ministers. It is sponsored by the Federal [...]

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Federal Reserve Inaction Would Be Blessing In Long Term

by Mike McCune –   Market investors are expecting help from the Federal Reserve as the recovery stalls so the markets continue to move higher. But experts are suddenly divided on the question of the value of another helping handout from government to its’ selected minions.   Most everyone remembers the threat given to House [...]

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Scandal Has Financial System On Verge of Global Meltdown

by Mike McCune –   If you are like most Americans, you’ve probably heard the term LIBOR. But if you are like like most Americans, you do not realize the impact this tiny particle of the economy has on everything we do on a daily basis.   What has happened is the financial world has [...]

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The Rant: America’s Pump Price Pain Is Pure Fed Folly

by Mike McCune –   The top headline in today’s local paper recently read “Who’s To Blame For Gas Prices?–The More We Pay At The Pump, The More We Want To Know Who Is Responsible.” There were pictures of President Obama, the street sign for Wall Street, an oil refinery and Capitol Hill accompanying the twsiting [...]

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The Rant: Slowing Economy Faces Major Obstacles

by Mike McCune – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke remarked on the U.S. unemployment rate early Monday to the National Association for Business Economics. He noted the economy must grow much more quickly than is its current pace to make any dent in the percent of unemployed individuals in the U.S.   Bernanke’s remarks, closely followed by [...]

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The Rant – Greenspan Speaks, American Wallets Will Get Lighter

by Mike McCune Ex-Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan opined about the impending financial collapse of the American government “on the record” Jan. 5. While he scored some point with statements like “Arithmetic demands it (change in the economy)” and “The U.S. welfare state has run up against a brick wall of economic reality…” he missed [...]

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The Rant: Middle Class Suffers Most From Political Mismanagement

by Mike McCune –   The federal government keeps pumping out the news they want you to hear, mass media seldom questions what officialdom is saying until a Solyndra-type mess occurs and the Federal Reserve keeps the whole thing afloat with its green-inked printing press. But if you want a true picture, take a ride [...]

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Americans to pay more for goods to help bail out Europe

by Matt Lacy – The Federal Reserve announced it will crank up the printing presses to provide Europe with billions of dollars to prop up their economy, a move critics say will result in Americans paying more for services through inflation. The Federal Reserve announced it, along with five other central banks will make it [...]

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Candidates tell protestors government to blame for economy, not Wall Street

by Jack Minor –   At this week’s Washington Post debate,Republican candidates made it plain they believe the state of the economy is to be laid squarely at the feet of the federal government. Members of “Occupy Wall Street” have been protesting in Denver, Los Angeles, New York and other cities blaming banks and Wall [...]

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Mike McCune is Maaaad !!!!

Bernanke, consulting with his Fed Res. Board in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, ” -my key to the printing press…” The market’s wild gyrations continue and not only from the effects of the earthquake. The surges up and down earlier in the week were attributed to the forthcoming words of wisdom from the man with the key [...]

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The end seems near as Europe and Asia fall apart

America swings like it was 1928 -by Mike McCune   -  President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are like a pair of hands. They don’t wash each other but they do grease each other. It is too bad for the other 308 million Americans their antics are also greasing the tracks under the [...]

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The Rant

By Mike McCune Sometimes I wonder if economists today weren’t part of Jim Jones’ original followers. If they weren’t they are at least guilty of drinking the Kool-Aid of Washington DC and causing the demise of the United States.   Economists, as a group, tend to spout fairy-tale figures and expectations for the American consumer to [...]

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Gazette Urges Readers to Reserve Judgment on Accused Officer

By Mike Bauman The arrest last month of a Greeley Police Officer for sexual assault during a traffic stop has shocked the community.  However, many sources close to the department are still waiting for something… the proof. Officer Daniel Shepherd was arrested after command/supervisory staff at the police department investigated claims made by a 19-year-old [...]

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The Rant

Mike McCuneAmericans have been told by the national government that the recession ended in June 2009. Last month the Department of Labor proudly announced its unemployment measure had dropped to 9% and the Administration hailed this as proof its’ economic plan is working. The Federal Reserve at its January meeting stated the economy was growing [...]

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Reuben Haberman

January 16, 1916 to December 21, 2010 Reuben Haberman of Greeley died December 21, 2010 at Hospice and Palliative Care of Northern Colorado.  Reuben was born January 16, 1916 in Sutton, Nebraska to Henry and Ann Margaret (Dietrich) Haberman. Reuben married Ruth M. Cundall on September 12, 1948 in Sutton.  They moved to Greeley in [...]

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Federal Reserve attempting to crank up inflation

Story and photo By Jack Minor The Federal Reserve announced it would purchase almost $60 billion U.S. Treasury Securities to monetize the national debt in a move that critics say could decrease the value of personal wealth by 20 percent. In announcing the purchase, the Fed stated that inflation has decreased recently, “Longer-term inflation expectations [...]

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The Rant

Guest Column By Mike McCune President Obama recently put into his remarks to a high school graduating classes  about the need of “being careful how you read things because there is a lot of misinformation out there.” He should know better than anyone in America because he spreads more micro-managed manure every time he opens his mouth than [...]

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Accounting tricks

by Michael McCune for the Greeley Gazette I’ve been trying to unravel the various reports coming from our elected government, the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the nation’s banking system’s financial situation and it isn’t very good. While most eyes are focused on the high unemployment rate, accounting tricks have left [...]

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