Posts Tagged ‘The Fed’

Weakening Oil Prices Demand Government Action

by Mike McCune –   World governments have not learned their lessons from 20th Century history. It is inevitable they will generate a conflict with “global implications” somewhere soon. The price of oil demands it.   Oil continues to fall on world markets, a sure sign of the depths of the slowdown in the global [...]

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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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Consumer Confidence on a False Floor

Mike McCune, expert economic forecasterAs our economy continues to struggle out of “the recession”, the government and the Federal Reserve have continued to deny inflation exists or is so small as to be a hindrance. The Fed’s late-fall stimulus package was instituted to actually create inflation to lead to artificially-enhanced, false Christmas retail sales figures to bolster the myth the [...]

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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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