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Originally posted by havok
Dr. Paul back on top with the best quote, bar none.
I can't believe how many people are ignorant enough not to support him.
Baffles me how our best solution to this mess is constantly saying what need to be done...
Yet everyone is scared of what he could do in the POTUS position.
So he is ignored, ridiculed or laughed at instead of gaining full support.
Even though his remarks are consitantly on course with corrective action.
What he has touted for the length of his congressional career is spot on.
All I can say is that if you have the capability to pay off debt, do it now.
Keep what you "own" before the debt destroys your income completely.
Do not go further into debt by listening to luring TV ads, trends and media.
Destroy your credit cards and live within your means. Period.
And no, you don't need all that crap that requires credit to buy.
Besides a home or an auto, most things can be bought with cash.
That is the reason for income. To have the ability to buy.
The reason for credit is to make someone else money.
If you can't pay cash for something then why bother? Is it that important?
(if so then apparently your priorities are mixed up)
Why compound the existing problem?
Originally posted by MOMof3
reply to post by tothetenthpower
I am not sure why I should trust any of these people. They were there, in positions of power, while all these economic mistakes were going on, so why are they so smart? Personally, I think it is simple. I think Bush got a 3am call from the bankers (or whoever represents them), that they weren't going to fund any more wars or pay for them, and their derivative schemes weren't going to work out. So now the rest of us are going to have to suck it up and pay our debts, take care of our people when we can (especially our veterans), and save the world.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Now though? QE-3 is just using a larger bucket to try and scoop the water out of the lifeboat as it's sinking.
Originally posted by felixjames20
Not sure why they are doing this.
So they have to be doing it deliberately.
Originally posted by felixjames20
Not sure why they are doing this.
The US economy is expected to grow around the 2% mark, granted its not amazing but it is still growth.
With the elections coming up surly this wouldn’t be the right move, Republicans will see this as a too politicised policy measures.
And the financial markets are doing well with the SP being in a positive territory YTD.
Surly the FED cannot be that worried about the labour market in order to bash out QE3.
Originally posted by benrl
We need to follow Icelands example.
Start arresting bankers, starting with the FED.
Steal from the poor to give to the rich
Quantitative easing, you see, is essentially the Federal Reserve creating money and then handing it to the richest banks. Meanwhile, all that new money floating around erodes the value of the dollars in the hands of the working taxpayers. So their grocery bills go up. Their fuel costs go up. Their daycare costs increase and their utility bills creep ever skyward.
But the rich banksters are simultaneously rolling in FREE Fed cash, and instead of actually lending this money out and doing something useful with it, they crank up their own executive bonuses to make sure they get paid while the rest of the economy crumbles. And why? It's simple: Because people are crooks, and if they get handed $40 billion a month in free money, they're just going to grin and say, "How can we get MORE?"
That's the credo of the banks: MORE!
Originally posted by benrl
We need to follow Icelands example.
Start arresting bankers, starting with the FED.
Originally posted by CosmicCitizen
On the one hand the Velocity of Money is still stagnant (it takes the Money Supply to circulate
[ie, MS x V] to create Inflation....) altho the expectation of same will be higher simply on the increase to the MS. On the other hand how will they be able to drain this liquidity without throwing the economy into another tailspin when Inflation does become a problem (ie, selling assets, raising rates)??edit on 17-9-2012 by CosmicCitizen because: (no reason given)