Domingo Halliburton
Handmade in USA
a responsible government agency would let monetary supply reflect the true state of the economy. artificially propping up the US economy only hurts us in the long run.
we could have just lost a toe 5 years ago, but instead of letting things take their natural course we bailed everybody out, now we're going to lose the foot as a result. and if they keep this QE shyt up much longer we'll lose the whole damn leg!
the fed is an abomination. it's propping up the US economy but not in the interest of the common man. it's working in the interest of private bankers and corporate elitists... so when the crash finally does come the 1% will have plenty of money tucked away while the 99% will see their net worth plummet through the floor.
and your response in the bold wreaks of bytchassness, you know damn well that isn't the whole story. you must have been sleep during the part about predatory lending and failed government regulation.
sure I simplified it. Bush and the regulators were either to dumb to see it happening or were just ignorant to it. People and banks just assumed housing prices would keep going up in perpetuity. I think ratings agencies might have been the biggest culprits.
expanding the monetary supply should happen in downturns. go buy a car or a house now and see how low interest rates are you don't think that's helping the common man? it's certainly not helping the banks.
and apparently we can't trust people anymore to make credit decisions like "can I afford this house?" regardless of how "predatory" the banks were.