Federal
Reserve Zero-Interest Loans Enrich Rich
Some
wonder what will happen when the Federal Reserve stops its program of
letting the biggest banks mint 5 dollars themselves for every zero
interest dollar the Fed Reserve 'loans' them? The Federal Reserve
printing trillions of electronic dollars to loan to the U.S.
Government and banks is a curious thing. I wonder what effects it
will have on inflation and the value of the dollar over time.
Obama
administration economic policy apparently relies on zero interest
loans to make up federal budget shortfalls while the U.S. public debt
has passed 18 trillion dollars.. Hitler had trouble with such
policies causing hyper-inflation yet Obama seems able to get away
with it because the U.S. Government is too big to fail- like the
banks. Russian President Putin could not print rubles to make up for
the sanctions and drop in oil value without causing hyper-inflation
comparatively.
If
I understand it right, and I may not, when the federal reserve
invents money out of thin air with nothing backing it up like gold or
whatever and then gives that money electronically to a bank, the bank
need only keep a certain percentage of that new capital in its
accounts and can issue loans on the basis of having that capital
asset. It can issue something like 5 times the amount of money that
it has on hand. Thus when the Federal Reserve issues one dollar of
fiction money to a bank the bank can mint 5 dollars of fiction money
itself and give that out as a loan to Wall Street or people that will
buy Wall Street stocks.
With
so much new money flowing about the financial circuits the liquidity
problem of 2008 obviously is solved for the rich. The rich can buy
all the nationally distressed housing from the crash era if they like
and of course buy up stock, and that could inflate the value of the
stock market. It is possible that all the free government money given
to the banks along with tax cuts for the rich does stimulate the
plutocrats yet it does little for the poor or ordinary Americans. The
Euro-zone is expected to pursue the same policy of enriching the rich
in order to create another fountain of wealth for the plutocracy.
It
could be that inflation actually accumulated in Wall Street during
the three years of quantitative easing during which time the stock
market rose to a record level surpassing 18,000 itself as if it were
indexed inversely to the public debt of 18 trillion. That was a rare
convergence of debt and fiction cash financed market recovery that
may converge again some day in the future in an unforeseen manner.
Investing
in China and making a super-nation of the E.C. may pressurize Russian
national security on two of three fronts with the Muslim threat from
the south continuing as a problem, yet that sort of avoidable
insecurity is not unrelated to the global financial situation that
the administration has taken farther along the slim-flam to advantage
market investors policy that appeals to a planetary imperium of
plutocrats.
The
next installment of global financial perfidy might be as good as the
original show.
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