Comments on: The Gloves Come Off At The Fed http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/12/15/the-gloves-come-off-at-the-fed/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Quincy http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/12/15/the-gloves-come-off-at-the-fed/#comment-62370 Quincy Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:42:19 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=3401#comment-62370 Once again, the Fed gets it wrong. The long-term health of the economy at this point requires that the deleveraging be allowed to happen. There is some value to slowing it down by injecting liquidity, but trying to prevent it entirely is wrongheaded.

]]> By: Clint http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/12/15/the-gloves-come-off-at-the-fed/#comment-62355 Clint Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:20:11 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=3401#comment-62355 They may be pushing on a string, but I remain optimistic. After all, Ben has opened up his toy box and has found all sorts of “tools” in there he can use to fix the economy.

]]> By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » The Fed Is Getting Desperate http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/12/15/the-gloves-come-off-at-the-fed/#comment-62346 Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » The Fed Is Getting Desperate Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:16:10 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=3401#comment-62346 [...] Brad Warbiany notes, the most remarkable thing about all the liquidity that the Federal Reserve has been pumping [...]

]]> By: Paul http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/12/15/the-gloves-come-off-at-the-fed/#comment-62341 Paul Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=3401#comment-62341 Why doesn’t the Fed just buy the US government? I mean, when you buy a business, you generally pay a 1-year premium. The GDP just so happens to be that magical number on which to establish a price for the US. Sell the US to the Fed at GDP. They’ll gut it, sell off anything of value, and resell it to China, or Japan, a nation that happens to have enough money on hand to do such a crazy thing.

/sarcasm triggered by annoyance

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