…the initial stories across news channels were full of ridicule and indignation at the FOMC’s real-time ignorance as banks and markets collapsed.
“Enjoy it while it lasts”
-Sir Alan Greenspan, June 13, 2007,after suggesting “the global liquidity boom, which he dates back to the end of the Cold War, is nearing its end.”
Frederick J. Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and “The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond Market” (Aucontrarian.com, 2009…
Stanley Fischer is in the pipeline for the vice chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. In this capacity, he would bang heads to gather FOMC votes for (Presumptive) Fed Chairman Janet Yellen. According to the New York Times, Fischer would “exert a moderating influence on Ms. Yellen,” (” For No. 2 at Fed, White House Favors Central Banker in the Bernanke Mold.”)
It is possible neither Janet Yellen nor another pretender will fill Bernanke’s shoes in January. The odds of such a surprise may be once-in-a-history-of-the-universe, but those keep coming at a faster rate the longer we splurge. Simple Ben has been walking both his bank and the world’s financial institutions closer to the cliff. Here, we will look at the precarious position of the Federal Reserve and the far-out financial securities entering the pipeline at an increasing rate.
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