Comments on: Quantitative easing (QE) made easy

By: IVA UK

IVA UK — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:51:44 +0000

People, I urge you to listen to people like Peter Schiff, Gerald Celente and Alex Jones, these guys are nailing

exactly what is happening to the global economy. The USA is finished.

By: ann

ann — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:00:07 +0000

Thanks Nancy for your comment….much appreciated. We need all the encouragement we can get…but am sure we could do

better.

Ann

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By: Nancy Eaton

Nancy Eaton — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:28:17 +0000

I am not an economist. I don’t even know anyone who is an economist. I do follow events quite closely and I do have quite a good common sense.

The analysis in this article makes more good sense to me than anything I’ve read on the subject – even Krugman!

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By: Dr L Brownstein

Dr L Brownstein — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:09:22 +0000

If this is a balance-sheet recession and if banks are going to use injected liquidity to pay down

debts (as Koo claims they will do in a balance-sheet recession) because they are fundamentally insolvent and the degree of their insolvency

resembles a black hole, then does it not follow that for any money injected into the economy, via quantitative easing or any other procedure, to be

effective, it must be injected directly where it is needed thereby bypassing the banks, as was done by Harry Hopkins under Roosevelt?

Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.

By: Dr L Brownstein

Dr L Brownstein — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:31:42 +0000

If this is a balance-sheet recession and if banks are going to use injected liquidity to pay down debts (as Koo claims they will do in

a balance-sheet recession) because they are fundamentally insolvent and the degree of their insolvency resembles a black hole, then does it not

follow that for any money injected into the economy, via quantitative easing or any other procedure, to be effective, it must be injected directly

where it is needed thereby bypassing the banks, as was done by Harry Hopkins under Roosevelt?

By: Dr L Brownstein

Dr L Brownstein — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:19:05 +0000

In the web blurb dealing with Turner’s book, The Credit Crunch, there is this statement:

“the housing bubbles in the West were

deliberately created to mask the damage inflicted by companies shifting production abroad in an attempt to boost profits”.

Are we to

conclude that this was a conspiracy, in the usual sense of “conspiracy”, that is, that it was deliberately engineered by a cabal for a particular

purpose?

I have not been able to read the book and thus seen the evidence Turner might have put forward to support this thesis, but at

least initially, it does not seem to be very plausible.