‘Bernanke has donated billions to re-elect Obama as he inflicts out-of-control inflation on average Americans’

That is the headline this morning at The Astute Bloggers.

The Astute Bloggers 9/14/2012

…OIL IS UP.

GASOLINE IS UP.

FOOD PRICES ARE UP.

INFLATION IS GOING UP UP UP…

…But the stock market–with the lowest participation by middle class people in decades–in going way, way, way up.

While the dollar is down…

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WSJ: Fed Buying 61 Percent of US Debt; Egan-Jones Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating

Julie Crawshaw and Forrest Jones Moneynews 28 Mar 2012

The Federal Reserve is propping up the entire U.S. economy by buying 61 percent of the government debt issued by the Treasury Department, a trend that cannot last, Lawrence Goodman, a former Treasury official and current president of the Center for Financial Stability, writes in a […]

How Reagan Cut Oil Prices And Why It Won’t Happen Now

A Weak Dollar, Not Oil Company Greed, is Driving Prices Up

Editorial Investors.com 4/5/2012

Energy: Governments aren’t powerless to slash the price of oil. Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker once did exactly that. But it took a kind of commitment not in sight today.

Among all the factors pushing up prices at the gas pump, […]

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