Bernanke & QE3: Here’s What You Need to Know

Becket Adams The Blaze 8/31/2012

Chairman Ben Bernanke sent a clear message Friday that the Federal Reserve will do more to “help” the still-struggling U.S. economy. His remarks seemed to leave two questions: What exactly will the Fed do? And when?

It’s no longer a matter of “if.” It’s going to happen.

Echoing what the […]

Schiff: U.S. economy is not recovering

Don’t believe the hype–the U.S. economy is not recovering, it’s getting sicker.

Peter Schiff SchiffReport 3/18/2012

Former MF Global Chief Risk Officer Sacked For Doing His Job, Disagreeing With Corzine

Tyler Durden Zero Hedge 2/2/2012

Yesterday we noted how a CBO analyst may have been terminated for her conflicting views on model assumptions, especially when they veered away from the Wall Street-defined norm. Today, we find that the same approach to dissent may have been the reason why MF Global ended up taking inordinate risk, […]

Peter Schiff: ‘Reckless’ Bernanke Is Creating the Next Crisis

Jennifer Carinci Breakout Yahoo! Finance 11/3/2011

The Federal Reserve may have released a relatively benign statement taking no further action to stimulate the economy, but a fierce debate is just getting started over the Central Bank’s next moves.

The FOMC statement reiterated that interest rates will hold near zero through mid-2013, and “Operation Twist” —the […]

Operation Twist begins: Fed to sell $400 billion of short-term debt, buy $400 billion of long-term debt; Dow off 220

Joe Weisenthal Business Insider 9/21/2011

The eagerly awaited Fed announcement is out.

As the economy has been weakening, everyone was wondering whether Bernanke & Co. would juice the economy with more stimulus.

Well we didn’t get another round of quantitative easing, what we got instead is what people have referred to as “Operation Twist.”

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