Our Awful Situation

Panic Time at the Fed

Posted by Charlie Kilo on April 17th, 2008

Forbes: 

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s blundering is becoming more breathtaking with each passing week. At the end of March he rolled out a grand plan to crown the Federal Reserve as the nation’s new financial stabilizer. The Fed a stabilizer? That’s who created the financial mess we’re in.

If this wasn’t bad enough, Secretary Paulson then donned his cheerleader’s uniform and encouraged Beijing to let the Chinese yuan appreciate against the greenback. All the while favoring in this fashion a debasement of the U.S. currency, Paulson proclaimed that we should remain calm and confident because the economic fundamentals are sound. He reminds me of the stockbroker who performed a valuable service to his partners by always being wrong.

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