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rootvg
2012 Mar 26, 2:16am
Fearing another recession? We HAVE to have one.
You can't get to a growth economy from where we are right now.
bubblesitter
2012 Mar 26, 2:19am
Hey Bernanke! People are taking jobs at a much lower pay because their unemployment finally ran out! People aren't spending as much money as before fearing another recession! How much does this guy make to be so easily puzzled?
Isn't it amazing that this guy is in charge at Fed? In old days of monarchy a King used to disguise and merge among common people to find out what is happening at the lower level.
rootvg
2012 Mar 26, 2:32am
Hey Bernanke! People are taking jobs at a much lower pay because their unemployment finally ran out! People aren't spending as much money as before fearing another recession! How much does this guy make to be so easily puzzled?
Isn't it amazing that this guy is in charge at Fed? In old days of monarchy a King used to disguise and merge among common people to find out what is happening at the lower level.
He's not going to be there much longer.
Romney will replace him, odds on favorite right now is this guy:
http://www.hoover.org/fellows/10298
http://www.stanford.edu/~johntayl
He also has a blog:
http://www.johnbtaylorsblog.blogspot.com
If the signals I'm seeing are correct, we ARE going back to the right.
"By 1933, the height of the Depression, unemployment had risen from 3% to 25% of the nation’s workforce. Wages for those who still had jobs fell 42%. GDP was cut in half, from $103 to $55 billion. This was partly because of deflation, where prices fell 10% per year. Panicked government leaders passed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs to protect domestic industries and jobs. As a result, world trade plummeted 65% as measured in dollars and 25% in total number of units."
FortWayne
2012 Mar 26, 2:41am
Maybe they are lying about real unemployment rates, or maybe they simply don't understand how economy works. Neither option is good
It was German loans in 1929 and in 2009 its chinese loans. Things seldom change.
My question is what do you do to prepare yourself ?
Bigsby
2012 Mar 26, 3:08am
He's not going to be there much longer.
Romney will replace him, odds on favorite right now is this guy:
http://www.hoover.org/fellows/10298
http://www.stanford.edu/~johntayl
He also has a blog:
http://www.johnbtaylorsblog.blogspot.com
If the signals I'm seeing are correct, we ARE going back to the right.
You never left it.
Anyway, I take your Romney prediction as a sign that Obama is a dead cert for reelection.
zzyzzx
2012 Mar 26, 3:50am
Hey Bernanke! People are taking jobs at a much lower pay because their unemployment finally ran out! People aren't spending as much money as before fearing another recession! How much does this guy make to be so easily puzzled?
Berneke is just as stupid as portrayed here:
uomo_senza_nome
2012 Mar 26, 4:58am
"Bernanke called those figures a 'puzzle.' For the unemployment rate to fall that significantly, the economy should have been growing much more quickly. "
unemployment rate is a statistical illusion, Smoke and mirrors.
Here's the real deal. Civilian employment to population ratio.
We're staring at a decade long depression: secular deleveraging.
Berneke is just as stupid as portrayed here:
Funny pictures aside, I don't think he's outright stupid. He has stated that gold is a hedge against really really bad outcomes (tail risks as economists like to call it), which is completely true.
He has also stated that Congress has to get its fiscal policies in order to get the economy to a more sustainable state. Actually I'd suspect he's strongly worried about the idiocy on the political spectrum.
freak80
2012 Mar 26, 11:55am
My question is what do you do to prepare yourself ?
You get advice from our good friend Apocalypsefuck! Or was he kicked off the forum?
Hey Bernanke! People are taking jobs at a much lower pay because their unemployment finally ran out! People aren't spending as much money as before fearing another recession! How much does this guy make to be so easily puzzled?
he worked in academia... never in the real world.
He never saw a former software sales executive or a cost accounting manager who were working for former top F500 company suddenly working at Macys mens department.
tatupu70
2012 Mar 26, 10:16pm
Here's the real deal. Civilian employment to population ratio.
That's another interesting piece of data, but it has it's own flaws. It's heavily dependent on demographics and as the boomers begin retiring, that ratio will naturally decline.
tatupu70
2012 Mar 26, 10:21pm
Funny pictures aside, I don't think he's outright stupid. He has stated that gold is a hedge against really really bad outcomes (tail risks as economists like to call it), which is completely true.
Of course he's not stupid. Despite what all the self proclaimed geniuses on random Internet message boards might say.
Bigsby
2012 Mar 27, 12:14am
Funny pictures aside, I don't think he's outright stupid. He has stated that gold is a hedge against really really bad outcomes (tail risks as economists like to call it), which is completely true.
Of course he's not stupid. Despite what all the self proclaimed geniuses on random Internet message boards might say.
He's obviously extremely smart, but smart people don't necessarily make the right decisions.
tatupu70
2012 Mar 27, 1:07am
He's obviously extremely smart, but smart people don't necessarily make the right decisions.
Agreed. My only caveat is that we don't have the same information as he does. What looks obvious at face value may not be so simple once you get the full picture.
He's obviously extremely smart, but smart people don't necessarily make the right decisions.
Agreed. My only caveat is that we don't have the same information as he does. What looks obvious at face value may not be so simple once you get the full picture.
The other theory is that he knows everything and plays dumb to keep the market stabilized. Fake confusion is better than acknowledging we're screwed and that we likely need another recession to fix the problem.
uomo_senza_nome
2012 Mar 27, 4:20am
it has it's own flaws. It's heavily dependent on demographics and as the boomers begin retiring, that ratio will naturally decline.
At least it's not fudged like the unemployment rate. Dropping people off the labor force and reducing a few percentage points on the unemployment rate can boost the stock market, but is not any meaningful recovery in the real economy. Labor market has been structurally destroyed with cheap credit.
uomo_senza_nome
2012 Mar 27, 4:23am
My only caveat is that we don't have the same information as he does. What looks obvious at face value may not be so simple once you get the full picture.
But we do know that he's stuck to the Keynesian dogma as far as his monetary prescriptions are concerned.
Monetarily, we are total Keynesians. Fiscally, we are selective Keynesians, we want to be fiscally Keynesians when times are bad and we are never fiscally prudent when times are good. Keynes totally ignored the fact that politicians are morally corrupt and inept people.
Ben is pretending that he doesn't know what is going on. He need excuse for another QE
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/26/news/economy/bernanke-federal-reserve/index.htm?hpt=hp_t1
"Bernanke called those figures a 'puzzle.' For the unemployment rate to fall that significantly, the economy should have been growing much more quickly. "
Hey Bernanke! People are taking jobs at a much lower pay because their unemployment finally ran out! People aren't spending as much money as before fearing another recession! How much does this guy make to be so easily puzzled?