Volcker Worried!! Another Great Depression on its Way?!

Last post 05-17-2008 7:52 AM by surveybob. 13 replies.
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  • 05-15-2008 12:50 PM

    Volcker Worried!! Another Great Depression on its Way?!

    Former Fed Reserve Chairman Volcker is worried about Fed Balance Sheet!!!

    also if any of you are serious about this market and YOUR money watch "Money as Debt" Paul Grignon's 47min video on banks and what money is to them. it WILL BE the most enlightening 47min, guaranteed!!

    Money as Debt Pt 1

    Money as Debt Pt 2

    Money as Debt Pt 3

    Money as Debt Pt 4

    Money as Debt Pt 5 

    they're cut into 5 separate sections, please view them all. if the link doesnt work just type in money as debt in youtube's search. cant emphasize this enough, it IS A MUST SEE!! 

  • 05-15-2008 12:57 PM In reply to

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    bump

    fixed links and linked all 5 videos, enjoy! 

  • 05-15-2008 1:59 PM In reply to

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    Wow... very enlightening.

  • 05-15-2008 2:12 PM In reply to

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    there are A LOT of people experiencing and going through foreclosures, debt, etc. these past months we've seen and read about the credit crisis. banks needed help to be bailed out and what did the federal reserve do? bernanke stepped in and did the interest rate cuts and now everybody believes our economy is well on its way to positive growth. the dow closing right below 13000 as opposed to its closing below 12000 back in february, everyone likes what they're seeing but will this last til the end of this year or even 2 months from now? has anything changed?

  • 05-15-2008 3:38 PM In reply to

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    Not again!!!

  • 05-15-2008 8:30 PM In reply to

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    i think volcker is the last person to be commenting on anything to do with the economy.

    however bernanke is not what i call spectacular by any stretch and in a way reminds me of a anti-volcker. 

    bernanke is destroying the first rule of investing.  do not let emotion guide your path.

  • 05-15-2008 8:50 PM In reply to

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    Interesting

  • 05-15-2008 8:53 PM In reply to

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     whats wrong with volcker? i actually thought what he did with money supply was way more helpful than just targeting interest rates

  • 05-15-2008 9:28 PM In reply to

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    http://www.investors.com/idealbb/files/pattern.JPG

    banks paying high interest to get money they NEED!

    "The markets are now  at a level where they meet the most resistance both timewise and pricewise. It's pretty much do or die right here. So if the bulls have any case at all, this is where you want them to show cahoonas. Don't listen to medias, yes, short interest is high and this could be a bullish contraindicator but you also have to keep in mind that the ISE index is also at it's highest.

     
    The retail investor is being lured in by the big ones. We saw what happened yesterday afternoon, the hot money stopped supporting the markets and the bid completely dissapeared and then came the water fall. This is a flag guys,  no bid = waterfall type sell off.
     
    Or perhaps someone was forced to liquidate to meet margin requirements and there was no taker. Either way, that's where this leads."
     
     
    "... banks stopped lending to each other long ago, that is one of the major problems, they don't know who to trust and which one can go down tomorrow and be dragged with it. The money borrowed comes from the TAF, they are paying   these rates because there is no other way for them (borrowers) to get the money elsewhere. In return, Ben is now accepting and contaminating the fed's balance sheet with credit card debts, auto loans and student loans as colateral for the money he loans to the banks. Money drawn by the fed, comes from treasury and treasury gets it's money from every tax payers.

     
    Ben overstepped his boundaries when he allowed JP to take over BS by lending them money coming from treasury. They will say they had to do it in order to prevent an iminent collapse of BS and prevent the real possibility of dragging the rest of the economy down with it. What Ben and the rest of the gang did was against the law and it is clearly stated in the constitution (somewhere on the forum).
     
    That is your tax money at work, right here. Bailing out investment banks and the thieves who run them, fully aware that by selling mortgage backed securities that were fraudulently acquired via no-doc and liar loans was illegal, did it anyway knowing all too well that they could get away with it.
     
    This has to stop now."
     
    has cnbc been mentioning that up days like today are on low volume??? because... they have been! the rally is still highly questionable as mentioned this morning, although some say yes and some say no, we will find out soon enough which way this market wants to be headed.
  • 05-16-2008 2:03 AM In reply to

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    Whoa!

  • 05-16-2008 5:27 PM In reply to

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    ISE is a good market barometer

  • 05-17-2008 1:01 AM In reply to

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    ask the people that lived through the 70's what was wrong with volcker.  He invented a new economic term called stagflation.

    that is where inflation is out of control and the economy is stagnant or in a recession.  they happen at the same time.

    in order to combat this volcker hiked the interest rates up to like 18%.  yea it was bad real bad.  he didn't lower them until reagan

    came into office and basically forced him to.  (IE he either lowered them or he was out of a job).

  • 05-17-2008 1:55 AM In reply to

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    Seems to me everything is so complicated these days that nobody really knows anything for sure. I know I don't.

  • 05-17-2008 7:52 AM In reply to

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    You and me barbara. Death and taxes are the only things I know.

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