Monday, April 13, 2009

Bernanke's Mistake

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is siding with John Maynard Keynes against Milton Friedman by flooding the financial system with money.

If history is any guide, says Allan Meltzer, the effort will end in tears. Inflation “will get higher than it was in the 1970s,” says Meltzer, the Fed historian and professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. At the end of that decade, consumer prices rose at a year-over- year rate of 13.3 percent.


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My thoughts: It should be obvious to all that Bernanke has dropped the ball. When interest rates hit double digits it will be too late to avoid the problems he is laying the ground work for.

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