Så här på nationaldagen kan det vara ”kul” med ett klipp till fikat, teet eller vad du nu vill ha som förtäring.
Nedan är ett klipp där David A. Stockman intervjuas om sin bok och hans artikel i NY Times om USA:s aktuella situation och vad han tror om bland annat Ben Bernanke, obligationsbubblan och sist men inte minst Paul Krugman. Titta och ”njut”. Se även länkarna under ”Källor”
Om bubblan som Ben Bernanke pumpat upp från NY Times:
So the Main Street economy is failing while Washington is piling a soaring debt burden on our descendants, unable to rein in either the warfare state or the welfare state or raise the taxes needed to pay the nation’s bills. By default, the Fed has resorted to a radical, uncharted spree of money printing. But the flood of liquidity, instead of spurring banks to lend and corporations to spend, has stayed trapped in the canyons of Wall Street, where it is inflating yet another unsustainable bubble.
When it bursts, there will be no new round of bailouts like the ones the banks got in 2008. Instead, America will descend into an era of zero-sum austerity and virulent political conflict, extinguishing even today’s feeble remnants of economic growth.
Och så höjdpunkterna från klippet…
…Om Ben Bernanke:
This market lives and dies by the last word of the fed and the people at the fed have no clue what they’re doing. Bernanke is the most dangerous man ever to hold high financial office in the history of the United States.
…Om Paul Krugman:
When Paul Krugman was a young man on the staff of the reagan economic staff in the white house helping us with the tax cuts he was a pleasant astute young man, and something over the last 30 years happened to him and apparantly he’s lost his way or changed his mind.
Källor:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/david-stockman-weve-been-lied-robbed-and-misled
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-02/stockman-bernankes-actions-ultimate-consequence-will-be-train-wreck
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/sundown-in-america.html?pagewanted=all