Comments on: Rep. Alan Grayson: “Has the Federal Reserve Ever Tried to Manipulate the Stock Market?” http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/ General interest observations and true web-log. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ian807 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-2/#comment-1583521 ian807 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:11:11 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583521 I sympathize with the senator, but the questions he was asking remind me of a typical "pointy haired boss" who doesn't even have enough knowledge to formulate a meaningful question. I sympathize with the senator, but the questions he was asking remind me of a typical “pointy haired boss” who doesn’t even have enough knowledge to formulate a meaningful question.

]]> By: LibertyLover http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-2/#comment-1583469 LibertyLover Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:54:22 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583469 This is all just a formality. With over 2/3 of the House sponsoring and 75% of the population supporting the bill, if it doesn't make it out committee there will be some serious questions as to why it never saw the light of day. http://tinyurl.com/yb9tpyk Slowly but surely the Giant is reawakening. This is all just a formality.

With over 2/3 of the House sponsoring and 75% of the population supporting the bill, if it doesn’t make it out committee there will be some serious questions as to why it never saw the light of day.

http://tinyurl.com/yb9tpyk

Slowly but surely the Giant is reawakening.

]]> By: Qon Quixote http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-2/#comment-1583462 Qon Quixote Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:39:49 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583462 I waited through this entire video to see the broad in the background remove her shirt with no bra. I was disappointed. I waited through this entire video to see the broad in the background remove her shirt with no bra. I was disappointed.

]]> By: GregA http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583460 GregA Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:38:22 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583460 This conspiracy theory that "the Fed isn't audited" is a joke. Check here for some facts: http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/flaherty/flaherty6.html Here is a brief exceprt: "In 1978 Congress passed the Federal Banking Agency Audit Act (31 USCA §714). It placed the Federal Reserve System back under the auditing authority of the GAO. The Act significantly increased the access of the GAO to the Federal Reserve Banks, the Board, and the Federal Open Market Committee (the FOMC). Since then, the GAO has conducted over 100 financial audits and performance audits of the three Federal Reserve bodies.3 Grayson should spend less time haranguing, and more time working to become informed about very complicated issues and financial mechanisms, that do require some reform -- ohy, wait, that won't get you on Fox News...Never mind. This conspiracy theory that “the Fed isn’t audited” is a joke. Check here for some facts:

http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/flaherty/flaherty6.html

Here is a brief exceprt:
“In 1978 Congress passed the Federal Banking Agency Audit Act (31 USCA §714). It placed the Federal Reserve System back under the auditing authority of the GAO. The Act significantly increased the access of the GAO to the Federal Reserve Banks, the Board, and the Federal Open Market Committee (the FOMC). Since then, the GAO has conducted over 100 financial audits and performance audits of the three Federal Reserve bodies.3

Grayson should spend less time haranguing, and more time working to become informed about very complicated issues and financial mechanisms, that do require some reform — ohy, wait, that won’t get you on Fox News…Never mind.

]]> By: Buzz http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583438 Buzz Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:22:10 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583438 Manipulate? In what way? Seek to stabilize? Seek to generate insider profits? Seek to regulate? Seek to depress? Seek to enhance transaction rate scheduling for a select few cronies? Grayson is right to pursue the question, but the response is right to insist on clarity. "Look, I simply want to know how many millimeters it is from here to Mars right now!" "Now?" "Yes, now!" "That first now or the last now?" "Right NOW!" "Measured from your nose or from my pen?" "You're quibbling!" "Quibbling now?" It's very easy to ask questions in forms that would generate "simple" encyclopedic mega-volumes of data as answers. This makes the questioner look reasonable while making the respondent look evasive. It's an old trick. When viewing interrogations, watch for phrases like "I think you KNOW what I mean, you scum-sucking, elusive, lying dick wad." They may be loaded in some way. Manipulate? In what way? Seek to stabilize? Seek to generate insider profits? Seek to regulate? Seek to depress? Seek to enhance transaction rate scheduling for a select few cronies?

Grayson is right to pursue the question, but the response is right to insist on clarity.

“Look, I simply want to know how many millimeters it is from here to Mars right now!”

“Now?”

“Yes, now!”

“That first now or the last now?”

“Right NOW!”

“Measured from your nose or from my pen?”

“You’re quibbling!”

“Quibbling now?”

It’s very easy to ask questions in forms that would generate “simple” encyclopedic mega-volumes of data as answers. This makes the questioner look reasonable while making the respondent look evasive. It’s an old trick.

When viewing interrogations, watch for phrases like “I think you KNOW what I mean, you scum-sucking, elusive, lying dick wad.” They may be loaded in some way.

]]> By: mark_sf http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583408 mark_sf Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:52:00 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583408 Seriously people. Just listen to the last question. Who got the money? It was from open market purchases. Stop listening to this fool. Seriously people. Just listen to the last question. Who got the money? It was from open market purchases. Stop listening to this fool.

]]> By: mark_sf http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583407 mark_sf Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:47:03 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583407 Alan Grayson has no idea what he's talking about. Already knew that from months ago. Now I know he's an asshole too. Alan Grayson has no idea what he’s talking about. Already knew that from months ago. Now I know he’s an asshole too.

]]> By: brm http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583389 brm Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:06:39 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583389 #15: It's unfortunate that Watergate *was* the last time the media had brass balls. So yeah, we are too young. And that's a shame. #15:

It’s unfortunate that Watergate *was* the last time the media had brass balls.

So yeah, we are too young. And that’s a shame.

]]> By: Uncle Dave http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583279 Uncle Dave Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:26:25 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583279 #14: Too young to remember Watergate, eh? #14: Too young to remember Watergate, eh?

]]> By: Somebody http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583253 Somebody Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:04:09 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583253 "Remember the days when the Main Stream Media had the balls to do that?" No. “Remember the days when the Main Stream Media had the balls to do that?”

No.

]]> By: Father http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583219 Father Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:29:39 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583219 You mean when Greenspan was trying to "slow" the irrational exuberance, or when he was trying to jumpstart the economy after the 2001 bubble burst/911, and again in 2008? The Fed is the "Ponzie" of Wall St., controlling the ups and downs. You mean when Greenspan was trying to “slow” the irrational exuberance, or when he was trying to jumpstart the economy after the 2001 bubble burst/911, and again in 2008?

The Fed is the “Ponzie” of Wall St., controlling the ups and downs.

]]> By: MoneyBags http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583210 MoneyBags Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:43:14 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583210 Nice dance. Nice dance.

]]> By: Cursor_ http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583208 Cursor_ Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:31:47 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583208 2 Five star dinners, one golf membership for 125k and a blow job from a 15 year old and this guy will not have anything but nice things to say about the reserve. Business as usual in DC. Cursor_ 2 Five star dinners, one golf membership for 125k and a blow job from a 15 year old and this guy will not have anything but nice things to say about the reserve.

Business as usual in DC.

Cursor_

]]> By: Alfred1 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583207 Alfred1 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:30:51 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583207 #9 I agree...he didn't allow misleading answers stand...he insisted on an answer to his question...very well done. #9 I agree…he didn’t allow misleading answers stand…he insisted on an answer to his question…very well done.

]]> By: DA http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/27/rep-alan-grayson-has-the-federal-reserve-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/comment-page-1/#comment-1583179 DA Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:53:49 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=59086#comment-1583179 Just an FYI, This was at the hearing Friday morning for Ron Pauls bill (hr1207) to audit the fed. The bill now has 295 cosponsors. I was very impressed with Grayson when I was watching, he really knows how to grill them. Just an FYI, This was at the hearing Friday morning for Ron Pauls bill (hr1207) to audit the fed. The bill now has 295 cosponsors.

I was very impressed with Grayson when I was watching, he really knows how to grill them.

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