Leonard Libitz says:

agree..

Steve S says:

Why does this cartoon sound 1000 times more rational then anything I have heard out of the Federal Reserve lately? There was a time when a plan to simply print more money would have been laughed of as a joke. Now it is presented as sound fiscal policy? WTF!

Ah_Yea says:

Steve, the world, or at least the playing field, has changed.

China, India, Brazil, etc. all taking advantage of you and me.

And we let them.

deowll says:

Why does a this animation sound more rational than the government?

I would like to be able to blame China and others for shafting America but the people running the Fed gov sold the country out and since we voted for the these people it is our fault.

Forty cents of every dollar spent by the Fed gov. is borrowed. Anybody think that can last much longer?

I give long term American bonds a Z rating.

? says:

Agrrree, best video yet.

Agree, without inflation to bring down the exported cost of US labor, there is no way the US economy can survive against Chinese etc. labor rates.

Agree, Goldman Sachs willfuck us every way to Sunday, but what can you do, as their competition folded in the last Bust thanks to US Gov. action.

I’m sure the lipstick wearing pig from Alaska will make it all better.

Somebody_Else says:

I gave up when he said “printing money is the last vestige of failing empires” or something. The US “printed” money as early as the revolutionary war.

Banks aren’t lending enough money, so the Fed is temporarily increasing the money supply. It’s nothing scary or terribly unusual, and nothing is actually being bought or borrowed. The downside is a temporary boost in inflation, but a lot of money is currently tied up in banks anyway.

What is it with people wanting to go back to the “good old days” when we had Major boom-panic cycles every decade?

ECA says:

#11,
iNCREASEING THE AMOUNT of money with NO backing tends to raise prices to the USA consumer… nothing else.
The prices have increased over 30% in the last 2 years, because of the SAME problem.
Its a Fast buck for the corps, who paid a Specific amount BEFORE this happened. They raise prices to pay for new goods. Make BIG profit margin at the same time.

For China to recoup our LOANS, at $XXXX amount, they must INFLATE their prices and value of money.. to make them EQUAL to the USA.. if they dont, our INFLATED VALUES will be LESS to them.

look AT IT THIS WAY.
Take $1..
Inflation is a BACKWARDS term..
WE make our $1 worth $0.10, by making 10 times itself worth.
wHAT HAPPENS TO food?
it goes up 10 times, to be EQUAL to what it was.

NOW..a loan at $1000, is now PUSHED back DOWN. its CURRENT VALUE is 1/10, as we inflated.

TO MAKE the loan SOLVENT..you must do the same to your OWN ECONOMY…inflate it.
So that the $1000 THAT EQUALED $100,000 YUEN..we inflate the YUEN..
Thats $1000 that NOW equals $100
The YUEN that WAS $100,000 now equal $1,000,000 in INFLATED value.

Its STUPID..
its because of 1 thing. OUR money has no REAL physical base for its VALUE. the USA dollar is based MOSTLY on the value of OIL.

nicktherat says:

Explaining the left-right paradigm to a co worker!

ECA says:

#16..
Its also the ASSUMPTION, that the persons we ELECT to do their BEST for us, is REALLY qualified.
In the OLD days these were farmers and business men, that WENT HOME when they were done, and went to work. It was an honor and PRIVILEGE to be a gov. representative.
They ALSO did their OWN work. they didnt have a 200+ person cabinet of people DOING THEIR WORK for/with them.

11ppeach says:

The simplest answer is that the world governments want a one world currency. How do you do that? First you have to get rid of the current system. How do you do that? Collapse the old one and then start over. Just my theory and I am totally open to correction on this. Just seems that it would be the reason for this madness.