Bernanke - The Clever Shark https://clevershark.com Hi. My name is Tony Emond and I'm a blogger. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:46:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Whatever you thought you knew about the 2008 bank bailout is wrong… https://clevershark.com/2011/11/30/whatever-you-thought-you-knew-about-the-2008-bank-bailout-is-wrong/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whatever-you-thought-you-knew-about-the-2008-bank-bailout-is-wrong https://clevershark.com/2011/11/30/whatever-you-thought-you-knew-about-the-2008-bank-bailout-is-wrong/#respond Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:46:17 +0000 http://clevershark.com/?p=2240 …because the reality is over 10 times worse than what was made public at the time. In fact a total of $7.7 trillion in loan guarantees and lending limits were issued by the Fed, which makes TARP seem like a trifle in comparison.

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]]> https://clevershark.com/2011/11/30/whatever-you-thought-you-knew-about-the-2008-bank-bailout-is-wrong/feed/ 0 Is the Fed speaking out of both sides of its mouth? https://clevershark.com/2008/09/25/is-the-fed-speaking-out-of-both-sides-of-its-mouth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-the-fed-speaking-out-of-both-sides-of-its-mouth https://clevershark.com/2008/09/25/is-the-fed-speaking-out-of-both-sides-of-its-mouth/#respond Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:26:23 +0000 http://clevershark.com/?p=1829 Ben Bernanke spent a lot of time in front of Congress on Tuesday arguing that there’s a credit crisis out there, so why did the Fed recently shrink the float by $125 billion and why is it still resisting a consensus-recommended half-percent rate cut? Is it, as some paranoid people could suggest, a way to … Continue reading Is the Fed speaking out of both sides of its mouth?

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]]> Ben Bernanke spent a lot of time in front of Congress on Tuesday arguing that there’s a credit crisis out there, so why did the Fed recently shrink the float by $125 billion and why is it still resisting a consensus-recommended half-percent rate cut? Is it, as some paranoid people could suggest, a way to generate a need for an all-encompassing mega-bailout plan?

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