U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve holding over $2 trillion in the Darkest Balance Sheet in Financial History.
The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve have arguably two of the least transparent balance sheets known to humankind. This wouldn’t be such a big issue if the amount of money funneled into these organizations was small. That is not the case. The Federal Reserve since October of 2008 has held on its balance sheet […]
Gas Prices going up and Bailing out a Hedge Fund: Why the Average American is Getting Bailout Fatigue. TALF a bailout for Corporations under guise of Lending for Average Americans.
Most Americans are having a challenging time digesting the bitter fruit of all the financial news coming from Wall Street and D.C. It is hard for many to wrap their brains around what is going on. In fact, today Ben Bernanke just stated that AIG was operating like a hedge fund. Which of course begs […]
Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Fleece the American Public: Total Market Cap of TARP Participants is $336 Billion, We Can Buy Them Out Completely: Enough with TARP and Nationalize NOW.
As we now are realizing in growing agony, the first $350 billion in TARP funds were poorly managed and did very little to improve the economic conditions of this country. In fact, I have argued that the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve through various market actions have taken actions to make saving money a very […]
Economic and Investing Forecast for 2009: 10 Charts Showing no Economic Rebound in 2009.
Today the ADP National Employment Report stated that private sector jobs fell by a much larger than expected 693,000 in December. This report stunned on the downside and is a prelude to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics report which comes out on Friday. The market also suffered its worst one day since early December. […]