Thread: A Nightmare Before Christmas

A Nightmare Before Christmas
by Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital | December 12, 2008

Like many pragmatic economists I have always warned that rapid expansions of government debt would result in inflation and higher interest rates. The explanation was always simple: rising supply of government debt inflates the money supply and weakens the government’s ability to service its debt through legitimate means.

But in recent months, government has flooded the market with hundreds of new Treasury obligations and telegraphed its intention to increase the deluge even more. In response, both bond prices and the dollar have risen. This benign reaction has led many to the happy conclusion that the doom and gloomers are wrong and that bailouts and economic “stimuliâ€

Today I watched a rerun of testimony in the House by 3 governors (NJ, WI and VT) on CSPAN. Just from that testimony, our problems are worse than anyone is talking about. Watching Kevin Phillips today about his new book, this former Nixon administration aide is seeing these bailouts of Wall Street as one of the more stupid moves in our history, and in his opinion, Bernanke being a scholar of the Great Depression of the 1930s is not facing the reality of today's world or the different economic crisis.
Trickle down economics is definitely not working since a plumber's helper is needed to get the banks to act normal, like lending money. But there were no stipulations nor accountability where all that taxpayer money went.l