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    This is No Recession: It’s a Planned Demolition

    This is No Recession: It’s a Planned Demolition


    by Mike Whitney
    Global Research, August 12, 2009


    Credit is not flowing. In fact, credit is contracting. That means things aren’t getting better; they’re getting worse. When credit contracts in a consumer-driven economy, bad things happen. Business investment drops, unemployment soars, earnings plunge, and GDP shrinks. The Fed has spent more than a trillion dollars trying to get consumers to start borrowing again, but without success. The country’s credit engines are grinding to a halt.



    Bernanke has pulled out all the stops.

    Bernanke has increased excess reserves in the banking system by $800 billion, but lending is still slow. The banks are hoarding capital in order to deal with the losses from toxic assets, non performing loans, and a $3.5 trillion commercial real estate bubble that’s following housing into the toilet. That’s why the rate of bank failures is accelerating. 2010 will be even worse; the list is growing. It’s a bloodbath.

    The standards for conventional loans have gotten tougher while the pool of qualified credit-worthy borrowers has shrunk. That means less credit flowing into the system. The shadow banking system has been hobbled by the freeze in securitization and only provides a trifling portion of the credit needed to grow the economy. Bernanke’s initiatives haven’t made a bit of difference. Credit continues to shrivel.

    The S&P 500 is up 50 percent from its March lows. The financials, retail, materials and industrials are leading the pack. It’s a “Green Shootsâ€

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    The free market is a sham to conceal the crimes of the rich. Read Taibbi. Read Marx. Karl, not Groucho.
    While I will have to admit I know very little about economic history, I feel safe saying we have never had a free market during my lifetime. The Federal Government has been using tax monies to subsidize different industries in this country for many years. That hardly makes for a free market. JMO

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