The Future Is Gone
Somewhere in the 80′s or perhaps the early 90′s, the American dream changed. The American dream became to own a house. Before that time, it had been about the future. I was raised to believe that if you were smart and worked hard, you could build a better future for yourself. Also, I have always wanted to believe that whatever future I could build, my children would have a brighter future than me. I no longer believe this.
Many of my friends and relatives childrens are becoming of age to go to college or enter the work force. It makes me sad because they do not have anywhere near the opportunities I had when leaving college. There were literally a line of companies that wanted to interview me. I was 20 years old flying throughout the entire country for free trying to select the best company for me. It made me feel great about myself and my future. Today’s college graduates are lucky to get a job at all much less get wined and dined by the most attractive companies in the country.
So how did we get here? How did such a bright future turn so bleak in the course of one generation? It has taken me a while but I have figured out the answer. It is the Fed. The Fed has ruined the future. Let me explain how.
The core of the issue is ZERO percent interest rates. What are interest rates? What does that mean? Interest rates are generally thought to be the time value of money. So therefore, if you want to borrow $100 today and interest rates are 10%, you must pay back $110 one year from now. More importantly, if you pay back in two years, you now owe $121. Basically, the longer you wait to pay, the more you owe which in general is not good.
How are interest rates determined? Interest rates historically have been considered a price between the supply and demand of money. Back in the gold old days, if a lot of people were saving money in their bank accounts, this would drive interest rates down. Conversely, if a lot of people wanted to borrow money, that would drive interest rates up. This entire equation has been broken in the last 10 years but one retard named Alan Greenspan who was the chairman of the Fed under Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. More »

It is close to 10 years since the horrible terrorist attacks on the United States. At the 10 year anniversary, many politicians and mass media will try to drum up patriotism and unity by forcing our nation to remember the reality of these brutal attacks. All of this will make me quite sad, because in my view, we have not learned the right lessons from this tragic event. Here are my views.
I watched Obama’s speech last week and frankly I was disappointed. It was a nice speech, but in my view, Obama missed the key issue that will fix our economy from a death spiral. That issue is Wall Street.
There is certainly no easy way to put it. You got your ass kicked in the mid term elections. Well, I got some good news now.
It has been over 6 months, since George Bush went in front of the entire nation and told us all that we are all screwed. He succeeded in putting the nation into a panic setting the stage for an unprecedented flurry of government spending. After 1/2 a year of spending, none of the stimulus has had any impact whatsoever. Employment continues to rise, housing prices plummet, and GDP is still shrinking.
One of the greatest travesties to this bubble is the incredible American deficit under the Bush administration. The deficit has ballooned by over $5T in a scant 8 years. We can all agree that this is highly fiscally irresponsible, but the question remains, “Where did all this money go?”
The media is calling this bubble the worst since the Great Depression. That sure sounds scary, but where are the facts? What makes them believe this bubble is so severe relative to other bubbles? Are there any facts to feed the panic or just pure fear?
Yesterday, the House of Representatives approved the $700B bailout plan, and President Bush quickly signed it into law. Sigh! What I dislike most about this bill was that everyone including the President was acting in a panic. No one was calmly analyzing the underlying magnitude of the credit crisis, and the fundamentals that would drive our great country so close to the edge of a cliff. I’ll try to do that here.









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