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  • Bernankeism is a form of voodoo economics. It assumes that the economy is
    constantly suffering demand deficiencies, in relation to supplies of basic
    products such as oil and food commodities, and that the remedy is sheer "money
    helicoptering". This is different from the thinking of John Maynard Keynes, who
    called for infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy and discarded money
    injection into banks that can create a liquidity trap, or monetizing record
    fiscal deficits on current expenditure that cannot be rolled back later for
    political reasons.


  • Bernanke has constantly denied any link between monetary policy and commodity
    prices, even though all money injection was going straight to speculation in
    stocks and commodities.
  • banks were taking free money from the Fed, buying
    government bonds, and making a 3.8% net gain.

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  • 04 Nov 09




    • Bernankeism is a form of voodoo economics. It assumes that the economy is
      constantly suffering demand deficiencies, in relation to supplies of basic
      products such as oil and food commodities, and that the remedy is sheer "money
      helicoptering". This is different from the thinking of John Maynard Keynes, who
      called for infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy and discarded money
      injection into banks that can create a liquidity trap, or monetizing record
      fiscal deficits on current expenditure that cannot be rolled back later for
      political reasons.


    • Bernanke has constantly denied any link between monetary policy and commodity
      prices, even though all money injection was going straight to speculation in
      stocks and commodities.
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