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Obama’s Monetary Policy: Stick It to the Middle Class
From PJM:
(As a housewife) I’ve been sounding the hyperinflation alarm for more than a year — to rolling eyes and shrugs, and the all-too-familiar “you just want a raise” discounting tactic. So when I read this little piece in the Wall Street Journal last week, I would have been downright giddy at the validation, if I weren’t so utterly depressed by the reality.
It seems that one heck of a prestigious dude — William Dudley, president of the New York Federal Reserve — decided to have a little tête-à-tête with local consumers, no doubt sensing a need to bolster their confidence in the Fed’s more-fishy-by-the-hour monetary policy.Go read the whole thing.
Mr. Dudley gave a nice PR speech highlighting “improvements” in the economy and the Fed’s “successes.” Then came the questions. One guy had the audacity to hope he could make some sense out of the government’s insistence that inflation remains minimal despite the largest monthly increase in food costs in 36 years — and gas spiking so much that soon the cost of getting to work may exceed one’s wages. Dudley made use of a skill they must have taught him at Berkeley, proceeding to ram his Goldman Sachs resume, along with his Gucci loafer, right through his front teeth:
“Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful,” he replied. “You have to look at the prices of all things.”
To which one truly great American responded: “I can’t eat an iPad.” He might as well have added, “I can’t drive an iPad to work either.” And at the rate grocery and gas prices are rising, by the end of this year, I couldn’t afford that iPad’s monthly service fee even if I had enough discretionary income to purchase the little piece of dazzling technology in the first place.
If you ask me, Ms. typical American middle-class consumer, I would have to say that Mr. Dudley’s current yearly salary of $410,000 in taxpayer money is just a tad inflated as well. That $410,000 of our money is mere chicken-feed to a man of Mr. Dudley’s stature, I’m told. When he was at Goldman Sachs, he was pulling in millions every year. I’m sure he was worth every penny. If inflation really were down in the 2% range on the genuine necessities of life for us little people, then I wouldn’t begrudge the guy his half-million in wages and benefits.
But Dudley’s salary, along with Geithner’s and Bernanke’s and even Obama’s, are all based on lying statistics that mean nothing in the real world where inflation is actually rampant.
ObamaCare alone has caused a nearly 40% hike in insurance premiums for individual policies such as the one my self-employed husband and I have. The Democrats’ save-the-deadbeats credit card law caused an immediate rise in interest rates for us always-pay-on-time consumers to cover the cost of the mandated write-offs.
Right here, in the real world, Obama’s monetary policy is starting to look like it has a bottom line screw-the-middle-class philosophy.
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from The Astute Bloggers: THE REAL "OBAMA MISERY INDEX" SMASHES CARTER'S RECORD - NOW 26.2%! THE MISERY INDEX IS INFLATION + UNEMPLOYMENT. What Is The Actual Unemployment Rate? When we look at the unemployment figures that the government puts out...
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CNBC: Inflation Actually Near 10% Using Older Measure By: John Melloy After former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was appointed in 1979, the consumer price index surged into the double digits, causing the now revered Fed Chief to double the benchmark...
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Yahoo/AP: Wholesale prices up 1.6 pct. on steep rise in food Wholesale prices rise 1.6 pct. due to biggest jump in food costs in more than 36 years On Wednesday March 16, 2011, 8:57 am EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most...
- Beautiful Explanation Deflation And Its Results - La Times Today
Skating closer to deflationWith the U.S. economy clearly slowing, a broad-based, sustained decline in prices becomes a bigger risk. The consequences could be dire.Tom PetrunoMarket BeatJuly 17, 2010Imagine a world where prices of all sorts of goods and...
- Dudley, Do Right
The English population is growing rapidly, thanks to Labour Party government scheme to import people to create a multi-cultural society, like it or not. Today in Dudley, Birmingham, the local mosque is too small for the exploding population of Muslims,...