More Evidence Money Printing Didn’t Work

FEDERAL RESERVE’S MASSIVE INTERVENTION FAILED TO PRODUCE “REAL ECONOMIC GROWTH”

|| By FITSNEWS || Guess what: The secretive Federal Reserve’s ongoing effort to “stimulate” the U.S. economy by printing trillions of dollars in new money (a.k.a. “quantitative easing”) isn’t working.

Yeah … that’s sort of a “duh” headline, isn’t it?  Even liberal command economists like Alan Greenspan have admitted as much.  And one of the few money printers with a conscience actually admitted the goal of the program – which he described as “the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time.”

Yeah … and you thought Barack Obama meant something else when he talked about “spreading the wealth around?”

Silly …

Anyway, this week there’s additional evidence that former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s multi-trillion dollar dump didn’t work – as if recent economic data hadn’t already borne that out.

In a report (.pdf here) assessing the central bank’s response to the recent recession, Stephen D. Williamson – vice president of the St. Louis Fed – offered a blunt assessment of the program’s ineffectiveness.

“There is no work, to my knowledge, that establishes a link from QE to the ultimate goals of the Fed – inflation and real economic activity. Indeed, casual evidence suggests that QE has been ineffective in increasing inflation,” Williamson wrote.  “For example, in spite of massive central bank asset purchases in the U.S., the Fed is currently falling short of its two percent inflation target.”

We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: Until our leaders reverse course and engage the free market – as opposed to more wealth redistribution, crony capitalism, welfare statism and global interventionism – don’t expect anything to change. In fact expect things to get worse.

Listen to us now … hear us later.

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