Bernanke's Scorecard Revisited
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In Bernanke's Deflation Preventing Scorecard I noted how Bernanke has fired every bullet from his 2002 “helicopter drop” speech Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here.
Yet the outcome was still deflation. Bernanke was a perfect 13 of 13.
Susanne Trimbath writing for NewGeography takes a different approach on the success of Bernanke in The Rogue Treasury.
The U.S. Treasury took enormous powers for itself last fall by telling Congress they would use it to “ensure the economic well-being of Americans.” Six months after passage of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 Americans are worse off. Since it was signed into law on October 3, 2008, here are the changes in a few measures of our economic well-being:Repeating the closing remarks from my take ....
The U.S. government has already paid out $2.9 trillion, with further commitments to raise the total to over $7 trillion – a number that Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) said “is mind-boggling, indeed it is surreal. It’s like having a second government.” The money Treasury is passing out is more than all government spending in 2008. The Senate Finance Committee, of which Baucus is chair, held a hearing on March 31 (TARP Oversight: A Six Month Update). The three parties established as monitors in the 2008 legislation were there to testify. Without exception they “are deeply troubled by the direction in which Treasury has gone.”
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) suggested [referring to former-Secretary Paulson] that Congress “was awed by a person who comes off of Wall Street, making tens of millions of dollars. … You think he knows all the answers and when it’s all said and done you realize he didn’t know anything more about it than you did.”
Bernanke has failed. "It" has happened. The proof is irrefutable as detailed in Humpty Dumpty On Inflation and Fiat World Mathematical Model.
What now Ben? More of the same stuff that failed miserably before, only on a grander scale?
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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