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Full Transcript Of Ben Bernanke's "I Have No Idea Why The Economy Will Get Better But It Will" Speech And Q&A
As noted in the title, for all those who wish to reread how Bernanke justifies the fact that he has no idea why the economy will improve, but it just will, damn it, here it is, complete with the full Q&A.
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The economy will get better for the following reasons:
-I exude confidence !
-The blind faith that we have in never fixing things that are broke (ooo I made a pun!)
-Reagan proved that deficits don't matter, silly !
Reason #4:
The general populace will believe every lie that the government and the Fed spew through the MSM, and therefore by the Power of Belief in The Big Lie, the economy will in fact dramatically improve.
I managed to read a couple pages, but had to stop and stuff tampax in my ears to staunch the bleeding.
I have no idea when Ben will sit and be quiet. Everytime he speaks the markets tremble and lose money.
Two+ years of the same crap. Recovery is always right around the corner.
Green shoots. Mustard seeds. Summer of Recovery.
Liars!
Is this 'Summer of Revovery' version 2.0 or 3.0? I've lost count...
We are here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire
Excellent reference, thank you.
I think we're still in the "Consummation" stage, and the powers that be are trying to fake it that way as long as they can. I'm waiting for Destruction, but it's ever so slow in coming.
In order to get gold and silver moving, celebrities need to get talking about PMs, in simple terms cause most aren't capable of anything too complex, about the Fed, and the reason why owning gold (and silver) is important.
The masses don't listen to Schiff, Rogers, Faber, Keiser, etc but they do listen to Kim Kardashian, Snookie, and Lady Gaga.
I recall Gisele Bundchen and Jay-Z talking about being paid in Euros instead of USD because the dollar was getting trashed and that got a lot of press back in late 2007. More celebs talking about buying gold because of Fed policy might wake a few sheeple.
Mr T is onboard...what more do the sheep need?
Predicitions anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJnKm6ftPu0
Not gonna happen as a celebrity's career is even easier to destroy than a politician's. I wouldnt mind doing a little research on that Jay-z bit. I'm sure he got STFU calls from bosses he didnt even know he had on that one.
Yes! You nailed it there! Thanks!
a modern twist...
http://www.sandowbirk.com/paintings/the-rise-and-fall-of-los-angeles/
Some part of the LA area burns every summer/fall...nothing new here. I think we may be most prepared fro the coming conflagration.
Dramatization
dramatization, dramatisation [?dræm?ta??ze???n]
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Example: (NO!)
Darth Vader
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
Frodo Baggins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmrJx32xefM
Nite Owl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM7BKQZ-LOw
Jean Luc Picard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFGfWrJR5Ck
Well this is supposed to be V2.0 SP 1450 edition, but going by Bernankes speech, it looks like they are going back to the "green shoots" thing again.
Green shoots is when "transitory" events call off the summer of recovery which miraculously awaits to blossom next summer with V3.0.
The sequence is "bottom is in", "stabilizing" or "contained" followed by "green shoots" 0" then "better than expected" then "summmer of recoveryVX.0" then "expanding at a slower pace than expected," Then QE1-10, and repeat until the feds real mandate of selling out the middle class is complete.
Society then consists of ignorant poor masses ie typical Obama electorate, and uber rich bankers.
I understand your confusion, the Fed/CNBC/banker cartel /political puppet complex should at least make a govt phamplet availiable with a glossary to common propaganda terminology and try to standardize it a bit more.
liars? thats a bit harsh .... just tanking management i would say .... they cant just let it collapse all at once ...
i am looking forward to the next "leaker" joining the likes of john hilsenrath, bill gross etc... creative thinking .... was funny watching becky quick this morning asking people to email in what they thought should be in the FOMC statement ...
liars ... it goes without saying .... it has become all about communications ... how can we convince people to not panic and abandon ship - current solution: ask the orchestra to keep playing the music ...
His credibility is now less than zero.
Shalom, Shalom!
We will keep doing what we are doing until we get a different result.
Ol' Ben sounds like he took a long hit off a nice tight Hopium blunt...
Laced with crack...
That's perfect - and I do mean perfect - for the 10% of Americans who are fluent in english.
I have taken the liberty of producing an alternative title for those failed by the public schools (not all, but some), terrible parenting (not all, but some), and other malignant aspects of Amerika and Amerika values (including self-responsibility) and institutions (Amerika refers to the country formerly known as America, aka The United States of America):
+1
I felt there was almost a hint in Bernanke's voice that he was relieved he had a good reason (rising inflation) to hold off on more QE. I wonder whether the banks and politicians have been pressing him to do more, but he's figured it only has a limited effectiveness and it just allows the politicians to keep spending. Keynesian stimulus is one thing, but borrowing $4 billion a day to keep people in fried chicken and sweat pants really isn't doing anyone any favors.
any relief in his voice may be his and the FED's self preservation instinct kicking in re QE.
It's one thing to set up a plan to save the world w QE purchases, another when QE 1 ladled the FED's balance sheet with possibly stinker MBS paper. He must look at the ECB and see how its B/S is even worse, loaded with Greek and other iffy pieces of electrons and paper.
QE may have all sorts of benefits for Wall Street and the banks and hedgies, but it always risks turning the central bank into the ultimate 'bad bank' where the crud is stored.
Bernanke may feel he got carried away in his 'save the world' mode w QE and is more than happy to kick that particular can down the road a bit.
In the final analysis, the FED will let the whole economy die if the alternative is the FED's self destruction.
Why the revolution must start in America
http://www.entendance.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=801&p=17714#p17714
He hopes it will change.
This is 'lil o's new 2012 campaign slogan.
your video is supposed to show flapping titties. Don't you know the rules?
non event, let's watch shibor tomorrow....
Federal Reserve Dart Board
That version is outdated. They will never raise rates again.
So it didn't get better during QE2, but it will get better without it? How's that for central banker logic.
Yeah, because of "transitory" events that lead to "green shoots". The logic goes:
Tsunami causes supply disruptions. (Hee Haw reference added: "Why thats bad!" "No thats good!")
Supply disruptions cause pent up demand.
Supply disruptions go away
Pent up demand causes all that economic expansion and 5 % UE rate because of the flood of demand for items with Japanese parts presumably from unemployed cash strapped consumers who have tapped everything out.
See! You have to be a central banker to see the answer to a world economic crisis in a tsunami melting down reactors in a large industrial country. Non PHD types can be excused for thinking such disasters are bad.
i have a question...where does he see gold going
Crazy to own equities here. Event risk. Political Risk. Policy Risk. Both inflation and deflation indicators. We are precisely in the eye of the storm.
I think Ben just said he's going on vacation until August. Probably literally. Fend for yourselves.
It's totally insane to own equities right now, which is why I went back into 100 percent high beta equities in my spec account.
EDIT. I should say leveraged beta rather than high beta.
And the rich [drum roll....] are still rich! At ease, carry on...
Yet another hole to plug:
"Post office suspends retirement contributions"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110622/ap_on_re_us/us_postal_problems
The Bernanke should have just told the truth:
"Look, i don't need to worry about how the economy is going to get better because my masters are currently creating world war III that will wipe most of you pathetic sheeple out. For those of you that survive, your wealth will be taken instead."
New World Order not far off now.
The light at the end of the tunnel that I think the Bernak was trying to describe is really a Mack truck.
Forget the Mack R model, make it a SD70 in notch 8 with the fence up.
Baseless optimism.
Seems like all the hedge funds are now daytrading "Risk On, Risk Off" on an hourly basis, gunning their trades off the slightest wiggles on a 2-minute chart of USDX.
LOL..what a casino.
But you "went long" yesterday, right Fader? Stop out already?? LMFAO
I wonder when this game will end.
I think, therefore, I print.
I think, therefore I scam.
I scam when I print.
By the light of tungsten bars' glint
Inflating, my job is to print
All for the banks
The economy tanks
Then for the exit I'll sprint.
Tungsten should be good for making war. Especially now that I think there is no domestic mines of the stuff.
Looks like he read tyler's piece about debunking the Greek CDS exposure myth.
Anybody have the Princeton fight song handy (text or audio clip)? Rah-rah!
Anybody have the Princeton fight song handy (text or audio clip)? Rah-rah!
I think, therefore, I print.
It's very clear that the illusion of control is slipping.
We need to start taking our money out the banks; lets starve these fuckers
That's the best characterization I think possible.
Another, perhaps second place title would be the "We're Really not Sure" Speech.
At this point, I don't see how anyone can actually believe a single word that comes out of Bernanke's mouth. He's been perpetually wrong on almost EVERY issue since becoming Fed chairman. The fact that he pretty much said, "Wellsir I sure dunno why that gosh dern economy aint doin as well as i thought. Figyerd throwin' a big pile o'money at it wood fix everythang! Instead it juss catched on fiar! So Ima let it burn for a lil whaile longa. Than in a few months ima try and put owt that big ol' fire with even mo money!"
And this guy has a PhD in economics? Oh wait, right. PhD in Keynesian economics. So it all makes sense. According to Keynes, he's earning an A+ right now!
I came to the conclusion several years back that no matter how smart you think you are, no matter how fast you can run, no matter how strong you are. If one of your beliefs or assumptions are wrong, then you are simply going to be running in the wrong direction, very hard and very fast.
I wonder – if they replaced Bernanke with a sock puppet, and all the crowd with pre-recorded audio, would anyone notice?
Not even the great puppet theater masters can achieve this level of storytelling.
I think the only people that actually believe any of this are the talking heads on MSM. It's like they're a bunch of kids that are dressing up as witches and pretending to be Harry Potter. They believe their own creation of reality. Meanwhile everyone else is standing back going, "What in the hell are those little fairies talking about?"
No, it's just you.
Everyone else is nodding along. "Uh huh, uh huh"
You need to buy one of ZH's tin foil hats, they have them in the online store.
no more heroin until the junkie has convulsions again.
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Because money printing, for lack of a better word(s), is good. Money printing is right, Money printing works. Money printing clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Money printing, in all of its forms; Money printing for life, for linen, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And Money printing, you mark my words, will not only save the Fed, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.
I think we should elect Money Printing for President in 2012!
Money Printing for America, 2012
Here we are, back to the confidence game again. And with all confidence games there are two players, the confidence man (bankers and their goverment stodges) and the marks. Guess who that is. They should tar and feather this clown Bernanke and send him back to some moronic ivy leage school where they believe this crap.
Wait a minute, he prints the money and he doesn't have a clue whats going on, this is not a confidence builder to me.
I know! He'll use "Magic"! It's fucking magic! Am I right?
Bernanke's, "I have a Dream" speech....
The recovery?......Has something to do with agriculture... "green shoots" right?
If the Russians, during WWII, thought like the Great Bernanke, we'd all be speaking German, today. Is there anybody out there with a plan and the balls to execute it?
When Germany made a grab for Moscow, the Russians loaded up the machinery, parts, factroies and entire industry onto trains and sent them into the Urals. Then returned with men and war material ready for spring.
When Napoleon marched to Russia, not many made it back.
It would be easier for us to replace Ben with someone else and actually get something done instead of time wasting committee meetings that are not seen by the sheep anyway.
It's exhausing listening to the big words. They should simply say this.
Ben! Show me the Money!
Dunno, it will come.
WHAT?!
Done and done in a few minutes.
Hmmm wonder what creative wording QE3 will be transformed into?
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Delusional Fucktard......
Maybe, just maybe, Bernanke is dummer than a box-of-rocks and we give him far too much credit for being an educated man........
+ 1000,000,000,000!
ROFL
Can transcript be word clouded? Seperate the Qs and As words. Thought i heard that this soft patch was transitory.
Soft patch as the Tundra gets when sufficient amount of hot shit gets piled up long enough above.
Cotton limit up, "transitory" also limit up
All he and others are doing is buying time and trying to figure out how to push austerity onto the 1st world countries without it looking like austerity.
Ben "I have no idea why Americans continue to allow me to be to be the Fed Chairman, let alone why they still persist with the Fed"
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Slow,...........slowing,.........somewhat grinding........halt.
That's the economy Greensputnik and the Bernank have left us with.
And now,...........we who actually produce wealth are left to deal with it.
Slow,...........slowing,.........somewhat grinding........halt.
That's the economy Greensputnik and the Bernank have left us with.
And now,...........we who actually produce wealth.......
......are left to deal with it.
Assholes.
Don't worry, there is a economy developing.
I do this for you if you do that for me.