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Former Central Banker Admits "[They] Are Making It Up As They Go Along"
Submitted by Tim Price via Sovereign Man blog,
A few weeks ago, William White (former economist at the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, and Bank of International Settlements) made a frank admission.
And while we search for assets whose prices are less obviously distorted by malign government intervention, it’s refreshing to hear a mea culpa from a member of the economics “profession”.
White said:
“The analytical underpinnings of what we [mainstream economists] do are actually pretty shaky. A reflection of that fact, is that virtually every aspect you can think of with respect to monetary policy, about best practice, has changed and changed repetitively over the course of the last 50 years. So, this stuff ain’t science.
“Think about what’s happened recently. One, its completely unprecedented. People are making it up as they go along. This is hardly science – building on the pillars of the past.
“Secondly, what they’ve been making up as they go along actually differs across central banks [The Bundesbank, for example, is fighting the threat of high inflation, whereas the Fed is more concerned about the prospect of deflation]. They can’t even agree amongst themselves about what’s the best way to do things.
“I’m becoming more and more convinced that all of the models we use are basically useless.
“It’s surprising that we’ve had this huge crisis that the mainstream didn’t predict. It’s gone on for years, which the mainstream absolutely didn’t predict. I would have thought this was a basis for a fundamental rethink about what we used to think we believed. But that hasn’t happened.
“The policies that we’ve followed – on the monetary side at least – since 2007 are just more of the same demand-stimulating policies that we’ve been following, I think, erroneously, for the last 30 years.
“We’ve got the potential to do so much harm by not getting the creation of fiat credit and money right. We’ve got the capacity to do so much harm that we should be focusing much more on making sure that doesn’t happen.”
Doctors at least have the Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm. If only economists and central bankers had a similar ethic.
But they don’t. So they continue ‘making it up as they go along’, as Mr. White suggests, applying failed ideas with impunity and continued authority to an unquestioning public.
Warren Buffett famously compared financial markets to the card table, observing that if you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy. It seems we are all patsies now.
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Because the growth paradigm has been derailed...
This is a brave new world...
William White slyly tries to attribute to incompetence what I see as malice.
This is a guy desperately in need of a nail gun...
LIBOR, Fourex, gold, re-hypothication, uncapitalized synthetics, Force Majeure…
Yeah, it’s malice alright.
..get the rope.
That's because the central bankers' hypocratic oath is to "First, make a dollar from everyone involved."
Unfucking questioning public? Ayfkm?? Ron Paul, C4L and many others are fucking questioning this thievery!
Theirs is "first tell no truth about the nature of the scam". Then it's make a buck.
For his sake I hope he doesn't live near any steep embankments.
For our sake I hope he does...
If the liar hopes to salvage even 1/8th ounce of honor, he will request an expedited 21 nail gun salute.
"by not getting the creation of fiat credit and money right.""
This guy doesn't even know what money is!!
Federal Reserve, and Central Banks in general, can create NOTES NOT MONEY!!!!!
Just look at any US Dollar denomination at center top. It says FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE, not Federal Reserve MONEY!!!!
Poop head!!!
Exactly!!! Thank you! Any fool can understand that an economic system controlled by an entity that is allowed to counterfeit value will not persist. It is inherently unsustainable, and will ultimately result in tragedy. Central banksters have to pretend this is not what they are and instead must constantly lie to the populace.
Coooooorrect.
Fuck him. These wankin bankers need some douchebag to deflect and confuse.
This cunt is one of them.
Fuck YOU "Willard" White.....Jimmy Dean was better....at least the bastard asked the right questions....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbwDGtj84YY
Making it up as you go? So are we.
We don't know how you'll fall, but we're prepared for all options.
At least doctors are covered under their oath to : ‘making it up as they go along’.
The main fault of voodoo economists is they had no oath
to give and bullshit along and need no license to prescribe
deadly medicine , as long as it is bitter and death is sweet they get tenure.
Stop the presses!
No way. Yellin's got her cankles to the floor on the pedal and printing for all she's worth...oh you meant, nevermind.
duh...
The only model that matters is creating believable bullshit to extract power (as measure in loot) from the lesser-evolved dumbasses.
The smart-n-savvy people win by leading the dumbasses to slaughter. And dumbasses are led with bullshit.
William White was found in his bathtub this morning, having committed suicide with a double tap to the back of the head. The gun has not yet been found but authorities are certain it soon will be.
I heard he also stabbed himself in the back, just to make sure.
Nah, this is just another "limited hangout."
You might notice he denounced the incoherent models, yet didn't connect them to the obvious dots of government "stimulus," allowing him to ignore the fact that Keynesian Theory is nothing but permission for governments to spend, and spend, and spend.
Because as we all know, without a "borrower of last resort," we be doomed!
Haven't you figure out which tier you belong in?
Dumbass?
DaddyO
Problem is that a lot of non-dumbasses who question everything they do will get sucked down by the surrounding idiots.
The big trick is going to be avoiding the aforementioned fate.
The criminal and sneaky win, by the way, not neccessarily the smart-n-savvy.
Re: The criminal and sneaky win, by the way, not neccessarily the smart-n-savvy.
I think you are using "judgemental words" on the smart-n-savvy.
BS
Gold, bItCHeZ!
Yes, indeed gold bitchez! For 5000 years it was not made up as they went along. It keeps the straight, straight and shines a golden light on the crooked.
Utter Bullshit.
Do you really believe this? These fuckers plan things decades in advance.
I would laugh if it wasn't so sad.
Planners and CB figureheads are two ENTIRELY different jobs. Bernanke, for instance, didn't plan shit, as he likely has no clue about what to do. His function was ceremonial decoration, like a well-placed potted plant.
Part of the plan is to allow the figureheads to "make up shit as they go," knowing all too well what the outcomes cannot help but to fail as planned.
Yes the visible and vulnerable figures that the public sees are probably told miniminal need to know, but to your point there defienetly two classes of operators. Too much of liability to have the public side know anything more.
That being said, I still this article is clever horseshit, it basically says central planners are along for the ride with the rest of us when the opposite is quite true.
"The economic schools, completely controlled by this system of power also, impose the new economic doctrine, using the fear of inflation. Therefore, governments officially proceed in cuts and cruel austerity measures while, unofficially, are funding every activity in favor of this system of power that prints and controls US dollar flow. At the same time, this system creates financial crises and loading nations with more debt, by circulating virtual huge capitals through computers, securing that money flow to the real economy will be limited in order not to lose value."
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/03/the-closed-system-of-biggest-...
He's dead, Jim...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7KYmGnj40
But doctor I didn't want heart surgery. All I wanted was a vasectomy.
They all keep smoking the pipe which causes such hopium pipe dreams. meanwhile the debt keps piling up, trillion after trillion. What do we have here? It's called a ponzi scheme to keep the dream alive and it's backfiring big time. When the next crisis hits. none of these geniuses will be any where to be found...
heres today chart.....
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
once again, price down on the London open, London Close, Crimex open, Crimex close, and the Globex open...
and heres the entire intra day chart from all of 2013...u c something???????
This is the same William White who said that "the intermediate objectives of central bank cooperation" included "the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold and foreign exchange) in circumstances where this might be thought useful."
White's lecture, given while he was "Economic Adviser, Head of Monetary and Economic Department, BIS" is titled "Past and future of central bank cooperation" and was presented at the Fourth BIS Annual Conference, 27-29 June 2005 - celebrating 75 years of the Bank for International Settlements, 1930-2005.
http://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap27.pdf
yeah, well, but...
I'm rubber and you're glue...
~ W.White
Maybe since 2005 his attitude and insights in things have changed, I know mine have.
And, he is an insider and knows how they operate - an epiphany perhaps.
It appears that people are moving out of the TWTR safety trade into that risky asset class gold.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
You would think war and civil unrest would be a huge boon to twitter - ah, if only they had a way to make money...
banner advertisements for civil war and WWIII? win-win!!!
Well hey, when you can sit there and claim correlation IS causation and mark to fantasy any model they feel like presenting to the general public...with NO accountability...
As I have been saying (and writing) for years now:
"Economic Theory" is nothing but "Political Expediency".
And, the Great Global Economic Collapse that is coming is being paralleled in concert by the Demise of the USA through its incompetent forays into the affairs of other Nations and Peoples, at the direct cost to its own Nation and its Peoples.
One question now presents itself (but, which has been left unanswered on the table for many years now):
Will the Peoples of the USA permit that nasty knot of "neocons" to manipulate World War III with Russia, united through International Agreements, with China and Iran or,
will the fallout of Fukushima's nuclear radiations, with all it potentials for 'open-air criticality' and the radiation poisoning of masses of millions of its Peoples, as
both events, or just one event, jointly or singularly destroy what is left of what was once a great Nation; a bastion of hope and freedom and the flag of Liberty and Light for all Mankind?
How times have changed. Sigh.
Ho hum
Re: a bastion of hope and freedom and the flag of Liberty and Light for all Mankind?
Maybe if more Americans realized the country was and is just another society run by sociopaths we could cut-through the rest of the Red and Blue Team bullshit and create a society that acted in the bests interests of the majority of the population.
Societies and countries can exist for one purpose: bullshit or reality. Reality is boring. Which is why the sociopaths love slow-motion eagles and flags as much as the dumbasses who worship them.
Well said.
"Maybe if more Americans realized the country was and is just another society run by sociopaths we could cut-through the rest of the Red and Blue Team bullshit and create a society that acted in the bests interests of the majority of the population."
That one sentence could be a paragraph.
FED's hardest job is to match fantasy with reality. That's a tough job.
So, basically not only is the Emperor not wearing new clothes, he is in fact naked.
Consensus reality. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
No central bankster deserves an "second chance." There's an extra special piece of rope and a tall lamp post with your name on it William White.
To be fair someone's GOT to make it up as they go along, cuz it's all broken glass now and the pumps don't work cuz the vandals took the handles.
I thought Charlie stole the handle ..." And the train won't stop going no way to slow down".
actually he is right on the money. the bernank is the perfect case in point. he, and all his friends, bragged about how smart he was about the causes and cures for a depression. he obviously had no clue. there are some very basic predictable behaviors that can be forecast but there are way too many rumsfeld conundrums(unknown unknowns) to accurately predict the behavior of complicated systems.
Great interview. The economy is a living thing not a factory with input and output like the FED PHDs model it. Living things do not grow forever. They reach maturity and hopefully live as long as possible but then they die. The causes of premature death are infinite and nearly impossible to model accurately. The FED is doing nothing more than curing Syphyllis by placing leeches on the patient and extracting blood for a cure.
And your gonna love your new fiat. You will especially love the picture of a gun barrel pointing at your mugg on every note.
It would be both wrong and naive to not think, and think that others are not already way ahead of the game and ensuring an overwhelmingly dominant position in future command and control with IT and Media generated content for programs fand projects to be viewed and sublimely accepted as present day realities. ...... thus incidentally coincidentally also proving beyond a shadow of any doubt that base humanity is as easily programmed to behave as expected as any dumb or smart virtual machine ........ for this is just a tiny fraction of the bigger picture which is gonna tear your crazy world views apart and asunder ..... http://www.amanfrommars.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/140303.html
And do you think NSA and their ilk aren't deeply involved and instrumental in future virtual command and remote relatively anonymous control? Oh please, you cannot be serious? To imagine they are not is to realise that they be not intelligence led at all and most probably quite stupid, and what a catastrophic fraud and great ponzi that would be.
Hippocratic Oath is BS. Prescribing a contraceptive violates the oath so it is pointless
I'm pretty sure I'm on the record at least as early as 2008 saying the exact same thing, that central bankers had no idea what they were doing and were making it up as they went along.
We have all been playing poker with Warren Buffett for a lot longer than a half hour. We are all patsies at his table as he get the US government and our grand-kids to pay for his bailouts and guaranteed profits.
Four part series covers a lot of ground... none of it good. The macro-economic battle between Keynesians and Austrian Schoolers is stalemated right now. But no matter who wins we are are all screwed for years (maybe decades?) to come.
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/inflation-vs-deflation-part-1which-on...
There went his GS retirement package
If they were certain that printing money has no consequences, why would they have taxes? Just print a little more money.
Think about it, why incur the effort, expense and hassle of deciding, explaining and collecting taxes when the tax revenue could be just printed up?
Because there will be a large consequence.
They knew this before they bailed out the Banksters but in that case, it was warranted cause they work for the Banksters and the costs will be born by future tax payers, those who have no vote now...
Sorry, I am not buying whatever is being sold here. Would there be a difference in our understanding and reaction to things the way they are if we knew this was a conspiracy from the start? You bet it would! Bankers et al would love to have everyone believe they are just a bunch of bumbling, incompetent fools. We all would cut them slack and we do! If we knew that bankers pull this boom/crash cycle once every generation to consolidate banking, fleece stockholders, manipulate markets and fund wars they would be hunted down one by one until extinction, but then I guess there would just be the proliforation of yet another generation of sociopathic greedbags to take their place. The whole idea of a need for banking as it is today is achaic, overvalued and quite frankly the biggest impediment to prosperity that could ever be imagined.