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Janet Yellen Is A Coward

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Submitted by Dominique Dassault via GlobalSlant.com,

Yellen Is Loathe To Change Easy Money Policy

With her diminutive stature, dutch-boy haircut and puffy facial features Janet Yellen certainly does not look like a leader…more like a Brooklyn grandmother eager to tell you her special recipe for chocolate chip cookies. In this case, unfortunately, her appearance does not deceive.

You might ask What Are The Traits of a Leader? Naturally, there are many but one trait, I can assure you, that does not define a leader = COWARDICE…and that dubious characteristic seems to describe Yellen’s recent tenure at The Federal Reserve.

It is a strong statement. I am aware. But, sadly, it is an assertion that is not too difficult to support.

Definition of Coward:

a person who lacks courage in facing danger, difficulty, opposition, pain, etc.

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First of all, Yellen has demonstrated no thought leadership at The Fed. She is simply “preaching the same gospel” as her nerdy predecessor Ben Bernanke. I suppose that since her “hero” [her words] decided that debt monetization and interest rate suppression were a sound strategy for the economy then she might as well continue with the same approach…despite its limitations. This copycat approach seems to suit her well and, of course, that is unfortunate. Her lack of rational action, with respect to interest rate policy, reminds me of those that just do not have the courage to think for themselves…always wanting to piggyback on other people’s ideas rather than to devise thoughts of their own. Anyway it seems change is not in Yellen’s DNA [as it would require original thought] while she is forcefully fighting a logical change of course on interest rate policy. Maybe because any type of change is painful [see definition of coward above] even if the change itself is relatively minor [as in a 25-75 basis point increase in interest rates]?

Second of all, the cautious nature of Yellen [to not even legitimately contemplate a rate hike] is stunning. Sure, she talks a “good game” with respect to adjusting existing policy but is always deferring to the future and outlining a long list of conditions/caveats. Her internal monologue may go something like this…“perhaps we’ll make an adjustment to The Fed’s interest rate policy…perhaps not. I just need to think about it a little more. I am not sure.” And her procrastinating nature simply perpetuates into a frozen state of mind. As if a 25-75 basis point ramp in the fed funds rate will derail this moderate recovery. If anything, her timid approach speaks to the fragility of the economic recovery…an implied indictment of her Fed’s strategy. If, by chance, Yellen did raise rates she would surely face some opposition [see definition of coward above] likely from within her own “stacked” Fed…and therefore, to avoid being opposed, is delaying the inevitable for as long as she can…which brings up another intriguing point to ponder.

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If The Fed’s strategy to stimulate the economy is so effective [by her account] then why has the economy not reached “escape velocity” after six years of turbo charged stimulation? And then, why does the current interest rate environment not reflect that improvement? It is important to note that interest rates have not been pushed up for more than a decade.

 

Where the economy moves from here is a true unknown but that could be said at any point in time as economic forecasting is an art…not a science. However Yellen frequently cites continued uncertainty as a rationalization of current policy…but that is a lazy minded thought especially for a supposed expert in macro-economics and does not address the massive improvement in the U.S. economy since the lows of 2009.

 

How massive? The economic improvements in the United States are overwhelming and have been articulated, ad nauseam, by many i.e. jobless claims, unemployment rate, new car sales, home prices, etc. Some indicators have even exceeded the levels of the pre-2000 technology bubble i.e. jobless claims. And despite all the “gloom and doom” [i.e. comparisons to the Great Depression of the 1930’s] espoused by Yellen and her colleagues it is important to note that Real GDP is almost 10% HIGHER than the pre-recession peak of 2008. The economy is definitely not great but it really is not that dire either. Certainly nowhere remotely close to the economic nadir in 2009.

 

How bizarre and inexplicable is it then that U.S. interest rate policy is still exactly the same as it was when initiated by Bernanke in 2008/9? The incongruity, vis-a-vis U.S. economic performance, is so lopsided it is almost comical. According to Bernanke interest rate suppression and debt monetization were necessary because the economy had been delivered a “knee-buckling” blow from the real estate crash [of which, ironically, both Bernanke and Yellen presided over as senior level employees at The Fed] and these non-conventional measures, it was argued, were the shock therapy the economy needed to get “back on track”. The economic data at that time, was bleak…and getting bleaker. So, the shock therapy was applied without much push back. Fast forward six years and the economy is well beyond its once debilitating shock and is generally “back on track”…yet the policies of shock therapy are still being applied. There really is no legitimate economic reason to explain it. There must be other motivations.

 

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Thirdly, the primary motivation for Yellen’s inaction on rate policy appears to be that a reversal of The Fed’s strategy will be too painful [see definition of coward above] for the economy, and more importantly to Yellen, financial markets to endure [which also strongly argues against the strategy of easy money if you cannot normalize the policy without a significant shock to the economy/financial markets]. The rapid 13 month plunge in the federal funds rate [effectively ending at zero in December 2008] from 4.66% in October 2007 and continued for another 6 1/2 years is just too great a conundrum for The Fed to reverse without seriously disrupting the market’s dependency on this low interest rate drug. How ridiculous is that? A steep 13 month decline in the federal funds rate of 466 basis points ending at zero…and then 6+ years residing at zero…and Yellen is vacillating over a puny increase of just 25 basis points. This ought not to be as difficult [see definition of coward above] as she is portraying it to be.

So really…there is no exit strategy…there is only a continuation strategy…and The Fed’s cronies have always known this. Yellen can argue that The Fed is no longer adding to its $4.5T balance sheet but still…the balance sheet currently resides at a historically massive level…hardly a relaxation of stimulative policy. She is simply paralyzed with fear that the markets will violently react to a tightening of policy. An unsuccessful attempt to slowly “forward guide” the financial markets out of an unforgiving policy reversal would surely “tar and feather” her legacy…to her, it seems, a too dangerous [see definition of coward above] risk.

Said Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities…“They’re a real bunch of scaredy cats. You can’t be totally hostage to markets.” LaVorgna is correct. The Fed is being held hostage to the financial markets but, ironically, is in no mood to escape its captors despite so many clear opportunities. The lack of action, by Yellen, can only be described as cowardly.

 

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Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:37 | 5847328 max2205
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here we go

she's a pussy

She has no balls

She needs to grow a pair

ect

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:40 | 5847333 Deathrips
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And shes an actor and liar?

I cannot confirm she doesnt have a dick.

Ad hominem's on the menu.

RIPS

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:57 | 5847409 SilverIsKing
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Like I say to my wife, "Stop Yellen!"

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:07 | 5847431 Supernova Born
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Fed policy is based on the show "Lost".

The writers are making it up as they go along and in the end we'll find everyone was dead from the beginning.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:22 | 5847506 PeeramidIdeologies
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The "market" has responded positively to every action the FED has made. What makes you think that is going to stop?

Secondly the FED actors always use vague inconclusive language. It is imperative the average joes are kept in a state of uncertainty, lest the boat get tippy...

Honestly tho, who cares about this part of the charade?? It is meaningless.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:36 | 5847541 Anusocracy
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Leaders are the problem, not the solution.

Followers are never the solution either.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:51 | 5847628 kaiserhoff
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I wouldn't call her a coward.

More of a Gutless Wonder.

 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:26 | 5847741 NoDebt
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Maybe she knows the truth- that any significant rise in interest rates or reduction in liquidity sends the whole house of cards crashing down (which it would).

Coward?  Who knows.

Trapped, paralyzed, painted-in-a-corner, no escape route, no good options?  Definitely.

Past a certain point in the game checkmate IS inevitable, no matter what moves you make.  We are probably well past that point.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:49 | 5847817 Bindar Dundat
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In poker we call this a "continuation bet" .  It's a bluff -- but a big "C" bet will often win the pot....

Tue, 03/03/2015 - 02:35 | 5848632 strannick
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This article is beyond stupid. The outer orbit of the seventh moon of Saturn stupid.

Janet Yellen is NOT a coward. This isnt her being afraid to try some tough love strategy to turn things around. This isnt the failure of good intentions. This isnt even academia being foiled by the real world.

This is an elitist appointed frontman, a talking head who ably conceals her handlers hidden movtives, this is economic false flags, her fed policy is a parlour trick and and its pronouncements are intentional obfuscation of its dark agenda.

''When it gets serious you lie'' -Euro JC Junker

''The last duty of a central banker is to tell the truth'' -American Fed head Arthur Burns

Tue, 03/03/2015 - 09:44 | 5849207 epicurious
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strannick... I agree, but even more it is likely that the unwieldy mountain of derivitive exposure by all the banks in the cabal is really untenable at this point and they know it and haven't got a clue how to get out from under it.  They are seeing a whirlwind of black swans in the form of bond weaknesses soveriegn bankruptcy all pending an outcome they know they can't really deal with.  So they are just back peddaling and treading water without a life preserver.  This writer's obvious absurd oblivion to the real state of the world economy and the USA debt load is pathetic.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 21:32 | 5847940 lotsoffun
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honestly, and i try to give people the best.  i hope for everybody.  i hope that our leaders and others are responsible, 'benevolent', upstanding, honest, (oh god, (sorry allah) that boyscout training is showing).  i really want people in responsible positions to be honest.  that is my hope and change.

but - she's just a silly little women that wanted to be the first woman at that job.  her handlers tell her what to do.  she really doesn't have any clue, except she can recite the buzz words ok for people that are watching that do not work in finance and have NO clue at all. 

she is as much a hoax as obama.  given to you by the same people.

 

 

Tue, 03/03/2015 - 00:33 | 5848390 Againstthelie
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Correct. She is a hoax and the Fed is not trapped.

The Fed was created by the Money Trust, when the pressure on politics rose to break up the Wall Street banks. Their brilliant smoke and mirrors solution was the Fed.

It is their bubble machine.

They do not only make money by pumping up bubbles. Also the popping of the bubble is necessary to turn the paper profits into real profits and to collect everything cheap again. And IMO currently everything is being set up once again and the Fed knows exactly what it has been doing and it is doing.

It's dangerous to believe these people would not know what they are doing. This is one of Marc Fabers big mistakes - and probably the reason why he is allowed on MSM: he unintentionally gives the Fed the cover of stupidity - but it's planned and not stupidity, but criminal energy.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:05 | 5847678 PeeramidIdeologies
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Tried them both have you?

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:10 | 5847697 raywolf
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The Mrs. Doubtfire of finance only without the happy ending.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:05 | 5847437 confederacy of ...
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After a few beers, and if I squint my eyes a bit, I coudl swear Janet Yellen is John Denver. Think about it for moment -- Denver fakes his death as a stunt pilot, so he can have a sex change, and come back covertly as a Fed Chairperson-age! Didn't he have a song on the B-side of one of his records,  with almost no airplay entitled " I am a puppet muppet double headed dildo created by the banking cartel who is going to fuck the entire middle class over"...maybe I have that song mixed up with another artist...nonetheless, you get my point.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:28 | 5847751 f16hoser
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In summary, she's a: Cock Juggling Thunder Cunt

Can I say cunt?

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 21:04 | 5847854 pndr4495
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Betty White said something that may apply here. She said something like this : " I hate it when people say grow some balls - how about growing a vagina 'cause those things take a real pounding."

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 22:58 | 5848162 one_hundred
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Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:43 | 5847340 XRAYD
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The policy is to keep stealing from savers via financial repression - to save the big banks! It is that simple - no matter the mumbo jumbo and the pretend learned economics and their flawed view of how the world works. They are not running monetary policy, but a scam!

As a Democrat, she obviously want the market to remain artificially pumped till after the 2016 election!

 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:40 | 5847341 Hohum
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Listen to Joey Lasagna.  However, the UST 10 year cannot go over 3%.  Ever.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:40 | 5847342 Zirpedge
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Pussies can really take a beating, a coward on the other hand is too afrain to stand it's ground and take a beating. There is nothing more despicable than a coward who refuses to face the music.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:35 | 5847548 asteroids
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I don't know of any pussies that can take six years of stimulation.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:40 | 5847345 Fun Facts
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Yellen is a figurehead

Stanley Fischer [former head of the bank of Israel] is in charge of policy

They don't want to rub that in the Ameritards faces.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:52 | 5847633 Anusocracy
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Yellen is a moai.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:41 | 5847347 TeethVillage88s
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Chambawamba has looked into this and he is going to give an update here soon.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:32 | 5847536 Max Steel
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I am not Chumbawamba .

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:41 | 5847348 VelvetHog
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Yeah, but he's a GREEDY little coward...

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:06 | 5847441 thesheet
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I get the Daffy Duck reference

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-71uqV0LHag

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:31 | 5847760 VelvetHog
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Nice!

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:41 | 5847349 Itchy and Scratchy
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Not a coward! She niavely believes she has the ability & power to control the economy.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:47 | 5847369 HonkyShogun
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She has the ability to eat you for crossing her bridge.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:05 | 5847436 serotonindumptruck
Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:43 | 5847354 Sudden Debt
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 lot of smart people who read the right things, know the right things and are smart enough to understand but who don’t want to accept the fact that the financial situation of the west will not only take revenge on the financial markets but also their own ass.

so there’s actual,y a possibility that she simply can’t grasp it even if she knows all the details.

WHy? Because they think it will affect everybody besides themselves as long as they have a job.

And people like optimists more then pessimists, that’s why I don’t even try to inform anybody anymore.

I may hint about it... but if the person doesn’t show signs that he understands it and doesn’t need to undergo his faith, I simply agree with them and move along.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:08 | 5847449 LawsofPhysics
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So says the dude flailing his arms in Belgium...

Sure, whatever dude...

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:18 | 5847719 raywolf
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as anyone who's traded the markets will know, once you have a vested interst in a certain market direction, you find it impossible to see any other outcome..... and once in this situation you either get lucky or generally you lose your pants....

if this can happen to a guy with $10K in a forex account, it can most certainly happen to someone with a $4 trillion dollar central bank to run.....

the ship is on full throttle with no one at the controls....

Greece is the canary in the coal mine, stuck in an endless cycle of musical chairs with less and less chairs.... all the other debt nations are dancing the same dance.... but they still have a chair for the time being.

 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:44 | 5847355 DutchBoy2015
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Another Jewess Cunt controlled by the Jew KIKE roach Stanley Fischer former director of the Bank of Israel.

Get KIKES out of banking.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:48 | 5847371 HonkyShogun
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I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:52 | 5847392 DutchBoy2015
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Thank you.

My newsletter is called ''Reopen Auschwitz' 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:59 | 5847420 HonkyShogun
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That seems to be a popular title these days. I can't imagine why.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:33 | 5847540 nightshiftsucks
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Where do a send my resume for the guard position at the camp and do I get to keep all of the gold that I find ?

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:44 | 5847358 Rainman
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Aw c'mon,... this is like kicking a puppy. Granma is simply the kindly looking old lady out in the front office saying what she is told to say by the kleptocrats in the back room.

 Pretty clever front , too, IMHO.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:09 | 5847460 LawsofPhysics
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my thoughts exaclty, much like having a "person of color" in the WH.  Fucking irrelevant.

 

Now put a nigga in charge of the money, then I will be impressed...

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:11 | 5847468 HonkyShogun
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Or sit a goy in the Federal Reserve Chair for that matter.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:37 | 5847553 Fun Facts
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Federal Reserve Chair = throne of satan

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:45 | 5847361 rlouis
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Most memorable image of the Bernank was the lip quiver and scared look in his eyes.  With Yellin, it's a stupid expression that looks like she loves being the center of attention - yes, she has a secret cookie recipe. 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:53 | 5847397 VelvetHog
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Come to the dark side. We have cookies. And puppies.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:47 | 5847365 Chupacabra-322
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"If The Fed’s strategy to stimulate the economy is so effective [by her account] then why has the economy not reached “escape velocity” after six years of turbo charged stimulation? And then, why does the current interest rate environment not reflect that improvement?

Simple:

It's one huge Global Ponzi Scheme based on Fiat Fraud, espionage enforced by violence.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:48 | 5847375 justmy2cents
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Fucking retards! Our economies are now fucked due to the CB's - no room left for manouver - YOU SHOULD OF TOOK THE PAIN IN 2007!!!

With the coming collapse even hookers are going to have to resort to mugging and cannibalism to survive...

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:35 | 5847544 nightshiftsucks
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So I shouldn't ask for a BJ ?

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:49 | 5847378 In.Sip.ient
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I'm sorry, ... Did anyone actually think that interest rates would go up???

 

I mean, come ON!  Every CB on the planet is pushing rates down and

You Think the FEDs will go in the other direction???

 

How???  The gov't policy of the last 30+ years has been

to protect the DOW30 companies at all cost.  THAT hasb't

changed, and y'all have been documenting how these clowns

have done everything from fleece grannies to Main St. , to

any available sacrficial lamb they can find.  THATS THE

ONLY POLICY THAT COUNTS... PERIOD!

 

Look at "official" US gov't reports that show oil consumption

well above oil production for the last year... while oil prices fall...

Thats whats called using the ever so successful strategy on oil

that was used on gold... right... naked shorts!  Only in the FEDs

world, oil IS gold, so they have just suckered the world into

believing the US$ should go up.

 

I'd call an apparent "strong US$" just another tactic to CYA

themselves.

 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:50 | 5847383 DutchBoy2015
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George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin warned about Jews and private central banks.

Jews will destroy the USA.  

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:53 | 5847398 djsmps
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Poor, poor little you

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:02 | 5847430 DutchBoy2015
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I pity people like you with one brain cell.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:05 | 5847438 DutchBoy2015
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Keep guzzling that KIKE KUM and see what it does to your brain cell. Thats why the Goyim United States is now a nation of retards who love getting buttfucked.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:50 | 5847386 ptoemmes
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Doesn't have anything to do with the economy. Who of the FED's pals would get "hurt" as in not being able to rape and pillage if they did increase rates?  Now you have the answer you seek.  But, yes I'll give you she is a coward. They all are.

 

 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 18:56 | 5847404 LawsofPhysics
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please, when you have a printer, you can be and buy whatever the fuck you want...

that's the fucking problem...

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:06 | 5847444 JuliaS
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See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

http://s24.postimg.org/coc2tbffp/yellen.jpg

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:08 | 5847452 Jstanley011
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I was thinking of a "c" word, but it wasn't "coward"...

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:08 | 5847454 Chuck Knoblauch
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Lunch lady Janet is fattening her lambs.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:16 | 5847482 DutchBoy2015
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Yellen is to Stanley Fischer  as  Obomber is to Netanyahu.

Difference between Obomber and Bush the Chimp is you can't see his strings move. 

Stanley Fischer a goddam KIKEROACH who isn't even American but a ZioNazi bastard in charge of the FED.

And the Goyim keep swallowing the Kool Aid.

 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:17 | 5847485 Bay Area Guy
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She can't raise rates in any meaningful way until the national debt is addressed. When you have $18 trillion and counting of nominal debt (with actual debt an order of magnitude higher), raising rates will bust the US budget even bustier than it is now. Since the deficit will never be addressed, the debt will surely never be addressed, so rates simply can't rise.....ever.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:02 | 5847666 Pareto
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+100  All ye know and all ye need to know.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:18 | 5847490 DutchBoy2015
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The USA is owned and controlled lock, stock and barrel by the Israelis and the Israeli lobby -- Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:20 | 5847498 orangegeek
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#FUCKYOUYELLEN

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:22 | 5847507 dag
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Militant lesbians, incompetent and stupid minorities, mediocre and birdbrain white women are the source that staff Obama's advisory pool.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:28 | 5847525 DutchBoy2015
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to be fair, thats the way its been for all USA presidents since JFK.  Total retards.  or evil NeoCons.

Tue, 03/03/2015 - 01:31 | 5848557 Northern Lights
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Welcome to the gynocracy that is America

 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:25 | 5847516 q99x2
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Arrest her. Send her to Somalia with the rest of the criminals.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:26 | 5847521 DutchBoy2015
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I need a new lampshade and a nice bar of soap.  

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:30 | 5847532 yogibear
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Just 0% until an economic liftoff and QE4, QE5.... QE20.

On life support until everyone realizes printing and devaluation.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:33 | 5847539 Fred Hayek
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Does the author of this article not know that the big banks ARE the Fed? They literally own the Fed. So, expecting the Fed to go off and do something that will kill them is like being one of the townspeople watching Cleavon Little take himself hostage in Blazing Saddles and worrying that he'll shoot himself.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:37 | 5847558 I Write Code
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This is not fair, she, as are we all, is trapped in a world she never made.  If she had any sense - or cowardice - she would never have taken the job.  She's standing on an icy flagpole in a howling wind.  Do we really want to say that if she were really brave she'd take a swan dive off?

And her current policy is NOT that of Bernanke in 2008, QE is off but meddling with securities is on, and she now has to deal with NIRP in Europe, not to mention oil and Ukraine and runaway llamas.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:38 | 5847564 DutchBoy2015
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Want to see a Jew run like a scared rabbit?

Ask them these 2  questions ''Why was there a Holocaust''?  and Why are Jews so hated throughout history?

Oh, and yes I am a proud anti-semite./  So What???

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:55 | 5847830 Niall Of The Ni...
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Why are the Jews hated? Simple. When the sheeple noticed they were being systematically cheated out of the fruits of their labour, as they occasionally did, the banksters needed someone whom they could blame it on, who wasn't in a position to fight back, and whose elimination would remove competition for genteel work in the professions from their own sons.

Why was there a Holocaust? The banksters made two mistakes:

1. They appointed to power in Germany an ignorant Austrian hick who actually took all the shit the banksters had made up about Jews running the world seriously.

2. They fell over themselves selling Hitler all the military toys he wanted, without a second thought for the fate of German Jews. Only when the Nazis marched into one financial capital (Paris) and a second was under continual German attack (London) did the banksters finally decide Hitler had to be stopped---and by then it was almost too late. 

In the end the Soviet Union had to save the banksters' skins, and even the Red Army couldn't manage to liberate Europe before most of eastern Europe's Jews had been murdered.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:42 | 5847583 Eyeroller
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The Ponzi Munchkin has only one objective.  Keep the house of cards intact until The One is out of office.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:45 | 5847596 DutchBoy2015
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It doesn't matter. AIPAC and the ZioNazis that control US media and even the voting machines will make sure the 2 candidates running next time are ALL pro Israel.  You can take that to ANY bank.

US President are ALL puppets and if they get out of line they get the JFK treatment.

Too bad most Americans STILL haven't figured it out.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:44 | 5847589 Clesthenes
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“Janet Yellen is a coward.”

She’s a woman… what else should we expect?

To properly serve in a position of responsibility requires a type of warrior mentality combined with a strong dedication to reason and justice.  Generally, men are warriors; women are not.

But there’s more, to serve as head of the Federal Reserve requires a person of dim wit; for, with just a little intelligence, it’s easy to see that the FR is an engine of destruction; and, no honest person would sit in such a position.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:47 | 5847611 DutchBoy2015
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Thats why its always  a Zionist Jew that heads the FED.

Psychopathic liars, thieves and Amoral assholes.   Its in their DNA. 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 21:07 | 5847863 Wahooo
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Not always but recently.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:12 | 5847706 devo
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Two crazy mofos right here. ZH, how do you not ban these asswipes?

Tue, 03/03/2015 - 17:13 | 5851321 Clesthenes
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Who knows?  Probably because courtesy, reason and justice are the instruments by which men build a civilized society; insults, lies, plunder and, ultimately, genocide are instruments by which demonically deranged destroy societies.

 

“devo” tell your handlers at Mossad they need to send someone with a reasonable amount of brains against me.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:55 | 5847641 European American
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Coward? Maybe to those who think she is, but to the masses she's the quaint librarian grandmother who couldn't hurt a flea. Underneath the Lambs coat is a savy, ruthless, conniving, vile vampiress whore who follows her Zionist script, and plays her role as well as Meryl Streep in "In the Woods".

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 19:57 | 5847647 Fedamentals
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It will put the lotion on....

It will do as it's told.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:10 | 5847698 maneco
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A 25 basis point hike in the target for the Fed Funds rate would signal a new trend (up) in interest rates and that is what Chairman Yellen & Co. are so scared of. A 25 basis point might seem an insignificant move numerically but it would be comparable to someone screaming "FIRE" in a fully occupied movie theater. The Fed and all the other major central banks are trapped.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:11 | 5847701 devo
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All the dudes who invested in bunkers and gold better hope she keeps printing.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:12 | 5847707 Madcow
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Yellen is a genius.  The Fed has successfully gotten its clients out of danger and tricked ordinary people into believing in the future.  Now that the public is left holding the bag, she can let the makets collapse - and then once the collapse is collapse-y enough, she'll get to come back in with the next "QE" 

Yes, it is diabolical and unfair and will further destroy what's left of the middle class - but from Gov-Co's perspective, its a win win win win win. 

Well played, Janet !

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:25 | 5847744 robnume
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VelvetHog, I'll come to that party, but you've gotta throw in some cats, too. I am a catwoman.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 23:26 | 5847813 kareninca
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No, she is stupid.

I have found out through a friend who knows her brother well, that her brother is as dumb as dirt, despite having a prestigious academic position.

She really is a self-pleased moron who is enjoying the attention; she may not even know that she is a puppet whose role is to save the banks by destroying the American middle class.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 20:51 | 5847824 SilverFish
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Her stupid fucking hairdoo and her misshapen bowling ball head were enough to make me hate her, even without digging any deeper into her transgressions against humanity.

 

 

That other stuff is just icing on the cake for me.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 23:48 | 5848243 dexter_morgan
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Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me, "I've nothing to do"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg1di8sGxWc

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Bob_Keeshan_Captain_K...

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 21:14 | 5847878 db51
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Is it just me, or does Janet Yellen have some sort of Hot Librarian look going on in this article?   For a second there, I think I was starting to get some serious wood.   That's a disturbing thought.   Excuse me..I think I just threw up in my mouth.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 21:43 | 5847966 Reaper
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Yellin manifests the stupidity of credentials to anoint leaders. Her credentials are a worthless degree, a grandmotherly look, a woman, a banker's hack, member of the chosen, and a promise to follow the mistakes of her predecessors.

Lord Acton: "The greatest heresy is that the office sanctifies the holder thereof."

The greatest stupidities of the sheeple are trust in government, bankers, judges and their ilk.

Yellen is the manifestation of the fatal error of trust in government.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 23:44 | 5848269 Reaper
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yes, when you grow up your new mommy is the government.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 21:49 | 5847989 mendolover
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Memo to globalist scum - if you think what you are doing won't affect your friends and family you're in for a big surprise.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 21:52 | 5848002 Al Tinfoil
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On the other hand, maybe Janet is like Obama, Samantha Powers, Jen Psaki, or Mary Jo White - maybe they are just figureheads put in front of the crowd to spout platitudes and keep the unruly from getting too vocal or rambunctious.  Maybe the worst crime of each is that of being an actor with a bad role in a bad script.

I have to wonder, also, whether the appearance of women in leading roles in the Fed, IMF, SEC, or as Prime Minister of Australia is a recognition of the worth of women in leading roles or a set-up by the old boys' club to put a woman in to take the fall when the situation is SHTF.

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 22:46 | 5848119 hooligan2009
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yellen is not a coward...she is a woman...and no different from the women who have run the Fed since Volcker..

women try to heal and suffer the events they are faced with...they do not seek to change the status quo..just make it more palatable...

men change the fabric of society..its in their dna...

these days, to even suggest that the meek WON'T inherit the earth and that men have a place to force right from wrong is the worst kind of political incorrectness

because after all...most men act like women

just saying

:)

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 22:50 | 5848136 kelley805
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Coward is right.  But she inherited Bernacke's mess.  So she, rather than Ben, will get blamed.

 

 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 23:16 | 5848199 Seal
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We've had two very cowardly Presidents - make that presidents

a draft dodger, torturer and compulsive liar

and a chickenhawk "I don't want to end up like Martin" 

Mon, 03/02/2015 - 23:28 | 5848222 dexter_morgan
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So what did the blind man say when he passed the fishmarket?

Mornin' Ms Yellen, top o the mornin to ya

Tue, 03/03/2015 - 01:29 | 5848552 Northern Lights
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Janet Yellin is a cunt..........there, I fixed it for you.

 

Tue, 03/03/2015 - 02:36 | 5848654 knowshitsurelock
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You put a carpet-muncher in charge?  What do you expect?

Tue, 03/03/2015 - 04:51 | 5848790 basho
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witless nitwit

Tue, 03/03/2015 - 07:08 | 5848903 Jack Daniels Esq
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Yellen is a bigger cunt that Clinton

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