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Jim Grant Warns: Cost Of "The Unmasking Of The [Fed-Driven] Mis-Allocation Of Capital" Is Dire

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"The Fed is 'ever-interested' in doing something later," Jim Grant notes, explaining why he believes the timetable for rate hikes will be pushed back further as fear of allowing a free market in the "most critical" of prices - that of interest rates - would lead to the "unmasking of the misallocations of capital that will have come about through the levitation of asset prices." Grant further unleashes his verbal attack of truthiness when he points out that the central bank's persistent easy money policies is on display currently in the form of stifling American enterprise and sending millions of people from the workforce "more or less permanently."

 

Jim Grant 'unedited'...  

"If companies can't fail that means somebody else can't start. You're looking at a petrified forest rather than dynamic capitalism,"

 

Behold "The fruit of heavy-handed government manipulation... no matter what 'famous-blogger' Ben Bernanke says"

 

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Tue, 04/07/2015 - 13:50 | 5967210 TeamDepends
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Actually, the stifling of American enterprise is exactly what these commies want.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 13:54 | 5967218 Latina Lover
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Exactly.  The Banksters want it all. They are slowing robbing the 99.9% of everthing via endless printing of fiat money, used to buy assets exchanged for depreciating pieces of Fed Reserve Note Debt.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:30 | 5967377 JRobby
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"these commies"

You know when "our leaders" warned us about "the communist threat" all those years ago they were just pissed off (as only one sociopath can hate another) that they had jumped in front of them in line. They had us on the "100 year plan" which they thought was so sly.

The Internal revenue Act and Federal Reserve act were just a couple of years old and bang! A totalitarian USSR state begins!

Meanwhile, here in the USSA...............

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 16:45 | 5967902 chilli sauce
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I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... http://goo.gl/9YqZBb

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 13:50 | 5967212 Latina Lover
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We live in a Bankster run state

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:03 | 5967253 Peter Pan
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You actually live in a western version of North Korea

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:08 | 5967271 Bastiat
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There's alot more food and stuff in this version . . . for now.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:13 | 5967307 Peter Pan
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Thanks to food stamps.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:21 | 5967340 eatthebanksters
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When people can only find jobs at the huge corporations then the oligarchs and the government wins.  No competition, poor quality, high prices will be the result and massive unemployment.  Fucj this shit...these guys want to take us where the former USSR was and that turned out to be a shit show for decades (still is).

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 15:37 | 5967613 Joe Sichs Pach
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"Thanks to food stamps."

Mm mm, sounds delicious!

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 16:52 | 5967946 Hyjinx
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aka Banksta' Paradise

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 13:52 | 5967216 forexskin
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god bless his earnestness - just wish he'd point his finger at the obvious EVIL.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 13:53 | 5967219 DavidC
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Jim Grant rocks.

DavidC

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 02:16 | 5969743 turnoffthewater
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He sure does. Can't wait to read on bersnake's blog Jim G posts'.

 

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 13:54 | 5967222 Hohum
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Is it just me or does Jim Grant look like Bill Nye's older brother?

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 13:58 | 5967237 Amish Hacker
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Great. We've been lying for so long that a single dose of truth would prove fatal. Maybe that's why the plan is just to keep lying.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:32 | 5967395 JRobby
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Clearly

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:01 | 5967244 indygo55
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Jim Grant for FED Chairman. In a new NEW world order

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:08 | 5967284 Peter Pan
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I don't want a NWO. I want a world made up of many worlds where people are constantly experimenting, exchanging ideas  and reflecting.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:16 | 5967317 Dr. Richard Head
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Don't be such an idealist.  Don't you know that a command and control "managed" economy works best...for those in control.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:39 | 5967418 Sages wife
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Give him a break Doc; he's from Never-never land.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 17:13 | 5968035 RaceToTheBottom
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Excel Spreadsheet for the FED!

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:03 | 5967251 Itchy and Scratchy
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Very well spoken and clear thinking individual!

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:06 | 5967264 Peter Pan
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Jim is like the Sunday sermon. Everyone nods their head in quiet agreement but once they leave the church they go back to what they were doing.

Good men are rarely listened to until it's too late.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:12 | 5967297 Itchy and Scratchy
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True! Except when the Kenyan went to Church!

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:52 | 5967465 JRobby
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"once they leave the church they go back to what they were doing."

 Running down the slow moving on walkers and canes in the parking lot because they want a "good seat" at Easter brunch and can't bring themselves to packing a flask of vodka for the trip. No, these are upstanding citizens in the "community"

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 15:09 | 5967520 Itchy and Scratchy
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Where do the special people like you go?

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:07 | 5967267 Dr. Richard Head
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Price controls = communism.  It's as simple as that.  

 

Mr. Yellen!!!!  Tear down this printer!!!

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:54 | 5967473 TabakLover
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Price controls are ........... Nixonian

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 15:03 | 5967504 Dr. Richard Head
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Potato, pohtahtoh...

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:11 | 5967290 new game
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handfull of truth tellers. grant, roberts, paul, hughs come to mind. voices lost in the roar of bullshit created by the ptb. need some real pain & blood in the streets first b/4 change can come about.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:13 | 5967305 Itchy and Scratchy
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The truth shall set you free!

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:13 | 5967306 FranSix
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Interest rates are notional, and a function of price, not a price. For now rates are held ABOVE zero because of the flooding of secondary markets in three month treasuries, not held down.

Negative rates are pretty much inevitable, since they are being aggressively priced in as a consequence of competitive currency devaluation. All that's needed is a little jawboning that suggests negative rates are in the cards, and traders will push rates into the negative.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:26 | 5967359 keremetski
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Unmasked Naked Capitalism is ugly picture. It will hurt your eyes and mental health.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:26 | 5967360 keremetski
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Unmasked Naked Capitalism is ugly picture. It will hurt your eyes and mental health.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:39 | 5967401 Itchy and Scratchy
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Thinking like a alternate universe socialist warps & distorts all sensibilities.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:30 | 5967387 geno-econ
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" More or less permanently "   Typical Economist talk.   Less permanent is not permanent. it is temporary.  More permanent is akin to never getting a job again..  So which is it ?  Not that it matters, because we know what the Fed will do " more or less "

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:55 | 5967476 JRobby
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QE IV followed by QE to the moon until a "Japan like state" is achieved.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 15:25 | 5967390 Itchy and Scratchy
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The ultimate problem therewithin are  those very irrational & delusional processes that have been 'engineered' & set into action are 'badges of honor' & sources of intense pride for the socialists & marxists! They believe them to be the critical solutions to their needs & aspirations! A well-equipt police state ensures 'compliance & cooperation.'

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:42 | 5967431 docinthehouse
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This fine man is TOO SMART !!!  Free markets??????  What?????

B.O. and  his legions of demons want precisely to fuck with freedom.....

He is a slave trader by lineage.  He consistently wants to enslave people...not enable them.

The arrogance and hummus they possess is mind-boggling.  (OK,,it is hubris, but i hate that word)

AND WE LET IT CONTINUE.

we deserve what we tolerate.

and we will eat shit until all public pensions are retracted...taken back....and everyone goes into the same social security pool.

and every single one of the 'public slavers" that have permitted ANY...EVEN ONE CENT ....OF PUBLIC DEBT TO OCCUR  ARE IMPRISONED

Until the debt is paid off.

They have ALL eaten cake and all deserve to be punished for the reckless abandon.

And then we elect a bunch of public "servants" with fiduciary responsibility.  

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:44 | 5967435 BoPeople
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If the government gives free money to the poor ...
If the banks create free money for the government ...
If the banks create free money for large corporations ...
If the banks create free money for hedge funds ...
If the hedge funds and large corporations pump up stocks with free money ...

Then who really needs to work and save?

Only the middle class.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:48 | 5967450 EenuschOne
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Three CNBC muppets sit back and pick their noses while wiseman Jim Grant speaks truth.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:49 | 5967453 Itchy and Scratchy
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Only 'cause he ain't Uncle Warren!

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:57 | 5967487 JRobby
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Well yes, but they have to endure the make up people rushing in during the break to touch up the semi-circle scars on their foreheads before they go "back on camera"

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 17:28 | 5968094 capndiesalot
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Wait a minute, 2 out of 3 CNBC "muppets" agreed with his assessment...I don't know about you, but those two are the only ones worth watching.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 17:28 | 5968096 capndiesalot
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Wait a minute, 2 out of 3 CNBC "muppets" agreed with his assessment...I don't know about you, but those two are the only ones worth watching.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:57 | 5967483 Herdee
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If you look at the way that the Fed runs the economy by Central Planning and the Federal Government the way they're spying on people and locking up more Americans than China and Russia combined,there's no difference between the way communism ran things in Russia and the way that the Government today runs the United States.Just different wording to describe it.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 14:59 | 5967496 Itchy and Scratchy
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At least the commies were honest about what they were inflicting on the masses!

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 16:06 | 5967718 daveO
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Honesty just doesn't work when you're attempting to create a reduced standard of living for the average citizen

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 16:06 | 5967719 kchrisc
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The guillotines await.

The banksters need to repay us.

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 16:09 | 5967736 Flying Wombat
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A Three-Sigma Bond Market Black Swan Warning To Stocks 

TND Guest Contributor:  Dave Kranzler |

Gary Christenson has published an incredible statistical analysis of the 30-yr U.S. Bond market.   The long bond hit 165 on March 25, marking an all-time high.  More interestingly, it closed up nearly 12% from February’s month-end close.   This was a 3.61 standard deviation change (i.e. a 3.6 sigma event) in terms of the average monthly rate of change over a data series that goes back to 1977 (In 1977 the 30yr bond became part of the Treasuries quarterly refunding operations).

To continue reading click here: http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=463820

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 17:15 | 5968046 RaceToTheBottom
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But this time, its different...

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 16:32 | 5967836 Seal
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capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell. 

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 19:44 | 5968591 CitizenPete
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Interest rate discovery?
Price discovery?
Free markets?
Potatoes?

Whats those Master?

Tue, 04/07/2015 - 23:56 | 5969590 thecrud
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The way to get people working is to give them a job when they ask for one.

Not a shit load of paper work interviews and trips to health care workers.

Allow people to once again walk up to a job site and say do you need help.

I will never want a job bad enough to give a resume to wash dishes I rather go hungry.

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 19:04 | 5973217 rbblum
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Kinda funny how man wants to intervene with universal life . . . believing that man is wiser and more powerful than the natural laws . . . always damning what can not be explained or controlled.

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