The "mutinying" half of the Fed - that which the FOMC minutes indicated wanted an end to QE by the end of 2013 - is not going to take Bernanke's Wednesday steamrolling lying down. Enter Charles Plosser, who becomes a voting member next year:
- PLOSSER SAYS FED SHOULD HALT QE BY END OF THIS YEAR
Good luck there. But here is the punchline:
- PLOSSER SAYS 'WE DONT WANT TO CREATE ANOTHER HOUSING BOOM'
Finally, someone from the Fed admits it was Greenspan's and Bernanke's ruinous cheap money policies that created the last housing bubble. As for preventing another housing "boom" or bubble as it is popularly known, we have two words: too late.