"The Federal Reserve was set up by bankers for bankers, and it has served them well.
ut of the blue, it came up with $12.3 trillion in nearly interest-free cr
edit to bail the banks out of a credit crunch they created. That same credit
crisis has plunged state and local governments into insolvency, but the Fed has now delivered its ultimatum: there will be no “quantitative easing” for municipal governments." - Ellen Brown.
On January 7, according to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that the Fed had ruled out a central bank bailout of state and local governments. "We have no expectation or intention to get involved in state and local finance," he said in testimony before the Senate Budget Committee. The states "should not expect loans from the Fed."
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