I think we're so addicted to bubble finance at the Fed that they can't get out of the corner they painted themselves into. I think the Fed is making federal debt so cheap that Congress has no interest, Washington has no incentive to ever face up to our massive fiscal gap that is going to grow, and grow as we go forward in time and so we have a paralyzed system.
Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can… - David Stockman
Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can…
- David Stockman
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. - David Stockman
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves. - David Stockman
The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.
The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An asset value goes up. You… - David Stockman
The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An asset value goes up. You…
The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party. - David Stockman
The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.
One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chick… - David Stockman
One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chick…
We need a wealth tax that on a one-time basis is going to take back at least some small fraction of the great windfall that the upper 1 percent, or 5… - David Stockman
We need a wealth tax that on a one-time basis is going to take back at least some small fraction of the great windfall that the upper 1 percent, or 5…
The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians a… - David Stockman
The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians a…
Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world. - David Stockman
Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
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