Since the Fed can create unlimited money, why not pay off every mortgage in the land? That’s only $9.7 trillion, and if the Fed wanted to unleash an orgy of spending, that would certainly do it. Trillions in losses would be filled with “free money,” since the Fed would pay the full value of all […]

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Editor’s Comment: Two candidates faced off on domestic issues last night and neither one of them mentioned the artificiality of our economy based on reported profits and assets that are fictitious and leaving out real liabilities that are in the trillions. They also both left out the taxation of the tens of millions of “securitization” […]

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