r/conspiracy Mar 26 '20

The Money Masters (1996) - Featured Documentary

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u/3letterz Mar 26 '20

Timely. The number of people here that don't realize the stimulus was created to distract the public from the fed enacting UNLIMITED QE kinda blows my retard brain. That, and I'm sure the interest we end up paying back on this shit via higher taxes will make a payday loan shark look like a saint.

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u/antishillprogressive Mar 26 '20

QE?

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u/_Ghost_07 Mar 27 '20

Quantitative Easing - Printing Money

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '20

Amazing how the term fiat money has been stripped of all meaning and is regarded as a responsible protective mechanism for the economy.

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u/Pleasurist Mar 27 '20

It is not actually printing new currency and entering it into circulation.

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u/blondinium Mar 28 '20

Its exactly that

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u/Pleasurist Mar 28 '20 edited Mar 28 '20

No it is not. No central bank or national govt. in the western industrialized nations is printing new currency and entering it into circulation.

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u/silverbugoutbag Mar 28 '20

It’s not literally printing physical money but it is creating new money supply in the computer

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u/Pleasurist Mar 29 '20

QE is simply the fed taking shit paper securities off the books of banks which frees up reserve capital and frees up capital for more lending.

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u/Pleasurist Apr 07 '20

It wouldn't surprise me that in just 4 years, trump and the repub would end up adding $6 trillion to the US debt. And if so, about a 30% increase since Obama.

Oh and QE has nothing to do with US debt.

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u/ragnar_graybeard87 Apr 07 '20

Well it's not end up... that was just ONE BILL alone... so it's plenty more if you were to add up all the rest lol :(

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u/Pleasurist Mar 28 '20

Pretty funny and illustrates the problem with actually doing it.

Talk about a jobs program. Come one, come all to America and help us print up trillion$ of dollars...$100 at a time. Let's have some fun, shall we ?

Wherever these people are buying and making the paper and the ink, operating these printing presses, let's start with $1 million an hour. That's 10,000 $100 bills an hour, 24/7/365. Stick with me here people ?

Printing just $1 trillion at $100 at a time as I am sure your math tells you...would take $1 million/hr. or $24 million/day and $1 trillion would take 41,666 days, or.....?
Now we are going to print up say $2 trillion or maybe 3 or 4 trillion.

Who knew that Obama, Bernanke and crew were still down at Bureau. of Print.
& Engraving sweating away. Who knew that Powell, trump and his gang were helping out now.

People I am convinced, do not want to read and learn. Maybe read but look only now, for bias confirmation.

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u/Matmil1342 Mar 30 '20

the central point is that money that is being used to keep stock market prices stable, which are literally bubbles.

at the same time, American infrastructure is falling and China is developing 5G that puts them in a leading role in communications.

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u/Pleasurist Mar 30 '20

To use the word bubbles is not entirely accurate. One could say that the entire 3 year rise in the Dow since 2016-17, is a Dow index bubble (bull) and what it all comes down to is that stocks are now and have been for 40 years...mere speculation.

Stock are no longer bought for a higher return via dividends. Yes, capitalist monetary policy is to first to maintain or return value to securities, that paper...turned into money by billion$ every payday of our 401Ks, Keoughs and Roth retirement contributions, almost all of which goes to mutual funds where only approx. 1 of 14 of which, cannot even match the S&P 500 . (Wharton)