Ben Bernanke

QE3 to Infinity and Beyond…

September 15, 2012
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Wow. Helicopter Ben has done it again, unleashing another round of “quantitative easing” (e.g. “money-printing”) onto our economy, promising to drop $40 billion each and every month into the purchase of mortgage-backed securities, and promising to stop dropping said $40 billion…well, never. That’s right, he’s promised to continue spending $40 billion each month indefinitely, until employment [...]

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Presenting the KFF Secret Decoder Ring…

June 20, 2012
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I used to love playing with secret decoder rings when I was a kid. They would come in cereal boxes and I fancied myself quite the spy, able to decipher all kinds of “secret messages” that my friends and I would make up and pass around to each other. Well, like most seemingly useless things [...]

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It’s QnA Friday…No Worka ’til Monday…

October 21, 2011
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It’s been a crazy week this week! I have a quick comfort zone story for you and then I’ll dive right into some great questions I’ve gotten via email or on the blog– I appreciate all of your questions and will answer as many as I can each Friday! Getting Out of My Comfort Zone…YIKES [...]

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The Book That Changed My Life

October 13, 2011
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More Mystery and Intrigue…Just What the Heck IS the “Fed”, Anyway? So I’m declaring today to be “Conspiracy Theory Thursday” and we’re going to talk about one of the biggest, juiciest conspiracy theories out there— the Federal Reserve. Just what the heck IS the Federal Reserve, anyway? Well, let’s start with what it isn’t: It’s not [...]

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