- Read the full interview at King World News, here:
TRACKING THE AUTHOR OF "CURRENCY WARS" AND GOLD VIGILANTE JIM RICKARDS - AN UNOFFICIAL TRACKING OF HIS INVESTMENT COMMENTARY
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Who Will Bail Out the Fed & How High for Gold?
The United States now has a system in which the Treasury runs huge deficits and sells bonds to keep from going broke. The Fed prints money to buy those bonds and loses money owning them. Then the Treasury takes IOUs back from the Fed to keep the Fed from going broke. This arrangement resembles two drunks leaning on each other so neither one falls down. Today, with its 50-to-1 leverage and investment in volatile securities, the Fed looks more like a poorly run hedge fund than a central bank...