{"id":9098,"date":"2011-03-31T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2011-03-31T18:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:05:29","slug":"so-much-for-the-federal-reserve-creating-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9098\/so-much-for-the-federal-reserve-creating-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much for the Federal Reserve Creating Stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/42362299\" target=\"_blank\"><em>CNBC\u2019s Fast Money<\/em><\/a> quotes an investment strategist who says that when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives his first press conference on April 27, his remarks \u201ccould induce a 10 to 15 percent correction\u201d in the market.\u00a0 Here, \u201ccorrection\u201d means \u201cdrop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reason the market might drop one-tenth of its value in a matter of hours is due to some analysts\u2019 fear that Bernanke will not continue printing money (i.e. quantitative easing) to inflate the value of assets.\u00a0 When values return to more realistic levels, investors are likely to stop banking on government-distorted policies to bail them out.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the Fed is to tinker with the money supply and interest rates to stabilize the economy.\u00a0 So far, the only stability it\u2019s guaranteeing is as fake as a free lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC\u2019s Fast Money quotes an investment strategist who says that when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives his first press conference on April 27, his remarks \u201ccould induce a 10 to 15 percent correction\u201d in the market.\u00a0 Here, \u201ccorrection\u201d means \u201cdrop.\u201d The reason the market might drop one-tenth of its value in a matter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2541,581,2539,19,2540,544,2077,2542,1221,2046,292],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bail-out","tag-ben-bernanke","tag-cnbc","tag-economy","tag-fast-money","tag-federal-reserve","tag-fiscal-policy","tag-government-intervention","tag-monetary-policy","tag-quantitative-easing","tag-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9100,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}