Is This 1937 or 2011 Deja Vu Part II

With QE2 ending at the end of June, the Treasury Department will be forced to go back to global markets in order to sell Treasury Bonds.

Interest rates are sure to rise, dealing a severe blow to the already fragile recovery.

Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke’s Qualitative Easing plan has failed to stimulate economic growth, but has done a masterful job of encouraging inflation and a weakening dollar.

Armed with a printing press, and some  obsolete economic theories, he  is fated to  become a Quixotic figure  in World history.

A printing press should be used for printing books, instruction manuals and even Bibles, but not to stimulate free enterprise economic growth and investments.

The insidious  inflation is having the result of disrupting economic growth, rather than encouraging it.

How can an entreprenure invest in a new enterprise when inflation makes price stability questionable.

This coupled with increasingly stringent government regulations and the onset of Obamacare have done a masterful job of strangling the economy.

According to a recently released report, the combined public and private sectors of our economy spend upwards of a $2 billion just on interest on all our debt.

The borrowed money which this interest services, has been spent on consumption rather than capital investment.

This is leaving nothing available for real growth or new creations.

QE2 has done nothing but service our debt and given a momentary artifical bounce in an otherwise floundering economy.

The current and proposed future taxes which are being piled upon the “wealthy” (ie the entreprenure) is making the  economic recovery  increasingly reminiscent of a black hole.

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