Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Repents for His Fed Love
Courtesy of Jr. Deputy Accountant
Yesterday the Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard poured out his guilty heart and soul begging for forgiveness for endorsing the Fed’s unique QE measures of late. He very clearly denounces the monetary crackheads at 20th and Constitution and calls out Bernanke for what he is: an old school psychopath in a new school world.
I apologise to readers around the world for having defended the emergency stimulus policies of the US Federal Reserve, and for arguing like an imbecile naif that the Fed would not succumb to drug addiction, political abuse, and mad intoxicated debauchery, once it began taking its first shots of quantitative easing.
My pathetic assumption was that Ben Bernanke would deploy further QE only to stave off DEFLATION, not to create INFLATION. If the Federal Open Market Committee cannot see the difference, God help America.
We now learn from last week’s minutes that the Fed is willing “to provide additional accommodation if needed to … return inflation, over time, to levels consistent with its mandate.”
NO, NO, NO, this cannot possibly be true.
Ben Bernanke has not only refused to abandon his idee fixe of an “inflation target”, a key cause of the global central banking catastrophe of the last twenty years (because it can and did allow asset booms to run amok, and let credit levels reach dangerous extremes).
Worse still, he seems determined to print trillions of emergency stimulus without commensurate emergency justification to test his Princeton theories, which by the way are as old as the hills. Keynes ridiculed the “tyranny of the general price level” in the early 1930s, and quite rightly so. Bernanke is reviving a doctrine that was already shown to be bunk eighty years ago.
So all those hillsmen in Idaho, with their Colt 45s and boxes of krugerrands, who sent furious emails to the Telegraph accusing me of defending a hyperinflating establishment cabal were right all along. The Fed is indeed out of control.
Good, he should apologize for that sort of disrespectful display. Didn’t we all know he was wrong all along? Didn’t we all know that the Fed never had a plan to get out? Even if they have a plan we all know they’re unlikely to use it until it’s far too late but that point is moot since there is not a plan and will not be one.
An apology from Evans-Pritchard would be great except for the fact that his squealing isn’t limited to the Fed. How about this jerk off over ECB QE initiatives from March of 2009?
Apology accepted but I expect the dude to grab the tissues and come wipe this mess up.
