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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Central Banks: The True Centers of Political Power

Mises Daily:Thursday, November 07, 2013 by Thorsten Polleit
Mises Institute: C entral banks keep increasing the money supply, and yet it looks like there’s still confidence in those fiat currencies.
Thorsten Polleit: Indeed. Policymakers obviously succeeded in taking panic out of the markets and, at the same time, creating the impression that their actions would“rescue” the economies without causing inflation. Their propaganda turns out to be rather successful.
MI:  The strategy that the central banks have been using in recent years appears to be working so far.
Polleit: It clearly shows how far central banks’ manipulations can go to uphold the fiat money regime, which is actually a “monetary Ponzi game.” However, one should be aware of the fact that without severe market manipulations such as the suppressing of interest rates to basically zero, and the printing of new money for propping up ailing banks and governments, the fiat money system would presumably have collapsed already.....ToRead More....

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