GOP leaders pressure Fed to avoid further stimulus efforts - The Hill's On The Money

The letter, signed by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), represents one of the strongest political challenges to the Fed in recent memory, and strong proof of the central role the Fed has now taken in the nation's economy.

GOP leaders pressure Fed to avoid further stimulus efforts - The Hill's On The Money

Gary North on "QE2"

Two Gary North quotes in one night...not bad:

Bernanke can get away with QE2 today only because commercial banks are not lending. If they start lending, M1 will rise, the M1 money multiplier will rise, and price inflation will return.

He has bought time with QE2, but he has not bought a way out of the credit bubble that Greenspan created and he created.

He can play hide and go seek with Ron Paul, refusing to show up at the hearings of the Monetary Policy Subcommittee. Congress cooperates. But he cannot play hide and go seek with the business cycle. Greenspan did, but he got out in 2006. He passed on the Old Maid to Bernanke.

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