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Here Comes Quantitative Tightening

- Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital

With Bitcoin and its other virtual (unreal) , crypto (secret and unverifiable) currency competitors, why do we even have to worry about the Federal Reserve's "control of the money supply". Bitcoin can apparently expand and shrink a market supply monetary value according to speculative market demand. Also, as seen in the runup to the Great Recession, traditional market derivatives and Eurodollar lending can multiply money regardless of what the Fed does to increase or decrease a "benchmark" interest rate.
Bernard von Nothaus in 2007 was charged with Federal crimes, and his silver assets seized, for introducing a silver coin to compete with U.S. legal tender dollars (although the legal issues were more complicated than that).
Now, even unregulated virtual currencies "mined" by any number of individuals, can compete with Federal Reserve dollars and accepted indiscriminately in commerce as real money. This in itself increases the amount of total "money" in circulation, Maybe this is what the Fed is really counting on, as there no way they can reduce debt and raise rates without creating havoc for the Federal debt, and the credit-based world economy. Does it really matter any more whether wealth and prosperity is Real? Yet one more bubble to keep the fantasy alive!

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Beginning of the headline :All of a sudden the Fed got a little tougher. Perhaps the success of the hit movie Wonder Woman has inspired Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen to discard her prior timidity to show us how much monetary muscle she can flex when the time comes for action. Although the Fed's decision this week to raise interest rates by 25 basis points was widely expected, the surprise came in how the medicine was administered. Most observers had expected a “dovish” hike in which a slight tightening would be accompan... Read More

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