Build a fort, pay for soup, set that on fire
As we noted in 2008, the problem was never liquidity. The problem is that the big banks became insolvent because of stupid gambling.
In other words, the government’s whole approach to the 2008 financial crisis was entirely wrong. And the easy money policy (quantitative easing) of central banks doesn’t help, but instead hurts the economy and the little guy. […]
“The IIF said the US Dow Jones Industrial Average’s had hit an all-time high this week more because of relaxed international monetary conditions than thanks to any recovery in the real economy.”
