– Santelli And Schiff On Bernanke’s “Roach Motel Of Monetary Policy” (ZeroHedge, Dec 17, 2012):
From the government-induced structural unemployment malaise to the implosion of our entire ‘artificial economy’, Peter Schiff and Rick Santelli explore the dark side of monetary policy in this brief clip. On the Fed’s new policy and potential exit strategy, Schiff notes that “the Fed is constructing goalposts so it never actually hits them; the Fed is never going to tighten.” While Santelli tends to agree with Schiff on the eventual collapse of the USD under this never-ending Fed easing scenario, he notes that getting a fix on that USD weakness is hard given everyone is racing to debase. Schiff notes, oil prices, gold prices, food inflation, and real assets all send the signal that Bernanke chooses to ignore and on the topic of ‘monetization’ which Bernanke seemed so ‘put off’ by during the press conference last week, Sch-antelli both seemingly (obviously) conclude that the mere mention of an exit at some point in the future by the great and powerful Oz does not preclude the fact that 90% of current Treasury issuance ends up on the Fed’s books… leaving the fact that selling any of this “would make 2008 look like a Sunday picnic.”