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made money ben bernanke you mean money everybody made money all the people that are sent to rescue us they actually plunder from us so the fact is over and over again the guys that were supposed to rescue us actually are allowing us to drown and you see that in the velocity of money chart it's not velocity hating. the saving that's why no money is circulating in haiti not everybody who need it well is it stolen and it's put in a bank account so that is what happened in america happens all over...
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made money ben bernanke you mean money everybody made money all the people that are sent to rescue us they actually plunder from us so the fact is over and over again the guys that were supposed to rescue us actually allow us to drown and you see that in the velocity of money chart it's not velocity hating is saying that's why no money is circulating in haiti not everybody who need it well is it stolen and it's put in a bank account so that is as happened in america happens all over the world haiti is just a case study of a bigger global picture that's why we have plan b. which is big point and people are actually eating their own economy and financial system outside the crux why participate in this kleptocratic system right out of state a break when we come back much more coming your way. understand that a cost of doing business is buying and building support in washington d.c. and that includes staffing up with former members of congress put them on your payroll you want to hire a chief of staff from a powerful senator or a committee. member get their chief of staff put them on your
made money ben bernanke you mean money everybody made money all the people that are sent to rescue us they actually plunder from us so the fact is over and over again the guys that were supposed to rescue us actually allow us to drown and you see that in the velocity of money chart it's not velocity hating is saying that's why no money is circulating in haiti not everybody who need it well is it stolen and it's put in a bank account so that is as happened in america happens all over the world...
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made money ben bernanke you mean money everybody made money all the people that are sent to rescue us they actually plunder from us so the fact is over and over again the guys that were supposed to rescue us actually allow us to drown and you see that in the velocity of money charge it's not velocity hating. the saving that's why no money is circulating in haiti enough everybody who need it well is it stolen and it's put in a bank account so that is what happened in america happens all over the world haiti is just a case study of a bigger global picture that's why we have plan b. which is big and people are actually eating their own economy and financial system outside the crux why participate in this kleptocratic system right out of state a break when we come back much more coming your way. to the kid same compensate the boy tonight by the. people. who are going to. get. me home. on the which i did. good showed up to move this because of i'm listening to. show. them we must. consider. welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time i have to get to chris martin said of pig prosper
made money ben bernanke you mean money everybody made money all the people that are sent to rescue us they actually plunder from us so the fact is over and over again the guys that were supposed to rescue us actually allow us to drown and you see that in the velocity of money charge it's not velocity hating. the saving that's why no money is circulating in haiti enough everybody who need it well is it stolen and it's put in a bank account so that is what happened in america happens all over the...
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he spoke on her new show "wall street week." >> ben bernanke gave a speech that i think was a kind ofast hurrah for the central bankers. he argued monetary policy will be able to do it next time. i think that is pretty unlikely in recessions we usually cut interest rates by five percentage points and interest rates today are below 2%. i don't believe that quantitative easing and that stuff is worth anything like another three percentage points. vonnie: you can catch larry summers and roger ferguson and others on bloomberg tv and bloomberg radio. every fridayeek, at six clock p.m. new york time. this is blue -- 6:00 p.m. new york time. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: time for your bloombergquint take. the fda took steps at curbing underage vaping. they banned flavors blamed for getting millions of young people hooked on e-cigarettes. one fourth of american high school seniors say they indulge. now a debate about how marketing is attracting billions of non-smokers to hook a new generation. there have been 55 deaths animals 2600 people hospitalized for vaping related lung injuries in united
he spoke on her new show "wall street week." >> ben bernanke gave a speech that i think was a kind ofast hurrah for the central bankers. he argued monetary policy will be able to do it next time. i think that is pretty unlikely in recessions we usually cut interest rates by five percentage points and interest rates today are below 2%. i don't believe that quantitative easing and that stuff is worth anything like another three percentage points. vonnie: you can catch larry...
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when i went home last fight, i read bernie ben bernanke commenr the weekend.egative rates what is wrong with them, make qe part of the tool box, a accommodative fed pouring tons of money into the economy as far as the eye can see. we never heard a fed official talk like that before. >> he was speaking at an economics conference. look at countries that used negative interest rates already, japan and europe. the fed with their existing tool box, the ability to bring interest rates down to zero or near zero the ability to do quantitative easing, the ability to use their balance sheet, those tools have been sufficiently robust in order to help ex-interest i kate the economy out of the great recession. i don't know why the fed would need to go negative here. bernanke said in the past not something we're going to do. same thing with yellen. same thing with powell. i don't know why he changed his tune today. charles: the guy from the ecb who quit. >> mario draghi. charles: draghi said the exact opposite, phil. he said negative rates worked supremely. the only thing h
when i went home last fight, i read bernie ben bernanke commenr the weekend.egative rates what is wrong with them, make qe part of the tool box, a accommodative fed pouring tons of money into the economy as far as the eye can see. we never heard a fed official talk like that before. >> he was speaking at an economics conference. look at countries that used negative interest rates already, japan and europe. the fed with their existing tool box, the ability to bring interest rates down to...
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sonali: does anyone agree with ben bernanke?kind of person would think this would be a good idea? >> i think there are sympathetic views on the others of the atlantic. some europeans. we know that northern europeans hate negative interest rates. we saw sweden move away from negative interest rate policy. i think the best course of action for the ecb would be for christine lagarde ripped the bandage off. negative rates are penalizing the banking sector. while it may be fun to eat up on bankers after the global financial crisis -- we certainly don't do that here. but a healthy banking sector is necessary negative interest rates do not foster a healthy banking environment. thatne: one of the things bernanke he kind of hinted at was that we should not be surprised if we do get to subzero or near zero. there is a sort of sinkers asian effect. if everyone is at or near zero, than the u.s. can't stay two points above them for long. >> of the rest of the pack goes into negative territory, i could not advise u.s. policymakers to follow s
sonali: does anyone agree with ben bernanke?kind of person would think this would be a good idea? >> i think there are sympathetic views on the others of the atlantic. some europeans. we know that northern europeans hate negative interest rates. we saw sweden move away from negative interest rate policy. i think the best course of action for the ecb would be for christine lagarde ripped the bandage off. negative rates are penalizing the banking sector. while it may be fun to eat up on...
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summershat was larry dismissing the optimism of ben bernanke. said the central bank could likely fight off the next recession despite the low level of interest rates. watch more of that interview this evening. today marks the return of wall street week. this is bloomberg daybreak: europe. let's get to our morning call. dani burger has it for you. dani: this is the year of gold miners. bank of america says that last year's mega means there's a lot of assets absorbed by the smaller players. that extra liquidity will drive them to dealmaking. it is something they will have to do given years of underinvestment and the need to replenish reserves. bank of america says these miners have to do it or risk getting left behind. nejra: thank you. our guest is still with us. look to the gold price at the top of the show. we are back to where we were before the killing of cases omani. look at happen in gold and elsewhere if the markets worst fears come to pass in june political risk? kallum: the safe assets, government bonds. any dollar-based assets. these pr
summershat was larry dismissing the optimism of ben bernanke. said the central bank could likely fight off the next recession despite the low level of interest rates. watch more of that interview this evening. today marks the return of wall street week. this is bloomberg daybreak: europe. let's get to our morning call. dani burger has it for you. dani: this is the year of gold miners. bank of america says that last year's mega means there's a lot of assets absorbed by the smaller players. that...
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. ♪ ♪ >> ben bernanke gave a speech out there which i think was a last hurrah for the central banks.hat monetary policy will be able to do with the next time. i think that is pretty unlikely, given that, in recessions, we usually cut interest rates by five percentage points and interest rates today are below 2%. i just don't believe that quantitative easing and that stuff is worth anything like another three percentage points. the former fed chair recently said that the central bank will likely fight off the recession despite low levels of interest rates. watch more of that interview on bloomberg's wall street week. p.m. every friday at 6:00 let's get back t to the bloombeg business flash. >> we have more information on the story francine broke. brevan howard shattering it's hedge funds. the fund had nearly half $1 billion. it never had a negative year. ryanair is raising its profit outlook for the year. that is after stronger than expected bookings over the christmas period. the carrier targeting earnings the 950 million to 1.0 5 billion euros range. 1.05 billion euros range. job is
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somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be a $23040.00 times bigger.
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somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be $23040.00 times bigger to accommodate much more money printing and we're still seeing the benefit of that because they went ahead and printed almost $20.00 trillion frash dollars that they swapped with banks for their junk and they put that on the balance sheet of the fed which town has many trillions of dollars worth of junk as do all central banks around the world the question is how fat are those pipes can they another 20 trillion and junk.
somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be $23040.00 times bigger to accommodate much more money printing and we're still seeing the benefit of that because they went ahead and printed almost $20.00 trillion frash dollars that they swapped with banks for their junk and they put that on the balance sheet of the fed which town has many trillions of dollars worth...
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somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be $23040.00 times bigger to accommodate much more money printing and we're still seeing the benefit of that because they went ahead and printed almost $20.00 trillion fresh dollars that they swap.
somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be $23040.00 times bigger to accommodate much more money printing and we're still seeing the benefit of that because they went ahead and printed almost $20.00 trillion fresh dollars that they swap.
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somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 so with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be $23040.00 times bigger to accommodate much more money printing and we're still seeing the benefit of that because they went ahead and printed almost $20.00 trillion fresh dollars that they swapped with banks for their junk and they put that on the balance sheet of the fed which town has many trillions of dollars worth of junk as do all central banks around the world the question is how fat are those pipes can they another 20 trillion and joan and i posit that they can so we're this is a got a long way to go in these wars only stoke the money printing which means much higher prices yes of course in the you know dropping bombs just waste money right there over 100000 each misao and that sends some of our inflation overseas but i think now that we're now officially in 2020 all he does is of course look at the stock market that's his entire gauge for all that he does so anything to keep the stock market up that's why y
somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 so with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be $23040.00 times bigger to accommodate much more money printing and we're still seeing the benefit of that because they went ahead and printed almost $20.00 trillion fresh dollars that they swapped with banks for their junk and they put that on the balance sheet of the fed which town has many trillions of dollars...
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though this price discovery was driven by a monopolist spreta tours shady bankers hedge funds and ben bernanke right just the worst character cast of characters you could possibly some bill in one place and not in it without it being actually the opposite of heaven and the result is predictably horrible so 120 rural hospitals have gone out of business in the last 3 years and most of them are in the loser states deplorable is all those places that hillary said are the losers again this is the cycle of. you know your policies don't work so blame the victim of your policies you know we put a leech on your on your financial system and we've destroyed it and we drilled a hole in it and it's all leaking out all your wealth all your life force is leaking out to manhattan and san francisco and l.a. and you're the loser for this according to the woman they're interviewing here from the government and affairs policy for national national rural health association the exchanges have never worked the way they were in visioned she said the goal was for you to go on your computer and it's going to be like bu
though this price discovery was driven by a monopolist spreta tours shady bankers hedge funds and ben bernanke right just the worst character cast of characters you could possibly some bill in one place and not in it without it being actually the opposite of heaven and the result is predictably horrible so 120 rural hospitals have gone out of business in the last 3 years and most of them are in the loser states deplorable is all those places that hillary said are the losers again this is the...
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dimon because that's the eric holder doctrine that's the jimmy geithner doctor and that's the ben bernanke you doctor and that's the doctor that's a jay powell doctrine is forget all rule of law for people with a lot of cash from the food. in terms of fighting the fed and this war with the fed and this war with economics and business cycles for example. we're in this sort of benign totalitarianism is where they don't have to lock up short sellers for example remember during the financial crisis it always emerged that emerged in europe and the u.k. and the united states were going to ban short selling because the short sellers i.e. those taking a bet against the markets are the ones causing this well they don't even have to do that anymore they don't have to threaten to arrest anybody or ban anything or throw people in prison they do it themselves because they've been trained through years of abuse and that is nobody is short short sales and the s.p.d. r. s. and p. 500 e.t.f. trust known by its sticker s.p.y. as a percentage of shares outstanding fell to 1 point one percent last tuesday tha
dimon because that's the eric holder doctrine that's the jimmy geithner doctor and that's the ben bernanke you doctor and that's the doctor that's a jay powell doctrine is forget all rule of law for people with a lot of cash from the food. in terms of fighting the fed and this war with the fed and this war with economics and business cycles for example. we're in this sort of benign totalitarianism is where they don't have to lock up short sellers for example remember during the financial crisis...
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somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be $23040.00 times bigger to accommodate much more money printing and we're still seeing the benefit of that because they went ahead and printed almost 20 trillion fresh dollars that they swapped with banks for their junk and they put that on the balance sheet of the fed which town has many trillions of dollars worth of junk as do all central banks around the world the question is how fat are those pipes can they another 20 trillion and joan and i posit that they can so we're this is a got a long way to go and these wars only stoke the money printing which means much higher prices yeah of course in the you know dropping bombs just waste money right there over $100000.00 each misao and that sends some of our inflation overseas but i think now that we're now officially in 2020 all he does is of course look at the stock market that's his entire gauge for all that he does so anything to keep the stock market up that's why
somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be $23040.00 times bigger to accommodate much more money printing and we're still seeing the benefit of that because they went ahead and printed almost 20 trillion fresh dollars that they swapped with banks for their junk and they put that on the balance sheet of the fed which town has many trillions of dollars worth of...
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we saw that with ben bernanke. the actual intention of those programs were to boost asset prices. intended, a qe program to calm things down in the repo market. i think the non-reaction is what he was up for. scarlet: discussion of the program has left equity indexes little changed on the day. we have the s&p and nasdaq each move in less than 1/10 of 1% even as volume, trading activity was higher than the 20 day average. romaine: we expect earnings including microsoft, faceless -- facebook, tesla. >> those three names all closing at record highs. we have got a pretty high bar. scarlet: let's dive deeper into our action. again, i have copper on my mind. this ten-day chart, copper now down for a tense day in a row, the longest losing streak ever on record for copper going back to 1988. more than 10%, a decline of more than 10% that is the worst stretch for copper. in more than five years, all of -- dr. copper, maybe not everything is as well. take a look at copper and copper in jan the s&p 5 -- take a look at copper in orange and the s&p 500 in white. since the start of the coronavi
we saw that with ben bernanke. the actual intention of those programs were to boost asset prices. intended, a qe program to calm things down in the repo market. i think the non-reaction is what he was up for. scarlet: discussion of the program has left equity indexes little changed on the day. we have the s&p and nasdaq each move in less than 1/10 of 1% even as volume, trading activity was higher than the 20 day average. romaine: we expect earnings including microsoft, faceless -- facebook,...
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ben bernanke said we have to save the banks. you save the banks. i get that.t do we do for the people out there that are worried about fees? what do we do to help them get within society now? >> i think all of the pieces not just at citi, but that the industry is working on, are for inclusion in finance. we are getting ready to launch a program probably in the springtime with google, in terms of being able to bring more people into the digitization of banking. mindsetay, it is the and the mantra of being able to create for people best in life experiences. that is not best in banking. how do we create the best in life experience to bring more people in to have the access? if you look at what is going on at citi, not just in the u.s. come about around the world, we are bringing people, business, small business, women, all of those things to bear in terms of inclusive finance. >> i am going to ask the question i know winds up ceos on wall street at the moment, so forgive me. $18 billion. that's how much was saved by the four biggest banks on wall street last year
ben bernanke said we have to save the banks. you save the banks. i get that.t do we do for the people out there that are worried about fees? what do we do to help them get within society now? >> i think all of the pieces not just at citi, but that the industry is working on, are for inclusion in finance. we are getting ready to launch a program probably in the springtime with google, in terms of being able to bring more people into the digitization of banking. mindsetay, it is the and the...
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janet yellen, ben bernanke, the following comments -- i believe for the euro area there's some ri riskmeans a foregone conclusion they have to act comprehensi comprehensively. they have negative rates their structural issues haven't been addressed since the credit crisis or not nearly enough to have a positive effect on the economy, and his answer out of office is basically that what i did you need do in a better way. fighting this inflation may be a noble central bank cause but at what price and are they making a difference finally, maybe the biggest issue for 2020 as you look at three-day charts of twos and tens, how little they've moved since thursday jon fortt, back to you >> all right, rick before we let you go, congratulations. an entirely different kind of santelli exchange. your daughter got married to start the new year >> she did a new year's eve wedding thank you for mentioning it. congratulations to my daughter juliet and john fall thanks, jon fortt. >> your daughter made a gorgeous bride. your pictures are breathtaking congratulations, rick. >> thank you so much >>> coming
janet yellen, ben bernanke, the following comments -- i believe for the euro area there's some ri riskmeans a foregone conclusion they have to act comprehensi comprehensively. they have negative rates their structural issues haven't been addressed since the credit crisis or not nearly enough to have a positive effect on the economy, and his answer out of office is basically that what i did you need do in a better way. fighting this inflation may be a noble central bank cause but at what price...
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ben bernanke things the extraordinary tools would help achieve 300 basis points of cushion if necessaryhave a lot of tools right now what do they really want to use them altogether at this stage when growth is stabilizing? not yet. ended,see how last week they are increasingly focused on fiscal easing. i think that is the thing that should be at the front. so growth will pick up. central banks have done a lot of easing in 2019. look at the fed -- cutting rates by 75 basis points in 2019. they are buying t-bills. the ecb has done everything they could regarding rates. qe continues. the boe is expected to cut rates as well. we will see something that was gaining traction already and that is the fiscal stance. more easing for the infrastructure. luckily, the growth outlook is stabilizing. the central banks have bought time. matt: what do you think of the new twenty-year offering? is that helpful to investors like yourself? did comes, the 20 year with a bang in the u.s. i think this was something that the bank suggested. they were not banking on the 50 year butworking -- 50 were content wit
ben bernanke things the extraordinary tools would help achieve 300 basis points of cushion if necessaryhave a lot of tools right now what do they really want to use them altogether at this stage when growth is stabilizing? not yet. ended,see how last week they are increasingly focused on fiscal easing. i think that is the thing that should be at the front. so growth will pick up. central banks have done a lot of easing in 2019. look at the fed -- cutting rates by 75 basis points in 2019. they...
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charles: we vent brought up the notion that ben bernanke said stop playing a games. make the qe stuff part of the permanent tool box. there is talk, jamie dimon brought up the idea that the federal reserve should work with the federal government. they should coordinate. china does it. it would smooth out recessions and the business cycle. what about major changes at the federal reserve? >> i will beg to differ with mr. dimon. i don't want to see political meddling from the federal reserve. i want them to try to maintain their aye political stanes. i think that is critical to make tough decisions paul volcker used to when push comes to shove when it comes to the best interests of the country's economy. but i would say there is going to be a possibility going forward, if you want to talk about coordination, of the fed potentially coordinating with other global central banks as we see the potential, global economic fall out from this coronavirus. that would not surprise me. charles: so, in other words if china were to add stimulus to the economy the fed would as well in
charles: we vent brought up the notion that ben bernanke said stop playing a games. make the qe stuff part of the permanent tool box. there is talk, jamie dimon brought up the idea that the federal reserve should work with the federal government. they should coordinate. china does it. it would smooth out recessions and the business cycle. what about major changes at the federal reserve? >> i will beg to differ with mr. dimon. i don't want to see political meddling from the federal...
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. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ben bernanke gave a speech out there that i think was kind of a last hurrah for the centralry policy will be able to do it the next time. i think that's pretty unlikely, given that in recessions we usually cut interest rates by five percentage points, and interest rates today are below believei just don't that quantitative easing and that stuff is worth anything li ke another three percentage points. matt: former u.s. treasury secretary larry summers, dismissing the optimism of fed bernanke. the former fed chair said that the central bank could likely fight off a next recession despite low interest rates. you can watch more of that interview this evening. today marks the return of bloomberg's "wall street week." definitely tune in. anna: staying with the u.s., today's payroll numbers for december will provide clearer perspective on hiring, after skewing from a strike at g.m. let'talk about the u.s. john -- the u.s. economy with john wraith of ubs. what are your expectations for the jobs report? the adp number in the middle of the week looked strong. tone for set the somethin
. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ben bernanke gave a speech out there that i think was kind of a last hurrah for the centralry policy will be able to do it the next time. i think that's pretty unlikely, given that in recessions we usually cut interest rates by five percentage points, and interest rates today are below believei just don't that quantitative easing and that stuff is worth anything li ke another three percentage points. matt: former u.s. treasury secretary larry summers, dismissing the optimism...
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janet yellen and ben bernanke seem really confident about forward guidance and getting us through the did you think about that? i thinkmitt: -- bill: the fed does have some tools will be effective in stimulating the economy if we have a downturn, but i think there's increased role for fiscal policy. i think janet yellen talked about that during the weekend. monetary policy can't do it all when there's only so much room to lower short-term interest rates. we don't have as much room as we had in the past. i think there is a bigger role for fiscal policy. alix: part of that was answered by a paper talking about the semi automatic stabilizer. basically, if the tax or spending measures triggered by the cost of some statistical threshold to your point were fiscal policy, with that be realistic? gen. kimmitt: it would be a great idea -- bill: it would be a great idea if you could implement it. that would reassure people that andrecession would be mild relative. if you make fiscal stabilizers automatic, you are removing the discretion from congress, and he question is whether congress is will
janet yellen and ben bernanke seem really confident about forward guidance and getting us through the did you think about that? i thinkmitt: -- bill: the fed does have some tools will be effective in stimulating the economy if we have a downturn, but i think there's increased role for fiscal policy. i think janet yellen talked about that during the weekend. monetary policy can't do it all when there's only so much room to lower short-term interest rates. we don't have as much room as we had in...
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so ben bernanke talking about negative interest rates in california i think is an unhelpful developmentecause we can look at the track record in europe, and negative interest rates have not been a successful policy. sweden has abandoned it. i am optimistic that the policy -- alix: well, hold on. while he said -- carl: maybe they will pull the bandage off as well. accommodative policy is not translated into the private sector, and you clog the plumbing, and it is not effective. constance: all he said was that we shouldn't rule anything out 100%. carl: and i disagree. he steps italy call it a failure he not try to use again -- should have called it a failure and not try to use it again. say: so basically, you can trade headlines, economic data, but it is global liquidity that has led the rally after you had the fed maker turn. vincent: yeah. i think a lot of people put all of their chips on the central banks adding liquidity, and that is why equity markets go up. isaac this is going to end in a really bad way one day if we continue to follow this philosophy. this isn't what drives earning
so ben bernanke talking about negative interest rates in california i think is an unhelpful developmentecause we can look at the track record in europe, and negative interest rates have not been a successful policy. sweden has abandoned it. i am optimistic that the policy -- alix: well, hold on. while he said -- carl: maybe they will pull the bandage off as well. accommodative policy is not translated into the private sector, and you clog the plumbing, and it is not effective. constance: all he...
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that was when helicopter ben, ben bernanke, was coming into the federal reserve to try to rescue thebal financial crisis. you have to pay to carry gold, mind you. interest rates close to 0%, i mean, you are losing a lot of money. are you that scared? >> well, i think what appeals to me with gold is that gold is basically showing that we don't trust the government, we don't trust the central banks, those people like me who don't have that full level of trust have a lot of confidence in a physical, tangible thing. stuart: we are two, three minutes into this monday trading session. now we are down 140 points. jeff, got to get your feelings on this one and you, too, susan. is this a temporary blip in the bull market run? or is it the start of a big and long downside move? >> i think this particular event is a very temporary blip. i think if we get greater military action, it will have much more of an impact. the later event will be greater which is when the trade deal doesn't come to fruition. susan: i think the concern is that oil, oil prices with brent crude hitting close to seven-year
that was when helicopter ben, ben bernanke, was coming into the federal reserve to try to rescue thebal financial crisis. you have to pay to carry gold, mind you. interest rates close to 0%, i mean, you are losing a lot of money. are you that scared? >> well, i think what appeals to me with gold is that gold is basically showing that we don't trust the government, we don't trust the central banks, those people like me who don't have that full level of trust have a lot of confidence in a...