{"id":13173,"date":"2015-10-09T06:04:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13173"},"modified":"2015-10-09T06:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:04:20","slug":"whos-profited-most-from-7-years-of-fed-policy-well-the-fed-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13173","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Profited Most from 7 Years of Fed Policy\u2026. Well the Fed of Course!"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstrebuttal.com\/whos-profited-most-from-7-years-of-fed-policy-while-the-fed-of-course\/\" target=\"_blank\">Who\u2019s Profited Most from 7 Years of Fed Policy\u2026. Well the Fed of Course!<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">So I\u2019m often asked whether I really believe that government and policymakers intentionally create laws and policies that hurt the people and help themselves. \u00a0My answer is typically that \u201cif you\u2019re asking me this question you know I do but\u00a0you don\u2019t believe me; so either do your own research or continue to live in the world\u00a0as you wish to perceive it. \u00a0I\u2019m not here to beg you to open your fucking eyes\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>I started this\u00a0blog about 18 months ago and I have chosen to provide my research with no income attached to it. \u00a0It means I have no axe but the truth. \u00a0I spent 13 years in major international banks and have been on both sides of the double edged sword that makes the financial services sector a place to reap riches and also to be thrown to the wolves. \u00a0That is, I am intimately familiar with the system. \u00a0That said, what I\u2019ve discovered is that really very little effort is required to see the world for what it is.<\/p>\n<p>The closest analogy is probably best left to Orwell with\u00a0Animal Farm. \u00a0Humans around the world have been molded to believe they are part of a system to enable them to get ahead. \u00a0While some do manage to find a path that has substantial monetary rewards the vast majority (and growing) have, whether they realise it or not, succumb to a role of\u00a0Boxer, the cart-horse.<\/p>\n<p>That is, our lives revolve around putting in 8 to 10 hours of labour each day for which we receive enough to feed ourselves and our families, have a warm place to sleep and some of us are able to obtain some credit from which we can enjoy things like new cars every few years (while rarely actually owning them).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who\u2019s Profited Most from 7 Years of Fed Policy\u2026. Well the Fed of Course! So I\u2019m often asked whether I really believe that government and policymakers intentionally create laws and policies that hurt the people and help themselves. \u00a0My answer is typically that \u201cif you\u2019re asking me this question you know I do but\u00a0you don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[303,305,8282,1211,534,6455],"class_list":["post-13173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-fed","tag-federal-reserve","tag-first-rebuttal-blog","tag-george-orwell","tag-monetary-policy","tag-thad-beversdorf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13174,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173\/revisions\/13174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}