{"id":42859,"date":"2019-01-17T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42859"},"modified":"2019-01-17T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:38:11","slug":"quantitative-brainwashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42859","title":{"rendered":"Quantitative Brainwashing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quantitative Brainwashing<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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We\u2019re all familiar with the term, \u201cquantitative easing.\u201d It\u2019s described as meaning, \u201cA monetary policy in which a central bank purchases government securities or other securities from the market in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, that sounds reasonable\u2026 even beneficial. But, unfortunately, that\u2019s not really the whole story.<\/p>\n

When QE was implemented, the purchasing power was weak and both government and personal debt had become so great that further borrowing would not solve the problem; it would only postpone it and, in the end, exacerbate it. Effectively, QE is not a solution to an economic problem, it\u2019s a bonus of epic proportions, given to banks by governments, at the expense of the taxpayer.<\/p>\n

But, of course, we shouldn\u2019t be surprised that governments have passed off a massive redistribution of wealth from the taxpayer to their pals in the banking sector with such clever terms. Governments of today have become extremely adept at creating euphemisms for their misdeeds in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the populace.<\/p>\n

At this point, we cannot turn on the daily news without being fed a full meal of carefully- worded mumbo jumbo, designed to further overwhelm whatever small voices of truth may be out there.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s put this in perspective for a moment.<\/p>\n

For millennia, political leaders have been in the practice of altering, confusing and even obliterating the truth, when possible. And it\u2019s probably safe to say that, for as long as there have been media, there have been political leaders doing their best to control them.<\/p>\n

During times of war, political leaders have serially restricted the media from simply telling the truth. During the American civil war, President Lincoln shut down some 300 newspapers and arrested some 14,000 journalists who had the audacity to contradict his statements to the public.<\/p>\n

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Quantitative Brainwashing We\u2019re all familiar with the term, \u201cquantitative easing.\u201d It\u2019s described as meaning, \u201cA monetary policy in which a central bank purchases government securities or other securities from the market in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply.\u201d Well, that sounds reasonable\u2026 even beneficial. But, unfortunately, that\u2019s not really the whole […]<\/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":[124,431,6228,11658,512,534,954,661,662,1250],"class_list":["post-42859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-central-banks","tag-interest-rates","tag-international-man","tag-jeff-thomas","tag-media","tag-monetary-policy","tag-money-supply","tag-qe","tag-quantitative-easing","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859","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=42859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42860,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions\/42860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}