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Geopolitical Uncertainty
August 9, 2023

Is the Fed helping or hurting the U.S. economy and recovery?

Texas Straight Talk, by Congressman Ron Paul in
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”Unemployment continues to plague our economy.  In spite of constant claims that we have just turned the corner into recovery, the jobs reports remain grim with no real signs of improvement.  While Keynesian economists and big government apologists scratch their heads about persistent unemployment in spite of unprecedented government ‘investment’ in the economy, free market economists understand the problem perfectly well.  In short, they understand that we are looking to the Federal Reserve to solve an unemployment crisis that the Fed itself largely created.

For example, the Fed is supposed to maintain full employment as half of its ‘dual mandate.’  But the Fed simply has the wrong tools to do this.  In fact, its credit expansion and manipulation of interest rates cause harm when they are applied to ‘help’ the economy.  As we saw with the housing boom and bust, Fed-created inflation cannot be sustained without harmful consequences.  The Fed’s artificial boom led to the unemployment we’re suffering today.  The Fed is not a small business or a manufacturer that creates value or increases productivity to sustain real job growth.  It literally destroys value by printing more money, and distributing it through sweetheart deals to well connected banks and corporations (including foreign banks!).  The only success the Fed has had in maintaining full employment has been on Wall Street where it props up crony banks and investment houses to prevent them from going bankrupt as they should.  Instead, they survive to malinvest another day while their executives enjoy jackpot bonuses.”

”Until those in power understand the harm they do with central economic planning, we will continue to slide backwards and lose jobs.  The Fed needs to stay out of the job creating business altogether and the federal government needs to focus on its constitutional duties.  Just when we need government to back off, we hear about more government intervention in the economy in the form of more spending, only they call it ‘investment.’  It is more properly called ‘malinvestment,’ and the resources that are funneled into industries by government policies will only hurt employment more in the long run.”

*This information is solely an excerpt of a third-party publication and is incomplete. Please subscribe to the referenced publication for the full article. This is not an offer to buy or sell precious metals. Investors should obtain advice based on their own individual circumstances and understand the risk before making any investment decision.

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