Ali and Frazier, Laurel and Hardy, Mayweather and Pacquiao, Liesman and Santelli, and now Schiff and Maloney. Peter and Mike join clash of the titan-like to discuss their investment strategies and expose the charts the government doesn’t want you to see as “people like Bernanke are taken seriously still and the people that did predict [the crisis] are dismissed as lunatics half the time.” The wide-reaching conversation covers everything from gold and stocks to The Fed and The Dollar – Bernanke “took the coward’s way out because all he did was exacerbate the problems to postpone the day of reckoning.” The air is coming out of the bubble, they warn, “Bernanke and Greenspan have absolutely destroyed America. People don’t realize what is coming…”
Full transcript below:
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Mike: I think that he and Greenspan have absolutely destroyed America. People don’t realize what is coming from the stored up energy from the manipulations that they did.
Peter: And speaking of him, this was really the first chance I had to have a conversation with Ben Bernanke. Speaking of him, I really got the sense that he has no idea of the Fed’s culpability in the housing bubble or the ensuing financial crisis, he really doesn’t know. And he denies that the Fed had anything to do with that, that maybe it was pure happenstance or coincidence that we had a housing bubble and these very low interest rates. And because Ben Bernanke still doesn’t get the connection between the Fed’s mistakes of the past and the last crisis he certainly doesn’t understand the coming crisis, which is going to be far worse because the mistakes the Federal Reserve made in the aftermath of that crisis are far worse than the ones and far bigger than the ones that caused it.
Mike: Right. Ben Bernanke’s overreaction was far bigger than Greenspan’s reaction to the NASDAQ crash.
Peter: And as a result the crisis in our future unfortunately is going to be far larger than the one that we just experienced.
Mike: I wanted to show you a couple of things because I have a feeling that you and I will be exactly on the same page here. You know how indicators…there’s all these different factors in the economy and they’ll be going up at different rates. Suddenly one or two indicators start to point down when you’re near a top and then more of them start to point down and then things roll over and then there’s a crash and everybody thinks that nobody saw it coming. But there’s a few people that are watching this stuff that do see it coming.
Peter: That’s exactly what they said about the last crash that nobody could have possibly predicted this except there were people who did predict it.
Mike: You predicted that we were in a real estate bubble. I predicted that we were in a real estate bubble.
Peter: Ben Bernanke denied that there was a real estate bubble. Even after it burst, he still couldn’t figure it out.
Full article: “Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming” (Zero Hedge)
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