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Is This The Economic Recovery We Want?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Wall Street, according to a Bloomberg survey, likes Ben Bernanke. Why would it not? The punishment the Street got for the financial crisis has been a flood of money. The nation’s financiers have … Continue reading

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“No Stimulus Or Stimulus?” In The Federal Reserve Board Room

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In an earlier article about the economy in these pages, I had made a strong case for structural intervention by monetary policy in the US economy. Reuters, in excellent reporting about the happenings … Continue reading

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The Masked Ball

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Restricted To Readers Over 18. Credits for videos and pictures go to You Tube and Wikipedia.) “And God told to his apprentices…I gave you a comand…to pray to the Lord for the mercy, … Continue reading

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The Federal Reserve’s “White Noise” Economy

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa If in linear regression models @federalreserve “white noise” and not exogenous variables always explains economic behavior why do we need economists? These days Congress no longer declares wars but the president does, circumventing … Continue reading

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The Case Against Ben Bernanke

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Benjamin Bernanke, gave a speech at the annual conference of central bankers in Wyoming to make two seminal points: that the Fed has done all it could and … Continue reading

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The Political Odd Couple: Benjamin Shalom (Obama) and Barack Hussein Obama

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa “Discounts for Individuals, Partnerships, and Corporations [sic] In unusual and exigent circumstances, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, by the affirmative vote of not less than five members, may authorize any … Continue reading

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Law As A Weapon Of Politics Against Dissent: Anecdotal Evidence

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa From: Chandrashekar Tamirisa Date: August 12, 2011 5:14:24 AM EDT To: comments@nobelprize.org Subject: Law as a weapon of politics against dissent I am looking for a zero per cent loan to pay my taxes … Continue reading

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Bilderberg Gate?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Above: Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke leaving the 2008 Bilderberg Conference in Chantilly, Virginia. Source: Wikipedia) At various times in the nearly 100-year history of one of the most opaque institutions, outside the intelligence … Continue reading

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The Moles at the Fed

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (I had submitted this article to the op-ed pages of The Washington Post on November 18, 2009) In the business of ideological intelligence, the history of espionage since ancient times has a continuous vein … Continue reading

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Uncle Ben’s Economic Science Is Parboiled Rice

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa ‘The failure of Challenger is not the failure of physics’ is the appropriate analogy for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s defense of neoclassical economics in the context of the recent financial crisis. He is shrewd … Continue reading

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