



un articolo del buon Martino
http://www.brunoleoni.it/nextpage.aspx?codice=7083
Un solo appunto: anche nell'italia repubblica si è continuato a fare quello che salvemini descriveva nel fascismo
E giusta la considerazione dell'Iri. Per fronteggiare una situazione emergenziale si è creato un elefante che è durato 50 anni....un pò quello che succederà, ma in termini monetari, con le soluzioni di Ben


Martino deve avere due facce allora: in un articolo su Libero ha tessuto le lodi della FED in modo nauseante spiegando che la FED non farà più lo sbaglio del 29' e che questa volta saprà imettere quella liquidita neccessaria alle banche per non fallire.........forse è stato ben pagato da Feltri, non lo so, ma i concetti che ha espresso sono completamente diversi, tanto da farmi balenare il pensiero che esistano due Antonio Martino, uno Keynesiano e l'altro Rothbardiano.....che poi a ben vedere anche in quest'articolo scrive una scemenza simile a quelle che ha scritto su Libero:
"E’ vero che, come abbiamo visto, il sistema bancario deve essere protetto (Protetto? Da cosa????? Dai loro stessi sbagli??? Martino sei protezionista o Liberale??? N.d.J.P.) dalle temporanee crisi di liquidità, per evitare che queste si ripercuotano sull’intera economia, ma questa è solo un’apparente eccezione a quella che è la regola ferrea del capitalismo: chi sbaglia paga."


Dear Friends,
Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.
The events of the past week are no exception.
The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress’ throat is not just economically foolish. It is downright sinister. It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect. It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder. Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made America more communist than China! “This is welfare for the rich,” he said.
“This is socialism for the rich. It’s bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters.”
That describes the current bailout package to a T. And we’re being told it’s unavoidable.
The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it. But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences - predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics - are being let off the hook. The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!
• The Treasury Secretary is authorized to purchase up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets at any one time. That means $700 billion is only the very beginning of what will hit us.
• Financial institutions are “designated as financial agents of the Government.” This is the New Deal to end all New Deals.
• Then there’s this: “Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.“ Translation: the Secretary can buy up whatever junk debt he wants to, burden the American people with it, and be subject to no one in the process.
There goes your country.
Even some so-called free-market economists are calling all this “sadly necessary.” Sad, yes. Necessary? Don’t make me laugh.
Our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people. The two major party candidates for president themselves initially indicated their strong support for bailouts of this kind - another example of the big choice we’re supposedly presented with this November: yes or yes.
Now, with a backlash brewing, they’re not quite sure what their views are. A sad display, really.
Although the present bailout package is almost certainly not the end of the political atrocities we’ll witness in connection with the crisis, time is short.
Congress may vote as soon as tomorrow. With a Rasmussen poll finding support for the bailout at an anemic seven percent, some members of Congress are afraid to vote for it. Call them! Let them hear from you! Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.
The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care?
When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?
Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.
In liberty,
Ron Paul
P.S. All week long, Scott Horton’s excellent Antiwar Radio program, which I highly recommend, will devote its first hour (12:00-1:00pm ET) to the financial crisis. Today, my former economic adviser, Peter Schiff, will be on the program. We’ll stream these programs at the Campaign for Liberty website. Listen in!
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=597


Martino è monetarista e la sue affermazioni sono in perfetto stile Friedman, anzi è un richiamo a Bernanke che ringrazia Friedman per la sua analisi sulle cause della grande depressione e afferma che la FED non farà più lo stesso errore (cioè la caduta improvvisa dell'offerta di moneta che ha portato alla "grande" depressione, anziché una normale recessione che poteva essere curata con le giuste politiche monetarie, secondo Friedman e Schwartz):Originariamente Scritto da JohnPollock;
I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again - Ben Bernanke

