NBER’s Martin Feldstein Bashes The Deplorable US Economy, Says Bernanke Has Engineered Another Stock Bubble
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
05/02/2012
That the market is merely yet another transitory sugar high bubble creation of the Chairsatan and his central planning colleagues in various marble buildings around the world is no surprising to anyone, at least not anyone who maintains a pretense of objectivity, is not desperate to sell a weekly newsletter, and has a frontal lobe. What however is not only surprising, but outright shocking, is that such embedded members of the aristocratic status quo elite as Martin Feldstein – a professor of economics at that bastion of Keynesianism Harvard as well as president emeritus of the NBER – the folks who tell us when recessions start and end, are starting to get it. To wit: “The economy is slow and weak. We are not doing very well. The economy is just coming along at a snail’s pace. The first quarter numbers that we just got last week were not very good at all” and warns “if we are going to see that jump in taxes, that is going to push the economy next year into a serious recession” but the punchline: “The stock market is, I think, responding to the Fed. I think the real danger is that this is a bubble in the stock market created by low long-term interest rates that the Fed has engineered….The danger is, like all bubbles, they burst at some point” Well, uh… if it is now common knowledge that everything is manipulated, and that the economy is collapsing, and would be outright imploding if it weren’t for the Fed’s goosing of the stock market, does that mean it is time for Zero Hedge to hang up our hat?
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