From The Last Sane Person At The Fed: “More Easing Will Not Lead To Growth, Would Lead To Inflation”

Saturday, September 15, 2012
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
09/15/2012

There are two key sentences which explain why there is now only sane voice left among the FOMC’s voting members (recall that back in December 2011 we explained that more QE was only a matter of time now that the Doves have full control). From Jeffrey Lacker: “I dissented because I opposed additional asset purchases at this time. Further monetary stimulus now is unlikely to result in a discernible improvement in growth, but if it does, it’s also likely to cause an unwanted increase in inflation…. Channeling the flow of credit to particular economic sectors is an inappropriate role for the Federal Reserve. As stated in the Joint Statement of the Department of Treasury and the Federal Reserve on March 23, 2009, ‘Government decisions to influence the allocation of credit are the province of the fiscal authorities.'” That, however, is no longer the case, as the only real branch of ‘government’, accountable and electable by nobody, going forward is that located in the Marriner Eccles building, named ironically enough, for the last Fed president who demanded Fed independence, and who was fired by the president precisely for that reason. It is in this building where the central planners of the New Normal huddle every month, and time after failed time, hope that “this time it will be different” and that wealth can finally be achieved through dilution of money.

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