from 2nd Smartest Guy in the World:
When one of the most sociopathic and mendacious economists whose predictive track record was around 0% is awarded the Nobel Prize on the eve of the Greatest Financial Crisis that he was instrumental in creating with his profligate QE money printing, you know we have finally reached peak Ponzi.
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by Tyler Durden
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and two others for their research in the 1980s on banks and financial crises.
Bernanke served as chairman of the Fed between 2006-14 and famously unleashed a tidal wave of debt monetization by the central bank during the GFC over a decade ago to save the so-called ‘too big to fail’ banks. At the time, the Fed’s balance sheet was approaching $2.5 trillion. Multiple rounds of money printing later and a massive expansion during the Covid crisis, the balance sheet stands at around $9 trillion today.
The side effects of former Fed chair Yellen and current Fed chair Powell keeping the money printers on full speed over the last decade since Bernanke is one of the main reasons for today’s worst inflationary environment in decades. And why the Fed is in panic-tightening mode today.
Douglas W. Diamond, an economist at the University of Chicago, and Philip H. Dybvig at Washington University in St. Louis also won the ‘prestigious’ prize alongside the former Fed chairman.
Bernanke’s analysis of the Great Depression in the 1930s showed how and why bank runs were a major reason the crisis was so long and severe. Diamond and Dybvig’s work, meanwhile, looked at the socially important role banks play in smoothing the potential conflict between savers wanting access to their money and the economy needing savings to be put into investments; and how governments can help prevent bank runs by providing deposit insurance and acting as a lender of last resort. –CNBC
The Nobel committee said their work “significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises, as well as how to regulate financial markets,” adding their research “reduces the risk of financial crises developing into long-term depressions with severe consequences for society, which is of the greatest benefit to us all.”
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