• 507 days Will The ECB Continue To Hike Rates?
  • 508 days Forbes: Aramco Remains Largest Company In The Middle East
  • 509 days Caltech Scientists Succesfully Beam Back Solar Power From Space
  • 909 days Could Crypto Overtake Traditional Investment?
  • 914 days Americans Still Quitting Jobs At Record Pace
  • 916 days FinTech Startups Tapping VC Money for ‘Immigrant Banking’
  • 919 days Is The Dollar Too Strong?
  • 919 days Big Tech Disappoints Investors on Earnings Calls
  • 920 days Fear And Celebration On Twitter as Musk Takes The Reins
  • 922 days China Is Quietly Trying To Distance Itself From Russia
  • 922 days Tech and Internet Giants’ Earnings In Focus After Netflix’s Stinker
  • 926 days Crypto Investors Won Big In 2021
  • 926 days The ‘Metaverse’ Economy Could be Worth $13 Trillion By 2030
  • 927 days Food Prices Are Skyrocketing As Putin’s War Persists
  • 929 days Pentagon Resignations Illustrate Our ‘Commercial’ Defense Dilemma
  • 930 days US Banks Shrug off Nearly $15 Billion In Russian Write-Offs
  • 933 days Cannabis Stocks in Holding Pattern Despite Positive Momentum
  • 934 days Is Musk A Bastion Of Free Speech Or Will His Absolutist Stance Backfire?
  • 934 days Two ETFs That Could Hedge Against Extreme Market Volatility
  • 936 days Are NFTs About To Take Over Gaming?

Fake Ben

Fake Ben

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Biography

FakeBen is a blog to monitor the Fed and its actions and encourage community participation. At FakeBen, we believe that the Fed policy of the last two decades has created a credit bubble as large as that created in the 1920s. This bubble will lead to either inflation, a recession, or both.

  • Equality for All

    Published 09 October 2008 | viewed 4,278 times

    Last night, I was meditating on the future, and I came up with this: The Fed and Treasury (as well as foreign governments) seem intent…

  • Why Keep Analyst X A Mystery?

    Published 04 April 2008 | viewed 3,797 times

    "The crisis from which we are now suffering is also the outcome of a credit expansion. The present crisis is the unavoidable sequel to a…

  • Round One Winner: Schiff

    Published 31 March 2008 | viewed 5,238 times

    In a recent article, I wrote about Mike "Mish" Shedlock of the blog Global Economic Trend Analysis (http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com) and Peter Schiff, of Euro Pacific Capital,…

  • Bear Stearns Bailout and My Outrage

    Published 24 March 2008 | viewed 4,281 times

    I have been a longtime critic of the Fed, but the latest moves by the Fed are beyond even my most cynical estimations. Bear Stearns…

  • The Problem The Solution

    Published 20 March 2008 | viewed 4,267 times

    First, we must understand the problem, which is fractional banking. The problem with fractional banking is that cash ALWAYS has to be less valuable than…

  • Shedlock vs. Schiff: Rumble in the Economic Jungle

    Published 18 February 2008 | viewed 5,603 times

    While Democrats struggle to line up behind one candidate or the other, there is a lesser known, yet more important fight going on over your…

  • Debt, Corruption, and the Good Life in Sherwood Forest

    Published 14 February 2008 | viewed 3,831 times

    The wave of Obama excitement is sweeping the nation. Change, it seems, is upon us. Or is it? I often wonder if people such as…

  • China's Middle Finger

    Published 03 February 2008 | viewed 7,767 times

    While less known than the China's Middle Kingdom, its middle finger might have more immediate financial consequences. How do you upset China? You start buying…

  • The Fed's 20-Year Misguided Monetary Adventure

    Published 15 January 2008 | viewed 6,591 times

    The Fed has run a misguided monetary policy for the last twenty years. The error of its ways is finally being revealed, and there is…

  • All the Way Down the Rabbit Hole?

    Published 06 December 2007 | viewed 5,475 times

    Dear Diary, This is the Fake Ben Bernanke writing. I've started a journal to express in private what I could never express in public, namely…