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Change to a Third World Country

Tarheel

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Change to a Third World Country
« on: May 27, 2009, 11:31:37 AM »
I never thought that I'd live to see the day that the Federal Reserve would be threatened/ warned by China.  We're getting change alright...changing into a third world country.

This excerpt from the UK Telegraph:

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China warns Federal Reserve over 'printing money'
China has warned a top member of the US Federal Reserve that it is increasingly disturbed by the Fed's direct purchase of US Treasury bonds.
 
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Last Updated: 1:52PM BST 27 May 2009

Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, said: "Senior officials of the Chinese government grilled me about whether or not we are going to monetise the actions of our legislature."

"I must have been asked about that a hundred times in China. I was asked at every single meeting about our purchases of Treasuries. That seemed to be the principal preoccupation of those that were invested with their surpluses mostly in the United States," he told the Wall Street Journal.
 
His recent trip to the Far East appears to have been a stark reminder that Asia's "Confucian" culture of right action does not look kindly on the insouciant policy of printing money by Anglo-Saxons.
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Full story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5379285/China-warns-Federal-Reserve-over-printing-money.html
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