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Mix-Ansicht- Buch: Zurück zum Gold - JüKü, 22.05.2001, 10:59
- Re: Rothbard & Greenspan (letzterer als Makarele und/oder Lassie) - dottore, 22.05.2001, 15:11
Re: Rothbard & Greenspan (letzterer als Makarele und/oder Lassie)
Das ist genau der selbe Murray Rothbard, der bei den Ayn Rand'schen Sessions in NY neben Greenspan gesessen, aber von ihm immer eine ziemlich maue Meinung hatte. *)
Das Buch wurde - siehe auch ein früheres Posting von R.Deutsch - in der FAZ besprochen, und die FAZ hat es gewähren lassen. Das hat mich damals schon sehr gewundert.
Gruß + Dank
d.
*) Dazu Auszüge (Hervorhebungen von mir) aus
http://www.allegromedia.com/sugi/rothbard.html:
"Alan Greenspan has received his foreordained reappointment as chairman of the Fed, to the smug satisfaction and contentment of the entire financial Establishment.
For them, Greenspan's still in his heaven, and all's right with the world. No one seems to wonder at the mysterious process by which each succeeding Fed chairman instantly becomes universally revered and indispensable to the soundness of the dollar, to the banking and financial system, and to the prosperity of the economy.
Greenspan, a nerd with the charisma of a wet mackerel, drones on in an uninspired monotone. So what makes him indispensable now? He is supposed to be highly"knowledgeable," but of course there are hundreds of possible Fed chairmen who would know at least as much.
So if it is not qualities of personality or intellect, what makes all Fed chairmen so indispensable, so widely beloved? To paraphrase the famous answer of Sir Edmund Hillary, who was asked why he persisted in climbing Mt. Everest, it is because the Fed chairman is there. The very existence of the office makes its holder automatically wonderful, revered, deeply essential to the world economy, etc.
Anyone in that office, up to and including Lassie, would receive precisely the same hagiographic treatment.
In the case of the Fed, the acolytes of the alleged personal powers of the chairman are never specific about what exactly he does, except for maintaining the"confidence" of the public or the market, in the dollar or the banking system.
The air of majesty and mystery woven around the Fed chairman is deliberate, precisely because no one knows his function and no one consumes the Fed's"product."
Mystery, appeals to confidence, lauding the alleged qualities of the head: all this amounts to a con-game. Volcker (= Greenspans Vorgänger), Greenspan, and their handlers are tricksters pulling a Wizard of Oz routine. The mystery, the tricks, are necessary, because the fractional-reserve banking system over which the Fed presides is bankrupt.
The mystery and the confidence trick of the Fed rests on its function: which is that of a banking cartel organized and enforced by the federal government in the form of the Fed. The Fed continually enters the"open market" to buy government securities. With what does the Fed pay for those bonds? With nothing, simply with checking accounts created out of thin air."
Murray war schon ein Großer! Und über seine Formulierungen (besonders die in Kursive gesetzt) kann ich immer wieder lachen.
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