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Little Timmy Geithner Dances the Dunciad in China. We Need Not Fear Inflation!

Little Timmy Geithner Dances the Dunciad in China. We Need Not Fear Inflation!

 

 Abstract: The Chinese are watching us as they think Treasury is printing money and monetizing the debt thus cheating the Chinese out of the value of their bond holdings. [1]Inflation fears, everywhere in the world, appear to be looming based on the wild antics of our fed and this is, historically, the usual penalty for too much money being spread around. We are spending and printing our way to financial oblivion but our Treasury secretary goes to China and gives them  a honk-job that is slicker than some of the more raunchy scenes from Cabaret.  He promises some heretofore unknown “fiscal responsibility” nostrums and a new spending “discipline” along with the possibility of some “pay-as-you-go” budget rules for future spending. He does not mention the word TAX anywhere.

 

We have been inspecting the antics of our elfin being[2] as he juggles several financial hot potatoes in the steamy atmosphere of Washington politics. But, now he spreads his cheer and such in China, the world’s most progressive economy that is based on 16th century mercantilism and exports. They apparently don’t believe him. I don’t.

 

Our little elfin being has this to say:

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday reassured the Chinese government that its huge holdings of dollar assets are safe and reaffirmed his faith in a strong U.S. currency.”[3]-- Geithner tells China its dollar assets are safe

On Monday June 1, 2009, By Glenn Somerville [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

 

Now, I am not afraid.

 

On the dollar:

 

"This is important for boosting confidence and encouraging global financial stability and economic revival," said Wang.

 

It was until you came along.

 

In his speech, Geithner renewed pledges that the Obama administration would cut its huge fiscal deficits and promised "very disciplined" future spending, possibly including reintroduction of pay-as-you-go budget rules instead of nonstop borrowing.

 

"We have the deepest and most liquid markets for risk-free assets in the world. We're committed to bring our fiscal deficits down over time to a sustainable level.

 

"We believe in a strong dollar ... and we're going to make sure that we repair and reform the financial system so that we sustain confidence," he said.”

 

I wonder if Little Timmy places the GM secured bonds in such a category. Or, perhaps the    snarled packets of worthless subprime mortgagees that our two worthless Fanny Floopie and Floppie Fredie now burden us with?

 

Now, Little Timmy dumps Europe:

 

Geithner offered U.S. backing for a higher-profile role for China in running global institutions including the IMF -- a controversial proposition since it raises the sensitive issue of reducing Europe's voting share in the global lender.

 

"The United States will fully support having China play a role in the principal cooperative arrangements that help shape the international system, a role that is commensurate with China's importance in the global economy," he said.”

 

 If I might offer a translation: Since the idiot Euro-Peons[4] have trashed their economy with imported poverty losers from third world, destroyed their currency by wild spending and wrecked their industrial base with EcoNazism, we can confidently dump these turkeys and do business with the Marxists who, currently, hold the cash. I am sure China can make better wine than the French and give us games more interesting that cricket.

 

Just look at the O’Bozo social programs and somebody tell me how he might get into a pay-as-you-go budget system with all these drooling proto-Marxists with their fingers on the financial levers.

 

Little Timmy is either: [1] Lying thru is teeth, [2] is insane, [3] is now a True Believer in whatever O’Bozo postulates or, more likely, is [4] just reading his little script on the teleprompter.

 

Pick any 3 of the 4.

 

Where do we get these cretins? How much are these losers in Washington going to cost us?

 

rycK

 

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