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The Fed doesn't work anymore. Loans were invented to encourage productive risk taking, but what risks are corporations taking? They already have more money than
by cryptica 7y ago
The Fed doesn't work anymore. Loans were invented to encourage productive risk taking, but what risks are corporations taking? They already have more money than they know what to do with. They just use debt as a tool to avoid tax or to pay for online ads to deceive consumers to buy their inferior quality products and services and to create noisy anti-competitive environments.
When it comes to regular people; they will use the new Fed money to take loans to buy houses in speculative areas where those same corporations are headquartered.
The economy doesn't work. It has no incentive for value creation. It just takes money from people who have little capital and gives it to people who have big capital. Then, as the economy depletes capital from its most productive workers, it effectively enslaves them to capital holders who know everything about job creation but don't know the first thing about value creation.
- rapsey 7y agoCorporations are using debt to buy their own stock.
- cryptica 7y agoGood point. Buy-backs are even worse than paying for ads because the Fed money goes straight to existing shareholders. Actually this explains rising inequality very neatly.
- rapsey 7y agoI don’t know why you are being down voted. Fed policies since 2008 clearly benefitted the wealthy class almost exclusively.
- paganel 7y agoWhich means bigger dividends for the stake-holders invested in said corporations, which dividends oftentimes receive preferential tax-treatment.