open. and how dare! how dare! a lot of people read vladimir putin s editorial with disgust. it s hard to edit putin, but when the times saw the original version, they knew they had to get it changed. here we go. dear america, ha-ha-ha, it appears your beauty president needs help now. guess who is here to help him, uncle vladimir. he feels he needs to attack syria to prove his manhood, but he lacked russian blood. he cannot drink vodka like a man and knows al qaeda will take over. you want al qaeda nation? no, you should not want assad.
support employment, they stimulate the financial sector and that tends to go to the biggest banks and stock market and goes to lately it s been going to housing. you can argue maybe that s going to work and help our economy recover but you can argue we ve done this before and had stock booms and housing booms and the average person isn t better off. jim, to that point, i would say the film is fairly critical of current fed policy and ben bernanke in particular. aren t they just doing the best they can in the face of congressional inaction with the tools that they have? absolutely. congress is not doing its job. that s clearly part of the story. but you could also ask with the stock market going up 25% a year, what motivation does congress have to launch a stimulus bill or make hard choices about our economy? i worry yes, the fed is the only game in town, trying to do whatever they can. i just worry that what they do is they create big booms in
will make sfwl there s a natural inclination that things are fixed, but things are not fixed. printing money doesn t produce goods and services. it doesn t hire people. it may seem like the right short-term medicine but can the cure be worse than the disease in some cases? the way the healthy economy grows people earn money and go out and spend it. the way an unhealthy economy grows people borrow it and go out and spend it. the united states consumed more than it produced for at least a decade. what country, ask yourself, in history can do that indefinitely forever? and joining us no is film maker jim bruce, the man behind money for nothing inside the federal reserve. debuting tonight in d.c. and new york. the fed really is the wizard behind the curtain, isn t it? absolutely. we try to reveal in the film the huge impact fed policies have had on our economy, our society
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and really people s lives because i feel it s a great untold story, the impact of this institution. jim, one of the things you unpack in the film are the real winners and losers in the financial crisis and bank bailout. somebody is paying the price for employee interest rates, it s you and me who have money market accounts earning.27% which punishes the elderly and people on a fixed salary. i worked to save that money and now in one swoop the fed decides i get nothing for that money in order to bailout the banks. that to me is outrageous. the bailouts were paid for on backs of the poorest and elderly and most vulnerable in society. that seems incrediblien fair. if you look at fed policy, it s regressive, when they support the economy or try to