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How Ben 'Systemic Risk' Bernanke Deliberatly Created The Great Recession.

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Shalom P. Hamou
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However, their responses, when not confused or inconsistent, have generally relied on various technical or
legal objections- objections which, I will argue, could be overcome if the will to do so existed."

Prof. Ben 'Systemic Risk' Bernanke
Japanese Monetary Policy: A Case of Self-Induced Paralysis?.
For presentation at the ASSA meetings,
Boston MA, .
9th January 2000

It was never relevant to Ben 'Systemic Risk' Bernanke that average American, notably those who were
reimbursing variable rate mortgages, or those who lost asstes and jobs did suffer from these strict monetary policy.

Should he have acted decisively and normalised the yield curve by lowering, according to our computation, the rates to around 1% when he knew what was happening, the sub prime mess wouldn't have occurred and the number of mortgage who defaulted would have been a fraction of what they were.

Beware I am not saying that these analysis are right, what I am saying is given his knowledge and his experience, if he wanted to avoid the Crash, which he saw coming he would have acted completly differently.

Was it the result of indecisiveness, mere stupidity or more worrisome, a carefully planed sabotage?

An Intended Mistake:

I have learned several things in my previous life as a trader:

- When you can turn to only one person or institution in order to solve a problem, they did cause it in the first place.

- When a professional make a mistake more often than not he did that on purpose.

He had means, motive, and opportunity and he did take the opportunity he is, according to US Criminal law it is sufficient to convict him beyond a reasonable doubt for a premeditated crime.

Given the precedent of Bernard Madoff he would get, given the volume of the losses caused, at least 150 years in jail.

The only purpose of the crash and The Great Recession was to put in place the necessary conditions of The Crash at the time The New Forces had decided to trigger it. According to my computation had he acted otherwise The Crash, which was unavoidable, would have happen at a much later date.

In fact we know with a great precision when Ben 'Systemic Risk' Bernanke learned about the sub prime mess:

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