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December 16, 2015

Central Bankers Pretend Economy Has Improved, Raise Benchmark Rates


     The bimbo-led Federal Reserve (Fed) raised short term interest rates today, and like an oversexed floozy faking orgasm to make tonight's guy think he's really something special, postured that the economy is improving - postured by omitting mention of such matters as the 1) missing purchasing power tied to those lost manufacturing jobs now permanently residing in Asia, 2) crippling strength of the U.S. Dollar, 3) suffocating burden of Obamacare, 4) future cost of our exploding national debt, and 5) ginormous number of damaged souls who've left the labor force, never apparently to return, not to mention the 6) Fed's Trotsky-style seizure of the T-Bond market to keep the failed politicians generating all the above in power.

     The interest rate on overnight reverse repurchase agreements, formerly 0%, will rise to .25%, while the interest rate on excess reserves is getting upped from .25% to .50%.  These comprise the floor and ceiling, respectively, for short term interest rates under Fed control, and influence, if not dictate, where short term rates will fall when set everywhere throughout the economy.

     In tribute to the Central Party's success at driving free market capitalism out of Washington's hair, the Fed unabashedly added that, through Stalinist central planning, they would further raise those rates 1% a year over the next three years, ending at 3.3% by 1019.

     Welcome to the UASR (Union of American Socialist Republics), fellow comrades.  Peace-mongering Liberals have pulled off the silent communist revolution as Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) told them to such a short time ago.

     Nostrovia!