The Fed's Dilemma and the Straw Man Economy

The Wall Street Examiner's Lee Adler, Russ Winter of Winter Watch, and Aaron Krowne of the Mortgage Lender Implode-o-meter discuss the false signals of a growing economy, and other issues affecting the markets in this week's podcast.

Here's what we covered in Part 1, free to all visitors:

• Ponzi house of mirrors economy with no real economic demand
• Japan's public pension problem and Confederate States of America money printing
• Will the Fed shrink it's balance sheet?
• The end of QE2 will cause dislocation
• Speculators are the straw men of rising oil prices. The Fed is the real villain
• Politics full of straw men issues
• Corporate kleptocrats pay almost no taxes
• And more!

Topics covered in Part 2 for Radio Free Wall Street subscribers only:

• How The Fed and Treasury greased the skids for the Bernanke press briefing, but liquidity will turn more bearish on Friday
• The dollar index is plumbing multi year lows
• Gold and silver -- more to run?
• Slamming the Case-Shiller housing index
• Where is housing headed. Interesting signals from the rental market
• The stock market outlook, near and longer term

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