@akuma587:
1- I was not talking about the short term, of course. The money printing started recently, these things take time. But the problem is not just inflation, it's countries like Russia, Brazil and China making moves to decrease the importance of the dollar.
I'm not an expert on the economy but it seems that all of that will have a consequence eventually.
2- Just because people are investing in the stock market, doesn't mean the economy is recovering. It just means enough people think so.
3- The capital requirements of the big banks were definited by the stress tests, which had too optimistic assumptions even in the worst case scenarios. There must be some consequence to that.
Another thing... aren't many of the banks receiving money through AIG, which got bailed out by several hundreds of billions? AIG is now essentially a way to funneling money to banks and other institutions, with less transparency.
There are so many bailout programs that it gets hard to follow the money these days:
http://www.realestatechannel.com/us-markets/commercial-real-estate-1/bob-knakal-2009-new-york-commercial-real-estate-trends-troubled-asset-relief-fund-tarp-office-market-rates-469.php
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