Rick Santelli goes bonkers attacking QE and the fed

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Pretty much sums up my frustration with QE, easy money and the federal reserve. All it has done is prop up the stock market, which is essentially bailing out the mega banks and further enriching the wealthy.

I would love for someone on this board to defend QE. I know people on the money board do.

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First, Santelli says the Fed has done enough (and it hasn't worked "but to get the market higher") to which Liesman's "but higher interest rates won't help" argument is backed up by more counterfactuals of "just think how bad it would have been" without the Fed. Santelli's screamfest rightly attests that we do not know - we might have been well on our way to recovery by now... and adds that - despite Liesman's imploring, "the Fed was not created to be a feel-good institution."

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Finally, slamming the herd of zombified analysts and talking-heads that follow sheep-like the Fed's every word off the inevitable cliff, Santelli blasts (unafraid to stand up for the jobless Americans not driving their new Rolls-Royce on the back of levered 'wealth creation' in stocks), "This is America! We don't follow consensus, we set it!"

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The "people" never caused the crisis that the Fed bailed the banks out of... Liesman cannot let "low rates" go and Santelli explains how capital will come out if it can get a decent return and the status quo thinkers have it backwards... "The Fed was not created to be a feel good instituion"

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Simply put - the market's unstoppable rise provides any and every talking head status-quo apologist with the ammunition to "prove" the fed was right... when all the data shows it has done little if anything but bail out banks, enrich the wealthy, increase inequality, and shows no signs of stopping...

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