Fed Economist Fired for Investigating Suspicious 9-11 Cash Transfers;

Interesting story with charts and video posted over at zero hedge.

Submitted by EB on 07/25/2013

Would you be surprised to learn that tens of billions in cold, hard cash was shuffled around just prior to 9-11 by none other than the Fed itself?  Probably not.  Here's a graph, illustrating the change in USD currency production over a ten week period prior to 9-11 compared to the average over the five years prior (which, by the way, includes the Y2K money printing orgy in the year 2000 itself, which skews the average higher):

That's right.  The average increase was $8 billion over five years, but it exploded to $18 billion just prior to that fateful day.  None other than a Federal Reserve economist discovered this and was promptly fired for his efforts to reveal the cause.  The official story involves an Argentine currency crisis.  Clearly, this required his termination.  We interviewed him, and this is his story at 2:49 in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Z2kiAoCjs&list=PLdaYcumF-5RqlcvcVJkOtnYkgJhzzsed_

We also discuss shipments of cash to Afghanistan and Iraq.  And, Justine Underhill explains just who Benny's money-printing IOER profligacy is actually benefitting (answer: foreign banks, a topic covered on Zero Hedge here and by us at EPJ here).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J8Z2kiAoCjs&t=584

Finally, in case you missed it, we interviewed Steve Keen last week, and at 2:54 he breaks down the difference between different economic religions (the neoclassical school, Keynseyian, post-Keynseyian and other oft-conflated economic taxonomies).  We also discuss the role of banks (5:55), whether we have true capitalism (6:20), the crisis of confidence in the US Dollar (8:20), the Fed's rescue of debtors, not creditors (9:40), how stock margin debt drives stock prices (10:20), and why it's all about the leverage (liquidity?) at 11:05.

At 19:57, we debate him on the merrits of the mortgage jubilee.  

Here's the interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvQWDBqJ6k

Full Story:

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-07-25/fed-economist-fired-investigating-suspicious-9-11-cash-transfers-and-steve-ke

Great Interview

The most interesting comments are between 3 minutes and 9:46 minutes on the video. The economist suggests that while the cash increase may have been due to a problem in Argentina, it may have been needed for pre-9/11 CIA activities in Afghanistan. He concludes that given the current Congressional interest in cash flowing to the Afghan president, the pre-9/11 cash increase and it's possible connection to Afghanistan is certainly a situation that should be investigated.