With the federal reserve pumping out money like nobodies business, the resulting inflation is a major brake on the economy.  It also results in less profits for companies, less income growth for employees etc.<p>The only people it really benefits are wall street and other politically well connected entities (solyndra et. al.)<p>The government is basically sucking up all of the value from advances in technology ,and redirecting it to the political class who then profit from the carry trade of investing it in the stock market and the like.<p>Ironically, of course, none of the mainstream candidates for president will fight this, though many of them are trying to get elected on the backs of the outrage over &quot;income inequality&quot;... and this comment is likely to be buried because it points out a crime committed under both Bush and Obama and nobody wants to admit their guy is a bad guy.