Doug Noland: Bubbles & Schemes

``Perhaps it's coincidence that the ECB is commencing a major new liquidity operation just as the Fed's QE winds down. Clearly, the "Draghi plan" to bolster fragile European peripheral debt markets should be viewed as a sophisticated financial scheme. Thus far, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) shows no indication that its "money" printing scheme is ending anytime soon. And despite all the talk that the Chinese were serious about financial and economic reform, they apparently took one alarming look at rapidly unfolding systemic fragilities and opted to let their historic Bubble run. The Chinese Bubble is a government-dictated financial scheme of epic proportions. ''