That 1000 pound Gorilla is Amazon. Bernanke gives huge amounts of funny money at free interest to banks who then only lend it at very low rates to the richest and biggest organizations, and then some of them like Amazon are able with all that money to "pass it on to the consumer" but really aimed at driving all the smaller businesses which are the foundation of America into bankruptcy or decline. This is Bernanke's vision for America, not just a lot of huge business structures but other than service industry ONLY huge business structures.
I sure wish Congress would rein in the Federal Reserve. They need to give them bottom and top interest rates allowed and if they can't do their "thing" in that defined range, then Congress has to take all the blame. This country is rotting at the economic foundation while Bernanke, the banks, the stock market has a giant party on money we all will have to pay back in higher taxes one day, or face the "secret" taxation of inflation, eventually. We have a "Tulip" stock market right now, but it won't last and then it will all start to fall apart.
Interest rates that are too low, and especially when most of that is lent to the rich, makes everyone else even poorer, robs those with savings trying to live on interest earned incomes such as the seniors, puts down smaller businesses who can't compete against the free money party going on at the top. In this economy it's get big or die.
Is it the "Walmart effect"? Maybe, but they at least did it during some of the hardest economic times. This is the "Bernanke Effect" going on today, and the pigs are at the trough, slopping it up, while the smaller ones are pushed out of the way, or manage to grab some of the crumbs.

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