Jerome Powell, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, has more than $11 million of his personal funds invested with BlackRock, a private investment management firm the Fed has chosen to run its $750-billion corporate bond-buying program, as reported in Wall Street on Parade. According to government-mandated financial disclosure forms, Powell has as much as...
Tag: may 12 2020
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U.S. MARKETS
Last Friday, in a further disconnect between Main Street and Wall Street, the Dow shot up 455 points because unemployment numbers came in a bit lower than feared… despite erasing a decade of job gains. The NASDAQ rose 71 to 9,192, registering its sixth consecutive day of gains. Despite a broad range of dismal economic...
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BUSINESS IS BACK. NO RECOVERY.
Malls in at least ten states have reopened for business… but shoppers are not flocking to them. Shopping hubs in Florida, Georgia, and Texas were open but saw few cars in their parking lots last week. Many mall stores remain closed even though the malls themselves are open. Food courts greet few diners. Children’s play...
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SMILE! YOU’RE ON SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS
When the hard lockdown eases, returning to work will be more closely watched than ever before: Thermal cameras, which have the ability to measure body heat, have been installed at a large office tower in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center. PricewaterhouseCoopers announced it is releasing a phone app for employers that give them the ability to track...
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MEDIA/POLITICAL HYPE MINUS THE FACTS
On Sunday, the Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, another daddy’s boy born on third base and thought he hit a home run with a better-than-thou attitude – whose family is the 15th wealthiest in the world – defended his stay-at-home dictate and slow reopening plans, saying Illinois residents must comply with the way things are...
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OPENING UP RULES: SCIENCE FICTION, NO SCIENTIFIC FACTS
Name the country, name the state, name the city… different places with different rules made up by different leaders in charge. Across Europe, nations are reopening their economies. And each country makes up reopening laws. In Germany, retail stores will be reopening but will have restrictions on permissible percentages of occupancy. Restaurants will be allowed...
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THE FED IS HYPERINFLATING
by Gregory Mannarino It is unprecedented. This past February, the Federal Reserve began to hyperinflate its balance sheet (see circled area above) in an attempt to funnel epic sums of capital directly into the grasping hands of the mega corporations and the Wall Street banks. A sudden drop in the U.S. stock market sparked this...
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THE “GREATEST DEPRESSION” IS HERE
When factoring in the real numbers, unemployment in the United States is back to Great Depression levels. The actual U.S. unemployment rate is almost 20 percent, not the official 14.7 percent reported, according to the U.S. Labor Department. The official figure should include people “furloughed” – on temporary unpaid leave – but does not, the...
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