You Got Trumped! Trump tax plan taxing for the maestro of negotiation?

Economic recovery doesn't come in the form of trickle-down handouts from the rich.

Is coming up with a Trump tax plan overtaxing the maestro of negotiation as he tries to conduct his way through congress? An initial clue can be found in his tax-related repeal of Obamacare. The all-important Obamacare repeal got repealed by Paul Ryan — the very person who proposed it — in a matter of days. Who could have guessed reforming healthcare could be so hard? (Everyone but Trump?)

“We learned something,” Trump said defensively. No. TRUMP learned something. Never did I think reforming Obamacare would be the hundred-day slam-dunk that Trump promised over and over. (Now, he’s trying with Obamacare again, after warning Republicans in read-my-lips style that he wouldn’t … but without a lot of evidence of progress.)

There is this thing called “congress,” President Trump, and you’re stuck with it. Sad to hear you are learning that on the job — sad for all of us — but that’s the way it is with people who endlessly shoot their mouths off with a lot of (apparently) hot air about all they’re going to do and how great it will be. They are almost always bigger on talk than they are on delivery.

Because Trump has zero influence with congress, the maestro of negotiation has been doing most of his work by decree, rather than by negotiation. Even that has, as I warned in my articles about euphoria in the stock market, largely failed. (My claim having been that the Trump Rally is continually in peril because it is built on imagination of what will happen.)

Where Trump has done what he promised, he’s largely failed so far, and where he is succeeding it is by doing the opposite of what he promised. To wit, President Trump’s first decree issued on his first day in office in order to look like rapid progress was a hiring freeze on all federal government offices.

It made for nice show and tell, which Trump loves, but government turned out to need those new people, and so government work started backing up badly in departments that Trump likes, such as Veteran’s Affairs. Prisons started running short on guards. The backlog of work that wasn’t getting done became so bad in less than Trump’s first hundred days, that the president lifted the hiring freeze this month even though none of the restructuring that was supposed to have been planned during the freeze has taken place.

The word that’s out says that making those staffing cuts will take more time … maybe a lot more time. Team Trump is now postulating savings will be seen in the 2019 budget! (Do we ever see savings that far out actually materialize? The savings are always promised to happen in the days of a new congress that will decide for itself what is going to be cut, thanks.) Who could have guessed reforming government would be so hard, right? When the reform does happen, though, “it’s going to be a beautiful thing.”

Then there was the travel ban, done in a ham-fisted manner that created momentary chaos and alarm, though it has gone nowhere since then.

So far, the few areas where Trump has actually attempted to do what he said he would do have either failed to work out at all, or they have certainly not worked out “great,” as promised. It is not those total failures or tilting successes that bother me, given that we don’t even reach the close of his first hundred days until the end of this week, so much as it is all the areas in which Trump has completely reversed himself. (See the lead article in this series: “You Got Trumped! Winning horse in presidential race was Trojan.”)

 

Trump Tax Plan bounces around on the Trumpoline

 

The Trump Tax Plan is one of the areas where Trump has not quite reversed himself and seems to be trying to do what he said he would, but he also seems to be bounding all over the place. Today, we are promised we will finally see progress on a Trump Tax Plan, but the faltering has already been considerable:

This new Trump Tax Plan will be Trump’s fourth tax plan in one year. The flaws in the first plan, which he put up during his candidacy, were so roundly ridiculed and beyond argumentative support, that Trump trashed that plan and came up with a new plan while he was still just a candidate. After he was elected, he had Larry Kudlow, the idiot, and Steven Moore build out the new plan into a new, new Trump Tax Plan. Now that he’s been inaugurated, he’s also trashed Kudlow plan or is substantially revising it by having his Goldman-Sachs boys come up with something else.

I have no problem with trashing the Kudlow plan because I think capital-gains tax breaks are stupid anyway. Why give the people who work the least and make the most the biggest breaks just so they can go speculate their savings back into pumping up an over-pumped stock market? (And why on earth would they invest that money in factories when the savings are in capital gains, and the fastest way to those are through buying and selling stocks, not building factories?)

However, even Trump’s big tax planners are wondering what is taking so long:

 

Larry Kudlow, a veteran economist who advised Trump’s campaign, expressed dismay that the president hadn’t yet released a tax plan. He said he was beginning to wonder whether the president is about to walk back his pledge to cut taxes. “What is their product?” Kudlow asked. “It doesn’t make any sense to me. I’m not giving up hope. But it’s looking very shaky to me.” (Politico)

 

Michael Moore, who partnered with Kudlow on crafting the president’s previous tax plan, said,

 

They’re all over the map. I don’t know if they’re listening or not.

 

Hopefully, they’re not listening to Crazy Larry or Mister Moore because the new, new Trump Tax Plan was an idiotic return to trickle-down economics, which has never worked as promised, as I wrote about in an article titled “Trump Tax Plan Turns the Donald into Trickle-Down King.” So, while it may be good for Trump to take more time and revisit this, his refusal to put that plan forward also indicates I was right in that article to criticize the plan. It was another mistake caused by putting, as I wrote then, total establishment shills in charge of the new, new tax plan. (Whether Trump will come up with anything better now remains to be seen later in the day.)

None of these plans have yet made it to congressional debate, and the necessary delay makes me wonder if Trump’s pivot back to working covertly on Obamacare Repeal II — even after he boldly warned the Republicans that the last repeal act was their only chance this year — was because he needs to stall for time for Gary Cohn and Steven Mnuchin, the former Goldman-Sachs Execs. to come up with a new master plan. Hence Kudlow and Moore profess to being in the dark about what is happening because Trump is ditching that plan and doesn’t want more input from them. That would explain why Trump keeps saying its essential to work out Obamacare first. (Let’s watch to see if Obamacare comes to another failure once the new tax plan is released.)

 

Trumpeting the Trump Tax Plan

 

Clearly, Trump is not a leader with ideas of his own. He has built his reputation and his candidacy by blowing his own horn as great leader because he hires the best and the brightest and right people to do the job. Apparently, he failed on that, or we would have received the Kudlow-Moore tax plan. I’m equally concerned about the next people he has chosen to create his fourth tax plan. I don’t trust GS executives to come up with a tax plan that is good for the little guy and the middle guy. Cohn claims his completely new plan will focus on the Middle Class (meaning it won’t just be trickle-down where you hope to catch the drips that slip through the fingers of the wealthy). Great if it does, but that will surprise me.

The point for this article is not whether the Cohn plan will be better than the Kudlow plan, but that Trump is massively switching all over the place all the time and putting the wrong people in charge. That’s what people do who sailed in as the anti-establishment champion once the mighty establishment goes into its brilliantly smooth mode of remaking them and grooming them.

Trump knows the clock is not on his side when it comes to his stock rally holding, given that it’s been slipping impatiently the entire time he’s been redrafting his fourth plan, so he wouldn’t start over from with Cohn unless he either came to see that the Kudlow plan was a disaster (as the congressional accounting office said it was) or his Goldman Boys wanted something different. (The market’s spike back up in the last few days has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with France.)

To buy more time, Trump promised us, exactly as he said in advance of the Kudlow plan, that he’ll be coming out with a great plan on Wednesday … “or a little later.” So here we are, but remember that Mnuchin once said he hoped to get his plan all the way through congressional approval by August? That has now been revised to his saying he hopes they will get it passed by the end of the year. Remember that Trump’s original big promise was to have a complete overhaul of the the tax system before congress within his first two or three weeks in office. Time keeps on slipping….

If the plan does make it out today, let’s hope this new, new, New Trump Tax Plan is greater than all the previous great plans because the law of diminishing returns is rapidly applying to Trump’s mouth. His announcement last week that the new, new, new plan will be “the biggest tax break ever” got only a whimper of a rise out of the stock market.

Even the euphoric Wall St. Casino seems to be getting weary of big talk with no delivery. (Perhaps that is the true significance of a big mouth with small hands.) It would be better to follow the Teddy Roosevelt principal of small talk and big delivery where your words gain power over time, rather than lose power because people get used to your delivering less than you promise … or nothing at all. Trump is losing power because he over-promises and under-delivers. That usually is the downside to a lot of bragging.

 

Is tax triage about to begin in order to save the Trump Tax Plan?

 

The next few days should be telling. Two months ago, I warned,

 

Where we will start to get into trouble is if the red meat Trump offered to stockholders in the form of mountains of tax breaks starts to fade toward a more distant horizon. Then his red-hot tongue may become the dominant market influence. The market may stop breathing helium and floating ever higher…. Things [will] start drifting downward unless we start seeing accomplishments on taxes, infrastructure and Obamacare.

 

Trump has huge opposition even within his own party, so “divide and conquer” leaves all democrats and half the Republicans against him. [Trump’s divide and conquer] will not likely put any meat on the table in the next year or two (in terms of either his infrastructure stimulus plan or his tax plan). Trump’s tax changes may simply come too late to save the deeply flawed economy from its own more deeply flawed recovery.(“Will Trump’s Talk Turn the Trump Rally into Lasting Gold or End in the Trump Dump?”)

 

So far, that is what we are seeing as the date for anticipated approval moved to the end of this year, and the market started to cool. Many were hoping something would be in place in the first half of the year. Even the tax planners were dismayed by the delays of their brilliant craftsmanship.

A few days later, I wrote,

 

The euphoric rise of the US stock market has formed almost entirely from speculation about Trump’s tax cuts and infrastructure spending, so it is likely to lose steam now that postponement of those plans shows sentiment outpaced reality. (“2017 Economic Forecast: Global Headwinds Look Like Mother of All Storms“)

 

While I still believe, as I did in January, that Trump will get some form of tax reduction in place this year, I’ve said all along that the market is irrational for banking up so high because it will all be too little too late to save the Fed’s failing recovery. I would expect, if Trump’s plan today contains enough red meat for the market dogs, that the rally will resume for a short time. If Trump fails to deliver a plan, it will start to fall again. If the red meat does get thrown to the dogs in congress, it will get chewed up, and the dog fight will give plenty of time and reason for the market to falter again … and again.

Consider how the Obamacare repeal failed because only a few people developed the plan while keeping it out of view of most Republicans who would have to vote for it until the last minute. That wasn’t exactly the masterful negotiation about which the maestro has long blown his horn. It was more of a pathetic cacophony. That same strategy has been used for the new, new, new tax plan. So, why expect different results? The Senate panel that will have to vote on it just to get it before the entire senate was only given a peak yesterday.

Let the wild ruckus begin!

Already, we are being told that the border-adjustment tax has been removed in order to help the plan get through congress, and we learned in the last few days that the separate spending bill for this year, which must happen by the end of the week, will include no funding for a border wall. Trump merely used the border wall as a negotiation chip, and said he may bring it up again in September. As what? A handy chip to be used again?

So, in the very least, this tax and budget negotiation is showing us that changes at the border are taking a back seat, even though those are the things Trump talked about most. And that kind of give-and-take that is essential to negotiation demonstrates why I’ve said the market rally was nothing but irrational exuberance. There will be many months in finding out what survives negotiation, and Obamacare demonstrated that the maestro may be a little tone-deaf when it comes to conducting his score before congress.

 

It’s too early to actually say you got Trumped with the Trump Tax Plan (by a few hours perhaps), but it’s been a bouncy path trying to get to a plan and slower than Trump promised. So far, every Trump plan has included a large capital-gain tax cut, and one thing is certain about that kind of cut: it will never trickle down to you unless you make most of your money speculating in stocks, bonds, and real estate, but it will make a LOT of money for real-estate developers like Donald Trump.

Supply-side tax cuts are the biggest reason the rich have gotten so much richer while the middle class has dwindled. If Cohn is true to his word about retargeting the new, new, New Trump Tax Plan to help the middle class, the new plan will contain no special tax rate for capital-gains income, treating it equally with everyone else’s class of income; but it’s hard to believe a Goldman boy would not include a lovely cap-gains tax cut for the people in his world with some candy thrown in for the middle class to win their approval.

 

(If the plan does come out today as promised, I may add an addendum to this article on my own blog, so check the version of the article on the blog later to see where the end of the day takes us. Maybe I’ll have to recant some things, or maybe the next cacophony will begin. I decided not to wait and see what comes before publishing this because it is much more fun to step out on a limb. You can watch me saw off the limb I’m standing on if the new, new New Trump Tax Plan turns out to be a masterplan for the middleman. I hope I’m wrong. My guess is that the best we’ll see, given all the delays so far, is a general synopsis of where the plan is going, but we won’t see a detailed plan that congress can start working on.)

 

 

UPDATE ON THE TRUMP TAX PLAN:

 

The big announcement of the really, really big Trump Tax Plan has happened, and the stock market has closed for today, and … there is clearly nothing to recant. The next article about the plan that just came out can be found here: “Tiny Trump Hands Deliver Teeny Tiny Tax Plan, US Stocks Collapse in Despair.”

 

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6 Comments

  1. Ping from Auldenemy:

    Having just seen the outcome of what was pushed by Goldman-Trump as a, ‘Big Announcement’ coming Wednesday on tax, it seems more like a damp squib. This exert from a recent ZH post means you are not in line to eat humble pie David (and nor do I need to join you in it).

    ‘Some parting thoughts:: as Time’s Zeke Miller notes this Trump tax plan is the same as the one released last fall. “If his team has been working on it for the last 6mos, we didn’t see it 2day.”

    Additionally, while the proposed tax plan does not raise taxes on hedge fund managers, as Trump vowed during his campaign, courtesy of the cut in LLC tax rates, it will likely lower the taxes many if not all HF managers pay.

    And, of course, with the state deduction gone, it means that for many Americans the net effect will be to raise, not lower the amount of tax owed.’

    Endless, ‘Big’ and, ‘Yuuge’ in Trumphonia world matched by no real changes of policy.

    • Ping from Knave_Dave:

      One could look at it this way: If it took six months for your yuuuge tax team to get from what you had then to this single page, how long will it take to get a plan fully coded in law? Yikes!

  2. Ping from Auldenemy:

    Firstly I love the cartoon you use at the beginning of your article. It again mirrors the situation here, on the other side of the pond (Britain). There are a few honest voices here pointing out that all we have had since the massive bankster bailouts is a, ‘Trickle Up’ economy. Those on low wages and the unemployed have been hammered with austerity while a Conservative government Chancellor went and gave a nice tax cut to those on the highest incomes! That Chancellor, George Osborne, was booted when our then Prime Minister, David Cameron, ran away (resigned) immediately after the Brexit result he thought could never happen, happened. The pair of them are born into wealth, clueless chumps. Osborne has gone on to make nearly a £1 million in less than a year by giving talks to big UK and USA banksters and mutli nationals. He now has, ‘six’ official jobs except they aren’t jobs at all, merely the pay backs for carrying out policies that protected and enriched the already rich (senior banksters and senior big corp. guys). Osborne is loathed in the UK for being a greedy, self serving worm. He used the financial crisis to punish the poorest while rewarding the very people who caused it (banksters).

    It seems the USA has done exactly the same. The rich have got ever richer since 2008, the middle and working classes have got poorer. So unless Trump does produce a tax plan that helps middle and working class Americans then I think he can forget re-election in 2020. With middle America bearing the brunt of the failed Obama Care, I don’t see them putting up with multi nationals getting a nice big reduction in corporation tax while they get nothing or only an irrelevant cut in their own taxes. As you say, Big Corp. world has already gorged at the Fed’s QE and virtual ZIRP policy trough (for the years now!). All that lovely, free loaned money for buybacks so as to pump up their stock valuations, rewarding already over paid CEOs and their richest shareholders in the process while doing nothing for the US economy. Buybacks don’t create new factories and new jobs, they just expand the circle of wealth that belongs to the few.

    The S&P500 is a masterpiece of fake monetary policies along with the PPT always ready to turn any flashing red lights back to green. The one thing I did predict over two years ago (and stated on the Goldseek site), was that I could easily see the S&P500 reaching ever new highs even as the US economy sank towards another recession. I was ridiculed by other commentators who rightly pointed out that I am not even a trader and the articles on Goldseek back then predicting an imminent S&P500 crash were written by professional analysts who are traders. I couldn’t seem to get anyone to understand that in my view the S&P500 had turned into a complete fake after 2008, that the Fed monetary policies were designed for two reasons, keeping failed and corrupt banksters rich and getting the stock market blown up again so as to get everything back to bubble land.

    I truly started to realise that the S&P500 was NOT a free market, but a completely gamed one. Even one ex Fed member came out and admitted that QE had, ‘Juiced stocks and front loaded the S&P500. QE and ZIRP were like heroin to the markets’. So I even pushed my belief, saying that monetary policy in the USA was now so completely insane that when the next recession hits I could even see the parasites at the wheel (government/Fed/Banksterville), still throwing everything at the S&P500 so as to defy reality and be able to say, ‘No, we aren’t in recession. Look at stocks. They are doing just great’ (this when millions of Americans will be living in abject poverty). I truly do see that scenario as possible. It has certainly started to play out, as in all true economic metrics for the USA (from manufacturing to exports to auto loans are turning lower but the S&P500 keeps going higher!). It would seem that the S&P500 is a mirror of Trump himself, as in nothing but hot air!

    The same is true of the UK and EU stock markets. There is a symbiosis with the USA. Where America goes the UK and EU follow.

    France is about to get a President every bit as fake as Trump, little Emmanuel Macron, in his silk suits; an ex Rothschild bankster, a multi millionaire spouting garbage about there being, ‘No France, just Europe and liberty!’. Considering France has been under a state of, ’emergency’ for over a year now (due to repeated terrorist attacks by extreme Muslim elements), freedom in France is not exactly what it was before the EU parasites, aided by George Soros, decided to import mass, Muslim immigration from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. It is incredible that an unknown, mediocre nobody suddenly appears one year ago with a fully funded political party and he just happens to be a Rothschild boy. It shows not only the power of the bankster parasites but how crafty they are. Realising people are sick and tired of parties that are all the same, they invent a new one and plonk the little silk worm, Macron, on top of this new variety of political vegetation, precisely to fool people into thinking they are going to get something different. Except it isn’t different, it is the same, mouldy old potato painted a different colour and sold as an exotic fruit! Now the MSM in the UK and EU are portraying him as, ‘The new JFK’. It is absurd, he is a Pygmy compared to JFK. The only common denominator is that like JFK he has wealth.

    Like you David, I will also freely eat humble pie if Trump does come out with a tax plan that puts the working people of the USA before the tax interests of its biggest companies. I would be delighted to be proved wrong and for ordinary, hard citizens in the USA to get some actual respect for a change. So far Trump has been all words and no deeds. If he comes good on tax cuts for American workers then I will be the first to acknowledge that. Here’s hoping.

    Multum In Parvo

    • Ping from Knave_Dave:

      Interesting thought that the economy in the US may die with stocks continuing to rise. I was just writing to Kim on another article and saying that it’s almost impossible (to me anyway) to see at this point what piece will fall first — whether the stock market will bring things down as the first piece to slide, or the bond market, or all the defaulting home, auto and student loans, the breakup of the Eurozone, the oil industry, etc. They’re all running neck-and-neck for the finish line.

      You are right that it is even possible that, while one of these economic areas brings the economy down, stocks could go up because the Fed has already talked about buying stocks directly. Maybe the cover story you describe is exactly why they are talking about that now, as they already know it’s their exit plan — to create a mirage that the economy must be still doing fine because the rich are still getting richer — in order to suck the last remaining juice out of the marrow of those the cannibals are eating.

      • Ping from Auldenemy:

        Thanks for not thinking me insane on my theory of an ever rising S&P500 against an ever imploding USA economy. As I said, I made that prediction over 2 years ago on Goldseek (in response to the hysterical Andy Hoffman constantly telling everyone to buy gold and silver bullion from the company he works for because the S&P500 was about to crash). His followers chided me with, ‘Andy is an expert’, ‘Andy worked in Wall St.’, ‘You have admitted you are not even a trader so butt out’, etc etc etc. Well time has already proved me partly correct. Here we are in 2017 and the S&P500 is a lot higher than in early 2015, this when oil is trading at half the price it was up until summer 2014 (and would be even lower if it hadn’t of been juiced by the OPEC cuts, also those banks who handed endless loans to the shale oil industry and can’t afford to see smaller players in it go bust due to oil under $40 a barrel). I haven’t heard the US national debt decreased since 2015. I haven’t read anywhere that defaulting student loans are much lower now, ditto the sub prime auto market. What I see in the US is what I see over here, as in less each year for Main St while more for the rich. My own income has been static for years but my out goings keep rising and my rent has sky-rocketed. So even with cheaper oil I buy less of it, both to heat my home in the winter and to run my car. I am not the exception, I am the rule post the 2008 financial crisis. I didn’t binge on debt, I am just one of the millions in the West who is paying for all those who did and never came good on it and I hold the banks responsible for that because they were throwing debt at everyone, even the unemployed were getting mortgages! I admit I never managed to build up much in savings but I did have an emergency fund and the 5% interest on it yearly meant it was shielded from inflation. When that 5% interest turned into 0.5% I took my money out of the hands of usury Banksterville and invested it in old coin types (always having had an interest in numismatics due to an even bigger interest in history). I would rather see my small savings turned into something I can at least pass on, or sell in a crisis, than just rot in a bank earning no interest. How many other people did the same in the West? No doubt many.

        So how did a not terribly bright, British citizen with no financial background see what the, ‘Great’ Andy Hoffman didn’t see? I saw it because unlike Hoffman I am not using a site to sell a product. I saw it because I tracked the S&P500, noticed its extraordinary habit of often rising after Fed meetings that delivered nothing but smoke and mirrors. I noticed how it was rising against a back drop of ever worsening global economic metrics and geo-political tensions, and rising in the teeth of the USA economy producing the worst growth under the two Obama terms than of any other USA President.

        If prior to 2008 I had had the power to see into the future (something only a few have, and you certainly did!), what would have most, self proclaimed, ‘Expert’ financial analysts have said if I had predicted an age where following the worst financial crash in modern global history, the Fed would lead the world into QE, ZIRP and NIRP and only a year after the crash of the S&P500 it would begin to recover and then year on year go higher and higher, breaking all highs of the past. Most would have declared me a complete fruit cake!

        You are the only person to acknowledge that even as things deteriorate further in the USA, the S&P500 may still continue higher. Considering how manipulated it is and so blatantly juiced, that scenario is not only possible but has been happening ever since I said so back in 2015. It has become ridiculous now. The MSM kept saying the market would plunge if Trump got in, in fact it went higher. It would appear that it only takes Trump to pop another, ‘Yuuuuge’ into a microphone and the S&P500 goes higher. It is as if the cartoon Trump is epitomising a now cartoon American approach to finance and markets, along with its cartoon stats. declaring full employment, (this when over 90 million Americans of working age are not in the work force). It is a cartoon that as you have predicted will turn into a horror movie. The horror movie may strike in the EU first, or the East if Trump whacks the pork pie in NK and it doesn’t go according to plan. As you say, there are so many different and competing ways this will end, but end it must and end it will and despite America being the most powerful nation on earth, a constantly goosed and juiced S&P500 is nothing more than a can kicking operation. It will neither, ‘Make America Great Again’ nor save it from the greed and profligacy of its banking and big corp. parasites (of which Trump is a fully paid up member).

        Multum In Parvo

        • Ping from Knave_Dave:

          I actually think the theory has a fair chance of happening. If the stock market starts to fail, I anticipate the Fed will do something to prop it up. Since the Fed’s already run the idea up the flag pole of buying stocks directly, they will probably do that as their next attempt to keep things looking good if they are not already doing it by proxies. And, since they have the capacity to create unlimited amounts of money, the end to their propping up the stock market is only reached when their money-printing causes too much inflation; but they can prop stocks up huge amounts, as already seen, without causing inflation because the money barely trickles into the main economy. Almost all of the inflation happens in the stock market where they want it. (The money just keeps circulating in endless rounds of speculation.) Therefore, propping up the stocks ALSO does very little to help the general economy, so the economy will keep sliding. I could easily see that happening.

          In that case, I may wind up wishing I’d stayed in stocks. From a purely financial sense, the market is overpriced and poorly founded, so I don’t feel comfortable putting my money there based on a throw of the dice as to what the Fed will do. If the Fed does start buying stocks, that’s a whole new game because it has a lot more power than creating money in the reserve accounts of banks and hoping they will buy stocks with it and hoping those boosts will cause speculators to buy stocks. If the Fed buys them directly, it doesn’t need any speculators.

          It should be illegal because that’s a totally rigged game the allows the banksters to buy up corporations everywhere. It’s the ultimate manipulated market where the Fed corners the whole thing.

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