While we’re on the topic of fake news… how about we assess the fake economy of the last eight years?
President Obama at one point claimed that those who questioned the strength of the recovery were “peddling fiction.”
It’s an interesting claim given the entire recovery, at least post 2010, has been built on fake economic data to perpetuate a fake narrative of growth.
A few key items…
While the 'deplorable' half of America was greatly relieved when Donald Trump pulled off his establishment-upsetting victory, there is another group of Americans that may be even more pleased. Goldman Sachs' top executives had over 1 million stock option grants due to expire worthless next week, but thanks to an unprecedented spike in the stock since the election, Bloomberg reports Lloyd Blankfein and friends have cashed out, selling hundreds of millions in stock in the last week.
Submitted by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com,
Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom described how personal freedoms are progressively eroded by the state in the name of the common good.
By the SRSrocco Report,
The world is sitting at the edge of a massive deflationary cliff. Even though Central Banks are desperately trying to keep the world's financial assets from plunging down into the great depression below, signs suggest they are losing the battle.
In light of expectations that the Trump fiscal stimulus plan will unleash a new Golden Age for the US economy, driven in part by the repatriation of hundreds of billions in funds held offshore, yesterday we showed a disturbing analysis from Citigroup according to which the bank's share-shrinker portfolio has soared relative to the S&P following the US election. The implication was clear: as fas as the market is concerned, much if not all of the capital repatriated from overseas will be promptly returned to shareholders, and maybe much of the corporate tax cut as well.