This article was written by Michael Krieger and originally published at Liberty Blitzkrieg.
Editor’s Comment: This has been the period of the great looting. The Federal Reserve’s zero percent interest rate has been a wealth transfer to the most rich and powerful on Wall Street, in spite of or perhaps because of the destructive role they played in 2008. The recovery has been hollow and false, and the entire system has been set up to fail once again.
Bank of America Admits – Central Bank Policy Enriched Wall Street While “Steamrolling” Main Street
by Michael Krieger
Wall Street is counting its winnings from seven years of easy money.
The results represent a clear victory for Wall Street over Main Street, according to the team of Michael Hartnett, BofA’s chief investment strategist.
“Zero rates and asset purchases of central banks have, thus far, proved much more favorable to Wall Street, capitalists, shadow banks, ‘unicorns,’ and so on than it has for Main Street, workers, savers, banks and the jobs market,” the BofA team wrote.
– From the Bloomberg article: Here’s How Much QE Helped Wall Street Steamroll Main Street
In a refreshing bit of honesty from “Too Big to Fail and Jail” Wall Street firm Bank of America, the American peasants are informed about a reality with which they are all too familiar. That the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve Bank bailed out the rich and powerful, while leaving average citizens high and dry.
It always amuses me when I come across a mainstream media headline to the effect of: “Why are Americans still so angry?”
Why are Americans so angry? Let’s see. Perhaps it’s because one of the greatest heists in American history was just perpetrated against them by their own government in collusion with the largest multi-national corporations and the country’s most undemocratic institution, the Federal Reserve Bank.
Because not only were the individuals who caused the most severe financial crisis in recent memory not punished for their crimes, but they were showered with trillions and trillions of dollars in bailouts and taxpayer backstops, and made far wealthier than they were before the crisis they caused.
Because 99.99% of the population have been crushed by this policy of “socialism for oligarchs” and they feel the intense pain of this decent into poverty every single day of their live.
That’s why Americans are still angry, and if more of them understood what actually happened, they’d be much more angry.
Moving along, Bank of America essentially admitted the above in a recent research report. As explained by Bloomberg:
Wall Street is counting its winnings from seven years of easy money.
In a report sent to clients on Sunday, Bank of America Corp. strategists totted up the results of 606 global interest-rate cuts since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the $12.4 trillion of central bank asset purchases following the rescue of Bear Stearns Cos.
The results represent a clear victory for Wall Street over Main Street, according to the team of Michael Hartnett, BofA’s chief investment strategist.
For every job created in the U.S. this decade, companies spent $296,000 buying back their stocks, according to the New York-based bank.
An investment of $100 in a portfolio of stocks and bonds since the Federal Reserve began quantitative easing would now be worth $205. Over the same time, a wage of $100 has risen to just $114.
“Zero rates and asset purchases of central banks have, thus far, proved much more favorable to Wall Street, capitalists, shadow banks, ‘unicorns,’ and so on than it has for Main Street, workers, savers, banks and the jobs market,” the BofA team wrote.
Meanwhile, the single most destructive man in modern American history roams free while working at a massive hedge fund as compensation for his shameless bailout of Wall Street at the entire nation’s expense:
For related articles on how the Federal Reserve poured gasoline over the middle class and set it ablaze, see:
The Oligarch Recovery – U.S. Military Veterans are Selling Their Pensions in Order to Pay the Bills
The Oligarch Recovery – 30 Million Americans Have Tapped Retirement Savings Early in Last 12 Months
The Oligarch Recovery – Low Income Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Any Metro Area
The Oligarch Recovery – 30 Million Americans Have Tapped Retirement Savings Early in Last 12 Months
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