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Smart Bird: Corrupt Beyond Pale
One wonders if the Fed would have sat at savings destroying zero percent interest rates for a decade or talk about going negative interest rates if they were suffering from their policies like pension funds and savers. Instead they are trading the tsunami of money printing like leverage hedge fund managers.
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Smart Bird: Stop Protecting Wall Street
Forget the rules, this is unethical, corrupt and should be criminal. They should all resign, but this is the world of the top and this is normal to them.
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Smart Bird: Wall Street brings China Fraud to US investors… for a profit of course
248 Chinese Companies with Off-Limit Audits and a Market Cap of Over $2.1 Trillion Are Listed on U.S. Exchanges – Now Congress Demands Action from the SEC 27 August 2021 the Martens The legislation also requires the listed companies to… Read More ›
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Is Biden on Our Side
“It would be nice, it would be nice, to have Biden on our side” (from the musical Hamilton)
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Smart Bird: US Banking System has $168 Trillion Nightmare Looming
Wall Street banks have rebuilt that derivatives doomsday machine today – a $168 trillion monster concentrated at four mega banks on Wall Street. But as we read through dozens of pages of written testimony submitted by witnesses for today’s Senate Banking hearing, the word “derivative” did not appear once.
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Hmmm…Clients locked out, but Insider fund earned 63% annualized for 40 years
“…no adequate rational market explanation for this performance.”
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Stock Market’s Biggest Threat: A Fair & Just Capitalistic Financial System
We have a socialist financial system where the big boys bail themselves out and skim from everyone else. And some want to fix it. The Marten’s highlighted the Senate Banking Committee’s attack on wall street this week. And it is… Read More ›
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How Corrupt Is Wall Street? Completely
I want to point out two articles today from the Marten’s. You should read them both. The first the Marten’s take excerpts from Wall Street Watchdogs and their comments on the current state of your financial system… corrupt & more… Read More ›
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Smart Bird: Robinhooders are the Product
…folks like my nephew actually aren’t your customer. They’re your product. Your customer is sitting right next to you, Mr. Griffin with Citadel.”
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Smart Bird: Do you wonder why Citadel pays your brokerage to execute trades instead of charging them?
Robinhood, E-Trade, TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, WeBull, Ally Invest Securities, First Trade, TradeStation and Fidelity all get paid to direct your orders to Citadel to execute trades according to the Marten’s 4 February article.