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Fed Sheds No Light, Plays Charades with Media; Tiptoe Balancing Act Fed Says Little, Sheds No Light If the Fed had a clue as to what it will do in September, it likely would have said so. Instead, it reiterated the same hash we have been hearing for years. Here is the complete text of today’s FOMC Press Release
Actually, regulators were never in control in the first place. It only appears that way when things are going well. Shorts Not the Problem Shorts are not the problem here
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Here is a lengthy snip from Bargo’s recent, well-written article Public Pensions Prove Zero Sum Economics . One of the major appeals in Democrat presidential campaigns is to explain to voters that they need Democrats in office to take money away from the rich. And since the rich own big corporations, they will pay workers as little as possible.
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