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Economics Federal Reserve Financial Sector

How The Federal Reserve Steals from the Poor and Gives to the Rich

Federal Reserve policies are effectively stealing $54k from the typical family every year.

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Federal Reserve

Zombie Companies Will Lead to America’s Lost Decade

Much of the massive amount of new money the Fed is printing is going into Zombie Companies. How Zombie Companies Survive Zombie Companies are firms that don’t survive by producing value for their customers. Instead, they survive by parasitically draining resources from the overall economy by borrowing at near 0% interest from the Federal Reserve. […]

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Economics Federal Reserve

Top 1% Received all of the $4 Trillion Printed in 2020

The $4 trillion created by the Federal Reserve as part of the 2020 stimulus program appears to have gone entirely to the top 1% wealthiest people in the world.

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Economics Federal Reserve Government Spending

When the government prints new money, who gets it?

The primary recipients of newly created money are currently banks and corporations who are able to borrow from the Fed almost 0% interest and loan this to the public at much higher interest rates.

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Corporate Welfare Federal Reserve Financial Sector GDP

Financial Sector Costs Us More than Any Other Sector In Economy

The financial sector receives more of the average paycheck than any other sector of the economy.  Its share of the economy totals $2 trillion dollars. In 1985, the financial sector earned less than 16% of domestic corporate profits.  Today, it’s over 40%. In the 1960s, finance and insurance accounted for only 4% of GDP, whereas in 2007 […]

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Debt Economics Federal Reserve Financial Sector

Housing Bubble Wastes $2 Trillion on 14 Million Empty Houses

Empty houses in the US = 14 million. Median Home Price = $160,000. Money Wasted on Building Unneeded Homes = $2 trillion. Why would Americans be so dumb as to build 14 million houses they didn’t need?  The two primary reasons we built too many houses are: The United States spends more than $100 billion annually to subsidize homeownership.  The mortgage […]