Born into a Big 5 investment banking family, I quit organized financial racketeering to go straight. MacDougal Irving is my Blogger Protection Identity, and I am a retired Certified Public Accountant and, like all of us, a badly misinformed investor. These are my observations on capital market cons as they were explained to me across the dinner table as a kid.
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March 6, 2015
Washington Covers up Unemployment/Underemployment Rate Exceeding 60% amidst an Earnings Recession
With something like 34.5 % of the nation collecting welfare and another maybe 30% forced into taking sh1t jobs because theirs are either 1) "outsourced" to Asia, 2) lost to freaking robots or 3) denied to them by corporate goons buying back stock instead of investing in jobs, how can the Liar-in-Chief talk about anything but a real-life unemployment/underemployment rate of maybe 64.5% or whatever it is? And yet, there he went again today, pointing to another fraudulent number designed solely to let Washington cretins claim they're doing a great job. We don't even know what the crackpot "statistic" came to, and could care less. It's totally imaginary, signifying absolutely nothing but smoke and mirrors.
And the Fed continues to rig the financial markets so that the pack of them can get away with it.
Here's a Seeking Alpha piece by James A. Kostohryz that is worth talking about; we've been here before, on the same perilous stretch of road, and recall enlightened observers bringing it up at those times too:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2978956-the-earnings-recession-of-2015-stock-market-in-danger?isDirectRoadblock=false&uprof=44