Hi there im max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know the stock market as a subset of the economy has undergone a transformation and become the plaything for speculators fueled by incredibly egregious money printing by a rogue central bank and this is causing all manner of dislocations mal investments in societal changes for more lets turn to Stacy Herbert hey well you know what something that you predicted would happen is happening and its coming true billionaires lining up to take their companies private so what will robin herders trade when everything has been l b. Right so as youve been saying on the show for a number of years all this money printing in the strategy of Companies Taking themselves private or buying back their own shares with the 0 percent Interest Rate would end up with a economy and a stock market that doesnt exist anymore because its all been taken private remember during the 1980 s. Michael milken introduced the revelation in the revolution in leveraged buyou
Public comment. Reminder to all participants to mute themselves to minimize background noise. Please note gray indicates unmuted. This is caption test. Use the live item 5 action item. Of the august 12, 2020 retirement Board Meeting. Its a motion for the august 12, 2020 Board Meeting. So moved. Madame president we received a request to the Administrative Changes to the minutes. She made Public Comment and we indicated she represented the retired employees. She would like the title of her organization to be spelled out in the minutes. I would propose that we make that one correction on page 9 [indiscernible]. Sorry for the interruption. Ill second it. Accept the change. Moved and seconded. Well adopt the minutes with the requested changes and accepted by executive director huish. At this time well take Public Comment. Thank you. Callers, if you have not already done so press star 3 to be added. For those already on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been un
Full circle. Rally, caps its 50 briefly touching a record before closing just below that level. The 175 days between peak to trough and back to peak make it the fastest rebound in history after a crash. Stepping up to the pressure. The u. S. Says it will impose extra tariffs on some eu goods from september 1 in its longrunning dispute over illegal subsidies in the airbus case. Plus, no compromise. Democrats and republicans point the finger at each other, as the stimulus debate gives way to electioneering. The two sides still remain trillions apart. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. We are looking for german Consumer Prices. We are seeing actually a drop month over month of 0. 5 . If you look at wholesale prices from a year ago, there is a gain of 0. 5 sorry, wholesale prices from a month ago. Prices, 0. 5consumer percent drop, wholesale prices, 0. 5 gain. From a year ago, we see wholesale prices that dropped 2. 6 in july. From a year ago, the drop
Twitter shares fall after hours on an unprecedented hack on the accounts of prominent u. S. Figures, including elon musk and bill gate. Jack dorsey called it a tough day. Welcome. It may have been a tough day for twitter, but it is also shaping up to be a tough week for tech stocks in general. The nasdaq leadership we have seen falling back a little bit this week. Nonetheless, we did see a little bit of strength come through on the s p 500. Today, we are seeing a little bit more risk off sentiment across assets. Perhaps to do with concerns around the china data, particularly around the retail sales question. Asia, the screen and particularly in chinese equities. The 10year yield is steady. You are seeing the dollar steady after a couple days of weakness. Also perhaps the fact that we are seeing a little bit of softness in crude. It did close that a fourmonth high yesterday, shrugging off plans by opecplus to taper production curves. Lets get to the first word news now. Coronavirus case
[roll call] is commissioner safai present at this meeting . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you, madam secretary. Motion is awarded to vote whether to disclose discussions held in the San Francisco administrative code section 67. 1a. At this time i make a motion. Motion not disclosed. Ill second this. Moved and seconded. We will take Public Comment at this time. Madam secretary. Please open the phone lines. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 408 4189388. Access code 1467135208. Press pound and press pound again. If you havent already done so, please dial star 3 to lineup to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Please state your name and make your comment. You will have the standard two minutes to provide your comments. Please let us know if there are any callers. Madam secretary, there are no callers. Thank you. Hear