Christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as you said in the beginning here its really no surprise to anybody the economy did not do well contract at 3. 5 percent as you said the worst its done since 1946 so its been a long time since the economys contracted that much in a single year and that came off of the 2. 2 percent growth that we saw the year before in 1900 the bottom line here is this is basically every sector was down because of the coronavirus with th
This is a boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. In washington coming up u. S. G. D. P. Close out 2020 at its worst rate since 1046. 00 and shrank by 3. 5 percent and the game stop saga continues as robin hood and other Major Trading partners are stressed in trading as the battle between wall street and small investors continues well explain what this means for future trading with the us pros with christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as y
Buyer beware, ipos that have doubled do not have a great track record after the debut. Plus the president and tiktok, he says hes not prepared to sign off on anything for an oracle tiktok deal. And wall street poised for a sharply lower open following the feds pledge to keep Interest Rates low for years and Technology Stocks do lead the declines speaking of which, jim, sounds like your conversation with joe a moment ago kind of rings with what Credit Suisse says today about tech valuations overall, that is that there is some excess and theyre lightning their weight at least on software. I count 30 companies that are selling at 30 times sales and then theres a number, even more, maybe another ten that are selling above that, 50 times sales for zoom along comes snowflake at 100 times sales. You just have to put the stop sign up because what it says is theres going to be so much supply that is coming. Look, if you own a company youve been waiting for it to come public you just got the gre
Monday morning that they were going to go bankrupt well you know in america when you go bankrupt in chapter 11 we declare chapter 11 what happens is your creditors line up to see who gets the debt whoever is this has the most senior debt the bond holders the bank loans anything like that they cant your money 1st your assets they liquidate everything and then if theres anything left over a which creditors make sure theres not and the lawyers get paid and everything that then maybe equity holders shareholders might get paid so they never get paid right but when the news broke that they were going to go bankrupt chesapeake. People on robinhood especially these free apps available and its mostly for millennia old and generations a very young traders new traitorous and they all just got new money free money stimulus checks 1200. 00 each from the government they poured into it stop prices up at 300 percent at one point it close at 170 something percent 180 percent but heres what you know the
500 stocks down over the last 10 weeks today was the 3rd straight day with over 6000000000 shares traded on the nasdaq all of which have been higher than any day in history to put that in perspective from 2009 until 2020 there wasnt even a one day with 5000000000 shares theres no connection between the economy and the stock market now that spot abnormal theres usually a lag between the 2 main street can collapse and then stock market can start moving up based on anticipation of main street or the economy picking up and sometimes the stock market will go down before the economy does because it has this tendency to be a quote discounting mechanism but what were seeing here is not a discounting of prices based on some fundamental analysis of the economy what were seeing is an utter divorce an utter split from the real economy and the financial ised funny money fed driven casino that is now taken over the globe this is causing 2 things the overlord class are becoming fabulously wealthy and