As author of the recent books understanding socialism and understanding marxism and in west for we cross to peter schiff he is chief global strategist at europe a civic Asset Management right gentlemen crosswalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets go to new york richard you know when you looking at the news about the economy looking at a lot of macro numbers and sometimes i think its very quite confusing and where the economy is going particularly when we look at unemployment permanent unemployment and jobs that are permanently lost here but the more i look at it and you gentlemen are preeminent experts here i dont i dont really think its that you are an l. Im really quite taken with this k. A recovery the rich got richer and the poor got or is that an oversimplification richard go ahead not at all i think weve already seen that now quote quite some time that lee. East to north 3 on 4 decades of growing inequality both of wealt
Certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you. Thanks for taking my question. Chairman powell, [ inaudible ] to the policy framework, is the fed open to other measures of the economy such as income inequality and affordability of housing . So we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy and in a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy. You mentioned inequality. You know, disparities in income and in Financial Wellbeing by various demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality which i would point to its a multifaceted thing but i would point to the relative stagnation of incomes for people at the lower end of the income spectrum and also lower mobility. So those are things that hold back our economy. They are. The thing is, we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get at those things through
Operations. Good morning from russia just turned 11 am here my name is kevin knowing that arties world knew center with the latest 30 minute round up for you because stay with me to take you through the news today then starting with not great news france has set a new daily Record Record for covered with more than 16000 cases registered in the last 24 hours or wednesday the french government announced the new measures to try to contain the spread of the virus Health Authorities have set up graded danger levels to try to cover alert reinforced alert and maximum alert zones areas with more than 150. 00 cases per 100000 people as shown in red while the worst hit areas with more than 250. 00 cases per 100000 dark red and face the strictest measures but Business Owners a few. Many have taken to the streets in paris warning they simply wont survive fresh closures bars and restaurants have already been ordered to shutter must say why. The red zones in paris are Opening Hours from next week be
Unemployment and jobs that are permanently lost here but the more i look at it and you gentlemen are preeminent experts here i dont i dont really think its that you are an l. Im really quite taken with this k. A recovery the rich got richer and the poor got for is that an oversimplification richard go ahead not at all i think weve already seen that now folks like some time that at least 2 or 3 or 4 decades of growing inequality both of wealth and income and instead of that being understood as having contributed to the combination pandemic and crash were living through instead of that being understood we see the crash having made it worse the growth of the wealthy at the very top having outstripped everything we could have imagined at the same time that now over 60000000 americans have. Had to file for one or another kind of state or federal Unemployment Compensation assistance this is a system that is spinning out of control in terms of extremes of wealth inequality and income inequali
That the feds tools dont appear to be capable of reaching this the people who are out of work which is why hes asking congress to help out with passing fresh fiscal stimulus legislation. Sensually todays meeting wasnt full of surprises if anything it only demonstrated that the fed is not planning to take its foot off the monetary gas pedal is that a correct assessment. I think it is i think what we heard more than anything else today was more of the same right is not going to change the fed essentially thinks its policies are working overall but at the same time what danielle just said is so absolutely true and its really imperative to this discussion which is that ultimately what the fed is doing does not trickle down necessarily the main street its not helping people who are unemployed right now its not helping businesses businesses and Small Business owners who are struggling mostly it helps wall street mostly it helps banks thats essentially what of the Federal Reserve is doing and