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The Hidden Truth About Wealth Creation this post authored by Keith Calder
The monetary system is all about aggregates. This doesn’t fit in very well with an ideology based on individualism. The problem is solved by mainstream economists having no idea how the monetary system actually works.
Bankers make money by shifting their debt products. To maximise profit they need to shift as many as possible.
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On a
BBC documentary, comparing 1929 to 2008, it was said the last time US bankers made as much money as they did before 2008 was in the 1920s.
life. if you work on wall street your job is linked to the economy so you will be in trouble. if you are a farmer or nurse. if you have a job that is not linked to the economy you can invest more aggressively because your job is not tied to the economy. gretchen: what do you mean avoiding wall street s wealth extraction? wall street have a bag of tricks and ways of siphoning money from you to them. their fees and expenses seem like nothing year to year, 1%, 2% doesn t matter. over the course of a lifetime, over the course of 30, 40 years, basically they are taking more of your money than you are getting. it s a bad deal. gretchen: what should the average investor do instead? the average investor should own a few low expense index
financial markets. we had a redistribution of assets and the system came right back. this time when we put in t.a.r.p. and the stimulus packages and all of these bailouts, what happened is the system then compounded on itself and became a depression. and that s what i think caused it in my view. the one distinction between 2000 and now is in 2000 the commodity futures modernization act had not been passed, glass/steagall had not had time to be repealed and banked and there wasn t a $600 trillion secret betting parlor that had come to develop which created the linkage that threatens general electric, goldman sachs, jp morgan. that s good leverage in a room with a politician. but i don t think that would have spread, dylan, i really don t. you may be right but i don t think you are. i think what would have happened is we d have had the financial collapse tlchlt would have been a redistribution and the unemployment rate never would have gotten over 6%. my view of the world. i could be
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