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Originally Posted by Laz
What is sad is that many people will point at the stock market increases and think this is a success.
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Indeed.
The problem now is that with so many distortions and so much market artificiality, investors no longer have a very good fix on what various asset classes are really worth. What happens when apparently never-ending QE finally has to be wound down, and when interest rates eventually begin to "normalize?"
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Originally Posted by CJ7
when a prez gives tax cuts to the top 2% its a good thing
when the fed makes a move that props up the top 2% its a bad thing
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The key difference is that when taxes were cut (both in the 1980s and in recent years), most of the benefits in terms of aggregate dollars went to the non-affluent, not the top two percent.
That's clearly not the case with QE.