Saturday, September 15, 2018

SATURDAY 9/15/18; Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy 10-Year Anniversary

SPX 2905. INDU 26155. COMPQ 8010. RUT 1722. NIKK 23095. SPASX200 6165. KOSPI 2318. SSEC 2682. HSI 27286. BSE 38091. DAX 12124. CAC 5353. FTSE 7304. MIB 20885. IBEX 9365. PSI 5285.

The fallout from the ongoing Hurricane Florence storm continues. The event is dumping buckets of rain in the Carolina’s. Power outages and flooding are rampant. Five people die.

Today is the 10-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy that exacerbated the 2008-2009 market crash and financial crisis. A couple days later, on 9/17/08, AIG was bailed out with taxpayer money. On 9/23/08, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson stepped in to save (in their minds) the remaining banks and financial system to protect the wealthy’s stock portfolios. They spit on capitalism a decade ago with the obscene bank and corporate bailouts proving that free markets do not exist.

The US government did not 

[Blog text is redacted. Purchase the September publication 2018-09 that explains the moves in global stock, bond and Forex markets.]

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