A goldilocks time for some. I think when you look at the overall picture and this is if you go back to the origination of the Federal Reserve i think this is kind of their plan all along this is part of the Worlds Largest legalized. They can do has allowed the rich to get richer as times get tougher you know for years theyve had access to this cash and capital to borrow its only recently that the average guy can actually brought some money to get in so they threw a fry and bad conditions and actually ive always built well under the toughest conditions because they have the access the capital and others dont they have the ways they get the money others dont so their businesses are allowed to thrive well everybody else is out of business you come by where i am in chicago and almost every Small Business is going to be out of business i had time to selling is over not just wipe out an entire class of people because you allowed the wealthy theyre going to thrive through these. Tough times getting access the cattle doing all the things that normal people dont get to do so the class divide will continue and its mostly because we dont really allow the true free markets work anymore we allow the the Upper Echelon they have a better chance and better access Going Forward and i think thats one of the big problems that i see here well so make me go to richard so many of the wealthy you know look at socialism as something of a point but i mean this is exactly what they have they have they have socialism for the very very rich and Concierge Service and you know the states not supposed to pick winners because thats against the markets and thats exactly what theyre doing theyre picking winners all of the time richard go ahead yeah i think i agree that we are in a. Zan state of capitalisms desperate effort to survive where perhaps i disagree a little bit is in looking at the government or the Federal Reserve or the treasury as somehow the place to start understanding whats going wrong i dont see it that way i see capitalism as a system that gets itself periodically into trouble lets remember the National Bureau of Economic Research and many other institutions have traced through the rise and fall of capitalisms instability its Business Cycles if you like every 47 years we have a downturn thats the average and typically if it takes longer than 47 years which it did since the last crash in 2009 you pay for the longer upswing by either a longer or a sharper downswing we are now in a longer deeper downswing we would have been in any case the pandemic only makes it worse blaming the pandemic is that desperate effort to local late chasing the instability that dream that capitalism has always brought with it and. Said that the Federal Reserve like this u. S. Central bank that preceded it was an attempt to manage the very same contradictions of capitalism its Business Cycles its inequality and so nobody should be surprised that an institution brought in top last sent the inequality and instability of capitalism hasnt done a really very good job of it because it has been captured like so many other government activity used by those supposedly a subject to regulation is called regulatory capture for a reason so yes i agree the Federal Reserve is making the problem worse and the recent bombing of corporate ons in the secondary market is an extraordinary crutch for private capitalism provided by the government that should make any traditional conservative about Free Enterprise you know really roll over and is are earnest sleep with you had to be of it so for me this is capitalism running out of ways to keep itself going. Ahead time thats the point of the program jump in i got my Biggest Issue here is that they dont allow the free markets to work the Federal Reserve again what are they doing in the markets you know the whole chains in theory in my opinion is its thanks but im innocent others are not 100 nestle hunters and better reading theres a better bland and i dont think you can always the fan against a recession i think you let them happen and they have they reverse up much faster as they are creating these a longer more ridiculous cycles that now put us and really all theyve really done is inflate capital to nothing so my dollars are worth so much less i mean you go back you know if i go back in 1905 my money i made probably 110th of what i make now but i love the heck of a lot better life i want to earn than that i earned today they keep telling me no inflation. You know thats why you have to keep the flame i dollars basically are his secondary that i carry in my pocket of cash and now what theyve done is they said ok were strong through enough now lets figure everybody go on the stock market because were not give you any other alternative that the investor model so its got to go in the stock market because you get the posit money theres nowhere to go some banks want to charge about your money and theyre theres no other investment. They dont because were not arent you looking at a very small segment of society mean in the 19 seventies and eighties middle class people did invest in the stock market in my memory doing ok on my might error no but you have but i dont think thats that and even richard i dont think thats really the norm today i mean people i mean look at how in 2000 nato bombing it had a chance to save people from losing their homes but of course he didnt do it because he had he had he was in the service of best this it interest you bailed out the banks but he wouldnt bail out Middle America and he had the same thing happening all over again you know if the thing isnt with the theres a stock market richard for me it seems that it is real moment i mean i mean how is it possible you have these record gains when how the country is staring into the abyss richer well i think i think what you can see here is an analogue to what we saw in the 1930 s. The last time we had a crash of this magnitude there were many many pictures in those days of farmers pouring milk into the ground while other people were complaining that they could not get milk to feed their children their babies and the country marvel at the eps certainty of an Economic System that could have those 2 things happening often a few miles from one another in a country like ours i think the and the algae today is we are watching 40 plus millions of People Struggle with unemployment. Another 40000000. 00 with the danger of unemployment coming plus the impact of their friends and relatives who are already on employed and then on the other hand a booming stock market lets remember 10 percent of americans own 85 percent of the stocks so were looking at another one of these milk in the ground versus desperate for milk families this is an impossible situation to sustain it teaches the mass of people in that kind of spark way that capitalism brings them these 2 plagues and im not talking about a virus the plague of inequality and the plague of instability of cyclical instability and you have to its owner and later confront the reality which i think is coming that you must ask the question no matter how much trouble is attached to it is this the system we have to live under 10 we do better than the capitalist system without getting into the debate would a pure or a free market capitalism work better weve never had in the abstract thats a as a huge token an image as thinking we would define socialism or communism its only if we had the pure form only. But i mean i think that hang on i mean i thought ok there are obviously differences there but i can just say answered richard being that they dont have to worry about that ok because congress has already been bought ok theyre never going to do anything like that thanks you know tom one of the thing one of the taboos that has been broken i think over the last few months is that there is the claim there isnt any money ok of course is plenty of money apparently this endless amounts of money ok i mean even bailing out defense contractors who have and bailing out consultants think consult congress ok but there. Isnt enough to help with. The rolls ok i mean then that is this really drives me up the wall ok and i come from this from im a conservative ok but i think sometimes that emergency the government when it has the tools it should extend them if youre going to bail out the super rich then you can bail out main street and you cant tell me there isnt any money bill heads on. The wall and in 2008 my opinion they should a lot of banks said can to make it go under absolutely i mean this is the problem that they continue to bail out and the problem when youre issuing new money because not only theres a fetish in the money but the banks also wished him money when they used to have a 10 to one on a reserve and we know that they never had enough in reserve the government time to one of their always because its free money out of that well now they take the reserve limits off theyre only making that capital available to the for the wealthy theyre not making it available so then why why because. Mr obama or what some other president will come to their aid and bail them out again why should they be bailed out when the average guy on the street is never bailed out you or i would be in jail or Bankruptcy Court under the same circumstances versus big taking extra big bonuses because of that and this is where the problem again goes back to the entire system our way of living and it goes back to the government who made all these rotten deals which is why everybody hates President Trump because hes trying to limit many of these bad deals which is part of the reason is that whats going on in china and would you sing going on with the nafta deal because those are bad deals that were made last time to not you know fairness in all fairness you know you know the republican held senate is going on vacation it will come back when theres an emergency when there are 40000000 emergencies going on right now i mean this is that this is just a. 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Shots seemed wrong. But all in all just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out of disdain to become educated and engagement equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart when she still looks for common ground. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to get a little the politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Welcome back to crossed out where all things are considered im hearing about your mind were discussing what kind of recovery can we expect. When richard lets go to you ok out i would like to explain one of the reasons why you see the behavior of the Federal Reserve and up the government bailing out the banks. Let me preface it by explaining i have no interest in protecting or defending what the banks do but i want to point out that the problem is a bit more severe in some policy choice of the federal government about to go either way theyre under enormous pressures and we have to face that or else we will misunderstand the situation had we let andy a Federal Reserve let the big banks go under back in 2008 in those last 4 months of that year when literally that was on the table as an option they would have had the following consequence in a globalized economy which we are now and we were even more so that there is an immense Competition Among the worlds 25. 00 biggest banks japanese now the chinese are entering and so on how do you let the american banks collapse all out the lehmann brothers failure you would have not that that was your intent but you would have given them and warmest competitive advantage to not only youll s. Banks that are global and that were not at that time threatened with such an option in washington where the american big banks have a lot of influence you can be sure that argument was made over and over again in the that you know you said the moral hazard or thats moral hazard ok thats blackmail i know there are absolutely no limits im sorry leverage youre going to have an american who actually has a theyre going to grab salute lee it is blackmail youre absolutely right but that doesnt mean that it isnt correct you have to understand for me its a sign that capitalism not only disorganized is the world into a minority of rich and a mass of poor and all the other criticisms but that it creates this kind of guy. Competition among a handful of monster banks that then handcuffs every society every government into having to be the handmaid or else presided over the decline of their own economy in yet another way. And i have one good reason jim and i dont ever going to scar is about how do they decide to choose women brothers vs bears arent they both are in because of trouble but it does i got the flush why is that. The connections between lehman and the policymakers were different than the connections between the other banks and theyre the only policy maker of would do the right thing and kind of always the manipulative thing and continued to play what we wouldnt have these problems that we see now because youve got these guys that make decisions they make right elections they do things that put certain banks better than others they put some out of business and thats a destroyer all the squall Regional Community bankers have to ok but then im going to agree with both of you so let me see if i understand this all right and you know speak slowly so i can understand so we have an economy that exists to support these banks thats what this economy is about what about everybody else ok actually thats the problem we have an economy that is now so structured so pyramid dies with the with the power at the top the wealth concentrated at the top that those people understand as all rich minorities have always understood in history before and during capitalism the more you concentrate wealth in the hands of a relatively small number in a society that has universal suffrage that small number understands that the problem for them is that the majority when the vote can undo that way the effects of a capitalist economy that concentrate wealth at the top so they have to buy the political system otherwise they put their own achievements economically at risk and if that seems to you dysfunctional for the mass of people i agree thats why im a critic of capitalism you know tom i mean one of the beings that i really worry so much about are we entering the a new normal of a permanent underclass is it seems to me thats where its happening in in what some of the stuff that ive read in the last few weeks is really quite fascinating is that you have. At the very very rich during this pandemics last lockdown they did consume less but the percentage less had a major impact on the people that are serving the very very rich so that im just going to pull some numbers out of there and their consumption goes down 3 percent the impact is like 25 percent for people that are in that it in the mode of servicing to the very very rich here and in this is just going to be perpetuated because you know the rich will be fine again but theres going to be a competition for whos going to be in the Service Class now and the excess itself can even drive down wages so the question is in the is the new normal that we have a permanent an underclass of people that will never really get ahead in time. And they gave economy and this think about all the millennia as if they just graduated from High School Graduate from university and they have this this wasteland and go ahead i dont agree i think that we will be able to come out of this as we have come out of money i think in the past 3 i think one of the Biggest Issues that were looking at today versus other periods in history is that. Going to the Industrial Age where it was easy to train people and take people that had no education no way of knowing what their internets moving into the tech age is a much different thing and our kids now are being taught and are brought up in the tech world so their ability to work jobs they get into these industries will be much easier like you i grew from 40 to 65 im 63 you take my group of people ive had to go retrain to get a job i could get a job anywhere i made i could push carts in walmart but you get past the age and because were moving out of all the things that help the middle class back then survive which is Industrial Production factory like it would to a tight unit youre not saying and i dont want to get the platform to youre not saying learn code are you. Im not but ill never learn god but again im not from that era i think im like they can turn the computer rot ok if it were under 5 minutes they have my camera right so i mean i got louder i mean richard i mean i i was in academia for a long time in one of the reasons why i left is that most of the things taught at the university are junk and dont prepare people for the future ok i mean its a lot of you know its virtues signaling and you feel good about yourself and everybody wants so shell just listen and i guess some of those people are employed right now all across the country ok and i find it really of this whole culture war i think its s