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Taibbi: How The COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street A No-Lose Casino

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Matt Taibbi

"The S&P 500 should attain previous all-time highs," Kolanovic wrote, "if the monetary measures are sustained."

The key part of this phrase was the last bit, "if the monetary measures are sustained." In countries that did not have a Federal Reserve Bank shooting a bazooka of cash daily at Wall Street, Kolanovic suggested the coronavirus would result in a 30 percent decline in the present value of earnings.

In other words, without intervention by the Federal Reserve, the United States in the coronavirus era would be looking at a Depression-level contraction.

Assuming the Fed bazooka keeps firing, however, a large portion of the investor class is already on a road leading back to champagne and confetti. And that, as Robert Frost would say, has made all the difference.

On the road more traveled, on the real side of the coronavirus economy, the pain has been historic. As of this writing, 30 million people have filed jobless claims during the COVID-19 crisis, and millions have lost their employer-based insurance.


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