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Ex-Morgan Stanley Chief Economist Admits "Fed Is Distorting Markets"
Stephen Roach, former Chief Economist at Morgan Stanley, has never been shy to share his opinions about the world and having left the Wall Street firm is even freer to speak uncomfortable truthiness. This brief clip, as Sovereign Man's Simon Black notes, says it all so succinctly... "The market has been distorted by far bigger forces than flash trading. To me, the force that has rigged the market... is the Federal Reserve, not the flash traders."
We recommend skipping to 13:05 for about 30 seconds of brilliance if you’re pressed for time:
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o really? nah no way
bernank helping the little guy right
well, thats the all purpose for creating the fed in the first place, create problem to solve it .... LATER ... the little guy, yeah well, you can go that way if you want to ...
No Amnesty NOW Bitch! They are trying to throw the fed under the bus...after stuffing every orifice they could with gold and silver on the way out. I dont think so.
Fuck this rape tool!
RIPS
Wow. Just wow.
So he blames the Federal Reserve and a lack of regulation as being the primary culprits here. Also blames the 'little people'.
Says Wall Street (his former employer ironically) was NOT the problem.
So who in the hell paid for and profited from the deregulation and who benefitted from the Federal Reserve bailouts and trillions of injected fiascos?
ASSHOLE
Seriously. I was about to say something nice about him being one of the few who actually called out the bogus US economic model and the Fed bullshit behind it over the years, but then I actually watched the clip, and to exonerate Wall Street like that, WTF???
It's the Fed's fault, Main Street's fault too, gross distortion to blame it on Wall Street? Who does he think owns the Fed?
Fuck. Everyone's so full of it.
We have reached the 13th level.
They know it's over and they are now trying to get an alibi and also a way out when the whole thing comes crashing down.
Breaking News: Water is Wet!
This Stephen Roach report was sponsored by Wild Bill Akkkkman
sarc/
pot calls kettle black. funny.
Yes, now that I have profitted tremendously (and hidden my wealth around the globe) let me be honest...
roll the mother fucking guillotines, nothing changes otherwise.
I like these "come to Jesus" moments that these paper pushers have.
Of course it is after they are old and gray, retired, and no longer depend on being in that system.
The dirty little secret is that if the financial sector blew up it would NOT be the end of the world.
pods
WOW! You're very astute. Tell us something we don't know; Dumb-Ass!
The sun is hot.
alarmist.
Because Captain Obvious says so.
The big question is why all the "truthiness?" What's the play here?
So he can shortly say, I only learned about it last April.
WHY now?
simple is awake up time .... about time ...to many things going on right now, all hands on deck
yeah, we told you to put the vests on but you wouldnt listen, what can we do???
Let me ask you this question and maybe it will be a little easier.
If YOU wanted to create a global banking empire and enslave the world's population under one global currency that only you can create, what steps would you need to take in order to do it? How could you make people, at least initially until it is too late, want and accept it? Think about it? Map it out on paper if you need to.
There is the question about who is really in the know and who are the useful idiots.
I really don't buy into the whole global domination thing. I think these assholes are just greedy sociopaths. They buy the system, rig the games, etc. Whatever it takes. Just predators that have warped reality to hide thier crimes.
But, I would think they are smart enough not to bite the hand that feeds them. Unless it is staged.
If you believe they are sociopaths (and they are), then you have to believe their goal is global domination. That is all a predator lives for... domination... winning at ALL costs. They lie, cheat, steal, extort, buy, rig the game, etc, all so they can WIN in their twisted minds. They will sacrifice EVERYTHING to win. And by everything, I mean EVERYTHING... their co-workers, friends, family, any human being, anything. They never stop, because they CANNOT stop. It's in their DNA. Global domination isn't even enough. Sociopaths are the most dangerous forces in the universe. If we master warp drive, you can bet sociopaths will try to dominate other worlds. And they can't help but bite the hand that feeds them. It's how predators show their domination. As they grow more powerful, they have to exert more force over more powerful foes, which often is another sociopath. Thus by their very nature, Sociopaths will eventually feed on each other after they have disposed of the masses. Absent the uniform enforcement of judicial law mandated by the masses, a sociopath can only be stopped by overwhelming force... usually a revolution by the remaining masses.
the global empire has been created long time ago... "the merger" of rockfeller interests was the last straw of any seemingly independence
Oh noes, de globalists.
I'll let Mr. Omar Khayyan (11th century poet an tent-maker from Persia) tell you what my first and most important step would be:
"What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke
A conscious Something to resent the yoke
Of permitted Pleasure, under pain
Of Everlasting Penalties, if broke!
What! from his helpless Creature be repaid
Pure Gold for what he lent us dross-allay'd
Sue for Debt we never did contract,
And cannot answer - Oh, the sorry trade!"
Wather is wet, and it's dark when I close my eyes.
Next they're going to be telling us the precious metals markets are manipulated or something...madness!
Who cares?
My stocks are rising. You can't beat the momentum.
(ps, gold has to really do some moving to be a buy this month)
Nurse Nurse hes out off bed again.
Everybody here knows about the Fed rigging.
Our senil friend just wants to divert attention away from the coming HFT class action, as his former employeer is one of the greediest pigs in the HFT market rigging game...
tell me again how HFT is different from Front-Running?
HFT is legal and front running isn't.
No officer, this isn't pot, it is tomato leaves. All legal and proper.
Seems only those in the inner circles can pull that off.
pods
Front Running is illegal, but Front Sprinting was never conceived or addressed by the archaic law forbidding front running.....there, did that help you?
In a further statement, he whent on to inform us that sharks will only attack if you are wet.
Well fucking DUH!
His minimizing of the HFT thievery sounds like book envy to me. Also, his rationalizing about it not being all Wall Street's fault and that the FED is just as guilty is pretty lame. Don't Wall Street banks own the FED, as in literally? So blaming the FED is blaming Wall Street. Just a douche bag pimping his book.
'It isn't just Wall street, it is also the Fed and the reckless behaviour on MAIN street'
Put the blame onto everyone but us good guys in wall street!
omg....what will Janet do now! I expect this to be on CNN "breaking news" by 5 tonite!!!
this is why ZH has zero credibility....a shill who's worked his life on wall street now becomes ZH hero because he is now bottom feeding on the bottom rung, ie the FED
your funny, but not funny haha.
One very reliable sign that the end is near is when people stop looking for solutions and start looking for scapegoats. Another is when a leading financial expert, someone who has spent his whole working life chained to the Wall Street oar, can say with a straight face that the entire front-running, sub-pennying, rehypothecating sell-side industry is innocent, innocent I tell you.
Innocent like.... "not even a smidgeon of corruption"
what if the market THINKS the Fed is manipulating the market when in fact "no one is in charge of that thing"?
Please let it end...it's so painful to all of us who are awake.....
Amazing that NET growth is never addressed. USSA maybe creates 4 bucks of debt for a 1 in GDP growth. So yeah, we will continue to "grow" until reality sets in. This is absolutely a purposefully misleading analysis.
Doh!
Of course the fed is distorting markets, that's the whole f'ing point, the undistorted market (according to them) would be a cesspool.
The question is whether the need for this distortion ended three years ago, or is still ongoing. Cuz there is a huge cost to distortion, even if it's needed. And that cost tends to metastasize.
Lot of anti-Fed/terrorists talk here. ( Snort ).
Just saying, you know?
You all might have( cough cough ) shitgum "accidents", fall off your ranch house roof, car might accelerate into a palm tree or sumthing.
My name is Roach......what else do you need to know ?
China needs to shift to more consumption ? Like USA consumption as percent of GDP? Or as MCD consuption of big macs and super gulp sugar surpruse ?
Either way = fail
My name is Roach.
Wall Street is infested with roaches.
This cockroach is on my list for hanging from a lamppost and he has been for a long time. Fuck you Roach
Mr. Roach is one of the few people I have heard to make a distinction between the Federal Reserve and the Government. Bravo.
He'd get more credibility if he loses the Wall Street Costume.
Years ago I always enjoyed reading Roach's reports which back then were refreshingly honest and usually at about 180 degrees from what his firm was telling investors. I had wondered how he was able to stay employed by them due to his frank and negative commentary.
As others here have noted, he seems to have lost touch. The Fed is just carrying out a policy for the benefit of the TBTF banks and other related Wall Street interests....the Feds are "just following orders"...and doing a swell job of it for their commanders at the expense of everyone else.
RE
Unless he is being paid to say this, he is a buffoon.
The flash traders ARE how the Fed "distorts" the market.
The FED are the biggest Flash Trader... Period Who all ( TBTF, Foreign central Banks ) is helping and in on the rigging is the only question.
Its a big club and some of them are wired into and in bed with the Federal Rig Masters.
I had an itchy trigger finger a couple of times this last month with HVU on Toronto.That's Horizon BetaPro's Volatility Up which is hedged in CAD Dollars.A couple of quick jolts down on the S&P sure woke up the trading account fast.I always feel really great when I take delivery of gold when some of that garbage paper fiat junk is converted over.Nothing like buying insurance.Watching and waiting on what happens as tapering continues.Ya know what,it gives me the shivers thinking about it but that old broad Yellon,she might just keep her promise and go through with it,come hell and/or high water.Could be some big bucks in a leveraged volatilty trade on the S&P downside when she comes,and she will,don't worry.It's just when.