"We have a market reality of unbelievable leverage that is available for private gain, and put forward by entities where their losses are socialized." - Ben Hunt
"One thing that's fascinating - or sad - is how wrong the mainstream media has gotten all of this, how badly they've missed it, how the coverage is horrible, and how the coverage is sold to the masses almost like Russian propaganda."
"If you can borrow $100 billion at 3 and 30, and go for broke, you can make billions and billions for yourself, and if you lose, so what? It's on the banks' books." - Cohodes
"I think his [Hwang] fund was a front for very bad actors...aka money launderers, which is why everything was disguised as a 'family office' - air quotes around that." - Cohodes
"There's no better way to launder money and to get excess wealth than excess leverage in financial markets." - Cohodes
I think they're [Softbank] the absolute hub of all of this...I think they're ground zero..." - Marc Cohodes
"The Japanese financial system is increasingly corrupt...It goes back to...artificially-priced money and a complete zombification, so that there is no corporate penalty at the highest levels for taking these kind of risks"
"I don't know what it's going to take to get the regulators to do their jobs...the media doesn't seem to care much about anything, they're too busy fighting social justice wars and politics." - Bill Fleckenstein
I hate when I learn something new (to me) & stunning about the Jeff Epstein network (h/t MoodyKnowsNada.)
Where to begin?
So our new Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's stepfather, Samuel Pisar, was "longtime lawyer and confidant of...Robert Maxwell," Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad.
"Pisar was one of the last people to speak to Maxwell, by phone, probably an hour before the chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers fell off his luxury yacht the Lady Ghislaine on 5 November, 1991." scotsman.com/news/obituarie…
OK, so that's just a coincidence. Moving on, Anthony Blinken "attended the prestigious Dalton School in New York City"...wait, what? jewishvirtuallibrary.org/tony-blinken
If you want to see what our thought police are up to today, there's a "Combating Online Misinformation and Disinformation" House hearing today. @HouseCommerce@EnergyCommerce
I'm gonna need a "60-second reset" to recover from that interview.
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"You always have winners and losers — Blackstone was a huge winner coming out of the global financial crisis, and I think something similar is going to happen." - Stephen Schwarzman, Dec. 9, 2020 $BX