“We have previously called Wall Street an institutionalized wealth transfer system from the 99 percent to the 1 percent. The CARES Act puts the wealth transfer system on steroids by letting the fat cats on Wall Street keep their decade-long obscene compensation which was made by hiding their risks off their balance sheets (privatizing the profits) and now forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for the losses on the toxic debt (socializing the losses). Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has said this is nothing like the 2008 financial crisis – and yet, it is everything like the 2008 financial crisis except that it’s an even more brazen money grab.”  – Wall St On Parade

The taxpayer squeeze is on. Shut down the economy for a few months, open up the Fed’s money fire hose and give Wall Street a good spraying of digital dollars to monetize its bad casino bets and enable the players to continue getting huge bonuses. Wall Street On Parade has the details in this must-read:  How $4.5 Trillion Was Outsource To Wall Street.