Excellent OP, Mr. Banker!
I also heard about this and was considering an OP, but you beat me to it!
I’ve read some of your other comments and see you are an informed and active trader.
I am not an active market participant, more a run-of-the-mill retired working man and saver brought into the stock market casino by greed and artificially low interest savings rates in recent years. Luckily I strongly felt, even before this virus hit, that we were living through a debt-fueled “Everything Bubble” that was likely to collapse, and protected myself somewhat.
“Crony capitalism” distorts our system in many ways! Pity that our President epitomizes that mindset, even while he fooled his base with demagogic talk about “draining the swamp.”
We may disagree — I don’t know — but I
also hold most mainstream Democrats in Congress responsible for much seemingly
systemic corruption in our system, much of which the Clintons and Schumer’s of the party also supported, even before Covid-19. I fear the Great Financial Crisis bailouts and Fed actions of 2007-2009 are not only being repeated on a much larger scale, but that even after Covid-19 we will find ourselves right back where we started, just much poorer and still more under the control of a corrupt crony capitalist oligarchy...