we don't even know how much wall street is spent and apparently wall street's brand of political bribery knew the end of the trump era was near as common dreams reports that quote the majority of the campaign contributions from wall street went to democratic candidates with democrats taking 53 percent of the donations more than 74000000 alone was given to joe biden's campaign make no mistake it's not the american people in charge of washington d.c. it's the will of wall street and those with wealth and means and that is why we are always watching this. go on a city street. it is so let's see this is this is your state says. great city displaced says. just said she is so but she's. so. welcome i want to watching the hawks and i robot and i would be so cross so we're talking $2900000000.00 spent just by wall street in the 2020 elections that's not including the pharmaceutical into i mean that leaves out a whole lot of others just wall street and by mansell businesses and business interests does the american voter have a chance at all in being heard or listened to when going up against that

to a newly released study by americans for financial reform during the 20192020 election cycle wall street alone spent at least $2900000000.00 on campaign contributions and lobbying to influence policy in washington that's almost $3000000000.00 my friends that shatters the previous record set all the way back in 2016 and amounts to roughly $4000000.00 spent a day but the financial sectors influence on the 20 twentieth's elections could actually be even higher because when you include the $1500000000.00 in dark or 1050000000 dollars in dark money that was poured into the 2020 federal elections from sources on the phones we don't even know how much wall street is spent and apparently wall street's brand of political but bribery knew the end of the trump era was near as common dreams reports that quote the majority of the campaign contributions from wall street went to democratic candidates with democrats taking 53 percent of the donations more than 74000000 alone was given to joe biden's campaign make no mistake it's not the american people in charge of washington d.c. it's the will of wall

steve, welcome to — on and humbled wall street. steve, welcome to the _ on and humbled wall street.ve, welcome to the show. _ on and humbled wall street. steve, welcome to the show. my _ on and humbled wall street. steve, welcome to the show. my pleasure. i welcome to the show. my pleasure. i'm honoured to be here today. let’s i'm honoured to be here today. let's start at the — i'm honoured to be here today. let's start at the beginning _ i'm honoured to be here today. let's start at the beginning of your illustrious career. your two roommates and the american east coast who came up with and coded a social media site that is today worth billions was a fanatic about facebook i'm talking about you, steve. take us back to 2025 spring break up your senior year you're starting with the guy a lot of people would know him because he is the husband of serena williams. he came up with the idea for a website that would be the front page of the internet. how would you explain reddit to someone who's never seen you before? 50 reddit to someone who's never seen you before?— you before? so reddit

and so we would be categorized by them was not a wall street outfit but a main street bank or a thrift. one of the other crosscurrents at her hit during that period was then secretary paulson came up with a study and recommendation that the industry be eliminated and consolidated into wall street. you kinda fed three things coming together that really costs washington mutual. one was an appetite on behalf of jp morgan chase for the second was treasury saying how can i take care of my club members on wall street and see if i could find something to merge into them. and then the regulators who all started to panic when the financial crisis hit including the fdic's said we can do a transaction and put those two together and not have any cost to the fdic insurance fund. and they were scared to death at the time that the fdic insurance fund was going to go under. they paid out a huge amount of money and i think they were all in kind of a panic mode. >> cell linda, what did you find i guess that would back this up? >> during the summer of 2008, the bankruptcy examiner discovered j.p. morgan

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and we lead the program with massive news on wall street and we are just talking about the earnings from some of the nation's biggest banks crypto currency exchange coin base started trading on the nasdaq on wednesday reaching a market value near $100000000000.00 this is the 1st major cryptocurrency business to trade publicly in the united states and as wall street awaited coinbase the 1st trade between set another record topping $64000.00 now outside of the world's most popular cryptocurrency a theory i'm also record highs on wednesday so let's dig into the details and bring in a co-host and crypto analyst her name is chris christie coinbase is head in the public markets as we just talked about as people just pour money into cryptocurrency but is that market cap of about $100000000000.00 that actually reasonable. well yes absolutely if you look at some of the latest tech names and i heard a story like yours it's not playing allen's here he needs your robots or at least that is right at. least as well as to come paramount as its most directly or really well. so the 1st quarter results 9

washington coming up the big point rally rages on as its price has been driven even higher by the wall street debut of point b. straight ahead we break down the price spike and what the listing means for the fin tech sector a lot in the wake of china's crackdown on ali baba the nation is issuing a warning to its other major tech firms they have to we'll take a look at china's latest moves and the reasons behind the nation's pressure play and later in a year of coping 1000 economic uncertainty that has seen millions of workers lose their jobs well c.e.o. pay has soared we'll analyze the growing inequality we have a packed show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with massive news on wall street and we are just talking about the earnings from some of the nation's biggest banks crypto currency exchange queen based started trading on the nasdaq on wednesday reaching a market value near $100000000000.00 this is the 1st major cryptocurrency business to trade publicly in the united states and as wall street awaited coinbase the 1st trade between set another record topping $64000.00

wall street can do a better job in preparing the individual investor for that. liz: you're never out of the game, i want to get to that in a second but very quickly the ceo of robinhood is instant settlement of trades would solve all of the problem, yes or no. >> yes it will help immensely because you will have as much volatility in the stock of volatility that creates an increase in the deposit that the brokers gotta pay and has to have an robinhood did not have that that's why they were in trouble. liz: you're getting into the game you have a blank check company looking for a target, you've got a tell me right now there's a lot of stories how there's quite a few specs that have lunch since the first of the year that are trading at 96 cents on the dollar instead of 1 dollar. i don't know 298 and 2021 alone. >> here's the deal by the middle of march collected 2020, the 520's fax, their ipos, the whole purpose is to get a private company and bring them public. of the 520, 107 were announced of the hundred and seven were announcers only seven that are profitable,

♪♪ >> from the fox studio in new york city this is "maria bartiromo wall street".ia: happy weekend everyone welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was in position you for the week ahead. i maria bartiromo. tax increases are coming this upcoming week president biden will detail his plan to double the capital gains and dividend taxes on top of increases in individual tax rates. coming up a preview right here. plus the travel and leisure industry takes a beating during the pandemic, there is a fight in congress over what cruises will set sail once again pre-hotel may see some signs of recovery. we will hear more from the president of seabourn cruises this weekend along with the ceo of best western. that is all coming up. let's look back at the week's moments with the top newsmakers on "mornings with maria" on this edition of the weeks talkers. >> and georgia hampel companies including major league baseball attacked georgia and they're purposely fine working with communist china. >> if you can stand with human rights and voting rights and all these things a

have a good >> from the fox studios in new york city this is "maria bartiromo wall street" is. maria: happy easter weekend welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was in helps positioning for the week ahead i am maria bartiromo president biden pushing a massive two and a quarter trillion spending plan but can the country afford it, we will ask the chief economist this weekend and later will get reaction from a member of the house infrastructure committee texas congressman brian babin is here first let's take a look back at the week's big moments with top newsmakers on "mornings with maria" on this edition of the talkers. >> we know that you know about the region but your seeing companies being forced to speak out about it. >> it is a huge huge human rights abuse issue. maria: the growing calls to boycott the ccp impact the way that you look at investing. >> they are going to be the uppermost in people's minds when we look at est. maria: president biden first says his vice president kamala harris is going to be the point woman on the border a couple of days later her

particularly the jobs numbers have many on wall street off guard. they have to try their hand at forecasting new variables. the black unemployment rate, the fed's focus on broad-based economic recovery at long last, some might say. data, analysis, an added bonus for crypto. first of all, the data, it was good. joe: pretty good signs of the data. the jolt, which measures job openings. job openings surging, which fits with anecdotal evidence we are getting. there you see the actual numbers. job openings exploding higher. even with all the optimism, catching people by surprise. romaine: i wonder about the quality of the jobs. that will be a big component. joe: let's welcome it reade pickert. lots of job openings. what about that quality? where are the areas we are seeing the fastest expansion? >> as you mentioned, we got the job openings for february today. it is important to think of that, remember it is february because it is a little backward looking in that we got the marks -- got the march jobs report last week. what we saw was that job openings r

wall street is reeling the -- romaine: 2021 marked a shift in the global workforce.nto the recent changes with the big banks to adapt, employees shifting priorities. take a listen. wall street is realizing toll of the pandemic that is taking on employees and managers who have had trouble making the distinction between the home and the office. fresh light was shed on that issue in mid-march when a survey by a group of analyst at goldman sachs made the rounds on social media. they complained of deterioration and physical and mental health. goldman ceo david sullivan responded by promising to do a better job of keeping young bakers out of the office on saturdays. jeffrey's offering its youngest workers coveted fitness perks including peloton bikes take the citigroup ceo barring internal video calls on friday, a day that will be known as zoom free fridays. at apollo, that company putting its money where its mouth is. some skeptics of these announcements wonder why it took a year for them to realize and address the pandemic's effect on their staff. it may have more to do

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basically a reddit community called wall street bets started to call on members to buy stock in a companys and mortar high street game store in the us that was doing badly on the stock market. and so many reddit users started buying stocks that the share price went up. at one point it went from $20 to $400 and reddit users started making money against game stop. that�*s where the anti—establishment bit comes in. you�*ve been very frank about this and you said that you were late to realise what was going on. when did you start paying attention, do you think? i was late, because i was in it. so, i was personally late to observe that the story had become a mainstream media story. but wall street bets is a community that specialises in high—risk, high reward trading. it among many financial and investing—related communities on reddit. many of which are more conservative than wall street bets. wall street bets is one of my guilty pleasures on reddit. i�*ve been watching them go through their machinations over the last couple of years, get excited about particular stocks are not. and game stop

when i was working on wall street i often wore a bow tie this is vintage 1980 s. bow tie and i have a few of those still hanging in my in my wardrobe and i like to wear them occasionally to bring back that gordon gekko feel well apparently it to be selling for quite a lot but again going back into this story about the surge of mortgages for 2nd homes in. is that we've reported recently on the record margin debt in the stock markets here is a great way to margin op even harder where you could earn even more especially in places like california or outside new york and stuff like that where house prices are rising rapidly. that total number of. according to wulfric terror is that a share purchased mortgage applications of february for 2nd homes and investment property has soared to 14 point one percent of the total purchased mortgage applications according to data by the mortgage bankers association cited uncharted by the wall street journal so here's the here it is on a chart going back to 2010 as they see a huge explosion and the number of people buying 2nd homes r

wall street bets is one of my guilty pleasures on reddit.their machinations over the last couple of years, get excited about particular stocks are not. and game stop was one of those over the last year. so it was a little bit of a surprise to me when that conversation metastasized and became a national or even global conversation. it's always i think a little peculiar to me when reddit leaks out into the real world. maybe it shouldn't because at this point we're quite large, but i think i still have memories from when we were significantly smaller. it's an extraordinary moment for you as founder, ceo, at the centre of this enormous story of global significance about the nature of financial markets. i read reports that you came under some pressure from wall street figures to take this community down. is that true and if so how did that pressure manifest? because i can relate going back to how i opened the show as a newspaper editor — when people don't like stuff, they ring you up and say stop. is that what happened to you? i'm sure the sentim

it appears we're set for a muted open on wall street.thing lower basically flat the major averaging coming off a record-breaking session yesterday. dow surging 350 points hitting a new record high. the s&p with another record close. 3.5% nasdaq climbed more than 1% yesterday. now turning to the economies around the world stocks in asia back open for trading after the holiday weekend with the exception of hong kong. europe just getting started. dax in germany hitting a record high we will continue to look at the global economy breaking news this morning in the wake of the archegos capital trading scandal. one major bank, credit suisse is taking a massive loss in the role two executives stepping down effective immediately. juliana tatelbaum is in london with more. good morning, juliana. >> reporter: frank, good morning. credit suisse shares have had a volatile start to trade opening higher before sinking in the red. now they are bouncing above the flat line. this as losses related to archegos could amount to $4.7 billion. in a major overha

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much higher than wall street expected. amazing, economic data points not just beaten but they have crushed the market. what is intriguing about it, the market is charging ahead on good or great news. that is a different dynamic. what is behind this? is there a sense that wall street believes jay powell won't hike rates no matter how good the economy gets? >> i think that is right. also, you know a lot of people have been bearish. every time the market pulls back you hear the bear boos, tell you we're going into a bear market. it has been a pullback in a secular bull market. secular bull markets 1012 to 15 years. we have another eight years left in this thing. very few people believe it. there is a ton of cash on the sidelines. if you tag the individual investor they're bearish. charles: right. by the way jeff you bring this up over and over again. so i am glad you come on the show so frequently just two weeks ago it was head for the hills. that is all she wrote. i told you it would come down. individuals feel that in a way

second major theme is that the wall street frauds going all the way back to the twenty's they're not different they're repackaged rebranded and sold again it's the same wine in a new bottle so the spac frog is just a variation on the dot com fraud which is a variation on the mortgage sub prime fraud which is a variation on the portfolio insurance fraud of 1987 all of these periods of fraud on wall street i'm able by the media enabled by washington d.c. a trifecta of frog they that is remember fraud is the underlying business model of america if you remove fraud the g.d.p. would be it would be negative 20 percent as you're pointing out it all started in the dot com boom and also during that time that boom was used to get rid of classical to introduce the commodities futures modernization act which enabled all the huge fraud on the quadrillions of dollars level in the derivatives market but it also helped us export our jobs to china so that's the underlying fraud in this situation is that we don't manufacture anything here we don't create much wealth the companies like that tech giants

the process of detonating and it will take the ponzi sector with it this is a piece written on wall street dot com specs are special purpose acquisition companies and they involve these pipes which are private investment and public equity so there's you know any time you have more than one shell when you're having to you know max used to be a magician in times square and if you have to start doing all that sort of maneuver and moving the shares over there on that over there and this over there but you have a shareholder you the retail person are going to get rich right that's usually a sign that there's something going on well this is arguing that the whole spac market and last year in 2020 they went blue they exploded and the amount just like in 1990 saw a huge rush of i.p.o.'s in the dot com bubble well he said. this is similar to that dot com bubble where you have schemes of all these promoters and people pushing these facts and there they have insider shares that they get to dump so he's saying that not only is the schedule of the on locking of those shares by the insiders from 20 to 2

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