Ron Insana, whom I’ve always thought was well named due to the funny way his brain works and the way he smiles even when nothing is happening, has just melded minds with Kudlow & Cramer to support a coronavirus war bond:
My colleague, Jim Cramer, made a very interesting recommendation Monday morning, calling on the U.S. Treasury to issue a $1 trillion, 30-year “war bond” to finance our battle against the coronavirus. He pitched the idea on CNBC to Larry Kudlow, who chairs the White House National Economic Council
I think Ron even smiles in his sleep.
The triumvirate of capital talent
Together, these three birds of a feather make quite the triumvirate of talent because I’ve also always thought of Crazy Cramer and Krackhead Kudlow (yes, it’s well known he’s used the stuff) as the Keystone Cops of Commerce.
When I used to see Larry Kudlow smoking crack on our block late at night (true story) I would say to myself, ‘I’ll bet that guy will be drunk on tv someday lying about the spread of a pandemic for the reality star who pretended to be a billionaire. @realDonaldTrump
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) March 7, 2020
Lunatic Larry, of course, was also a co-creator of all three trickle-down tax plans (Reagan, Bush, and now Trump) that didn’t trickle and that never quite paid for themselves as Larry has promised each time they would. (Corporate taxes under Trickle Down Trump have brought in about half as much corporate tax revenue as they were bringing just before the cuts became law. The shortfall has been made up by tariffs and increases in personal taxes while the increase in the deficit is due almost entirely to the Republican increase in government spending.)
Krafty Kudlow is also the shimmering seer of dim glances into the future who stated during each of the last two major recessions (and just before the present one) that he saw no recession anywhere on the horizon and that stocks and the economy had nowhere to go but up! Shortly thereafter, recessions were officially declared to have begun before Larry gave his foundering forecasts, and stock markets crashed all over the world.
Larry’s greatness at predicting showed again when he claimed the US had “contained” the coronavirus when it first entered America and then later justified his error by saying no one could have foreseen the dramatic surge of coronavirus the US has experienced … never mind the whole world had just witnessed the monumental efforts necessary to contain the virus in China. Clearly expecting a great prophet to foresee from China’s economic catastrophe what would happen in the US is expecting a lot.
Read the rest here: https://thegreatrecession.info/blog/coronavirus-war-bond/
Hmmm, a 1.5% interest rate on a 30year bond.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! So $1,500 is your prize for funding tyrants who are going to make tenfold off holding your 100K for 30 years?!