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Thursday, June 11, 2015

The Warren Buffet Economy——Why Its Days Are Numbered (Part 1)

During the 27 years after Alan Greenspan became Fed chairman in August 1987, the balance sheet of the Fed exploded from $200 billion to $4.5 trillion. Call it 23X.
Let’s see what else happened over that 27 year span. Well, according to Forbes, Warren Buffet’s net worth was $2.1 billion back in 1987 and it is now $73 billion. Call that 35X.

During those same years, the value of non-financial corporate equities rose from $2.6 trillion to $36.6 trillion. That’s on the hefty side, too—- about 14X.

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1 comment:

lmclain said...

And people like them want to keep the minimum wage as LOW as possible.
Credibility? ZERO.