{"id":91150,"date":"2021-10-18T13:26:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=91150"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:27:35","slug":"fed-chairman-jerome-powell-guilty-of-inside-trading-by-his-own-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=91150","title":{"rendered":"FED Chairman Jerome Powell Guilty of Inside Trading BY HIS OWN TRADES! (See Evidence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Powell&#8217;s Stock Trades Leaked, Show Multi-Million Sale As Market Tanked<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>With leaked trades in their personal accounts already costing two Fed presidents their jobs, and a third &#8211; vice chair Richard Clarida &#8211; currently on the ropes amid speculation he will soon follow, a few weeks ago we joked that if forces within the Fed want to get rid of all the hawks, they should just leak Esther George&#8217;s &#8211; the Fed&#8217;s last remaining uberhawk &#8211; trading record.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1442888324352393218&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fpowells-stock-trades-leaked-show-multi-million-sale-market-tanked&amp;sessionId=2794c60acfbaa6bf8eac32b68086ec8e16d1d37b&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=fcb1942%3A1632982954711&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1442888324352393218\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>To be honest, not even we expected that the progressive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_American_Prospect\">American Prospect<\/a>\u00a0magazine (initially called The Liberal Prospect), the domain of such ultra-leftists\/socialists as Robert Reich, Robert Kuttner, and Paul Starr, and whose interns include Bernie Sanders advisor Matt Duss, Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias,\u00a0<strong>would try to kill Powell&#8217;s candidacy by leaking his trades in hopes of getting the Fed&#8217;s resident socialist, Lael Brainard, to replace Powell amid the growing storm over Fed trades.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\"><\/div>\n<p>But that&#8217;s precisely what happened this morning, when the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/economy\/powell-sold-more-than-million-dollars-of-stock-as-market-was-tanking\/\">Prospect revealed\u00a0<\/a>that,\u00a0<strong>amid 26 publicly disclosed transactions in 2020,\u00a0 Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock from his personal account on October 1, 2020<\/strong>, a sale of the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, or VTI, according to disclosure forms reviewed by the Prospect and subsequently leaked in hopes of crushing Powell&#8217;s renomination chances.<\/p>\n<p>All of the other leaked transactions are also sales, including another $50-$100K sales from the VTI on Sept 21, just days after the Fed&#8217;s Sept 15-16 2020 FOMC meeting, as well as a series of Sales anywhere between $15K and $250K on Dec 18, jus 2 days after the Fed&#8217;s Dec 16 FOMC meeting, in funds such as the MSCI EAFE ETF (EFA) where powell sold $15K-$50K, the RUT Russell 2000 ETF (for $100K-$250K), the Goldman US Equity Dividend and Premium Fund (GSPKX) and so on. There were also a handful of purchases, but none in the ballpark of the $1,000,000 &#8211; $5,000,000 sale noted above.<\/p>\n<p>Powell&#8217;s full transaction breakdown is below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/powell%20stock%20trades%2010.18.jpg?itok=pnmkApxQ\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/powell%20stock%20trades%2010.18.jpg?itok=pnmkApxQ\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/powell%20stock%20trades%2010.18.jpg?itok=pnmkApxQ\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"584\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"f07bcb46-b050-4e9e-b322-0c95a43012fe\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the large VTI sale ($1-$5MM) occurred just as the Dow tumbled, but before stocks staged a remarkable surge&#8230; and have continued to surge to this day, as they more than doubled from the March 2020 lows. So while one can argue that Powell is a terrible trader, he was hardly frontrunning the Fed&#8217;s market-friendly actions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/unnamed%20-%202021-10-18T110105.593.jpg?itok=NDBXbRSm\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/unnamed%20-%202021-10-18T110105.593.jpg?itok=NDBXbRSm\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/unnamed%20-%202021-10-18T110105.593.jpg?itok=NDBXbRSm\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"381de559-0f6c-4358-a9c0-e8d4a26c4cdb\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That said, the optics of the Fed chair actively trading at a time of historic market turmoil, will hardly encourage Liz Warren to support Powell.<\/p>\n<p>As the Prospect notes, Powell\u2019s stock sale came against a background of President Trump balking over an urgently needed new economic stimulus package. A day later, Trump announced to the public that he had tested positive for COVID. Additionally, meeting logs show that Powell had been in contact with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin four times on October 1. Powell had been pressing the administration to support more fiscal stimulus, so that the sole responsibility for rescuing the economy would not be on the Fed and monetary policy.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/oct\/06\/federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-coronavirus-relief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech October 6<\/a>, after his sale of stock, Powell warned that failure to enact stimulus could have \u201ctragic\u201d economic consequences. He said, \u201cThe expansion is still far from complete \u2026 Too little support would lead to a weak recovery, creating unnecessary hardship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judging by the trillions in fiscal stimulus that followed, Congress was more than happy to listen and to take advantage of the Fed&#8217;s monetization of every dollar in debt issued by the US Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>One final point to note: Powell, as everyone knows, is a multi-millionaire with a net worth between $17 and $55 million, having worked much of his career on Wall Street and especially at Carlyle, where he was a partner between 1997 and 2005. His filing confirm his wealth, and nothing wrong with that, but in what may be a problem for Powell, the leaked filing reveals among many other assets, substantial holdings, i.e., the $5 to $25MM, in in the SPY ETF, an asset which clearly is moved by the Fed&#8217;s announcements and decisions, and which we are confident will spark howls of fake outrage from Senate progressives who demand Powell&#8217;s ouster and immediate replacement with Democrat socialist Lael Brainard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/SPY%20ETF_0.jpg?itok=xXye8xFY\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/SPY%20ETF_0.jpg?itok=xXye8xFY\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/SPY%20ETF_0.jpg?itok=xXye8xFY\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"75458f70-9861-45fb-9237-8c1056b1a5a4\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Powell&#8217;s odds to be reconfirmed by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictit.org\/markets\/detail\/7398\/Whom-will-the-Senate-next-confirm-as-Chair-of-the-Federal-Reserve\">Senate just tanked<\/a>, plunging from 80 to 61&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/powell%20contarct%20low.jpg?itok=LPq_RhN2\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/powell%20contarct%20low.jpg?itok=LPq_RhN2\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/powell%20contarct%20low.jpg?itok=LPq_RhN2\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"ecade56f-cacf-41ba-8aa7-2defd121bad1\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; while those of Brainard are surging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/predict%20it%20odds_1.jpg?itok=B5YBQjWm\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/predict%20it%20odds_1.jpg?itok=B5YBQjWm\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/predict%20it%20odds_1.jpg?itok=B5YBQjWm\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a3d96fb9-7df9-47c2-a22c-02d4e9bd42eb\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Powell&#8217;s full leaked financial disclosure form is below (<a href=\"https:\/\/extapps2.oge.gov\/201\/presiden.nsf\/PAS+Index\/06F79374D20480FD852586D9002EC767\/%24FILE\/Jerome-H-Powell-2021-278.pdf\">pdf link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_68040\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Jerome H Powell 2021 278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/533461890\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-QKU6vtewysoaK4FoQkKC\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"NodeContent_footer__2EL1s\"><i class=\"fas fa-eye\"><\/i><\/footer>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/powells-stock-trades-leaked-show-multi-million-sale-market-tanked\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/powells-stock-trades-leaked-show-multi-million-sale-market-tanked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powell&#8217;s Stock Trades Leaked, Show Multi-Million Sale As Market Tanked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}