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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 01:56 PM Mar 2016

Wall Street expert Asher Edelman shocks CNBC: Bernie Sanders is best for the economy

The panelist then who would make the best candidate for the economy; he responded that Bernie Sanders is the best candidate. He proceeded to school the panelist, the gatekeepers of the plutocracy a simple lesson in Economics 101.

"Well I think it is quite simple again," Edelman said. "If you look at something called velocity of money, you guys know what that is I presume; that means how much gets spent and turned around when you have the top one percent getting money, they spend five-ten percent of what they earn. When you have the lower end of the economy getting money, they spend a hundred, or a hundred and ten percent of what they earn. As you’ve had a transfer of wealth to the top, and a transfer of income to the top, you have a shrinking consumer base, basically, and you have a shrinking velocity of money. Bernie is the only person out there who I think is talking at all about both fiscal stimulation and banking rules that will get the banks to begin to generate lending again as opposed to speculation.”

It is that simple. Asher Edelman isn't the only wealthy guy that has a heart or has begun growing a heart. Morris Pearl and his Patriotic Millionaires are doing their part as well.

Read the entire blog post here as well as the video showing his disgust with the panelist, the wards of the plutocracy.

http://egbertowillies.com/2016/03/11/asher-edelman-bernie-sanders-economy/

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Wall Street expert Asher Edelman shocks CNBC: Bernie Sanders is best for the economy (Original Post) egbertowillies Mar 2016 OP
He was also the guy they based the movie Wall Street on, the Gordon Gecko character litlbilly Mar 2016 #1
WOW! ConsiderThis_2016 Mar 2016 #2
As Asher says, it's very straightforward Hydra Mar 2016 #3
This has nothing to do with "having a heart" Ruby the Liberal Mar 2016 #4
Velocity of Money Octafish Mar 2016 #5
wow. thats gonna leave a mark. nt restorefreedom Mar 2016 #6
Kick Karmadillo Mar 2016 #7

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
3. As Asher says, it's very straightforward
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 09:54 AM
Mar 2016

The 1% have been given every form of largess and immunity, and it makes absolutely no economic or social sense. Economically, they are the worst place to invest money in, and socially they use their gifted wealth to take more from other people.

It will stop, one way or another. It's not sustainable.

Ruby the Liberal

(26,219 posts)
4. This has nothing to do with "having a heart"
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 10:28 AM
Mar 2016

It is core economics. Supply Side trickle-down is a fatally flawed economic model. People like Nick Hanauer have been saying this for eons now. The erosion of the country for the gain of a few is not sustainable.

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