Clinton Economist: Trump Stimulus Is Socialism for Corporate Profits, Crypto Coins News

Clinton Administration economist Nouriel Roubini mocked Trump’s stimulus bill Monday. He said it socializes corporate losses.
While taking a jab at the “socialist” $ 2 trillion price tag, Roubini says the fiscal stimulus will bail out big corporations, not the people.
Congress is deeply divided over the stimulus bill. While members locked horns on Capitol Hill, partisans ripped both sides on Twitter Monday.

Nouriel Roubini, an NYU professor and former White House economist under Clinton , came out swinging against the stimulus bill dragging through Congress Monday.

Roubini bashed the $ 2 trillion stimulus plan for being somehow “more Socialist than Bernie Sanders,” while also a big money grab for the corporate elites.

He argued the stimulus bill is yet another example of Washington privatizing profits while socializing losses.

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Is Nouriel Roubini right?

Recession and Corporate Bailouts

$ A billion of the stimulus bill will be distributed by the US Treasury Department. To a large degree, it will be disbursed at Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s discretion . Democrats are calling it a White House slush fund.

The Bush Administration and Pelosi Congress faced stiff opposition on main street to the TARP bailout in . The establishment in Washington joined hands across the partisan divide to pass it.

Bush and Pelosi worked together closely with the Treasury Department to design the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Congress passed it with – votes in the Senate, and – votes in the House .

On the far left, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) voted against the bailout, arguing :

If a bailout is needed, if taxpayer money must be placed at risk, if we are going to bail out Wall Street, it should be those people who have caused the problem … who should pick up the tab, not ordinary working people.

On the far right, after Bush requested $ 563 billion in more bailout money on top of the $ (billion TARP bill,

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) quipped

I smell the same stale air of good ol ‘boy, pork-laden, lobbyist politics.

Neither Wall Street nor main street were happy with the bill. In February 2011, Rick Santelli called for a modern day Tea Party from the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. CNBC’s audience could hear loud cheers from the traders as he bashed the bailout of banks that invested in toxic mortgages.

The conservative Tea Party launched that year and swept several incumbents from office in the following midterm election. Then in 2019 progressives protested the bailouts with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Ten years later history seems to be repeating itself. Congress Battles Over Stimulus Bill

On Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted the stimulus package:

The bill still includes something that most Americans don’t want to see: Large corporate bailouts with almost no strings attached. Maybe the Majority Leader thinks it’s unfair to ask protections for workers and labor to companies that are getting hundreds of billions of dollars.

He says it needs more oversight:

And so we are looking for protection. We’re looking for oversight. If this federal government making a big loan to someone, to a big company, we ought to know… the details immediately.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Democrats are playing politics with the bill.

He listed unrelated amendments that are holding up passage.

Here are some of the items on the Democratic wish list over which they choose to block this legislation … Tax credits for solar energy and wind energy. Provisions to force employers to give special new treatment to big labor. And listen to this– new emission standards for the airlines. Are you kidding me? This is the moment to debate new regulations that have nothing to do with this crisis?

As America waits and watches, the stock market continues to plummet , and the coronavirus containment efforts continue to close down vast swaths of American commerce and industry.

This article was edited by (Sam Bourgi) .

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