Government’s Own Report Says Economy Only Booming For The Super Rich

According to a new report by the Federal Reserve, the economy is doing great…if you’re a member of the wealthy elite. The rest of the country, though doing better, are still struggling to get by, and a very large percentage of people don’t have any retirement savings, they can’t afford a $400 emergency, and even those with jobs admit that they routinely have to miss bill payments each month. This is not a strong economy – it is a Potemkin Village of an economy that is starting to reveal the horror that lies beneath. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Donald Trump loves to tell us whether it's in a press conference, whether passing by a reporters on his way to air force one or even on Twitter, that the economy is doing great, better than ever. He tells us, showed us Huckabee, Sanders, sodas, Kellyanne Conway, sodas, Fox News. So do a lot of people in this country. They say the economy is doing better than ever and to be perfectly honest, the numbers also show that the economy is doing better than ever. The Federal Reserve has released their yearly report on just how great the overall economy is doing and they came to the same conclusion. The economy is doing wonderful, but there's a catch. According to the federal government itself, there is a catch. The economy is only doing great if you're a member of the wealthy elite. If you're a working class American, Eh, you're kind of getting screwed over.

Things are not very good in average American Ville, but overall the numbers look better and our better because the top 1% is doing so great that it's able to lift all of the numbers across the board. Not even lift actually just skew to where it looks like everybody's doing better, but in fact it's only the top, you know, the wealthy elite. This is according to the Federal Reserve's own report. I'm going to read this. Some of the things that they found here via Washington Post almost four in 10 people said they wouldn't be able to scrape together the cash. To me, a $400 emergency expense. That was something we've known about. So you've got 40% of this population can't afford a $400 emergency today. Could not do it. 17% of adults said that they would miss a payment on at least one bill during the month. 17% of people in this country have to skip paying one bill a month.

More than 60% said losing their job would mean they couldn't cover three months of expenses and only 36% said that their retirement savings are on the right track. Almost a quarter of Americans skipped some form of medical care in the past year because they couldn't afford it. Separately. One in five faced major unexpected medical bills and about a 40% of those folks said they're still carrying debt related to those bills. Um, during this time period, 2018 that these numbers were revealed, unemployment rate was only 3.9%. That's the lowest since 1969 the economy grew at 2.9% which is a, a post great recession. High average hourly earnings grew by 3% during this time. So technically American citizens are making more, except this is where another one of those caveat comes in because the Federal Reserve admitted that, yeah, these are average hourly earnings grew by 3%, but because wealthy people are making so much more money, average CEO pay increased by $800,000 last year because they're making so much money.

It looks like wages across the board have grown when you factor those into the averages. In reality, average wages for American workers only, not including the top breasts have not gone up. This economy, as I have said repeatedly, is the house built of Straw and the slightest little breeze be it a trade war or a, an emergency $400 expense makes the entire house come crashing down.

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