https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-rhodes-14282b1a9/recent-activity/shares/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-rhodes-14282b1a9_finra-requests-information-from-member-firms-activity-6928406241413087233-BSsr?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web Let me get this straight, the Securities and Exchange Commission (#SEC) was created to protect investors and maintain fair markets long before invention / approval of "complex financial products" such as hedge and inverse instruments. Via artificial stimulus, #QuantitativeEasing (QE), the #FederalReserve--which is actually a Consortium of Private Bankers rather than "Federal" anything (by which is meant government)--manipulates stock valuations higher than they would have otherwise gone, resulting not only in ballooning the country's debt (by adding $trillions beyond what was previously on the books) but also making "complex financial products" (hedge and inverse instruments) appear more and more attractive to "investors" who, eyeing inflation, anticipate the inevitable fall of stocks. But although it is the Federal Reserve's #ArtificialStimulus (#QE) that has both artificially distorted market conditions (valuations) and apparently caused investors to seek out the "complex financial products" referenced (#hedge and #inverse instruments), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (#FINRA), the government-authorized "not-for-profit" organization that oversees U.S. broker-dealers, not only comes to the rescue "to ensure that everyone can participate in the (stock) market with confidence" but does so using "#RegulatoryNotice2208," which would not only restrict potential investors of said "complex financial products" (hedge and inverse instruments) but, as a result, making it increasingly difficult for some already holding said products to sell to anyone other than professionals with access to Wall Street-like #logarithms (wise enough to avoid buying, depending on price) ... From the approval of "complex" products by the SEC on one end, the Federal Reserve's artificial stimulation of #stocks--which, inversely cause "complex financial products" to become increasingly more attractive to #RetailInvestors--in the middle, to FINRA arriving to bust up the party a little too late in the end, "protections" are clearly not working for small retail investors in the present schematic design. Considering that it is #USCongress that delegates #MonetaryPolicy to the Federal Reserve, with the Federal Reserve's artificial stimulus: 1) adding $trillions and $trillions of debt for #TaxPayers to absorb, 2) artificially pushing #WallStreetValuations through the roof, and, as a result of the 2nd, 3) making entry positions for "complex financial products" ever more inviting than they would otherwise have been ... Where was FINRA in policing those offering "complex financial products" when, with blessings from Congress, SEC approval and artificial stimulus from Federal Reserve Monetary Policy primed the pump?
John Rhodes Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-rhodes-14282b1a9/recent-activity/shares/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-rhodes-14282b1a9_finra-requests-information-from-member-firms-activity-6928406241413087233-BSsr?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web Let me get this straight, the Securities and Exchange Commission (#SEC) was created to protect investors and maintain fair markets long before invention / approval of "complex financial products" such as hedge and inverse instruments. Via artificial stimulus, #QuantitativeEasing (QE), the #FederalReserve--which is actually a Consortium of Private Bankers rather than "Federal" anything (by which is meant government)--manipulates stock valuations higher than they would have otherwise gone, resulting not only in ballooning the country's debt (by adding $trillions beyond what was previously on the books) but also making "complex financial products" (hedge and inverse instruments) appear more and more attractive to "investors" who, eyeing inflation, anticipate the inevitable fall of stocks. But although it is the Federal Reserve's #ArtificialStimulus (#QE) that has both artificially distorted market conditions (valuations) and apparently caused investors to seek out the "complex financial products" referenced (#hedge and #inverse instruments), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (#FINRA), the government-authorized "not-for-profit" organization that oversees U.S. broker-dealers, not only comes to the rescue "to ensure that everyone can participate in the (stock) market with confidence" but does so using "#RegulatoryNotice2208," which would not only restrict potential investors of said "complex financial products" (hedge and inverse instruments) but, as a result, making it increasingly difficult for some already holding said products to sell to anyone other than professionals with access to Wall Street-like #logarithms (wise enough to avoid buying, depending on price) ... From the approval of "complex" products by the SEC on one end, the Federal Reserve's artificial stimulation of #stocks--which, inversely cause "complex financial products" to become increasingly more attractive to #RetailInvestors--in the middle, to FINRA arriving to bust up the party a little too late in the end, "protections" are clearly not working for small retail investors in the present schematic design. Considering that it is #USCongress that delegates #MonetaryPolicy to the Federal Reserve, with the Federal Reserve's artificial stimulus: 1) adding $trillions and $trillions of debt for #TaxPayers to absorb, 2) artificially pushing #WallStreetValuations through the roof, and, as a result of the 2nd, 3) making entry positions for "complex financial products" ever more inviting than they would otherwise have been ... Where was FINRA in policing those offering "complex financial products" when, with blessings from Congress, SEC approval and artificial stimulus from Federal Reserve Monetary Policy primed the pump?