{"id":738,"date":"2020-04-12T19:04:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T19:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2020-04-12T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T19:04:54","slug":"everything-that-is-wrong-with-america-in-one-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Everything That Is Wrong With America, In One Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"cnbc_screengrab.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/media\/images\/cnbc_screengrab.jpg\" alt=\"cnbc_screengrab.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"370\"><\/p>\n<p><b>That was the week that was!<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont ended his presidential candidacy on Wednesday, concluding a quest for the presidency that elevated him as a standard-bearer of American liberalism, clearing the way for a general election between Joe Biden Jr. and Donald Trump, at a time of national crisis.<\/li>\n<li>The US saw a surge in covid-19 deaths with a total of more than 8900 deaths from Monday through Friday, and a dubious record number of more than 2000 confirmed deaths on Friday alone.<\/li>\n<li>With social distancing, lockdowns, work-at-home policies, and the &#8216;temporary&#8217; closure of many businesses to thwart the spread of the pandemic, more than 16 million people have lost their jobs and filed for unemployment benefits in the past 3 weeks with a total of 6.6 million new claims this week, rivaling the unemployment rates not seen since the great depression of the 1930&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>But as Main Street suffered, Wall Street partied. Despite the ever increasing havoc being wreaked upon the economy by covid-19 and the unprecedented number of unemployed, the stock market had it&#8217;s greatest week in decades, thanks to the $2.2 trillion stimulus bill and the $4 trillion credit accommodation to the Federal Reserve; corporate welfare and socialism for the wealthy.<\/li>\n<li>In short, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/everything-wrong-america-one-image\">it was a momentous week<\/a>, one in which we learned that the Fed will do anything &#8211; even if it means destroying the dollar completely &#8211; to rescue the super rich, while everyone else was getting devastated. And nothing captures the zeitgeist better than the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinAHorwitz\/status\/1248384733156741123\">above screen grab courtesy of Justin Horwitz<\/a> who aptly titled the tweet &#8220;Everything that is wrong with America, in one image.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was the week that was! Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont ended his presidential candidacy on Wednesday, concluding a quest for the presidency that elevated him as a standard-bearer of American liberalism, clearing the way for a general election between Joe Biden Jr. and Donald Trump, at a time of national crisis. The US saw [&hellip;]<\/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-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}