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Pam and Russ Martens: Dallas Fed president made market-moving statements while trading stocks and futures

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Last year, during the worst health crisis in more than a hundred years in the United States, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan was frequently throwing gasoline on the fire in broadcast and print media interviews. 

Also in 2020, Kaplan was trading in and out of S&P 500 futures, a sophisticated instrument used by hedge funds to time the market and/or short the market.

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The Dallas Fed will not say if Kaplan engaged in shorting the market during a national health crisis. (Shorting means to place a bearish bet that the market or a security will fall in value.)

Kaplan gave a total of 68 interviews with the press in 2020, an eyebrow-raising number for a man also trading S&P 500 futures.

Twice in the span of six days in May of 2020, Kaplan predicted that unemployment was going to surge to 20 percent. That's a very bold and very bearish call. According to the Congressional Research Service, the maximum unemployment rate in 2020 topped out at 14.8 percent in April. ...

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