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Pam and Russ Martens: Buffett isn't buying Fed's spin on big banks
By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
At his press conference on June 10, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said this about the U.S. banking system, which includes a little more than 5,000 federally insured banks but is dangerously concentrated in the hands of just five mega-banks on Wall Street.
"You have a banking system that is so much better capitalized, so much stronger, better aware of its risks, better at managing its risks, more highly liquid. You have all of those things and they've been lending, they've been taking in deposits, they've been a source of strength in this situation."
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Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is apparently not buying the story that Powell is attempting to sell to the public.
According to Berkshire Hathaway's 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarter ending June 30, Buffett dumped 35.5 million shares of JPMorgan Chase or 61.5 percent of his 57.7 million share holding in the bank.
Buffett also dumped the remainder of his position in Goldman Sachs, which amounted to 1.9 million shares. Buffett had already exited 84 percent of his shares of Goldman Sachs in the first quarter. ...
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