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Pam and Russ Martens: Dallas Fed president traded like a hedge fund kingpin

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Monday, September 27, 2021

Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan wasn't just trading like an aggressive hedge fund kingpin in 2020. He has been doing the same thing for five years at the Dallas Fed while having access to non-public, market-moving information from the Federal Reserve's interest-rate setting Federal Open Market Committee meetings and other confidential communications.

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In 2017 and 2020 Kaplan was a voting member of the FOMC. In the other years since he joined the Dallas Fed in 2015 he sat in on the confidential FOMC deliberations and was allowed to participate in the discussions.

Each of Kaplan's financial disclosures forms dating back to when he first became Dallas Fed President on September 8, 2015 (which we obtained directly from the Dallas Fed) shows that Kaplan was trading in and out of S&P 500 futures, a highly speculative form of trading used by hedge funds and day traders. 

Each of Kaplan's S&P 500 transactions is listed at "over $1 million." The phrase "over $1 million" could mean anything from $1,000,001 to tens of millions of dollars per transaction. The phrase is a form of opacity that leads to more loss of credibility at the Dallas Fed. ...

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https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/09/robert-kaplan-was-trading-like-a-hedge-fund-kingpin-for-five-years-while-president-of-the-boston-fed-a-dozen-legal-safeguards-failed-to-stop-him/

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