Wall Street On Parade’s
Ongoing, Comprehensive Series
On the Trading Scandal at the
Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C.
October 24, 2022: The Fed’s Trading Scandal Broadens into a Scandal with the Mega Banks It “Regulates”
October 17, 2022: Atlanta Fed President Bought Low and Sold High in 2020 as the Fed Bailed Out Wall Street; Then He Failed to Report those Trades
September 6, 2022: Former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan’s Trading Scandal and the Merrick Garland Justice Department’s One Year of Silence
July 14, 2022: Senators on Senate Banking Committee Accuse Fed Chair Powell of Hampering Trading Scandal Investigation
April 21, 2022: It’s Been More than Seven Months and Still No Investigative Findings on the Fed’s Trading Scandal
April 20, 2022: Biden Has Nominated a Man from the Sandy Weill/Robert Rubin/Tim Geithner School of Wall Street Hubris to Head Regulation at the Fed
February 22, 2022: The Fed Just Added Short-Selling and Margin Loans to Its List of Trading Restrictions for Fed Officials – Opening a Big Can of Worms
January 28, 2022: Bloomberg’s Craig Torres Shakes Up the Fed’s Zombie Press Conference with a Gutsy Trading Scandal Question
January 18, 2022: After Its President Created the Biggest Trading Scandal in Fed History, Dallas Fed Chair Calls Robert Kaplan’s Tenure “Great Leadership”
December 24, 2021: Dallas Fed, Home to the Largest Trading Scandal in Fed History, Quietly Runs a Help-Wanted Ad for a New General Counsel and Ethics Officer
November 11, 2021: The Fed’s Board of Governors Is Blocking the Release of Former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan’s Trading Records
November 8, 2021: The Inspector General Investigating the Trading Scandal at the Fed, Reports to Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Whose Own Trading Is Dubious
November 4, 2021: Prior to the Fed’s Trading Scandal, an Axios/Ipsos Poll Found 53 Percent of Americans Didn’t Trust the Fed
October 21, 2021: A Forensic Look at Jerome Powell’s “Pants on Fire” Explanation for His $1 Million to $5 Million Stock Sale
October 18, 2021: Another Fed Bank President’s Financial Disclosures Fail the Smell Test
October 12, 2021: The Dallas Fed Board Is Now Complicit in the Robert Kaplan Saga
October 8, 2021: Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan Was Gathering His Own Market Intelligence
October 4, 2021: Senator Elizabeth Warren Puts the Heat on the SEC to Investigate Fed Officials for Insider Trading
October 4, 2021: New Documents Show the Fed’s Trading Scandal Includes Two of the Wall Street Banks It Supervises: Goldman Sachs and Citigroup
September 30, 2021: Dallas Fed President Kaplan Was Making Bold, Market-Moving Statements to Media During 2020 Crisis; the Same Year He Traded Tens of Millions of Dollars in Stocks and S&P 500 Futures
September 29, 2021: Was Boston Fed President Rosengren Trading with Citigroup’s Money?
September 28, 2021: Goldman Sachs Refuses to Say If It Was Placing Trades for Dallas Fed President Kaplan as Materially False Statement Released by Board on Kaplan’s Relationship with Goldman Sachs
September 27, 2021: Robert Kaplan Was Trading Like a Hedge Fund Kingpin for Five Years while President of the Dallas Fed; a Dozen Legal Safeguards Failed to Stop Him
September 21, 2021: Wall Street Watchdog, Better Markets, Calls Fed Presidents’ Trading Binge “Pandemic Profiteering” or, Possibly, “Illegal Insider Trading”
September 20, 2021: The Justice Department Has Serious Grounds to Subpoena Trading Records from Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan
September 19, 2021: Dallas Fed President Traded S&P 500 Futures. Dallas Fed Will Not Say If He Shorted the Market During Pandemic Crisis in 2020
September 15, 2021: The Latest Outrage Over Fed Presidents Trading Stocks Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
