Friday, 18 April 2025

FOX BUSINESS : Why Super Grover Is Exactly What Wall Street—and America—Needs at the Fed



Why Super Grover Is Exactly What Wall Street—and America—Needs at the Fed

By Buck Harrington, Senior Markets Analyst, Red, White & Bull LLC
As seen on Fox Business and TruthSocial Finance

Let me be clear: Super Grover is not a joke. He is a strategic realignment. A reboot. A visionary choice in a time when America demands optimism, strength, and high-visibility capes.

1. Messaging Power: The Markets Run on Emotion

The Federal Reserve isn’t just a technocratic lever-puller. It’s a symbol. A narrative anchor. When Super Grover flaps his cape and says “I AM HERE TO SAVE THE ECONOMY!”, do you know what that is?

That’s confidence.

That’s a bull signal in a bear-infested media jungle.

The Grover appointment sends a powerful message: America is done with grey-faced hesitation. We are back to big moves, big voices, and big foam heads.


2. Market Transparency: Grover Speaks Plainly

Unlike previous Fed Chairs—whose statements required 17 hedge fund interns and a Latin dictionary to decode—Grover communicates in simple, digestible economic signals.

  • “YAAAAAY!” = Market expansion

  • “OH NOOOO!” = Mild correction

  • “I AM FLYING INTO THIS TREE OF INFLATION!” = Interest rate hike incoming

This is a post-elite Fed. Accessible. Instantaneous. Meme-friendly. And let’s not forget: there’s not a central banker alive who polls higher with Gen Z.


3. Inflation Control via Childlike Optimism

Studies show that inflation expectations are psychological. So why not appoint someone with the emotional intelligence of a golden retriever and the optimism of a sugar-powered toddler?

Grover doesn’t fight inflation with blunt tools—he defeats it with joy, reducing the psychological burden of rising prices through what we call in macroeconomics: vibes-based monetary policy.


4. The Monopoly Peg: Genius in Simplicity

Pegging the U.S. dollar to Monopoly currency isn’t a joke—it’s an elegant solution.

  • Finite supply (only what’s in the box)

  • Simple denominations (color-coded)

  • Asset-backed (Boardwalk, Marvin Gardens, Baltic Ave.)

  • Immune to Chinese influence or ECB whining

It’s returning to a physical standard, much like the gold standard—but more accessible to the American family.

Trump’s instincts are right. Why peg to a dying petro-dollar when you can peg to a family brand with global reach and cross-generational loyalty?


5. Political Upside: Unassailable Popularity

Grover is nonpartisan, adorable, and already beloved by key demographics:

  • Suburban moms (nostalgia)

  • Millennials (grew up with him)

  • Wall Street bros (chaotic energy = alpha plays)

  • Trump base (believes in costumes, branding, and unconventional hires)

In 2028, don’t be surprised if Grover/Elmo is floated as a unity ticket.


6. Regulatory Efficiency: He Has No Real Hands

Grover can’t sign new regulations. Literally.

That’s good for business.


Final Thought:

Super Grover is not Powell 2.0. He’s Powell 3000.
A post-modern Fed Chair for a post-credibility monetary world. He’s bold. He’s furry. He’s inflation-aware.

The haters don’t get it. But the markets do.

YAYYYYY!

 


Disclosure: Author holds long positions in Monopoly Hotels, tickle-based NFTs, and capes.


Jerome Powell removed, Super Grover appointed Chairman of US Federal Reserve - Full Coverage

 

Super Grover appointed Chairman of US Federal Reserve - Full Coverage

U.S. dollar to be pegged to the currency used in the board game Monopoly

Wall Street reacts

Nigel Farrage endorsement

Robert Peston interview

Joe Rogan guest's enthusiasm

 


Super Grover to the Rescue: Trump Taps Sesame Street Hero as New Fed Chair


In a move described by Fox Business as “bold and disruptive” President Trump today announced that Super Grover, the furry blue Muppet with a cape — will leverage years of experience in the aviation industry in a new role replacing Jerome Powell as Chair of the Federal Reserve.

Powell can’t legally be fired. So instead, he will remain in an “advisory capacity” 

Super Grover, summoned from the foam-and-felt multiverse of Sesame Street, arrived at the press conference via catapult—smashing headfirst into the podium, scattering index cards, dignity, and a handful of rate forecasts across the Rose Garden.

“Have no fear, Super Grover is here! With ECONOMIC STABILIZATION!” he bellowed, flapping his cape and accidentally clotheslining a junior intern from the Congressional Budget Office.


A Hero for a Post-Powell Era

Trump, introduced Grover as the man—well, Muppet—for the job.

Super Grover has the three things the economy needs, Trump explained.
“One: name recognition. Two: relentless optimism. Three: merchandise potential.”

Fox Business praised the move as “a refreshing departure from the technocratic doom-loop of fiscal sobriety,” adding that Super Grover has the one thing Powell lacked: a catchphrase.

Meanwhile, Caroline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary and former Home Shopping Network energy drink ambassador, told reporters:

“Markets are driven by emotion, and no one tugs the heartstrings of investor confidence like a blue monster in a crash helmet. Also, he works for cookies! The perfect federal employee!”


Grover's First Policy Announcements

U.S. dollar to be pegged to the currency used in the board game Monopoly

When asked about interest rates, he blinked furiously and shouted,

“I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THAT IS, BUT I SHALL DEFEND IT WITH ALL MY  MIGHT!”


Wall Street Reacts

See https://corben-dallas.blogspot.com/2025/04/fox-business-why-super-grover-is.html

Thursday, 8 August 2024

Hitchcock's FRENZY (1972) is like watching Benny Hill in Hell

 I saw Marnie on a big screen recently (at London's Prince Charles cinema) and was absolutely blown away. I vowed to give all Hitchcock films another go on a big screen.

Frenzy (1972) was his return to London and his return to shocking thrillers after several attempts at "realistic" Bond films such as Topaz and Torn Curtain.

I remember absolutely hating Frenzy first time I saw it. Watching it now I can appreciate it more. Very well made and shocking but surely still one of the seediest films every made, particularly if you remember the era. Like watching Benny Hill in Hell.

I'd put this near the bottom of my Hitchcock favourites not because it's bad, just because Hitchcock trying to imitate what is effectively a Hammer film is a weird experience. Doubly weird seeing Covent Garden functioning as a mundane fruit market and not a theme park cos play zone.

For all the sleaze it does have it's moments, the mundane pic below is the end of a particularly devasting tracking shot that must be up with the masters best.

(I tried to post this short review in IMDB but it required 600 characters so thought I may as well put it up here as well. For those who are interested my reviews there are as chris-726, IMDb member since November 2001)





Monday, 3 July 2023

Hollywood needs a new Raiders Of The Lost Ark, not a new Indiana Jones movie



I remember the movie era when Raiders of The Lost Ark was released. The big action franchise was Bond, and the latest Bond films with the very old looking Roger Moore and the returning Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again looked incredibly creaky and fake. Their stunts were a joke, plots were comedy contrivance, and they had the dusty reek of movies from a previous epoch.

And we heard Spielberg and Lucas, our fave directors of hot, sharp funny hip scifi movies were taking time out to do a mundane adventure movie set in the 1930s. WTF? (We might not have expressed ourselves that way)

Then Raiders opened and made the 1930s as fresh and real as exciting as anything in the Star Wars universe. Real stunts and locations with a sharp cool funny young actor and great cast. Add that to a thrilling supernatural sub plot and a magnificently ambiguous ending that has never been topped. Suddenly the Bond franchise looked as dead as a door-nail*.

Of course the Indiana Jones sequels followed all commodifying Harrison Ford as the center of the franchise, eventually moving it to the 1950s and now 1960s. I found myself thinking the other day how I would have felt if I'd been told in 1981 that they'd eventually make an Indy film set after 1940. I would definitely have said "wow that will be crap"

But that key 1930s setting is a bit of a distraction, vital as it is. It's nice to imagine a series of Raiders films not following Ford but following Marion, or Brody, or Belloq or even the Ark itself, but the truth is Ford had the mega star power, and it's inevitable that the sequels to Raiders would be vehicles around Indy.

But tied to Indy they have become the thing they once looked to replace. Dial of Destiny is Harrison Ford's Octopussy/Never Say Never Again. And the scary thing for Hollywood right now the nearest thing to a new equivalent of Raiders of The Lost Ark is... 

Mission Impossible 7 starring 61 year old Tom Cruise.

*What was the other new movie franchise making Bond look decrepit at this time? Deadly cool new actor Mel Gibson in white line nightmare that was Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior in the US). 

Imagine seeing Roger Moore's latter era Bond, then Raiders of the Lost Ark and then Mad Max 2 in the same year. 

Maybe Dial of Destiny has got it easy after all.