The hedge funds and the proprietary traders of the banks too big to fail smell big money once again. They are back on the attack. Instead of the debt of mere companies, this time it is the debt of the countries themselves that they are going after.
This was made possible by government and central bank bailouts of private debt. Now that the debt has gone public, the countries have become ground zero for the bloodthirsty money shufflers from Wall Street.
The important thing to understand is that we're dealing with criminals vs. fools. And the criminals can put on the shorts faster than the fools can print money. Wall Street will pick off country by country, paper currency by paper currency.
This strategy has provided the pathetic U.S. dollar with a reprieve. In reality, it is an opportunity to get out of U.S. dollar investments while you still can. The debt dilemma of the United States is so drastic that it is merely a matter of when and not if. When the bad guys are through with Europe, Great Britain and Japan, they will come after the reserve currency of the world. When that happens, confidence will be lost in all paper currencies, and the financial system as we know it will cease to exist.
May 30, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
FINANCIAL HURRICANES HAVE TWO EYE WALLS
Complacency got a wake up call on Thursday. But will the 1000-point intra-day drop on Wall Street bounce off of complacency without education taking place?
We are dealing with a financial hurricane. The first half of the storm hit us hard in late 2008 when the banks hit the wall and deleveraging in the private sector led to a form of gravity rarely seen on planet Earth.
Next came the eye of the storm with its calm winds and tranquil blue skies. The eye is formed by a combination of money printing and propaganda. Well, that wasn't so bad. After all, Wall Street and the Federal Government are telling us we're in a recovery. And we believe what the authorities tell us. I guess the trillions in bailouts for the criminals must have worked. Everything is going to be all right.
But a hurricane is a two-sided animal. Just when you think it's safe to go out and party again, the second eye wall hits with a vengeance. Only this time it's public deleveraging coming at us. Greece is but a brief gust of wind. Think Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Great Britain and Japan. And then there's China whose real estate bubble is searching gamely for a pin. If it finds one, better get into your bunkers
Thank God for the good old USA, right? Wrong. Just compare inconsequential Greece to California, the seventh largest economy in the world. California is broke. So is New York, Illinois and New Jersey. Europe has its broken states, so does America. Our municipalities, our states and the Federal Government itself are bankrupt. All of the parts of the global storm will have to be bailed out with freshly minted pieces of paper. And as for the U.S. Government, it's inflate or die.
So let's hope that complacency learns a lesson from Thursday's stock market. When the hurricane finishes its business with Europe, it has the United States squarely in its sights. So batten down the hatches and do what you must to protect yourself from what's coming down the road.
We are dealing with a financial hurricane. The first half of the storm hit us hard in late 2008 when the banks hit the wall and deleveraging in the private sector led to a form of gravity rarely seen on planet Earth.
Next came the eye of the storm with its calm winds and tranquil blue skies. The eye is formed by a combination of money printing and propaganda. Well, that wasn't so bad. After all, Wall Street and the Federal Government are telling us we're in a recovery. And we believe what the authorities tell us. I guess the trillions in bailouts for the criminals must have worked. Everything is going to be all right.
But a hurricane is a two-sided animal. Just when you think it's safe to go out and party again, the second eye wall hits with a vengeance. Only this time it's public deleveraging coming at us. Greece is but a brief gust of wind. Think Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Great Britain and Japan. And then there's China whose real estate bubble is searching gamely for a pin. If it finds one, better get into your bunkers
Thank God for the good old USA, right? Wrong. Just compare inconsequential Greece to California, the seventh largest economy in the world. California is broke. So is New York, Illinois and New Jersey. Europe has its broken states, so does America. Our municipalities, our states and the Federal Government itself are bankrupt. All of the parts of the global storm will have to be bailed out with freshly minted pieces of paper. And as for the U.S. Government, it's inflate or die.
So let's hope that complacency learns a lesson from Thursday's stock market. When the hurricane finishes its business with Europe, it has the United States squarely in its sights. So batten down the hatches and do what you must to protect yourself from what's coming down the road.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
A RECIPE FOR GETTING OUR COUNTRY BACK
While Wall Street conspires with the U.S. Government to lie to the American People about the fantasy economic recovery through their public relations firm, the mainstream press, the facts tell a very different story. I beg the public to come out of denial and understand that this country is heading down a slippery slope towards bankruptcy, a currency crisis and brutal inflation that will inevitably lead to social unrest. We can nolonger even entertain the absurdity that the Democrats or the Republicans, who are bought and paid for by the banksters, will do anything meaningful about the oncoming storm. It is up to us individual citizens to fight for our own future and that of our children by taking matters into our own hands. It is time to fundamentally change the evil system that is threatening the end of America. The following are just some of the proposals that need to be implemented before it is too late.
1. We must start with a campaign finance law which mandates the use of a fixed amount of public money and eliminates all private individual, corporate, union or non-profit campaign contributions.
2. We must break up the big banks and establish a maximum asset limit of perhaps $100 billion. This will put an end to "too big to fail."
3. White collar crime shall be treated as serious felonies which can lead to long prison sentences. The time has come to place this kind of fraudulent behavior that destroys peoples' lives over and above that of a teenager caught with an ounce of marijuana in his car
4. We must drastically alter the institution of the American lobby system by allowing only one lobbyist per organization, whether it be a corporation, union, non profit etc. A law must be passed to prohibit any monies to be given by these lobbyists to sitting members of Congress or those running for office.
5. We must insist that all current regulators from such entities as the SEC, CFTC, FDA, EPA etc. be fired. Then those, who pass a test that indicates they understand the industry they're going to regulate and are willing to take an oath that they will protect the public from any and all abuses emanating from that industry, will be given positions as regulators. Violation of that oath will be considered a crime and will be punishable by incarceration. No money can be given to these regulators by any entity wishing to influence them. At the same time, regulators who expose wrong doing in their respective industry shall be rewarded with bonuses. This will at last assure that regulators will be intelligent, ethical and incentivized.
6. We must also fire all current personnel in rating agencies. They must be replaced with knowledgeable individuals who, like the regulators above, will take an oath to protect the public by aggressively looking at corporate balance sheets and making sure that ratings favor investors and not corporations. It will be a crime for a rating agency or any of its personnel to take money from a corporation for any purpose.
7. President Obama must fire anyone working in his Cabinet and in lower positions, as well, if they were in positions of responsibility during the lead up to the financial crisis of 2008. For starters that would include Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geitner, Larry Summers, Gary Gensler along with anyone else who came to the administration from Goldman Sachs.. These are all friends of Wall Street. They sat idly by or looked the other way as the financial implosion struck. You cannot expect these individuals, who were partially responsible for causing the crisis, to do anything meaningful to change the regulations or the enforcement policies governing their pals in Wall Street.
8. In order to eliminate the mindboggling complexity of our financial system and the explosive danger it poses to the public, all over-the-counter derivatives must be banned.
9. Above all else, we must abolish the Federal Reserve and return to sound money backed by gold and silver as was mandated by our Constitution. If we do not make this fundamental change, our faith-based currency, which is nothing more than pieces of colored paper, will be debased until people lose confidence in its value and a full-fledged currency crisis becomes inevitable..
10. Since both political parties serve their corporate masters and not the people who elected them and pay their salaries, the Democratic and Republican parties must be abolished and replaced by new independent parties who will abide by the new campaign laws and take an oath to represent the American people and not special interests. Failure to honor this oath will also be considered a crime punishable by imprisonment.
11. Additional Wall Street regulations must include position limits on all stocks and commodities to prevent manipulation in order that we can once again have free markets in this country. No government entity may interfere in free markets by buying or selling in those private enterprise bourses. All market participants, including banks, must have all assets marked to market at the end of trading each day. No more holding of assets of any kind off balance sheets. No more holding of assets in dummy corporations offshore. No more fantasy marked-to-model valuations. Strict accounting procedures must be mandated and enforced under penalty of the law.
12. Specific accountability will be enforced throughout the financial and commercial systems. Incompetent or fraudulent behavior will no longer be rewarded or tolerated. Shareholders of a public company will determine their CEO's salary. Bonuses for employees will be based on performance and again will be determined by the shareholders, who, after all, own each company.
13. A Consumer Protection Department must be created. No one cares about the fat cats on Wall Street. They'll be just fine, I can assure you. It is the American people who need protection from the real axis of evil in this world.
14. Laws must be enacted making it illegal to wire tap Americans without a warrant, delve into their financial affairs in secret or hack into their emails without asking permission. The police state must revert back to good old fashioned freedom.
15. The so-called "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan must be ended at once. All Americans occupying those two countries must return home immediately. (Can you imagine if another nation occupied the USA)? Our uninvited presence in their world is the inspiration for terrorism. Getting out is politically and economically the right thing to do.
16. We have lived too long in a caveat emptor (buyer beware) system where the buyer comes up empty. Part of taking back our country is to recognize that so-called consumers are human beings. From now on it's a seller beware nation.
The steps outlined above may appear extreme and perhaps a bit "far out," but they are crucial to America's survival as a leading nation in what otherwise will be Asia's century.
April 18, 2010
1. We must start with a campaign finance law which mandates the use of a fixed amount of public money and eliminates all private individual, corporate, union or non-profit campaign contributions.
2. We must break up the big banks and establish a maximum asset limit of perhaps $100 billion. This will put an end to "too big to fail."
3. White collar crime shall be treated as serious felonies which can lead to long prison sentences. The time has come to place this kind of fraudulent behavior that destroys peoples' lives over and above that of a teenager caught with an ounce of marijuana in his car
4. We must drastically alter the institution of the American lobby system by allowing only one lobbyist per organization, whether it be a corporation, union, non profit etc. A law must be passed to prohibit any monies to be given by these lobbyists to sitting members of Congress or those running for office.
5. We must insist that all current regulators from such entities as the SEC, CFTC, FDA, EPA etc. be fired. Then those, who pass a test that indicates they understand the industry they're going to regulate and are willing to take an oath that they will protect the public from any and all abuses emanating from that industry, will be given positions as regulators. Violation of that oath will be considered a crime and will be punishable by incarceration. No money can be given to these regulators by any entity wishing to influence them. At the same time, regulators who expose wrong doing in their respective industry shall be rewarded with bonuses. This will at last assure that regulators will be intelligent, ethical and incentivized.
6. We must also fire all current personnel in rating agencies. They must be replaced with knowledgeable individuals who, like the regulators above, will take an oath to protect the public by aggressively looking at corporate balance sheets and making sure that ratings favor investors and not corporations. It will be a crime for a rating agency or any of its personnel to take money from a corporation for any purpose.
7. President Obama must fire anyone working in his Cabinet and in lower positions, as well, if they were in positions of responsibility during the lead up to the financial crisis of 2008. For starters that would include Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geitner, Larry Summers, Gary Gensler along with anyone else who came to the administration from Goldman Sachs.. These are all friends of Wall Street. They sat idly by or looked the other way as the financial implosion struck. You cannot expect these individuals, who were partially responsible for causing the crisis, to do anything meaningful to change the regulations or the enforcement policies governing their pals in Wall Street.
8. In order to eliminate the mindboggling complexity of our financial system and the explosive danger it poses to the public, all over-the-counter derivatives must be banned.
9. Above all else, we must abolish the Federal Reserve and return to sound money backed by gold and silver as was mandated by our Constitution. If we do not make this fundamental change, our faith-based currency, which is nothing more than pieces of colored paper, will be debased until people lose confidence in its value and a full-fledged currency crisis becomes inevitable..
10. Since both political parties serve their corporate masters and not the people who elected them and pay their salaries, the Democratic and Republican parties must be abolished and replaced by new independent parties who will abide by the new campaign laws and take an oath to represent the American people and not special interests. Failure to honor this oath will also be considered a crime punishable by imprisonment.
11. Additional Wall Street regulations must include position limits on all stocks and commodities to prevent manipulation in order that we can once again have free markets in this country. No government entity may interfere in free markets by buying or selling in those private enterprise bourses. All market participants, including banks, must have all assets marked to market at the end of trading each day. No more holding of assets of any kind off balance sheets. No more holding of assets in dummy corporations offshore. No more fantasy marked-to-model valuations. Strict accounting procedures must be mandated and enforced under penalty of the law.
12. Specific accountability will be enforced throughout the financial and commercial systems. Incompetent or fraudulent behavior will no longer be rewarded or tolerated. Shareholders of a public company will determine their CEO's salary. Bonuses for employees will be based on performance and again will be determined by the shareholders, who, after all, own each company.
13. A Consumer Protection Department must be created. No one cares about the fat cats on Wall Street. They'll be just fine, I can assure you. It is the American people who need protection from the real axis of evil in this world.
14. Laws must be enacted making it illegal to wire tap Americans without a warrant, delve into their financial affairs in secret or hack into their emails without asking permission. The police state must revert back to good old fashioned freedom.
15. The so-called "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan must be ended at once. All Americans occupying those two countries must return home immediately. (Can you imagine if another nation occupied the USA)? Our uninvited presence in their world is the inspiration for terrorism. Getting out is politically and economically the right thing to do.
16. We have lived too long in a caveat emptor (buyer beware) system where the buyer comes up empty. Part of taking back our country is to recognize that so-called consumers are human beings. From now on it's a seller beware nation.
The steps outlined above may appear extreme and perhaps a bit "far out," but they are crucial to America's survival as a leading nation in what otherwise will be Asia's century.
April 18, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
THE GREATEST FRAUD IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
For years, investors have been writing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) about one or two big bullion banks holding an enormous concentration of short positions in the gold and silver markets. In 2000, Bill Murphy of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) appeared on CNBC to disclose what his organization had discovered about how gold and silver were being manipulated by the big banks. He was never allowed on television again, and the following day he was beaten up with
brass knuckles and his car was stolen.
On Thursday of last week the CFTC, under great pressure by investors throughout the world, held an open meeting to discuss position limits in the metals markets. Meant to placate the "complainers," a bomb shell testimony from a trader in London rocked the hearing. Andrew McGuire, a precious metals trader, blew the cover off of the long-standing manipulation by informing the Commission that he had written a letter to them in an effort to walk them through exactly how and when the next smash of the gold and silver markets would take place. When it happened exactly as he had outlined, he wrote the CFTC on the day it actually occurred to make sure they were aware that there were no discrepancies in his previous letter of warning. Naturally, the CFTC did nothing about his
letters and was blindsided when they were admitted into testimony at the hearing last week. McQuire and his wife were then injured by a hit-and-run driver and taken to the hospital the day after his letters were made public.
What all this means is that JP Morgan Chase, acting as an agent of the U.S. Government, squashes the two precious metals at certain predetermined times in order to make sure that people do not lose confidence in the U.S. dollar. In London's cash market, a single ounce of paper gold is sold to 100 different people with only one person actually owning the physical gold. Since this fraud is perpetrated in the interest of national security (fear of a loss of confidence in paper currencies), it is possibly not only fraudulent but possibly treasonous as well. The scam totals $5.4 trillion per year and makes the Bernie Madoff scandal seem like a row of beans. And yet not a word about this has appeared in the mainstream press who is bought and paid to keep quiet. This story was deemed much too hot for them to go anywhere near. But this incredible crime will not go away. It has a short fuse that will explode sooner rather than later.
March 31, 2010
brass knuckles and his car was stolen.
On Thursday of last week the CFTC, under great pressure by investors throughout the world, held an open meeting to discuss position limits in the metals markets. Meant to placate the "complainers," a bomb shell testimony from a trader in London rocked the hearing. Andrew McGuire, a precious metals trader, blew the cover off of the long-standing manipulation by informing the Commission that he had written a letter to them in an effort to walk them through exactly how and when the next smash of the gold and silver markets would take place. When it happened exactly as he had outlined, he wrote the CFTC on the day it actually occurred to make sure they were aware that there were no discrepancies in his previous letter of warning. Naturally, the CFTC did nothing about his
letters and was blindsided when they were admitted into testimony at the hearing last week. McQuire and his wife were then injured by a hit-and-run driver and taken to the hospital the day after his letters were made public.
What all this means is that JP Morgan Chase, acting as an agent of the U.S. Government, squashes the two precious metals at certain predetermined times in order to make sure that people do not lose confidence in the U.S. dollar. In London's cash market, a single ounce of paper gold is sold to 100 different people with only one person actually owning the physical gold. Since this fraud is perpetrated in the interest of national security (fear of a loss of confidence in paper currencies), it is possibly not only fraudulent but possibly treasonous as well. The scam totals $5.4 trillion per year and makes the Bernie Madoff scandal seem like a row of beans. And yet not a word about this has appeared in the mainstream press who is bought and paid to keep quiet. This story was deemed much too hot for them to go anywhere near. But this incredible crime will not go away. It has a short fuse that will explode sooner rather than later.
March 31, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
WHAT IS A JOBLESS RECOVERY?
There is no such thing as a jobless recovery. It is the very definition of an oxymoron. The global financial system is more precarious than ever. In Europe, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland will all default. They will have to be bailed out. Great Britain is in desperate shape and is heading for the same endgame.
Lest we think that the problems are specific to countries across the pond, then it is crucial to think again. Just as the individual states of the European Union are going bankrupt, so, too, are the states of the United States. California, New York, New Jersey and Illinois have gone over the cliff. In all, at least 40 of our individual states are hurtling towards the same outcome. All of the above will have to be bailed out. That means quantitative easing (the printing of money) will be the central banks' only option to infinity. Inflate or die is now the Western world's only choice. There is no way for our country to ever repay its debt.
Wall Street will concentrate its OTC derivatives i.e. credit default swaps wherever it sees weakness. By buying CDS insurance against the default of a country or a state and then shorting the debt of that teetering entity, the boys at Goldman Sachs will help to ensure the bankruptcy outcome and profit handsomely from it.
Wall Street will pick off each state one by one, first in Europe and then right here in the good old USA.
As they target the individual countries, they will destroy their paper currencies in the bargain. First the Euro, then the British Pound and finally the U.S. dollar. In essence, they will hasten the devaluation of these colored pieces of paper called currency. And when people finally wake up to what is happening, there will be social unrest. History tells us that angry people will always protest once they understand the scam that has been perpetrated upon them. That is why an entire division of the U.S. Army is training down in Texas to be ready for that eventuality.
The mainstream media is trying to keep the public in the dark. I think it is crucial to know the truth in order to prepare for the worst. Protect yourselves while you still can. Don't be unwitting victims. The financial crisis is not behind us. More likely, it is only in the third inning.
March 14, 2010
Lest we think that the problems are specific to countries across the pond, then it is crucial to think again. Just as the individual states of the European Union are going bankrupt, so, too, are the states of the United States. California, New York, New Jersey and Illinois have gone over the cliff. In all, at least 40 of our individual states are hurtling towards the same outcome. All of the above will have to be bailed out. That means quantitative easing (the printing of money) will be the central banks' only option to infinity. Inflate or die is now the Western world's only choice. There is no way for our country to ever repay its debt.
Wall Street will concentrate its OTC derivatives i.e. credit default swaps wherever it sees weakness. By buying CDS insurance against the default of a country or a state and then shorting the debt of that teetering entity, the boys at Goldman Sachs will help to ensure the bankruptcy outcome and profit handsomely from it.
Wall Street will pick off each state one by one, first in Europe and then right here in the good old USA.
As they target the individual countries, they will destroy their paper currencies in the bargain. First the Euro, then the British Pound and finally the U.S. dollar. In essence, they will hasten the devaluation of these colored pieces of paper called currency. And when people finally wake up to what is happening, there will be social unrest. History tells us that angry people will always protest once they understand the scam that has been perpetrated upon them. That is why an entire division of the U.S. Army is training down in Texas to be ready for that eventuality.
The mainstream media is trying to keep the public in the dark. I think it is crucial to know the truth in order to prepare for the worst. Protect yourselves while you still can. Don't be unwitting victims. The financial crisis is not behind us. More likely, it is only in the third inning.
March 14, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
FROM GAME-CHANGER TO BANKER
Can anyone tell me what happened to Barack Obama? Was he and his family threatened by the elite who run this world? What other explanation is there to explain the profound difference between Obama's inspirational rhetoric of the presidential campaign and the dismal Right-leaning action of his presidency.
For a clue we can go back to the day after he was elected when Obama started putting together his cabinet and those other individuals who would work under him. Everyone he chose, who would have anything to do with the economy or the financial system, came from Wall Street. More Specifically, their association was with Robert Rubin, chief architect of NAFTA, prime destroyer of Glass-Steagall and driving force behind the total deregulation of the financial system. As Clinton's Secretary of State and the ultimate big shot at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, Rubin has probably done more to damage this country economically than any other single person dead or alive. Yet, Obama picked as his economic team, those very persons closest to Rubin and Goldman Sachs (a.k.a. "Government Sachs").
You don't have to look anywhere else. From day one, Obama went from game-changer to banker. As intelligent and articulate and charming as he is, he, nonetheless, became part of Big Government joined at the hip with Wall Street. But could someone tell me why he found it necessary to join the conspiracy and let down the American people?
February 22, 2010
For a clue we can go back to the day after he was elected when Obama started putting together his cabinet and those other individuals who would work under him. Everyone he chose, who would have anything to do with the economy or the financial system, came from Wall Street. More Specifically, their association was with Robert Rubin, chief architect of NAFTA, prime destroyer of Glass-Steagall and driving force behind the total deregulation of the financial system. As Clinton's Secretary of State and the ultimate big shot at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, Rubin has probably done more to damage this country economically than any other single person dead or alive. Yet, Obama picked as his economic team, those very persons closest to Rubin and Goldman Sachs (a.k.a. "Government Sachs").
You don't have to look anywhere else. From day one, Obama went from game-changer to banker. As intelligent and articulate and charming as he is, he, nonetheless, became part of Big Government joined at the hip with Wall Street. But could someone tell me why he found it necessary to join the conspiracy and let down the American people?
February 22, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
DEER TURNING THE TABLES ON TROPHY HUNTERS
Has it occurred to anyone that the reason there are no more trophy deer in the state of Maine
Throughout the history of mankind, hunting was the means to obtain food to get families through the long cold winter. Pursued in this manner, hunting culled the weakest individuals amongst the deer just as the coyote has always done. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand
P.S. Don't tell anyone, but there are a few magnificent specimens left. BUT THEY ARE ARMED WITH SHOTGUNS, RIFLES AND AK-47s. They are waiting in ambush to turn the tables on the mentally-challenged trophy hunters. And these deer have access to the very best taxidermists in the state.
February 16, 2010
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