bankers versus people .the future of democracy
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Bankers versus People
The Future of Democracy
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S&P index drops by 7.1% on 23rd Sept 2011.
Biggest fall since the crash of Sept 2008
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This despite
$10 Trillion + pumped in globally to save the ‘Big Banks’
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Did QE1 and QE2 help grow the US Economy?
NO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jul/29/us-economic-growth-slows-down-sharply
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Did the liquidity push help reduce unemployment?
NO
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So what did it do?
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It empowered Wall Street Banks and hedge funds to grab commodities!
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US Corn jumped by 78%, and globally Maize was up 45%
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFN1E77A0E820110811
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Wheat was up by 25% and Livestock prices rose by 20%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/05/wholesale-food-prices-soar
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Texas crude rose by 22% and copper by 26%
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/07/08/metal-warehousing-pays-off-for-goldman-sachs/
Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank set up ETF’s, bought warehouses from Detroit to London to hoard commodities.
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The big question.
Did Fed action help the average citizen?
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The number of poor in US rose over 15%, the highest in OECD
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/14/uk-usa-economy-poverty-idUKTRE78C45220110914
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Income disparity between Bankers & the rest grew rapidly.
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The Gini’s disparity index for US rose to 45, much higher than UK 34 or even India 36.8
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In Europe Italy’s sovereign debt joined the Eurozone nations as a high risk commodity.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/02/01/are-greek-bonds-the-new-subprime/
CDO market of Eurozone economies rose with strong rumors of Greek default.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576634933293244342.html
Bond yields become volatile. Punters jubilant !
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When Greece, Spain, Portugal became sick IMF,ECB squeezed out liquidity
…… Why ?
Fed pumped in liquidity when Banks were sick
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As a result
Greece witnessed an acute liquidity crunch and a negative growth of 5 %.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/03/credit-crunch-iceland-ireland-greece-dubai-spain
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Spain tightened belt and unemployment soared to over 20%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/oct/16/stoical-spanish-soul-hardship
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•As growth suffered and cash disappeared from the market, default looked imminent.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/10/10/is-europe-sliding-into-a-double-dip-recession
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Greece, Spain, Italy…… The Glamorous tourist destinations!
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With pristine beaches and exotic historical wealth!
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Could fall prey to the vultures of financial markets
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The hedge funds, the Wall Street banks ……
….. And the distress investment specialists like Wilbur Ross, Mark Mobius and George Soros
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………. Those very same people who have continuously shorted municipal bonds from Athens, California, Madrid and Rome.
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So…How did it happen?
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Financial Markets work in tandem
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First come the hawks who hover and spot the weak assets
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Then come the alarm raisers, like jackals who create the din and market panic..... The analyst, the advisor, the rating agencies.
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They downgrade credit rating often prematurely. Raise borrowing costs and make debt recycling difficult.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15222803
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Once the die is cast the market debt becomes high cost and difficult.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-01/whitney-municipal-bond-apocalypse-is-short-on-default-specifics.html
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In come the spin doctors. ……The IMF, ECB and the Institute of International Finance (Bank Lobby)
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They focus on debt repayment raising taxes and costs in malnourished nations
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As the last lifeline of liquid cash is choked off, the nations are devoid of liquidity to run the economy
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This leads to slowdown and negative growth. Deficits rise to enhance the debt crisis.
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Finally they are forced to sell off assets for repayment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/04/greece-sell-islands-german-mps
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The big hungry banks now step in to gnaw into the assets.
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J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, HSBC and BNP Paribas occupy the top spots in the Forbes 2000 lists.
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•They each have mammoth assets over $2 Trillion, ten times that of big oil Exxon, Shell or BP.
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Joseph Ackerman Deutsche Bank CEO and ex-boss of IIF refused haircuts on Greek loan more than the agreed 21 %. AndSaid Banks won’t take haircut for any other Eurozone economy.
http://www.emergingmarkets.org/Article/2906503/Banks-rule-out-further-eurozone-debt-haircuts.html
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This after Deutsche Bank and the consortium of Banks under IIF got bailout of over $10 Trillion by the global taxpayer’s, not so long ago..
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Now that nations struggle
……Bankers do not agree that it is payback time
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• Rather, for the Banks the Eurozone crisis provides opportunities to strengthen their portfolio by buying into distressed assets.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1916998,00.html
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…… after cornering oil, food grains, metals and commodities, sovereign nations are a prime target.
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So soon Banks not elected leaders will hold the destiny of nations.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2011/0912/1224303946844.html
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It is true that Europe’s democracies have lacked fiscal discipline, but so have Dexia and Max bank, BOA and Wells Fargo.
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Vote and coalition politics have often made elected leaders of democracies pamper to populism.
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Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Italy, allhave missed the EU Maastricht treaty fiscal deficit targets by a mile.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/11/eurozone-agree-debt-limit-laws-bailout-deal
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Greece deficit surged from 4% to 15% on discovery of accounting oversight.
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Since debt was 1.7 times GDP it was not possible to fix the Greek debt crisis with short term measures.
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Despite knowing this Greece was put on a short lease with IMF & ECB making no long term commitment ..
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Speculation mounted and Greek debt rating was repeatedly downgraded.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904265504576568693911614726.html
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Fund squeeze led to successive years of negative growth making recovery impossible and default imminent
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So the aged Greek pensioner who paid taxes throughout her life has been handed down a hair cut of 40% of her monthly pension to facilitate the repayment of the Banks. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-
20110919-704332.html
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Now the IMF, the ECB and IIF the bank lobby want to manage the economy and virtually dictate public policy in Greece.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15147855
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They are not interested that hospital services and educators in Greece have not received payment for services since 1 year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/greece-healthcare-brink-catastrophe
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They are not interested in structural reforms of the antiquated licensing policy in Greece that throttles competition.
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They only want to control the fund flow and the disinvestment process, so that prize assets flow their way.
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It is obvious that Mr. Papandreou will not be able to stop that
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So a big question arises for the democracies around the world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/14/greece-uk-european-union-euro
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Will Banks takeover control if our elected leaders fail?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/aug/11/berlusconis-partners-grow-restive-over-ecbs-prescription-for-italy
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If that be so, will the Fed, the ECB, the IIF and the IMF work for the benefit of the citizen or only for the Banks?
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Prophetic words from US President Thomas Jefferson who said that if private Banks controlled monetary policy, they would make the citizen penniless and homeless.
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