John F. Kennedy vs. The Federal Reserve
• documentaries.netWas Kennedy's assassination a warning to future leaders not to screw with the Fed? Perhaps. END THE FED
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Imagine That: Federal Reserve Now Wants to Control Credit Default Swap Market
• Bloomberg.comAn announcement of the regulatory structure could come by the end of the week when President George W. Bush hosts a gathering of world leaders in Washington to discuss ways to fix the financial crisis, said one of the people who has read a draft of t
Thinking the Unthinkable: Are the Markets Warning of a US Debt Default?
• jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.comBut few things are inevitable. The world may choose to create a one world currency, under the control of the Fed and the Central Banks, which is a prelude to One World Government. This would be one way to extend the existence of a fiat regime.
Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose (Update2)
• Bloomberg.com via DailyPaul.comThe Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 TRILLION (!) of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.
Secret Plan For IMF World Dictatorship: G-20 Summit In DC On 11-15-08
• Rense.comThe IMF orthodoxy is austerity, sacrifice, deregulation, privatization, union busting, wage reductions, free trade, the race to the bottom, and prohibitions on advanced technologies. These policies would strangle humanity.
Fannie Mae: $100 Billion May Not be Enough
• CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com``This commitment may not be sufficient to keep us in solvent condition or from being placed into receivership,'' if there are further ``substantial'' losses or if the company is unable to sell unsecured debt
American Express to Become Bank Holding Company
• New York TimesThe Federal Reserve on Monday evening granted a request by American Express to become a bank holding company, giving it access to low-cost financing from the Fed.
AIG: The Looting Continues (Banana Republic Watch)
• NakedCapitalism.comBut now we get to the heinous part. AIG should have no rights at this point. Zero. Zip. Nada. Yet the Fed is treating AIG as a party that has rights and is negotiating with them, as opposed to dictating terms. This is staggering.
Bailout as a Black Op. Program: Now THAT's Revolting (Or Should Be)
• Market-Ticker.denninger.netIt is testament to the sheepish nature of this country that we can have organs of our government literally grab an amount of money equal to the entire federal budget and operate it as a "black program", refusing to comply with Congressional
Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Identify Bank Loans Worth $2 Trillion
• Bloomberg.comThe Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.
AIG, U.S. May Restructure Loan in $150 Billion Bailout Package
• Bloomberg.com– American International Group Inc., the insurer bailed out by the U.S., may get lower interest rates and more time to repay its debt in a new government rescue package valued at more than $150 billion.
The Fed doubles its balance sheet - above $2 trillion in just 5 weeks
• LondonBanker.blogspot.comToday, our assets exceed $1.9 trillion. I would not be surprised to see them aggregate to $3 trillion—roughly 20 percent of GDP—by the time we ring in the New Year.”
Stunned Icelanders Struggle After Economy’s Fall - Is America Next?
• NYtimes.comThe collapse came so fast it seemed unreal, impossible. One woman here compared it to being hit by a train. Another said she felt as if she were watching it through a window. Another said, “It feels like you’ve been put in a prison, and you don’t kno
Bloomberg Sues Fed to Force Disclosure of Collateral
• Bloomberg``The American taxpayer is entitled to know the risks, costs and methodology associated with the unprecedented government bailout of the U.S. financial industry,'' said Matthew Winkler, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News.
Karl Denninger: More Bubblenomics and The Big Idea
• Markit-ticker.denninger.comHistory tells us that nations caught in this mess, if they pass the event horizon of monetary failure and are representative governments, never escape without passing through a totalitarian regime.
Heavy Will Lay The Crown
• optionarmageddon.ml-implode.comLook for the national debt to surpass $12 trillion next year. CNN published a good piece today summarizing all the bailouts to date. They put the price tag, so far, at $3 trillion. That’s not money we’ve spent yet, it’s commitments the Feds have m
The Fed Capitulates: The Central Bank is Broken
• ftalphaville.ft.com/blogThe Bernanke Twist is a direct effort to try and support prices; to stop destructive debt deflation. We are in uncharted territory though. The Fed is not just trying to game the market in US government debt. It’s trying to support the entire asset-ba
Is America Immune - What Happens when Countries Go Bankrupt?
• Spiegel.de/internationalA country has reached this final stage if, as a result of war or blatant mismanagement, it has gambled away all trust, can no longer service its debt or convince anyone to lend it any money, no matter how high an interest rate it promises to pay.
Treasury to expand borrowing to cover expected $2 trillion deficit
• Reuters.comThe Treasury may need to borrow up to $2 trillion in fiscal 2009, according to some members of the Treasury's borrowing advisory committee, made up of 18 primary government bond dealers.
Federal Reserve: Introduction to Devaluation and Demonetization
• AfterDowningStreet.orgTwo generations of Americans have lived in a world where a demonetized currency was beyond imagination. Now the bailouts and bank consolidations have positioned the economy to go over the cliff.
Fed Hires Bear Stearns Risk Chief ... To Supervise Bank Soundness
• NakedCapitalism.comHe was the chief risk officer of Bear Stearns from 2006 until 2008. So, basically, he was the guy on the mast charged with yelling "iceberg" just before the Titantic introduced its bow to a floating hunk of ice.
Gov't to borrow a record $550B in current quarter (that's three months!)
• APThe government will borrow a record $550 billion in the current quarter as it scrambles to fund the huge rescue programs being put in place to deal [or steal] with the worst financial crisis in seven decades.
Fed Squirming Over Fannie and Freddie Agency Debt Guarantee
• HousingDoom.comLockhart already acknowledged a cap for support like this at $200 billion tops for Fannie + Freddie. Real news would be raising this number, or Hank hinting that the sky’s the limit...
Fed 'Bailout' cash lures 1,800 banks to get in line for a handout
• onlineWSJ.comTreasury and banking regulators say as many as 1,800 publicly held institutions could apply for government investments in coming weeks, out of concern that failing to do so could make them losers...
Fed needs to sell 10 times last years debt - The check is on the table
• markit-ticker.denninger.comThe U.S. may sell a net $388 billion of bills, notes and bonds this quarter, up from $178.4 billion last quarter and $33.4 billion in the same period of 2007, according to a quarterly survey. Ten times last year's levels.
Legalized Theft and Fraud
• Market-Ticker.denninger.netThe entirety of the banking regulatory system is now focused on one thing: guaranteeing that the pernicious and pervasive fraud embodied in the intentional gaming of valuations over the last 20 years continues, even if the only "sucker" lef
The Federal Reserve Is Inflating at 341% per Annum
• www.garynorth.comI have never seen anything like this. The adjusted monetary base over the last eight weeks has risen at 341% per annum. The increase in the monetary base is $300 billion
Fed bought $145.7 Billion in Commercial Paper - in matter of days
• CalculatedRisk.blogspot.comFederal Reserve bought commercial paper valued at $145.7 billion in the first days of the program aimed at backstopping the market, indicating the central bank is generating most of this week's record gains in short-term corporate borrowing.
Historic Interview with Aaron Russo, Fighting Cancer and the New World Order
• Aaron Russo (Full 69 minute interview)Hollywood director Russo goes in-depth for first time on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, including his prediction of 9/11 and the war on terror hoax, the Rockefeller's creation of women's lib, and the elite's ultimate plan
CDS on U.S. Treasuries cost 40 times what they cost in 2007
• Bloomberg.comThe cost to hedge against losses on $10 million of Treasuries is about $40,000 annually for 10 years, up from $1,000 in the first half of 2007, based on CMA Datavision prices.
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