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Création monétaire, bill buckler parle de l'audit de la fed.

The “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” has just produced the first ever “audit” of the US central bank. It reveals that in the period between December 2007 and July 2010, the Fed parcelled out $US 16.1 TRILLION in emergency loans to financial entities all over the world. Almost half of this - a total of $US 7.75 TRILLION - was loaned to four US banks. They were Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and the Bank of America. In July 2010 (the cut off date for this “audit”), total US stock market capitalisation was $US 15 TRILLION. The Fed provided about half of that.

This inflationary explosion is unprecedented in any era. It represents the biggest ever effort to rescue a debt-based system from the ravages caused by its own debt issuing excesses. It has, at best, provided a “remission” for global paper markets. The cost has been devastating for REAL economies everywhere.
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Charles Hugh Smith
We can clear up much of the purposeful obfuscation by asking: exactly what tragedy befalls Europe if all the sovereign debt in the EU was wiped off the books? The one and only "tragedy" would be the destruction of the "too big to fail" banks, not just in Europe but around the world. As the big European banks imploded, then their inability to service their counterparty obligations on various derivatives to other big banks would topple those lenders.

While the political vassals call that possibility a catastrophe, it would actually spell freedom for Europe's 500 million debt serfs. From the lofty heights of the Manor House, then the loss of enormously concentrated power and wealth is indeed a catastrophe for the Lords and their political lackeys. But for the debt-serfs facing generations of servitude for nothing, then the destruction of the banks would be the glorious lifting of tyranny.
Just as a refresher, here is a definition of kleptocracy:

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, from the Ancient Greek for "thief" and "rule," is a term applied to a government subject to control fraud that takes advantage of governmental corruption to extend the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats), via the embezzlement of state funds at the expense of the wider population, sometimes without even the pretense of honest service. The term means "rule by thieves".
At its heart, the euro currency was ultimately a Grand Arbitrage for the big European banks: they could loan essentially unlimited sums to citizens and sovereign member-states in a stable currency, and be guaranteed that they would be repaid in that same currency regardless of the weaknesses of the debtors.

That was a very sweet deal, an essentially risk-free license to generate monumental profits, all backstopped/guaranteed by the EU and ECB.

In the old, horribly risky system of independent states and currencies, any bank foolish enough to loan vast sums to weak states and its citizenry would soon find the currency in which their loans were paid would weaken to the point that even if the loans were repaid in full, their losses would be crushing.
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Jamie Diamond, most arrogant welfare queen ever
This bailout never ended. “In effect, we nationalized the biggest banks years ago,” Mr. Allison said. “We implicitly guaranteed them. The taxpayers are still the ultimate owners of the risk in those banks — they just don’t get equity returns for that ownership.”
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The Eurodollar Missing Link: Explaining The QE2-Related Cash Surge In US-Based Foreign Banks
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Quaintance And Brodsky On "Change We Can Belive In" Or The Coming "Monetary" Revolution
Analyse agressive.
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Washington décrit similarité du forçage de main entre TARP et debt ceiling. Shock doctrine, top 1%.
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Zero Hedge défend l'idée que les $600 du QE2 sont passées dans le funding de banques étrangères. Un de leur cheval de bataille.
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Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform

It's The Debt, Dummy

I think charts tell a story that allows you to disregard the lies
being spewed by those in power. Below are four charts that tell the
truth about our current predicament. The first is from http://www.mybudget360.com/.
The austerity and debt reduction storyline being sold by the MSM is a
crock. The total amount of mortgage debt outstanding peaked at $14.6
trillion in 2008. The total amount of consumer debt (credit cards, auto
loans, student, boats) outstanding peaked at $2.6 trillion in 2008.
Today, mortgage debt outstanding stands at $13.8 trillion, while
consumer debt stands at $2.4 trillion. Therefore, total consumer debt
has declined by $1 trillion in the last three years. The MSM and talking
heads use this data to declare that consumers have been paying down
debt. This is a complete and utter falsehood. The banks have written off
more than $1 trillion, which the American taxpayer has unwittingly
reimbursed them for. Consumers have not deleveraged. They have taken on
more debt since 2008.
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