Taxpayers are now buying AIG
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Matthew, so this is a huge financial conspiracy? Wonder your views about LloydsTSB talks to acquire HBOS
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Just found out about the merger talks myself. It is surprising from the point of view of where has HBOS' money gone. A few years ago I happen to know that they had £90 Billion in cash and £800 Billion+ in assets with basically no debt and were scaring the hell out of all the other UK financial institutions because everyone was afraid of being swallowed up. So the query is where did it all go? That's assuming that this isn't another reverse take over as when Bank of Scotland took over the Halifax which was several times its size. Essentially they borrowed the money to do it from the Halifax! Maybe HBOS will lend themselves a few tens of Billions via Lloyds to acquire themselves once again. I guess they're probably still charging themselves interest on the loan from last time, or possibly paying themselves interest :confused:
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Use your AIG stock for toilet paper, if you haven't already. Bernanke and Paulson just printed up 87 million more dollars in exchange for 80% of a company that should have declared bankruptcy a couple of weeks ago. Strictly speaking the deal won't be annouced until the sun rises over the eastern US, but here's the details Now as soon as they put some red houses on the property they can start charging rent.
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Oakman wrote:
87 million more dollars
Shouldn't that be BILLION?
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Does this hit you directly in the pocketbook? If I remember correctly you are a retiree. It has to be nervracking for people expecting a 401K or similar to handle a meaningfull portion of their retirement needs.
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This is not a challenge; it's a genuine question. I'm curious why you say this extra money has been printed fresh (I know you don't mean it literally). Wouldn't it come off something else? Also, as it's been pointed out, it's 85 [Dr. Evil voice]billion[/Dr. Evil voice] dollars.
Cheers, Vıkram.
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The milking of Fannie and Freddie in collusion with insiders, bankers and revolving-door federal officials from all sorts of agencies is one long running and not very secret conspiracy, see www.solari.com or Google Catherine Austin Fitts for her autobiographical account of it from the inside ( long, complex and very sad ). The current financial crisis, known in the UK as 'The Credit Crunch' is not 1 huge financial conspiracy it's more like a coordinated 'play' of the market by those who stand to benefit. They've not necessarily conspired in person but all those in the know have jumped ship at the same time because once the big boys go those who know who the big boys are go with them and so on down the chain. It's always the little guys left holding the hot potato at the end of course. Only in this case there are simply not enough little guys to carry a can this big. Some big names are being ostensibly sacrificed but what this means is that the assests will end up in the hands of those 'inside' and the debt on the books of those 'outside'. Has this crisis been 'engineered'? Yes Is it 100 times bigger than it might have been because of the actions of thousands of sheep/followers who are not part of any conspiracy but see the way the wind is blowing? Yes Does the small rudder steer the large ship ? Yes Are there people who have there hand on that rudder and stand to benefit from all this? Yes Will we see a new class of private Trillionaires emerge as the medium term result? Yes Will a global currency ( and a rejigged international system in the interest of the insiders ) be touted as the solution to this crisis? Yes Will it actually be a solution, i.e. fix the causes? No not at all Was this the point of engineering the crisis in the first place? Yes partly that and partly to wipe out and or dump on the poor large lumps of the accumulated debt which is inherent in the system. Is any of this surprising? No not really Why didn't anyone predict it? They did, accurately and over a decade ago. Search YooTube for "The Money Masters" to get the basics. I hope that helps :)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
"The Money Masters"
Is that the one that features that bloke who wrote "The creature from Jekyll Island"?
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Oakman wrote:
Taxpayers are now buying AIG
Oakman wrote:
Use your AIG stock for toilet paper, if you haven't already
I don't get the connection :~ Why are stocks worthless?
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Ka?l wrote:
I don't get the connection Why are stocks worthless?
Assume there were 1000 shareholders, each owning .001 of the company. Now there are 1000 shareholders, each owning .000002 and one shareholder owning .80 of the company. Since the company's stock had already lost around 98% of its value, the latest devaluation makes it worthless. The "purchase" of the stock was done as a loan which means that the balance sheet on the company doesn't change substantially, only its cash flow.
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Matthew Faithfull wrote:
"The Money Masters"
Is that the one that features that bloke who wrote "The creature from Jekyll Island"?
I don't think so, I'm pretty sure I'd have recognized his name in that case and I didn't. It was someone I'd never heard of previously. Aaron Russo's 'America, From Freedom to Faschism' is also worth a look for something slicker, simpler and more income tax focused. He covers some of the same ground but doesn't go nearly as deep into the history and mechanisms of the banking system.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Not afaik. However, they have a lot of subsidiaries. My 401K is now in money market funds and gold. Both have been hurt, but not badly.
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Good to hear. And good call with gold. Are you holding a fund or options on gold? Personally, I use goldmoney.com to buy and hold gold and silver.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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Good to hear. And good call with gold. Are you holding a fund or options on gold? Personally, I use goldmoney.com to buy and hold gold and silver.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
Chris Austin wrote:
ersonally, I use goldmoney.com to buy and hold gold and silver.
I just invested in leprechaun-finding gear. Pretty soon I won't care about the stock market at all.
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The milking of Fannie and Freddie in collusion with insiders, bankers and revolving-door federal officials from all sorts of agencies is one long running and not very secret conspiracy, see www.solari.com or Google Catherine Austin Fitts for her autobiographical account of it from the inside ( long, complex and very sad ). The current financial crisis, known in the UK as 'The Credit Crunch' is not 1 huge financial conspiracy it's more like a coordinated 'play' of the market by those who stand to benefit. They've not necessarily conspired in person but all those in the know have jumped ship at the same time because once the big boys go those who know who the big boys are go with them and so on down the chain. It's always the little guys left holding the hot potato at the end of course. Only in this case there are simply not enough little guys to carry a can this big. Some big names are being ostensibly sacrificed but what this means is that the assests will end up in the hands of those 'inside' and the debt on the books of those 'outside'. Has this crisis been 'engineered'? Yes Is it 100 times bigger than it might have been because of the actions of thousands of sheep/followers who are not part of any conspiracy but see the way the wind is blowing? Yes Does the small rudder steer the large ship ? Yes Are there people who have there hand on that rudder and stand to benefit from all this? Yes Will we see a new class of private Trillionaires emerge as the medium term result? Yes Will a global currency ( and a rejigged international system in the interest of the insiders ) be touted as the solution to this crisis? Yes Will it actually be a solution, i.e. fix the causes? No not at all Was this the point of engineering the crisis in the first place? Yes partly that and partly to wipe out and or dump on the poor large lumps of the accumulated debt which is inherent in the system. Is any of this surprising? No not really Why didn't anyone predict it? They did, accurately and over a decade ago. Search YooTube for "The Money Masters" to get the basics. I hope that helps :)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Chris Austin wrote:
ersonally, I use goldmoney.com to buy and hold gold and silver.
I just invested in leprechaun-finding gear. Pretty soon I won't care about the stock market at all.
:laugh:
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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Good to hear. And good call with gold. Are you holding a fund or options on gold? Personally, I use goldmoney.com to buy and hold gold and silver.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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Chris Austin wrote:
Are you holding a fund or options on gold?
SGDAX. I know enough about investing to know I don't know enough about investing.
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Oakman wrote:
I know enough about investing to know I don't know enough about investing.
I'm pretty much in the same boat. I was just curios about how you invest in gold/metals since it's something I've been doing for a while and I am always curious to see somebody else's approach. I have a good friend who always gets onto me for buying bullion because he prefers options. I've considered his approach but I've never been comfortable trading options on commodities.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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Oakman wrote:
I know enough about investing to know I don't know enough about investing.
I'm pretty much in the same boat. I was just curios about how you invest in gold/metals since it's something I've been doing for a while and I am always curious to see somebody else's approach. I have a good friend who always gets onto me for buying bullion because he prefers options. I've considered his approach but I've never been comfortable trading options on commodities.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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Oakman wrote:
I know enough about investing to know I don't know enough about investing.
I'm pretty much in the same boat. I was just curios about how you invest in gold/metals since it's something I've been doing for a while and I am always curious to see somebody else's approach. I have a good friend who always gets onto me for buying bullion because he prefers options. I've considered his approach but I've never been comfortable trading options on commodities.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
Unless you're also prepping for teotwawki, in which case options are as worthless as the electrons they're wired on; it probably doesn't make any real difference. :rolleyes:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Unless you're also prepping for teotwawki, in which case options are as worthless as the electrons they're wired on; it probably doesn't make any real difference. :rolleyes:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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dan neely wrote:
Unless you're also prepping for teotwawki
I'm depending on Matthew to give us advance warning.
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Oakman wrote:
dan neely wrote: Unless you're also prepping for teotwawki I'm depending on Matthew to give us advance warning.
How are you planning to differentiate teotwawki from days that end in y? :rolleyes:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Oakman wrote:
dan neely wrote: Unless you're also prepping for teotwawki I'm depending on Matthew to give us advance warning.
How are you planning to differentiate teotwawki from days that end in y? :rolleyes:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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dan neely wrote:
How are you planning to differentiate teotwawki from days that end in y?
On teotwawki, Matthew will be wearing his tinfoil beanie, of course.
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