I believe the banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. Thomas Jefferson 1802
Dr. Doom Nuriel Roubini said in his New York Times article. “It looks like the economy is headed for a serious slow down this year. The most realistic scenarios are painful even if we avoid a double dip. U.S. growth in 2011 will feel like a recession.” That’s the good news.
Webster Tarpley on the beat has reported that the European Central Bank has tried to auction off short term deposits. In effect it’s a form of very short term bonds amounting to about 55 billion euros. It was a failed auction because they could only unload 32 billion dollars of short term paper. One problem is the interest they had to pay is much higher than what they thought it would be.
The nightmare for these banker boobs is that they have an auction of bonds whether in Europe or the U.S. and nobody comes. In the beginning of 2009 the British had one and it failed.
Now here is the scam. On July 1st there was an attempt of the European banks to pay back 42 billion euros to the European Central Bank. These are emergency bailout loans they got from the crisis. There is about 5 trillion of this money about half to be paid in Europe. According to the New York Times the idea was to pay back 442 billion euros and the banks can’t do it. Their next idea was to lend from the left hand to the right hand so it looks like they can pay off the loans.
We are headed for a 3rd world depression, the first one from the 1870’s. I agree that we are in the same cycle as in 1932 starting in 2008.
The second biggest bank in Germany in the 1930’s closed its doors. The German government then declared a bank holiday which saved the Deutsche Bank but that was the beginning of the end for the German economy which then ramped up into hyperinflation.
The current fatality is seen at the last G20 meeting where all these countries are drinking the Milton Friedman kool aid of paying down debt. The problem with that is it’s the wrong thing to do now. We need to stimulate at the proper level now and that’s Main ST. not Wall Street.
To illustrate the problem with paying down debt at the wrong time:
* When they use what little money is available to pay down debt you reduce the stimulus money.
* When they reduce the stimulus that reduces economic activity or wages.
* That reduces taxes being paid.
* With taxes not being paid governments don’t have money any more.
* Which cycles back to governments not being able to pay the debt.
I call this cycle the whirlpool of descent.
FDR understood this and that’s why he de facto nationalized the Fed. He would call in the banksters and tell them what bond issues they were going to buy etc. It was the closest thing we’ve had to nationalization of our banks and money since the Constitution was voted into law.
Obama has shown he doesn’t understand this process as he still takes “advice” from Summers and Geithner etc. Thus the process is backwards with Obama. We have Bernanke telling the White House what to do rather than a strong President dictating terms to the FRB. That’s why our financial lives are a disaster. The parasite is sucking us dry.







