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The crashes of Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and its related bank insolvencies are much more serious than the 2008-09 crash. The problem at that time was crooked banks making bad mortgage loans. Debtors were unable to pay and were defaulting, and it turned out that the real estate that they had pledged as collateral was fraudulently overvalued, “mark-to-fantasy” junk mortgages made by false valuations of in the property’s actual market price and the borrower’s income. Banks sold these loans to institutional buyers such as pension funds, German savings banks and other gullible buyers who had drunk the neoliberal Kool Aid believing with Alan Greenspan that banks would not cheat them.
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) investments had no such default risk. The Treasury always can pay, simply by printing money, and the prime long-term mortgages whose packages SVP bought also were solvent. The problem is the financial system itself, or rather, the corner into which the post-Obama Fed has painted the banking system. It cannot escape from ts 13 years of Quantitative Easing without reversing the asset-price inflation and causing bonds, stocks and real estate to lower their market value.
In a nutshell, solving the illiquidity crisis of 2009 in a way that saved the banks from losing money (at the cost of burdening the economy with enormous debts), paved away for the deeply systemic illiquidity crisis that is just now becoming clear, although I cannot resist that I pointed out its basic dynamics already in 2007 and in my 2015 book Killing the Host.
Accounting fictions vs. market reality
No risks of loan default existed for the investments in government securities or packaged long-term mortgages that SVB and other banks have bought. The problem is that the market valuation of these mortgages has fallen as a result of interest rates being jacked up. The interest yield on bonds and mortgages bought a few years ago is much lower than is available on new mortgages and new Treasury notes and bonds. When interest rates rise, these “old securities” fall in price so as to bring their yield to new buyers in line with the Fed’s rising interest rates.
A market valuation problem is not a fraud problem this time around
The public has just discovered that the statistical picture that banks report about their assets and liabilities does not reflect market reality. Bank accountants are allowed to price their assets at “book value” based on the price that was paid to acquire them – without regard for what these investments are worth today. During the 14-year boom in prices for bonds, stocks and real estate this undervalued the actual gain that banks had made as the Fed lowered interest rates to inflate asset prices. But this Quantitative Easing (QE) ended in 2022 when the Fed began to tighten interest rates in order to slow down wage gains.
When interest rates rise, bond prices fall (and stock prices tend to follow). But banks don’t have to mark down the market price of their assets to reflect this decline if they simply hold on to their bonds or packaged mortgages. They only have to reveal the loss in market value if depositors on balance withdraw their money and the bank actually has to sell these assets to raise the cash to pay their depositors.
That is what happened at Silicon Valley Bank. In fact, it has been a problem for the entire U.S. banking system. The following chart comes from Naked Capitalism, which has been following the banking crisis daily:
How SVP’s short-termism failed to see where the financial sector is heading
During the years of low interest rates, the U.S. banking system found that its monopoly power was so strong that it only had to pay depositors 0.1 or 0.2 percent on deposits. That was all that the Treasury was paying on short-term risk-free Treasury bills. So depositors had little alternative, but banks were charging much higher rates for their loans, mortgages and credit cards. And when the Covid crisis hit in 2020, corporations held back on new investments and flooded the banks with money that they were not spending.
The banks were able to make an arbitrage gain – obtaining higher rates from investments than they were paying for deposits – by buying longer-term securities. SVB
Bought long-term Treasury bonds. The margin wasn’t large – less than 2 percentage points. But it was the only safe “free money” around.
Last year Federal Reserve Chairman Powell announced that the central bank was going to raise interest rates in order to slow the wage growth that developed as the economy began to recover. That led most investors to realize that higher interest rates would lower the price of bonds – most steeply for the longest-term bonds. Most money managers avoided such price declines by moving their money into short-term Treasury bills or money-market funds, while real estate, bond and stock prices fell.
For some reason SVB did not make this obvious move. They kept their assets concentrated in long-term Treasury bonds and similar securities. As long as the bank did not have any net deposit withdrawals, it did not have to report this decline in the market value of its assets.
However, it was left holding the bag when Mr. Powell announced that not enough American workers were unemployed to hold down their wage gains, so he planned to raise interest rates even more than he had expected. He said that a serious recession was needed to keep wages low enough to keep U.S. corporate profits high, and hence their stock price.
This reversed the Obama bailout’s Quantitative Easing that steadily inflated asset prices for real estate, stocks and bonds. But the Fed has painted itself into a corner: If it restores the era of “normal” interest rates, that will reversed the 15-year run-up of asset-price gains for the FIRE sector.
This sudden shift on March 11-12 left SVB “sitting on an unrealized loss of close to $163bn – more than its equity base. Deposit outflows then started to crystallize this into a realized loss.”[1]Huw van Steenis, “History can instruct us on the fallout from SVB’s collapse,” Financial Times, March 13, 2023. SVB was not alone. Banks across the country were losing deposits.
This was not a “run on the banks” resulting from fears of insolvency. It was because banks were strong enough monopolies to avoid sharing their rising earnings with their depositors. They were making soaring profits on the rates they charge borrowers, and the rates yielded by their investments, but continued to pay depositors only about 0.2%.
The U.S. Treasury was paying much more, and on Thursday, March 11, the 2-year Treasury note was yielding almost 5 percent. The widening gap between what investors can earn by buying risk-free Treasury securities and the pittance that banks were paying their depositors led the more well-to-do depositors withdraw their money to earn a fairer market return elsewhere.
It would be wrong to think of this as a “bank run” much less as a panic. The depositors were not irrational or falling subject to “the madness of crowds” in withdrawing their money. The banks simply were too selfish. And as they withdrew their deposits, banks had to sell off their portfolio of securities – including the long-term securities held by SVB.
All this is part of the unwinding of the Obama bank bailouts and Quantitative Easing. The result of trying to return to more normal historic interest-rate levels is that on March 14, Moody’s rating agency cut the outlook for the U.S. banking system from stable to negative, citing the “rapidly changing operating environment.” What they are referring to is the plunge in the ability of bank reserves to cover what they owed to their depositors, who were withdrawing their money and forcing the banks to sell securities at a loss.
President Biden’s deceptive cover-up
President Biden is trying to confuse voters by assuring them that the “rescue” of uninsured wealthy SVB depositors is not a bailout. But of course it is a bailout. What he meant was that bank stockholders were not bailed out. But its large uninsured depositors were saved from losing a single penny, despite the fact that they did not qualify for safety, and in fact had jointly talked among themselves and decided to jump ship and cause the bank collapse.
What Biden really meant was that this is not a taxpayer bailout. It does not involve money creation or a budget deficit, any more than the Fed’s $9 trillion in Quantitative Easing for the banks since 2008 has been money creation or increased the budget deficit. It is a balance-sheet exercise – technically a kind of “swap” with offsets of good Federal Reserve credit for “bad” bank securities pledged as collateral – way above current market pricing, to be sure. That is precisely what “rescued” the banks after 2009. Federal credit was created without taxation.
The banking system’s inherent tunnel vision
One may echo Queen Elizabeth II and ask, “Did nobody see this coming?” Where was the Federal Home Loan Bank that was supposed to regulate SVB? Where were the Federal Reserve examiners?
To answer that, one should look at just who the bank regulators and examiners are. They are vetted by the banks themselves, chosen for their denial that there is any inherently structural problem in our financial system. They are “true believers” that financial markets are self-correcting by “automatic stabilizers” and “common sense.”
Deregulatory corruption played a role in carefully selecting such tunnel-visioned regulators and examiners. SVB was overseen by the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB). The FHLB is notorious for regulatory capture by the banks who choose to operate under its supervision. Yet SVB’s business is not home-mortgage lending. It is high-tech private equity entities being prepared for IPOs – to be issued at high prices, talked up, and then often left to fall in a pump and dump game. Bank officials or examiners who recognizes this problem are disqualified from employment by being “over-qualified.”
Another political consideration is that Silicon Valley is a Democratic Party stronghold and rich source of campaign financing. The Biden Administration was not going to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs of campaign contributions. Of course it was going to bail out the bank and its private-capital customers. The financial sector is the core of Democratic Party support, and the party leadership is loyal to its supporters. As President Obama told the bankers who worried that he might follow through on his campaign promises to write down mortgage debts to realistic market valuations in order to enable exploited junk-mortgage clients to remain in their homes, “I’m the only one between you [the bankers visiting the White House] and the mob with the pitchforks,” that is, his characterization of voters who believed his “hope and change” patter talk.
The Fed gets frightened and rolls back interest rates
On March 14 stock and bond prices soared. Margin buyers made a killing as they saw that the Administration’s plan is the usual one: to kick the bank problem down the road, flood the economy with bailouts (for the bankers, not for student debtors) until election day in November 2024.
The great question is thus whether interest rates can ever get back to a historic “normal” without turning the entire banking system into something like SVB. If the Fed really raises interest rates back to normal levels to slow wage growth, there must be a financial crash. To avoid this, the Fed must create an exponentially rising flow of Quantitative Easing.
The underlying problem is that interest-bearing debt grows exponentially, but the economy follows an S-curve and then turns down. And when the economy turns down – or is deliberately slowed down when labor’s wage rates tend to catch up with the price inflation caused by monopoly prices and U.S. anti-Russian sanctions that raise energy and food prices, the magnitude of financial claims on the economy exceeds the ability to pay.
That is the real financial crisis that the economy faces. It goes beyond banking. The entire economy is saddled with debt deflation, even in the face of Federal Reserve-backed asset-price inflation. So the great question – literally the “bottom line” – is how can the Fed maneuver its way out of the low-interest Quantitative Easing corner in which it has painted the U.S. economy. The longer it continues to save FIRE sector investors from taking a loss, the more violent the ultimate resolution must be.
The severity has been a policy choice to keep “kicking the can down the road,” bailing out one financial squeeze after another at least until the next election year.
Notes
[1] Huw van Steenis, “History can instruct us on the fallout from SVB’s collapse,” Financial Times, March 13, 2023.
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How to tell if a bank is in trouble. Look at leadership.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqs-sRmWwAgImvl?format=jpg&name=large
everytime they decide to wreck the economy and clean out the stock market, these bastards make a fortune. the owner’s of the fed and their investment bank coconspirators, manipulate the price on everything, precious metals, stocks and bonds, real estate, as well as commoditize food, medicine, education, literally anything we need in order to live.
they purposely blow these asset bubbles, just so they can purposefully pop them when they mature. these master’s of the universe then claim total ignorance of the situation, even though it is their only job to ensure this does not happen. the big boys all get out at the top of the market while the 401k crowd gets left holding the bag. the assets of the failed businesses, get scooped up for pennies on the dollar.
why is it so hard to understand that a private bank, that’s paid 5% off the top of the debt they create for us, has no intention of paying off or even decreasing the deficit. they have forced the entire country into debt slavery, to benefit these bankster oligarchs.
no matter the outcome of this impending recession/depression, they will have enriched themselves at our expense once again.
“And there must always be a financial crash at some point [as long as interest rates are price-fixed and there’s a central bank which has the legal privilege of counterfeiting.].”
Or, alternatively, Americans could stop holding the worthless Monopoly money, USD. You have to pay taxes in USD but most Americans get tax returns, rather than tax bills… Spend the near-worthless toilet paper to buy real money or real assets, then forget it exists until next year.
The correct value of paper money is 0. Almost all financial pain in America is due to trying to resist this inevitable equilibrium. Lies are bad, mmmkay. The correct thing to do with USD is for merchants to buy exactly enough to pay their tax bills. If all USD demand were tax demand, it would return to its proper value and stay there, becoming orderly, predictable, stable.
And making the Fed very very very sad. And nobody else.
I am always glad when the Unz Review prints an essay by Dr. Hudson – an economist firmly in the corner with the working class. And as Dr. Hudson points out, the elites in America will tolerate anything that happens to America as long as the working class remain as the serfs they are. The elites need the serfdom’s wage scale for their domestic servants, fast food workers, and minor employees.
The elites will tolerate the de-industrialization of America in favor of the Chinese capturing the “whole bag”- they will tolerate America coming in second place militarily; and they even will tolerate America becoming a “Second World” living place – all as long as the American working class does not become too “uppity”.
The origins of this looking down on the working class, I believe, came about from the Clintons who engineered the transfer of American industry to China. They did this because while the Clintons were under-graduate college students – saw UAW workers earning 50K$/yr. putting wheels on axles, while the Clintons were making much less being assistant professors while being so much smarter. When the Clintons got to be elites themselves – they “fixed Joe Sixpack’s ass but good”.
America can come back into its First World status all-right but the elite World of the Clintons, Bushes, et al. must be scrapped. The working class must listen to the likes of Dr. Hudson, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, and vote for them.
“Yet SVB’s business was not mortgage lending. It was high-tech private equity entities being prepared for IPOs – to be issued at high prices and then talked up – and left to fall in the usual pump and dump ploy.”
Yes, these high-tech start-ups had a 95% failure rate, but the success of these start-ups didn’t matter. What mattered was the IPO and, as you said, talking up the stock. That’s where the big money is made. These venture capitalists create the IPO, get in first, and then the pump: “Next best thing, look at the price going up, get in while you still can.” The dump: once they’ve milked all they can, the big boys quietly exit. Then comes the collapse, which the big boys claim “they never saw coming”. Riiiiight!
Somebody posted this as well about the increase of Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank stock:
“How did these banks ever go up so much to begin with?
From March 2020 to Oct 2021 SIVB (Silicon Valley Bank) went from $139 to $753.
From Nov 2020 to Jan 2022 SBNY (Signature Bank) went from $76 to $365. HUH??!!
Since when do bank stocks move like speculative tech stocks?”
Answer: Everything that wasn’t nailed down went up, courtesy of the Federal Reserve artificially suppressing interest rates for years. Cheap, easy money did this. Virtually free credit for the big boys. Gee, what could go wrong?
When Covid hit, the government was handing out money like candy (moratoriums, loans that didn’t have to be paid back), and the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates again. Homeowners rushed out to refinance (30 years at 3% – not bad); eggs cost more, but their mortgage doesn’t.
After the free-for-all, we wonder why there’s inflation?
One Bank to Rule Them All:
and that would be
the Rothschild Third National Bank, alias
“Federal Reserve”
Fed is buying asset of all types at the mark up prices not at the market prices. But vulture funds feed on the failing banks and other funds at the market prices.
The worst part is the banks that always gamble (if you can even call it that when you know you personally won’t really lose) with people’s hard-earned and scraped-together retirement funds plus inflationary costs. No tears shed when you look at SVB’s leaderships’ suspiciously prescient golden parachutes versus the rank and file employees who might now have nothing to show for the daily grind of decades on end.
Of course the Murican Government was going bail SVB out with American tax payer’s money, most of their clientele were super rich leftists close to the Democrats. There are bank runs every year with small banks, but the Murican Government will not bail them out, as their customers are Middle/ Working classes.
Manufacturing plants make stuff, and the great problem is to get the stuff to folk who want it. Problem: people lie. You can’t just ask. If you let the liars claim things they don’t genuinely want very much, it turns out the plants stop being able to make stuff. “Want more input widgets,” they say, but it turns out nobody made any. Turns out what folk really want is to eat without having to work.
The only real solution to this is free market capitalism. If you want something, you gotta pay for it. Trade. The more you want something, the more you can/must bid for it.
Problem: better people make more money and can bid harder for the same level of desire.
Solution: suck it up.
Any system you implement to try to get worse folk to bid harder won’t stop the better people from being better. However, instead of having to work and provide something to trade, the better people can work at gaming your system. Better people, you will find, game the system better than its “intended” audience uses it.
This law has two names. Malcanis’ Law, and the Chamley-Judd Redistribution Impossibility Theorem.
Turns out the fact better folk can bid harder is actually a good thing. To bid harder they first had to work harder, or at least better. They get to bid harder because there’s more total stuff to bid on. They made bigger manufacturing plants that take less work to operate.
Letting liars have stuff makes stuff not exist for them to have. The fake demand makes the supply fake. Likewise letting the rich demand harder causes more supply. The harder the rich can get stuff (without lying) the more stuff exists for them to have.
And, like, we’ve tried it. The rich don’t take all the stuff. Indeed, exactly because folk like to eat without working, the rich pay others to make stuff for them. Which then lets them demand stuff.
As long as you don’t have some bizarro system or another that lets poor folk demand things with money they don’t have. The more systems you have to redistribute the wealth, the more the wealthy will exploit the redistribution systems. They do nothing but reward liars, and if lying is what makes you rich, then your wealthy will be all the best liars.
Ref: read a newspaper.
Is Credit Suisse tanking because of exposure to toxic asset like treasury notes and or to derivatives market ?
wallstreetonparade has been talking about Credit Suisse and Jeff Epstein and Jamie Dimon’s Chase for months .Only lately we are hearing about Credit suites and JP Morgan + Epestein saga in the MSM .
Wallstreetonpaarde covered the exposure of the big banks to the 600 trillions gambling casino of derivates market for months .
What are the odds that SVB ’s limited puny amount exposure (30 billions ) will bring the house down ?
Is it thats why we are trying to start fight everywhere ?
turns out the c.e.o. of s.v.b., is board member of the san francisco federal reserve bank. guess that explains why they bailed out the uninsured accounts (that amounted to 85% of their deposits). let the tax payer foot the bill once again. it’s good to be the fed.
A very good article by Prof. Hudson.
I learned some things.
here’s how (((it))) works, until it doesn’t:
This is all a scam.
Central banks are a scam, the stock market is a scam, the whole system is a giant scam.
Derivatives, t-bills, treasury bonds, FRACTIONAL LENDING…
The mere fact that some ((people)) make money on speculation, or money markets, or any of these other artificial casino activities, is at the very root of the central bank scam, that so many have realized so many countless times, and yet, countries keep getting tricked back into playing this game; or cheated into it by the so-called ((governments)).
Generationally, the people usually figure it out, after their economy has been utterly destroyed for the 5th or 6th time in living memory.
Wait until this version of the ’29 collapse, when everyone loses their entire 401k’s, pension funds, IRA’s etc. Won’t that be a hoot!?
Oh, and then they can experience the next great depression, broke, jobless, in a country with very little actual manufacturing, a.k.a. the service and consumer economy! That’s gonna be just swell.
At least instead of Hoovervilles and breadlines, they’ll get a CBDC linked to a vaccine tracking and tracing app, and a “guaranteed living wage”, to form the shackles on their wrists and the yoke on their back.
And with today’s corrupt government and lying media, who knows how ((they)) will choose to characterize the “cause” of this catastrophe: white supremacy, climate change, China/Russia/Iranian boogey men posting spicy memes that lampoon Michelle “Big Mike” Obama?
It’s anyone’s guess, but you can bet that it will be a lie of epic proportions.
This whole “control the money” thing is getting pretty old, and while it’s making a tiny group of people incredibly wealthy, it’s literally creating poverty, strife, and stagnation for millions.
Crater with Cramer
It seems like Credit Suisse is the next domino to fall, it would been interesting to know how much Credit Suisse had exposure to the NordStream pipelines?
Those morons in Washington may have blown up the Western banking system?
Time to crash the system and clean it up. (1) nationalize banking and have all “bank deposits” made to the fed (2) ban all private mortgages and have the fed make all mortgage loans. Loans should run 10 years on residential property and be interest free, but be limited to $750,000 (3) ban credit cards that allow payment over time (allow Amex cards that make you pay monthly). Forgive all existing credit card debt and “compensate” credit card companies with special US government bonds that may be “redeemed” in 100 years. (4) make derivative contracts illegal and wipe out all holders of derivative contracts (5) make corporate stock holders personally liable on a joint and several basis for all debts of the company they own …
Do all that and see where the dust settles.
Going forward, allow “commercial banks” that can make business loans. Fund those banks with equity and bond sales (but allow no deposits in a traditional bank sense). Prohibit commercial banks from taking equity positions.
Ban private equity as it presently exists.
Pass universal basic income and single payer national health care.
Mandate a corporate “maximum” compensation differential where the highest paid corporate employee (or contractor used by the company) may earn no more than 22x the lowest paid employee on a global basis.
All no imports of most foreign manufactured goods.
…
Channeling my inner Alexander Hamilton
hey wannabe Central Bankster: better hope you don’t meet someone’s inner
Aaron Burr.
It looks like the Saudi Arabians are trying to collapse the West by themselves turning off the tap of petro-dollars. The sump is running dry at key banks, I know print more paper!
I probably shoot better than the real Hamilton, I’m good.
But I don’t think Burr opposed Hamilton’s mercantilist agenda for the US.
Here’s a quick source to view U$T Yield Curves.
https://www.ustreasuryyieldcurve.com/
Clearly it’s Inverted.
I’m not giving any advice here.
Buyer beware.
Need a Plan? Discuss with your Financial/Investment Professional.
Isn’t it obvious to ALL reading. The (((bastards))) make a fortune and they trade this fortune for “real assets” (i.e. land, resources). Eventually the goyim will own nothing and be happy. It will take time because the World is a very big place but if this scam continues unchecked, (((they))) will own everything of importance. People need to wise up and support the other side trying to put a stop to this “International Finance Capital” capture. Why do you think the “multi-polar” world is trying to set up an alternative financial system? The other side wants nothing more to do with this scam. They don’t want to be goyim. It is normal to prefer serving your own culture and civilization instead of serving a “foreign” entity that doesn’t even see you as human.
The Honorable Ben Bernanke said what to who—was it Larry/ Shemp or Moe???
Once CBDCs are out there – optional at first, of course – the central banks could theoretically increase uptake by artificially engineering financial instability and causing regional banks to collapse.
They won’t make it mandatory, they’ll just make it “safe”.
All true except it isn’t just China, I mean Clinton set up a bunch of maquiladoras that had the same effect along the southern border through NAFTA. It will take much more than voting to restore prosperity to the average American. As long as the federal reserve system is based on fake money the American middle class will continue to suffer and slide deeper into penury. Some of the things you mention are now beyond Americas power to control.
The world’s industrial system is failing. Its inputs are becoming harder to get, and its waste is getting harder to dispose of. Net production is declining now, and will continue to decline. The decline is responsible for both tent cities and bank failures.
The governmental form we have, formerly a US empire that has split into a US & China & Russian Empire, cannot affect the above situation. Eliminating “exploitation” of different “classes” (that is, changing the bargaining ability of different social groupings within the industrial system) will not affect the above situation.
The US and Chinese government are trying to distract attention from the above resource/waste problem. Both governments are enforcing a political system on their citizens rather than recruiting citizens for a national effort that the citizens support. The Russian Federation sells resources rather than buying them, but is affected indirectly in that it is being attacked for that reason (that is, to prevent a Russian Federation / German alliance) and has also asserted strong control over its population.
Not one of these governmental responses will affect the net production problem.
Historically, imperial governments have failed, and that will happen this time. It is visibly happening right now. Even Russia, which has resources and should be benefitting from the net production problem, has severe demographic problems that its current Ukraine war will worsen as men in Russia’s childbearing demographic become killed in action or permanently crippled.
The world has historically found new resources ( lighting by wood/wax -> whale oil -> petroleum –> incandescent light/coal -> LED light / coal & natural gas & nuclear -> LED light). The current Green resource projects have a 5% completion rate and are net energy consumers. They are propaganda intended to hide the net resource problem rather than solutions to that problem. Imperial governments tend to prohibit the change in resources illustrated above because existing constituencies lobby against them, and because imperial governments create their own political reality, an illusion that these governments cannot see through and that is apparent in the US and Chinese government.
The current illusory stability of basic system will persist until government is unable to maintain the illusion that the system it maintains can support the public.
Turnabout in “American” politrix has been such that the Democrat party has turned toxic. This began as Anon here points out that the process began with the Clinton Crime Family. However, the reason Anon posits is hardly the full story. Wee Willie (according to former female aids and servants in the governor’s mansion when he demanded special services for that man’s wee willie) just happened to be a RHODES $CHOLAR.
Cecil Rhodes, destroyer of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal and ultimately murderer of thousands of Boer men, women and children…the latter two casualties being due to the British military under Lord Kitchener establishing the world’s first CONCENTRATION CAMPS, was but an ever loyal minion for the Rottenchild Crime Clan. They wanted the gold and the diamonds in Witwatersrand.
Talmudists, from all appearances, look like Whites. However they are Goldmans, Silversteins and Diamants. Their $crooge McDuck fantasies are to roll around in their money-bins, filled with those precious metals and stones. “Stein” in German and its derivative, Yiddi$h, simply means “Stone”, as in the name “Edelstein”, which in those two tongues literally signify “Noble Stone”…or diamonds.
Inevitably, those Goldsmits, Silverbergs and Edelsteins require Shabos Goy minions to be the “Chosen’s” facemen. Those Shabos Goys possess no agency. They are but servants, who do have certain power privileges, mostly financial, but also including selected murders of possible purveyors of inconvenient truths.
So back to the Democrat party and their facemen (and women, headed up by the likes of the Evil Witch of the West, partner (but not so much bed-partner) with Wee Willie, as well as Fancy Nancy, still raking in the $hekels as a pretend-pretty nonagenarian.). $habos Goyls are not to be confused with evil bitches like Janet Yellin and the fortunately late Madeleine Albright…as those vile females happen to be among the very most “Chosen” of woman-hoods.
Now we come to the primary purport of Anon’s presentation. He’s obviously a Democrat and most probably a party apparatchik. He wants us to vote for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Both of them put on a good show of token liberal-leftism, but they happen to be nothing more than shills for the DNC…a body quite similar to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR…one which ultimately takes its orders from those nice folks in City of London AND their Talmudist Agenda partners on Wall $treet.
Though Anon rolls Hudson into the same carpet as Bernie and the faux Native American from an old New England family (choice $habos Goys in ivy-walled glory)…so far as I know that social democrat economist is not elected to a public office and almost certainly not running for politrix.
The kernel of Hudson’s message is to be discovered in one of his closing remarks: “…the magnitude of financial claims on the economy exceeds the ability to pay”. My take from that plangent observation is that while financial collapse may not be immanent, it is inevitable.
In his next paragraph, Hudson lays it right out there: “The longer it (the Fed) continues to save FIRE sector investors from taking a loss, the more violent the ultimate resolution must be.” As a social democrat cum socialist, Hudson astutely employs the word “resolution” rather than its rhyming cognate.
Who was the Auditor–Arthur Andersen??? NO KPMG was the auditor for SVP and Signature Bank–big fees for what????
“Corporate – Institutional” bs, orchestrated by default [not engineered, little thought on long term consequences goes into the “think-tanking”]. The commenter puts his finger right on it.
Alrenous: You come off like one of those greed-inspired fanboys of the (fortunately) late bitch, Ayn Rand…one of those infamous name-stealers if you can read my drift.
Rock n’ Roll, baby. Excellent posting. Should be read twice by all who post here and ALL who lurk.
So, will the controlled western media stop yapping ‘Evergrande’ now?
‘Where was the Federal Home Loan Bank that was supposed to regulate SVB?’ — Dr Michael Hudson
Silicon Valley Bank was a state-chartered entity, regulated by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), as confirmed in its press release last Friday:
https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/03/10/california-financial-regulator-takes-possession-of-silicon-valley-bank/
Privately-capitalized Federal Home Loan Banks are themselves regulated GSEs (Government Sponsored Enterprises), overseen by FHFA (Federal Housing Finance Agency). The FHLBank System is owned by its members. Consequently, it does not exert regulatory authority over them.
https://www.fhfa.gov/SupervisionRegulation/FederalHomeLoanBanks/Pages/About-FHL-Banks.aspx
‘The crashes of Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and its related bank insolvencies are much more serious than the 2008-09 crash.’ — Dr Michael Hudson
If this assertion proves to be true, it will be because the Federal Reserve’s four successive QE (Quantitative Easing) programs since 2009 ginned up Superbubbles in both stocks and real estate.
The bigger the preceding Bubble, the harder the subsequent fall.
This Bubble was global in character, with property prices driven to extremes in nearly every corner of the earth. Raising interest rates not only depresses government bond prices, but also it reduces property prices via the cap rate. This mechanism is only starting to come into play.
If indeed this Bubble crashes to earth like none other, an appropriate policy response would be to forever ban quantitative easing … and, of course, audit the Fed.
Once again Hudson fails to discuss the Israeli aspect of the Biden bailout of uninsured deposits at SVB. In close consultation with the Netanyahu government, much of this Biden bailout of SVB deposits is going to Israel start ups, many of them no doubt engaged in stealing Silicon Valley secrets.
https://www.trunews.com/stream/shekel-shuffle-janet-yellens-svb-bailout-was-for-israeli-tech-firms
Only an intellectual midget in economics would rant about deregulation in this case considering regulations are the only reason government debt that pays barely any interest is attractive to financial institutions. Not surprised I almost have more citations on the econ articles I published in grad school than this guy. [email protected] little you could publish and still become an academic. Boomers did live on recruit difficulty.
I like that in your world banks would be banned from taking in deposits, but they’re still the source of business loans. Not surprised Hudson has a readershit. Lol
In the end inferior people produce inferior societies, as America becomes more third world the decay will be harder to hide and prevent. Sure, the jews will resort to ever more elaborate financial tricks and try bamboozle the rest with clever sounding word salads in the mass media, but rest of the world will slowly but surely catch on that investing into the USA is a bad idea.
Excellent article! You’ve done it again my man. Michael Hudson’s works should be required reading for all students of finance and economics. I can’t help think what would an unprecedented Chinese sell off of US government bonds do to the US economy right now. Colonel Douglas Macgregor anticipates something like this. If America goes broke the troops and ships will come home. Armies and navies must be paid. Also their maintenance isn’t free. If the Chinese want to take Taiwan and build a new multipolar order as they’ve publicly declared such an action isn’t unthinkable. Hell, I’d argue it’s inevitable. On a side note, Russia will benefit from this as well as the US would walk away from Ukraine. Putin will no doubt be discussing such actions with his meeting with Xi Jing Ping in Moscow on the 21st.
The American military-industrial complex of which finance is the “media” part, when sanitizing ninety percent of their “spending” [graft, revolving doors, make-up, bluff, no accounting, no accountability] could come up on over a hundred percent of what they show for now. The bigger the bulb, the higher indices of corruption. The US is by far the biggest corrupter globally, and has it’s nose in it’s own supply.
Paddling the oceans is no real need in a global world. Douglas Macgregor, and Tony Shaffer [to a lesser extend] miss part of the argument though. Restricting the economic reach to local, in a globalized world is not an option. The real assets of a global economy are not distributed evenly.
To their credit [Macgregor, Shaffer], borders are indeed porous. Scaling the North Korea model would work, in the sense that at the top there is corridors of all and anything between partners. Essentially that is the proposition of Macgregor come and give some shades of gray. He advocates negotiations, in an organized way with Russia and China. Bluffing is done for, come finance, come military stature. That reset, instead of altering the perceptions of man-meat as to what constitutes a dollar in their own world which is just fentanyl.
Thank you Michael for another easy reading description of where we and the financial system are at. I would however note that I disagree with your statement “ A market valuation problem is not a fraud problem this time around”. It is still a fraud only this time inflicted by the US treasury on the entire non-US world. I also sense that you, perhaps intentionally, seem to assume that the FED although facing problems of its own making remains somehow in control. Based on recent actions and statements from abroad it would appear that more than few folks favouring a shift to a multipolar world have now figured out that the current global financial system rather than being a source of strength is in fact the Achilles heel of those favouring a continuation of the long in the tooth unipolar gang.
When starting to read this article, I began a search for Michael Hudson’s standard Marxist/Trotskyite explanation of events. I wasn’t disappointed:
So, apparently, the crisis isn’t caused by the troubled banks’ declining value of low-interest Treasuries on their books, and thus inability to pay their depositors the present market interest rates. Nope, .. according to Michael Hudson, Marxism works, capitalism doesn’t. Never mind the litter of failed Marxist nations in the 20th century.
This crisis started out as a supply-chain problem due to the Covid. But, it quickly become magnified when the socialists in our Government flooded the economy with trillions of dollars of spending. This fiscal problem quickly became a severe monetary problem. The Fed had to raise interest rates to control the ensuing inflation. Why were interest rates near zero, in the first place? Because our socialist government forced loosened loan standards, prior to 2006, to force more home ownership among low-income people. Trillions of dollars of worthless subprime loans were packaged into collateralized loan obligations and sold to unwary buyers on the secondary mortgage market. The Fed spent years of QE to correct it. We are still paying the price for that misplaced socialism, as the Fed tries to restore interest rates, while simultaneously battling an inflated money supply.
Bring back the Glass-Steagall Act—Bankers cannot be trusted and are assholes, this is the only protection people have.
Its not socialism . Just like the Derivatives aren’t derivate in original sense but 3 rd gambling with no stake in the game other than the money put into the betting.
It is LGBT celebration day 7/24 over 365 days each year and shafting the LGBT along with the poor and the middle class ,stiffing their pay, stiffing their pay raise and asking Walmart to include more LGBT and blacks for the jobs of the janitors and cleaners and aisle workers .
This is presented and received by the American Republocrats as socialism .
The money that was showered to the unemployed and small business are pittance compared to the money showered to the 1 % both in magnitude and duration. The poor and the unalloyed and the small business received for few months . The 1 % has been receiving for over 15 ytrs ( from 2008 )
Some of the money sent to small business did not get to them but ended up in medium size big corporations .
One of the reasons of failure of distribution was while pipeline for sending money to the banks, hedge fund,vulture capital, corporations and private equity were very efficient because the system of transfer were already established and functioning for decades ,the same was not true for the poor ,unemployed and the small business .
streamlined and established
emerging majority;
Contrary to your assumption, I am not a “Democratic Party apparatchik” – I was a bona-fide Libertarian for the longest time, in fact, I once ran for US Congress as a Libertarian. I was also an engineer who owned a company that manufactured military gadgets that for several years employed a dozen employees and made a million dollars a year – so I should be one who admires our so-called, “free market capitalism”.
But I don’t – for one big reason – the “free market capitalism” no longer works for America.
China has proven to be a much better country with its socialism. Its working-class citizens enjoy a better standard of living than the American working class does and China seems to conduct itself as a better nation. In comparison, the American working-class lives like peons earning barely above poverty on scarcely better than minimum wage. America is run by people like the Clintons, who absolutely hate the working class and would do little to stop absolute starvation of those wretches when things go absolutely bad. They think that they are so clever – and much above the “deplorables” working at McDonalds and renting nasty old trailers and driving old “junkers”.
The Democratic Party is run by “smart-asses” who champion the Black criminal class that is starting to replace a previously hard working, religious Black minority. The Democrats also champion the Zionists who are about to commit genocide on the innocent Palestinians. The Republicans, instead, are just a bunch of rich folk who mostly inherited their money or are the crooks trying to break into their ranks.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are Democrats, true, but they are way above the cut of some self-serving jerk like a Clinton, a Biden or a Joe Manchin. America needs to evolve into the 21st Century and replace the self-serving jerks with a more equitable social contract that serves all of humanity rather trying to advance crappy places like Israel or Ukraine. The “free enterprise capitalism” model belongs in the history books along with the tales of the railroad kings that tamed the Old Wild West.
Banks struggle to hedge fixed rate loans with on demand deposits. Most borrowers want the security of fixed rates, but most depositors do not want their money tied up in long term historically low fixed rate cds. The standardization of fixed rate home loans fixed this issue for banks. Banks make a 30 yr fixed rate home loan, then immediately sell the loan, eliminating the hedge risk, while pocketing the transaction fee.
Fixed rate business loans are not easily standardized or sold, so banks keep loans in-house. Conservative banks match 3, 5 and 10 year fixed rate cds on deposit with 3, 5 and 10 year fixed rate loans. However many banks assumed interest rates would stay low forever or even go negative, so they made fixed rate business loans (or govt loans i.e. purchasing long term treasuries) with on demand deposits. We now see banks desperately trying to delay raising checking account interest rates to avoid losses on their historically low fixed rate loans.
However, the banks that properly hedged their loans, see an opportunity to increase deposits (or stop the flight of deposits to short term US treasuries) by offering higher interest rates on checking accounts and cds. The depositors then move their money, either to the banks offering competitive interest rates or to US treasuries, forcing the poorly hedged banks to sell their long term fixed rate govt loans at a loss to cover the withdrawals.
Biden has said he is not going to use American taxpayer money to bail out this bank. I imagine the same thing will be true for upcoming collapsing banks. This means they will print up the money to cover it. Money printer goes brrr. We will be paying an inflation tax.
It is all really very simple if you know where to look, and I know where to look.
Consider for example the following clause in a General Security Agreement (GSA) from a major transnational financial institution (in material part, emphasis added:):
So why would they do that? Why would the bank and its lawyers provide a direct, clear and unambiguous clause that the parties agree to disregard any and all domestic and international laws against the provisions-in-fact of the securities?
The most obvious answer is because the nominal or pretended securities are literally saturated with criminal-law and racketeering violations and provisions.
But to figure that out, an economist or anyone else has to do something really really radical, and that is:
1. READ THE DAMN SECURITIES.
2. ARREST AND PROSECUTE THE BANKERS AND THEIR SOLICITORS FOR FRAUD, FORGERY, AND THE LAUNDERING OF PROCEEDS OF CRIME.
This isn’t freaking rocket science.
Because the bank crisis is just a symptom, the problem is the unstoppable growth of social inequality generated by greed and the rule of compound interest.
You sound hurt and afraid. I’m sorry, but you are correct: you have something to be afraid of.
Exactly the way socialism always works. I already cited the relevant laws. Or you can call it Communism.
“Communism produces enormous misery and decay while failing to advance at all toward its stated goals. That’s kind of why Communism sucks so much.”
LGBT is Communism. The connecting principle is Egalitarianism – the idea that if someone is rich, it isn’t because they are clever, hard-working, or well-networked, it must be because of “greed.” Egalitarianism is the fanatical superstition that everyone can be rich. Likewise, Egalitarianism is the superstition that deviants aren’t sick, if anything is wrong with the mentally ill it must be because regular folk “discriminate” out of “hate.”
Communism is the experiment: not everyone can be rich, but (nearly) everyone can be poor. If you push it really hard, you find that everyone can be dead.
After Jamestown in the 1600s or, at the latest, the Owenites in the 1830s, the only reason any genuinely effective person would advance socialism or any of its extremely close relatives is exactly to produce this massive wealth concentration. Or to produce massive misery. Either-or, really.
I agree — I’d never trust a bank with so many cumskins.
Both Parties in 2016 had passed Glass-Steagall on their platform.
Trump wins and what does he do? Remember Mnunchin? Exactly….No Glass-Steagall passed by Trump!
And who had been pushing Glass-Steagall? Well the push started with LaRouche!
“It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.” Bertolt Brecht
March 16, 2023 Global Financial Meltdown: Sweeping Deregulation of the US Banking System
The 1999 legislation had repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, a pillar of President Roosevelt’s “New Deal” which was put in place in response to the climate of corruption, financial manipulation and “insider trading” which led to more than 5,000 bank failures in the years following the 1929 Wall Street crash.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-financial-meltdown-sweeping-deregulation-of-the-us-banking-system/10588
Very specific analysis which makes me wonder about the big picture………lots of other factors are alive and well in the economic world so it is truthfully impossible to tell how this will turn out.
It seems almost any action can be captured to maximize or minimize the existing circumstances.
Truthfully, its a game of volleyball, each knocking the ball into the other’s field of control and waiting for a return or misstep.
Locally we’re still minus our 2 piece KFC meal because no one will go into the massive debt to reopen it. That leaves McD and Subway and two local eateries. Existing businesses are basically fixed. The local gov decided not to support Krist Oil and invested in installing a gas tank next to the County Garage built on public land decades ago undoubtably with the promise not to expand—sound familiar?—so Krist Oil is now forced to redo its location to generate more revenue. We have lost a hardware store, a discount department store, and the one useful application of using the finally opened gov loan program is to upgrade the 100 year old bowling alley building with its moon phase roof, into the expanded coffee roasting business, making one less vacant store front on our Main Street. Halaluyah!
“2. ARREST AND PROSECUTE THE BANKERS AND THEIR SOLICITORS FOR FRAUD, FORGERY, AND THE LAUNDERING OF PROCEEDS OF CRIME.”
or they could allow the system to operate as intended. By ceasing to shield misconduct and risky practices by refusing bailing out the players. And by players I am not talking about the 200,000.00 home owner or borrower.
If you’re going to start prosecuting financial crime, you have to start with Congress. Congress legalized counterfeiting for the “”private”” entity known as the Federal Reserve. Using modern American standards of so-called criminal justice, this branch of government must be jailed, having flagrantly violated its duties of care.
The legalized crimes are far more serious than any de jure lawbreaking. Prosecuting SVB officers is like jailing drug pushers; the mafia dons are still there. It’s nothing but a business expense for them.
Naturally there are serious treacheries in the Executive and the Senate as well, so the first step must be to exact criminal justice on the criminal justice system. Once the jail system is in jail, you can start fixing the system of law so as to outlaw the lawmakers.
Unless the lawmakers are outlawed, crime will remain legal.
There are reasons the lawmakers are criminals, having to do with, frankly obvious, flaws in the design. Nobody would make a government like the American government unless they intended to criminally parasitize on the associated country. They get away with it because it’s designed to let Officials get away with things.
Technically this is an improvement. The previous design, Rome, had that whole ‘crossing the Rubicon’ incident. If you prosecute Republican government officials when they break the law, they tend to mount military revolts rather than submit to prosecution.
“They” are JEWS just say it already…
I actually enjoyed this article (well, I didn’t enjoy the facts and the conclusions, but it’s good information).
Still, I’m going to snark.
Mr. Hudson, there are many excellent ways to proofread written work. Please use them. Spell and editing checks. “Read aloud” feature on Word. You don’t even have to pay an editor, and using these tools is fast.
Are your books this big a mess?
“Afraid”? It’s quite possible that I’m one of the least afraid individuals you will ever encounter on this site. “Why”? You might ask. In the first and primary instance, walking the spirit-path is most important to me.
We are spirits living in not only a three-dimensional material lifetime. This particular round about the wheel is within one of the most dystopian cultural realities within recorded human history. Once upon a time when I was yet a young man, there were a certain number of positive persons who rose to the top. Nowadays, it’s almost inevitably the scum… psychopaths and sociopaths dominate and corrupt virtually every major institution in this ruptured republic.
Materialism is a dead end. Corporatism is evil. Demented “scientific” rationalists dominate our educational and research institutions. Simple reform is not a viable option. Voting for either major party is at best an exercise in futility. Have a look at the ass-end of the $1 Fed note and check out the symbology. It perfectly describes the top-down governmental and socio-economic reality in which we are immersed.
Communism and Capitalism are two peas in a pod, along with corporatism and corruptivity. It’s all a matter of centralization of power. Do you understand that? Seems like you are still stuck somewhere within the Cold War mentality. Did you vote for LBJ all the way…or was Ronny Raygunz your man.
Whether economic or governmental, top-down rule is our greatest social evil. We need to return to graduated inheritance taxes and extremely high rates on those who manipulate money and resources while contributing absolutely nothing to the public good.
So it’s no “legacies” like Bu$h the Lesser into the Ivy Leagues and no minority preferences either. The only workable systems would be based strictly on merit. Who would make the decisions as to meritocracy? Obviously, wise elders drawn from all ranks of society, with no special preference going those with a bunch of letters from approved institutions ganging up after their surnames.
‘Exactly the way socialism always works.’ — Alrenous
Case in point:
‘[First Republic Bank] executives had been selling for months. In all, insiders have sold $11.8 million worth of stock so far this year at prices averaging just below $130 a share.
‘The executives’ trades went largely unnoticed. Unlike insider sales at most companies, those at First Republic aren’t required to be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission. SEC filings of insider sales are scrutinized by investors for clues about a company’s prospects.
‘As of Wednesday, First Republic is the only company in the S&P 500 index that doesn’t file its insider trades with the SEC, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows. Signature Bank was similarly exempted, but its shares were replaced in the index Wednesday after its closure on Sunday.
‘The quirk in the reporting rules goes back to the Securities Act of 1933, which exempted banks from registering their securities with the SEC.’ — WSJ
https://archive.ph/5DBY4#selection-359.0-363.111
HA HA HA HA: special rules for special people.
And you and me ain’t one of them.
The saying/cliche is true: Sh#t rolls down hill. The Financial System is tightly controlled by the “Boys at the Top”. It is not hard to discern a “pump and dump” maneuver. Why is nothing done to stop it? See my first sentence: Sh#t rolls down hill. The Fed jacked rates knowing that any losses from higher Interest rates were ‘backstopped’ by the Last Chump: the American Taxpayer. Why the American taxpayer sits idly by without protesting this ripoff is a mystery.
So personal attacks and gratuitous, empty insults constitute [walking the spirit-path]?
I’m sorry, it’s clear even you don’t take yourself seriously. It would be disrespectful to believe that you believe anything you claim to believe.
I could prove stuff like this wrong, but it would take more work and attention than is available. In addition to being impossible, it wouldn’t work; no minds would change even if the proof were provided. It really is just an empty insult, a waste of time, which has no bearing on the stated conclusion. (Which are also just lies.)
Costs more than is available and wouldn’t work anyway? It’s Communism again.
“It’s okay that counterfeiting is legal as long as they pay the jizya.”
“Crime is good as long as I’m the mafia don taking collections.”
“Getting things without paying for them and getting things only by paying for them are the same thing.”
Ignorance is not ignorance, it’s just lying. Could go and find out, but don’t. This means they already know what they need to avoid learning; else they would accidentally learn it at some point.
Using call-a-spade-a-spade, it’s Fascism. Fascism always calls itself anti-Fascism and blames its Fascism on Capitalism. Thus: “Communism and Fascism are two peas in a pod.” Indeed, that is true. Communism is merely a minor variation on the Fascism theme.
P.S.
Need Communism.
Communism doesn’t work.
Need something that doesn’t work.
Can’t get needs met. Tragic.
The idea is to have ever-fewer children with this nature, rather than more.
The U.S. has three options: (1) raise taxes; (2) default on its debt; (3) keep on printing U.S. dollars. It will choose No. 3 for now which will eventually lead to hyperinflation and default as the world moves away from the U.S. “petrodollar”.
The banker cries in pain as he robs you.
Hudson’s discussion of derivatives in this cryptic essay is way too narrow and impoverished. He misses the mark on this subject and on the Zioamerican character of Biden’s SBV bailout for depositors largely in Israel.
I worked hard to come up with a decent explanation of derivatives in my August 2020 essay republished today by Global Research.ca because of its relevance to current events. The essay was written with my understanding that some readers will appreciate a reprieve from the jargon-prone ponderous prose of most professional economists including Hudson.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/financial-meltdown-and-the-bailouts-the-role-of-speculative-trade-wall-street-criminality-on-display/5721337
The way the China/Russia regime and the terrorist USEUNATO conglomerate have managed things lately, the world’s likely to face another protracted crisis needing “responsible management”; or, better said, a new facet of the ever-crisis in which much is already being changed and adjusted in order to stay the same as it was in the previos phases of the process. Though a systemic collapse would be great to install a quick new system update, some “saviour” idea such as CBDCs or some fuckery in that same vein to save save the day, but it’ll be handled into existence by the handlers.
It’s tempting to blame rich people for the poors’ problems, but the harsh reality is that everyone creates their own poverty. It also depends on what you define as poor. The Kardashians are 7-9 figure millionaires, but wallow in a degenerate world that impoverishes their minds. Being a well-fed lapdog doesn’t make you wealthy in neither mind nor in your finances. I’m fairly wealthy, but my spending is below the the spending for those classified as living in poverty. I simply never cared for the material possessions everyone seems to crave. So, even though I’m wealthy, .. I also quite poor. Some of my relatives are somewhat financially impoverished, hardly the victims of the rich, but live comfortable low-income lives. Other relatives of mine fell into a drug and low-education world of degeneracy. I found from their experiences that its mostly due to mental illness or an inability to cope with real-world problems. It’s tempting to blame rich people for the poors’ problems, but the harsh reality is that everyone creates their own poverty. That’s how many of us on the right think. Unlike the Left which youthfully sees the world with black and white abstract political lenses, we on the right tend to see it through the messy world of our own experiences.
LGBT don’t have my sympathy. Only 30% of them, according to identical twin studies, are genetically disposed toward LGBT. Some of it is due to hormones, but the vast majority are inclined to it, because of mental illness (it was once properly classified this way in the DSM). Whether it is genetic, hormonal, or mental illness, the victims of it are better off treating this malady as a mental illness, than succumbing to unnatural behaviors that cause high levels of mental illness. Quite simply, it’s not good for them to behave as LGBT. Honestly, I really don’t care one way or another. I think too many enjoy it become it gives them the conforting belief they are victims.
A family member blamed inflation solely on gas prices and big oil greed… spent a little too much time on CNN that day I could tell.
Allegedly all are equal before God, but some are more equal than others.
However, there’s nothing stopping you from becoming one of the special people; they have to preserve the myth that ‘anyone’ can become President or whatever, and as such they always have to leave the door open.
I personally hack the system in my favour, and you should do the same. One way or another if you don’t force them to stop exploiting you, you’re consenting to exploitation.
Insider trading is just legal if you’re a congresscritter. They make the rules, therefore if they want to break a rule, they just change it first. Many congresscritters’ net worths are public and you can watch them get insane capital gains while in office, especially Democrats.
The point of the 401(k) is to inflate the stock market, producing more demand for stocks than there is supply of stocks. Regime pets can then cash out of the stock market, using insider knowledge, and confiscate your 401(k) “gains.” You don’t even need to be First Republic: rather than trading on particular stocks, you can trade on stock crashes generally. Dump your index fund when you hear Jerome Powell’s tummy is getting rumbly and he might do something grumpy. The SEC literally cannot catch this, if they even bothered trying to make a rule against it.
It is very foolish to hold USD or any financial instrument linked to the Federal Reserve’s printing press or interest rate. At least, if you have not first secured your insider advantage.
The Federal Reserve system only works because Americans are indeed kind of…special. And there’s special rules for those who aren’t…special.
E.g. the Hasidim commit widespread welfare fraud. If Americans in general went and learned from their local Hasidim, there would be no more welfare queens such as Hasidim, because the system would rapidly become untenable and collapse. It is only because Americans refuse to exploit their exploiters that the system persists.
>and the prime long-term mortgages whose packages SVP bought also were solvent
What does ‘solvent’ mean here? — mortgage rates have risen substantially, so the market values of the interest bearing ‘mortgage packages’ bought earlier by SVB when rates were lower have probably declined, perhaps in some cases significantly — and if they were forced to sell such assets (instead of just holding them to collect interest) in order to satisfy extraordinary cash flow requirements (for withdrawal requests or whatever), and as a result of those market transactions the real value (remember ‘mark to market’?) of other assets also declined, then there may have been solvency concerns about SVB as an institution.
>The Treasury always can pay, simply by printing money
Yes, they could — I guess it’s a question of priorities:
My dear dear Micheal Hudson, I read half of the article you wrote and had great trouble following it as I’m not an economist or an accountant. But when I came to this sentence “President Biden is trying to confuse voters” in the above article, I just gave up.
How can you say something like this about Biden.
Is Biden sentient? How can Biden even try to confuse others when he needs help to locate the toilet paper and his ____?
Biden is just and old decrepit crook on his last legs and if Captain America doesn’t soon appear, crooks and idiots like DeSantis, Trump, Butplug, will only accelerate America’s slide to the drain.
Where does Child Molester in Chief Biden get the authority to bailout all these depositors.? By law they only get up to $250,000 , but Biden is giving $487 million to SVB depositor Roku!!!
Why the Bank Crisis Is Not Over
I say:
The bank crisis is not over because the nice polite White society globalizer plutocrats are clam raking all kinds of loot out of looting the banks. The lootings will continue until such time as the regular Americans in White Core America take control of the globalized central banks and start using the globalized central banks to benefit the nice regular hardscrabble people in White Core America.
So-called “polite White society” is just a bunch of White mugs that are all kinds of smug because they have been clam-raking ill-gotten gains out of the asset bubbles created by the monetary policy extremism of the privately-controlled Federal Reserve Bank. When the financialization clam-raking hits a snag, they get their puppet politicians to bail them the Hell out.
Once the globalized asset bubble implosions pick up steam, this so-called “polite White society” will be screaming like harpies and rabid dogs to bring back their various monetary policy-induced magic money fountains.
The Jews causing all the trouble are ruling class Jews. These ruling class Jews in European Christian nations such as the USA, England, Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Italy and all the rest are evil, demonic Jew nation-wreckers and they must be financially liquidated and forcibly exiled to concentration campgrounds in sub-Saharan Africa. It’s the only way to be sure.
The Biden Asset Bubble in stocks and bonds and real estate — commercial and residential — will implode with tremendous force and it will dislodge from power the evil and treasonous JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire.
Joe Biden — politician globalizer whore — has been backing every asset bubble ever created since 1971 by the privately-controlled Federal Reserve Bank, and Biden will preside over the mother and father of all asset bubble implosions when the Biden Asset Bubble breaks and the White Upper Middle Class Snot Brats sit in the suburbs and moan.
This is the third frigging asset bubble, starting in the 1990s, that the plutocrat- and privately-controlled Federal Reserve Bank has inflated using monetary extremism — low or zero or negative interest rates, asset purchases, quantitative easing, dollar swaps, direct central bank purchases of sovereign and corporate debt, balance sheet ballooning, bailouts…etc. — and enough is enough, DAMMIT!
FINANCIALLY LIQUIDATE THE WHITE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS SNOT BRATS NOW
TWENTY PERCENT FEDERAL FUNDS RATE NOW
FIRE SALE THE FED’S ASSET PORTFOLIO(BALANCE SHEET) NOW
WHIP INFLATION NOW BY POPPING THE ASSET BUBBLES
QUANTITATIVE TIGHTENING NOW
” The problem is the financial system itself, or rather, the corner into which the post-Obama Fed has painted the banking system. It cannot escape from ts 13 years of Quantitative Easing without reversing the asset-price inflation and causing bonds, stocks and real estate to lower their market value …”
Exactly. Thank you, Michael Hudson.
It’s the western system itself.
It’s the high roller dog eat dog trickydicky Casino.
It’s the smart money hall of mirrors that still thinks it can wheelerdealer itself out by making its US$ etc instruments attractive.
This year western people will live in increasingly interesting times.
Central Bankers Use Mass Immigration To Suppress The Wage Inflation That Ordinarily Occurs During Bouts Of Monetary Policy Extremism(Quantitative Easing)
Foreigners are flooding into New York City and the USA.
Bankers and plutocrats and money-grubbers and globalizers are using the foreigner inundation to profit off scams involving loans and debts and screwing over regular people to grab loot.
Loans and debts and scams and foreigners brings up the biggest frigging scam going: central banker shysters conjuring up loot out of thin air to keep the fiat currency scam expanding.
In 2015, a Canadian foreigner named Carney was the head of the Bank of England. Carney inadvertantly told the truth about why central bankers push mass legal immigration and illegal immigration. Mass legal immigration and illegal immigration are used by central banker shysters to prevent any wage inflation that would ordinarily occur during bouts of monetary extremism.
Tweet from 2015:
Antitrust much?
03:35 Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo to make $5 billion deposit into First Republic Bank
03:36 Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley making a $2.5 billion deposit into First Republic
03:37 BNY Mellon, others making $1 billion deposit each
Straight-up, in-your-face collusion.
Here’s hoping each and every one of these conniving banksters ends up as unsecured creditors in liquidation.
Some days it seems half the country needs to eliminate the other half.
Someone on Twitter yesterday said small businesses are the backbone of fascism. That’s the half that needs to go away forever.
“President Biden has done everything that he could to confuse the public as to what is happening ” with the SVB rescue.
Without meaning to I think you caused a lot of readers of your post to impulsively smile at the the thought of a very confused guy reading from a teleprompter trying to confuse the people he was reading to.
Biden never was very bright (plagerists never are) in his prime and now he’s running at 60% of never very bright. The result is that no one is running the country. Every department head decides what he wants to do, and then tells Biden what he is going to do, The result is that Blinken and Nuland have run amuck in Ukraine, the Southern border is wide open, the Justice Department does whatever their lefties want to do with criminal justice, and same for FBI, CIA, and Yellen at Treasury. We have chaos in DC with no end in sight because a lot of people like it that way
>I guess it’s a question of priorities
Germans would describe as your response rant as “Sinnlos”. In English, “mindless”. Your confusion is writ large in the posting. Communism and highest finance capitalism were dreamt up by the same “managers”. Those manifestations constitute the two pincers of a vise. They are aimed at keeping the serfs under control while guarding their “message” from any who would expose them.
Saudis gotta be up to something. Playing Luca Brasi?
Biden is literally a paid chinese agent which why he appears to be an agent of Chaos.
CCP making the grab for world hegemony now.
As a rural gentleman of long limited income…primarily in order to not be induced to fall into the trap of income tax collection in order to support the WarDefense industry and similar parasitical and predatorial elements of the feral government…my life is one of somewhat genteel poverty without ever having purchased consumer goods not genuinely needed for my personal life-style.
From that basis I consider your point of view to be based on a form of exclusivist greed and a general ignorance of any deeper form of reality. Example: Your final paragraph wanders off into an attack on same-sexers, describing from 8-12% of the male population as mentally ill. Hardly: Without such individuals as Plato, Socrates, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Tchaikovsky, Whitman and numerous other cultural creatives, strait individuals such as yourself would still be carrying clubs to subdue women and drag them off to your caves.
In other words, I’m speaking of cultural evolution and epigenetics. There are reasons that human cultural realities require individuals who are not hobbled by conformity to majoritarian “norms” and thus fall into the state which the Talmudists describe as “goyim”.
Humans are not here merely to breed. Though furtherance of the race is essential to the continuation of humanity…non conformity to these elementary animal instincts also has its role in furtherance of cultural development from a perspective of some distance from “acceptable” norms engendered by the JudieChristie MagickMindfuck.
Ruralguy: You do resemble some of the Evangelical Churchaholics in my rural neighborhood. These people are motivated by a combination of fear and ignorance, rather than using their Creator endowed minds to escape from mental and emotional slavery and serfdom.
Back in the 50’s or early 60’s an insightful writer composed a book titled “A Nation of Sheep”. Rather than reveal your ignorance, you might consider informing yourself through gifted authors such as Rollo May and Allen Watts. A mind is not something one should waste.
^^^^ tell for someone who probably really is wealthy. Minding your own business is an easy way to greatly enrich yourself.
As a matter of fact, the leftist "compassion" makes the poors poorer. Paupers could receive help and care from their material betters, but first they would have to admit the betters are better. The left forces the less-able to fend for themselves at best.
E.g. with the G in WTFOMGLMAOROFTLCOPTERBBQ+, the left forces the gays to gay it up with each other in a gay ghetto. It makes gay concentration camps where they amplify and re-signal each other’s degeneracy.
All this pounding the altar about “homophobia” is a backhand way of telling gays to be afraid of straights and reminding straits it’s normal to bully gays. And, as we can clearly see: it works. You’re allowed to repeat every malicious rumour about homosexuals as long as you append, “It’s homophobic to say,” to the front. The left reminds the G they’re inferior at every opportunity, and the G take that message to heart.
If you’re not doing great, the first thing you need to do is get the hell away from Communists. They hate your guts (because they hate everything) and they will work tirelessly to ensure you feel that hateful intent in an immediate, physical manner.
How does Cramer still have a following? But then, how did a Joe Biden become President or Kamala Harris become a Vice President?
There is some weird stuff happening in this country and I think that Xi, Putin, and Modi know that there is something weird going on.
“This sudden shift on March 11-12 left SVB “sitting on an unrealized loss of close to $163bn”
Try $16.3. Hudson was off by an order of magnitude.
I wish Dr. Hudson was a little more careful, because I would like to lend more credence to his analysis.
Per the Financial Times, the unrealized loss at SVB was more than $16 billion, not $163 billion. The total balance sheet at year end was about $216 billion. And that loss was almost entirely the difference between carrying cost and estimated fair value of held to maturity securities – $91bn book value vs $76bn fair market. It’s probable that their loan book was similarly impaired, but it’s easier to hide things there, as there isn’t a market to mark to.
But similar losses are sitting in all of our banks – on the same basis, Bank of America has about $109bn in losses, which would mostly wipe out its $175bn-ish in equity.
Second, and less explainable as a typo, neither SVB nor any other bank is “regulated by the Federal Home Loan Bank.” First, there isn’t a single Federal Home Loan Bank – there are regional ones – SVB was a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. Second, the FLHBs aren’t regulators, they are entities that provide cheap credit to member institutions against certain colateral. Whether that’s a wise thing to do or not aside, they simply aren’t regulators. The principal regulators of SVB, which was a California state chartered bank, were the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, the FDIC, and the Federal Reserve Board, in more or less that order.
Again, I’m not saying that the general thrust of this piece was wrong, but these kind of mistakes make it much less credible.
Stock market? Let’s just say when it got back up to 12,000 I said to myself, stay the hell out.
30,000? Are ya nuts?
Made my meat buying Brent at 23. Promptly sold it at 82.
Casinos do good business. Ever notice that?
3/16:
News from the ECB (European Central Bank)– that bank is, seemingly bailing out Credit Suisee to the tune of several billion euros.
How does Cramer still have a following? But then, how did a Joe Biden become President or Kamala Harris become a Vice President?
There is some weird stuff happening in this country and I think that Xi, Putin, and Modi know that there is something weird going on.
Don’t blame the audit firm in this case. Blame management, and specifically the Risk Manager, and possibly blame also the Bank Examiners.
I have no indication that SVB wasn’t following generally accepted accounting principles. There are indications that bank management took on too many long term treasuries in an attempt to bolster income. That falls on management and regulators, not the CPA audit firm.
Empirically it is impossible to prevent insider trading.
Insider trading clearly works, or they wouldn’t have to pretend to outlaw it.
Indeed it seems only insider trading works. Everyone else just sees an overcomplicated and overpriced lottery.
Deregulation_(real): insider trading should be fully legalized. This way, everyone who didn’t know for 100% sure they were an insider would wisely refuse to trade on the stock market, and it would return to its proper free-market value of basically zero. Who would buy or sell to the insiders, knowing for certain they were insiders solely due to the fact they were bidding for or asking to sell stock? Absent market-manipulation shenanigans, there is absolutely no point in owning a stock unless it pays dividends, but dividends are a useless expense for the business so there’s no point in selling a stock.
If insider trading were openly legal instead of covertly legal, the only folks getting fleeced on the stock market would be non-insiders who mistakenly think they’re insiders. Due to the tiny overall market cap, the rest of the world could rightly ignore the ridiculous clown institution.
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Imagine someone could buy your house out from under you whenever they wanted. You weren’t allowed to set the price; it’s basically the value of nearby houses averaged +15% or whatever. You could be sued if you didn’t agree to sell at what the court, who has no stake in your house whatsoever, considered a fair price.
Imagine how much you valued the house you allegedly owned was simply not a factor.
No wonder publicly “traded” companies can’t be well-run. This is completely batshit insane.
Where can I get a 17% interest rate so I just break even with inflation?
Thanks.
Anyone accepting the notion that the Jews will allow the Reserve Note and the Fed to be destroyed is a suicidal idiot. The Grand Confederation of the Asian States (GCAS) is founded on a single premise: hatred of the white supremacists. Remove that, and their entire edifice consumes itself into a mire of suspicion, intrigue, corruption and treason – classic Asian modus operandi.
Three words of timeless wisdom for the infidels:
1) Non-linear events happen only when you submit to fear
2) The darkest moment is always before dawn
3) Enjoy life before its over
Fascists always speak on backwards day.
Small business is the backbone of anti-Fascism, yes. Small businesses aren’t State-legible and if you start leaning on them en masse they go out of business but then pop up in a different form, like mushrooms. States hate it. The new mushrooms aren’t affected by the old rules, because they specifically grew where the rules weren’t. Small businesses are more agile than large countries.
Meanwhile, giant multinational corporations can offer giant multinational bribes. States love that. Especially transnational Empires like America. The more monopolistic the better. America prefers guild cartels that don’t call themselves guilds, and large companies have enthusiastically consented, which is where you get the regulator revolving door.
The only thing States can do to stop small businesses from thumbing their nose at State rent-seeking is to make it impossible to run a small business in one way or another. America likes, for example, fixed cost payroll expenses. Every company, big and small, has to pay like $1 mill up front to have a payroll at all. Doesn’t scale with company size, because it’s not like the State is charging for services or anything silly like that. Pay the jizya or die, basically. Literally bit-for-bit identical to robbery.
Get rid off the Rothschilds controlled Federal Reserve and let US Treasury create money thus eliminating the usurious interest paid to Zion.
>Inevitably, those Goldsmits, Silverbergs and Edelsteins require Shabos Goy minions to be the “Chosen’s” facemen.
Sounds about right. The second British empire (after Britain lost the American colonies) was 100% a Jewish empire. The Anglo-Saxon man unsurprisingly used as a brute to pulverize all the nations of the world in gun boat diplomacy, drug dealing, literal war and arbitrage of gold and silver as well as commodities at the determinant of the bruised and beaten assaulted nations.
I’d wager the Anglo Saxon man was already a janissary of the Jewish man since the glorious revolution and especially since the rothschild got their hooks in England. I’d also wager these powerful Jewish families spunoff America as a free state as a sort of hedge and that’s why America had two central banks before Jackson finally finished them off in 1836. Since then these Jewish families wanted America back. They started the civil war, they killed Lincoln, and they promoted the robber barons as their agents. They finally recaptured America in 1913 with the federal reserve act and ever since then they continue to gain power every year.
Easy way to solve all the worlds problems. Get the US or UN coalition to invade every single tax haven especially those in the Caribbean. That or heavily sanction them including the Netherlands, Switzerland and Singapore. There’s over 80 tax havens in the world. They need to be looted or destroyed if they don’t comply.
Bermuda, Caymans and the British virgin islands hold officially trillions of dollars of wealth in mutual funds, private funds and insurance. Those three islands alone likely have hundreds of trillions of stolen loot that’s not official.
This is the first explanation of the current mess which makes any sense.
Thanks to both the Author and Mr. Unz.
I am patently sick to death of all the shell games, graft, indecency, and morally bankrupt powerpricks abusing the rest of humanity.
Sidestepping the newest evil now thrust upon us almost weekly, is becoming akin to a full time job- always on defense and trying to figure out ways to guard from these assaults. While most are physical (radiation/death jabs/gmo/spike shedding/etc) there is something else coming into focus: Demoralization. Shit gets old.
I believe that psychologically wearing out the proles makes them more malleable; less capacity for resistance to the ubiquitous battering.
This is untenable and unacceptable. Henceforth, if I’m receiving shitstorm+44, I’m countering with an FUshield+45. Don’t care what the ersatz ‘benefit’ is claimed to be, or even if it’s something that prior may have been worth considering, the answer is NO. And ‘Hell No’ if pressed.
2 trillion $$$ should be good enough. Banks don’t have to sell their assets at a loss. They just borrow using their assets.
Just more inflation, maybe. If 2 trillion is not enough, 100% more inflation n a recession.
“We need protection” sang a German-British duo called “Pricnic at the Whitehouse” almost 40 years ago. A pounding rhythm and an extraordinary shouter quality of the British singer. The German linnet operates the blue PPG synthesizer of Wolfgang Palm. “What has this world become”.
When the Jewish-British duo “Wang Chung” sang “Wake up stop dreaming” a year earlier (1984), it probably had quite little to do with “Deutschland erwache”. But rather exclusively with a soundtrack to a film by the Jew Friedkin.
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Amriki banking collapse will be good for the World. But Chinese banks will not fail, because Sino-banks are full of drugs money.
Money Laundering: How China’s Banks Help Criminals and Mexican Drug Cartels
Not surprising from criminal country, Chin.
Shocked in Mumbai,
Mehool Bhai
Good comment EM! I consider you an interesting person, one who can discuss a wide variety of in depth subjects.
Unfortunately most are stuck in an irrational quagmire. At the split mind level their ego consciousness is in a struggle to survive, and the more they struggle the deeper they sink. I doubt that those who most need a helping mind will benefit from such in depth discussions.
Concerning mental illness, sex, and gender, of your comment, I offer the following:
After I graduated from high school the Nature/Nurture debate got my interest, but I quickly came to the conclusion that John Locke’s “blank slate” concept lacked common sense, typical of the “Progressive” Left today. During the next 10 years I immersed myself into the study of evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology.
Not to bore the reader with generalizations about the evolution of intelligence, race, gender and behavior, I very briefly present one of my interesting studies which I titled : An Evolutionary Rational For Gender Polarization And Its Cultural Implications
The Hamadryas baboon of Saudi Arabia is a good case study for gender polarization. As related to evolution, the arid habitat of Saudi Arabia put the Hamadryas in a precarious position at the watering hole. With little natural cover for safety, evolutionary pressures caused the male to get bigger and stronger over time. Common sense is all we need to grasp this concept. What needs to be examined is why, under the same conditions, the female would get smaller and more submissive as evidenced by observing the Hamadryas at the watering hole.
The opposite is true for the Bonobo ape. The male and the female are about the same size, and in some cases the female takes the lead role. The Bonobos live up in the safety of the tree tops, free from predators. Why would the male bonobo need to be aggressive? Size (weight) limitation in the trees is only a partial explanation. Culturally, the Bonobos and the Hamadryas couldn’t be more different.
In a dangerous environment there is an advantage for a stronger male in providing protection and food for the female and her offspring. For a given dangerous environment there is an optimal size difference between the male and female. Simply put, a smaller female eats less and therefore more food is available for a larger male to provide protection.
Examining the situation more closely we see that strong males are attracted to weaker females. However, up in the safety of the trees, the male Bonobo lost his strong dominant male qualities and he is attracted to a less polarized gender relationship.
The Law of Gender Attraction is clearly observable with humans. Putting this law into numbers by assigning the strongest male qualities a 10 and the weakest female qualities a 0, the law says that a 10 attracts a 0, a 9 attracts a 1, an 8 attracts a 2. The sum of the gender intensity in a relationship adds to 10. Case in point, who was Chopin attracted to? This is a result of environmental pressures optimizing the Male/Female ratio for any given environment.
For the Bonobos, the optimal size is determined by the strength of the tree branches and not by dangerous predators. However, this doesn’t explain cultural differences between Bonobos and Hamadryas.
The big question of the evolutionary psychologist is this:
Does the attitude of the male towards the female have an evolutionary rationale?
From observing two different types of Hamadryas with different behavioral characteristics who have commingled in a transition zone, the answer is YES, From observing one cultural tribe with two sets of behavior, the conclusion by field observation is that the attitude of a male towards a female has a strong genetic component.
We can see this attitude expressed in many human cultures. Women are subjected to having their feet bound, their waist strangled, their ass inflated, their lips accented, dressed up like a wedding cake and covered up like a walking corpse. All this because the Law of Gender Polarity makes the man think he is a big strong defender.
Let’s be honest, the Human Race is fundamentally mentally ill.
Migrations are weaponized. It works both ways. Example: Ukies as “war” refugees keep cheering for the war to last, sending money in trickle measures keeps the ones stuck on the spot complacent. The best of both worlds! To Zelensky back and from. The Jew eats both ways.
Just to add to your observation.
casinos operate at a 3% advantage and count on the free drinks to insure that all winning are eventually left on the table. 401k’s are the free drinks of wall street.
I used to hate all this Americanized rockabilly stuff, even considered it inferior to European music. Those albums sat on my shelf and gathered dust without ever getting on my record player. They weren’t albums that any friends of mine wanted to borrow, either.
Although I did like the Stray Cats or, say, Blondie and Suzi Quatro, all of whom were made famous by British producers. As a fan of American music, you were considered a totally strange outsider at that time. I couldn’t get excited about it.
Today, at the age of over 50, I understand the cool American way of life that is in this sound. It swings, maybe it’s even the blues that I dislike in its purest form, even when presented by Brits.
When European technique and American laid-backness combine, it’s a fantastic symbiosis. Take ZZ Top or even The Cars. That’s really a passable, solid, timeless sound.
Why this German covers an Australian-Dutch duo called Flash & The Pan, but pretends through his presentation that this is primal American music, can only be due to ignorance or sheer intention.
In the end, of course, he is right, because without America there would be no Australian rock music at all. I suspect millions of people consider the rocking AC/DC (who are even genetically “related” to the poppy Flash & The Pan) to be an American band, probably even in America itself.
However, the danger of becoming a Yankee imitator in this fan cult, of putting a jukebox (from the German Wurlitzer) in one’s room, of wearing Western boots and hanging Old Glory over one’s bed, should not be underestimated.
There seems to be an unnoticed alienation among some pitiful domestic contemporaries, as they take refuge in foreign grafted-on pseudo-identities in order not to be harassed by the Jews as direct descendants of the evil Nazis.
It is probably similar to the spaghetti westerns, the British Wehraboos or the American “pretzels”, which sometimes far surpass the original out of sheer passion, even though it is a pure caricature.
0% omterest for several years and banks hold 0% for reserves? Trainwreck coming !!!
What a disgrace to the great Socrates. Disgusting.
It has nothing to do with this alleged “Law” and everything to do with the fact it’s true. The only thing a woman contributes to survival is the next generation, and she can’t even do that by herself. The man contributes literally everything else. If men didn’t die of old age women would be unnecessary. If women didn’t die of old age they would need men exactly as much as they need them now.
It’s true mortals are mentally ill by default, though. E.g. the alleged Law of Gender Polarity.
The real source of all American music is the black church. In black churches such as the AME Zion church music is played throughout the service. Black Americans are sometimes called “the soul of the USA” because the peculiar admixture of Northern European and African blood is found in few other places (I would consider Brazilians to mixed Afro-Latin). All uniquely American forms of music ultimately derive from this source. In its simplest and oldest form, it’s just old Protestant hymns with a few extra added notes like 7ths and 9ths to make it a little different.
“When European technique and American laid-backness combine, it’s a fantastic symbiosis.” You will find that, racially speaking, many of the musicians in these black churches are precisely this.
I was told all I needed to know with the admission that rising wages and full(er) employment are bad for the banks.
Since the invention of the diesel engine man has become efficient at producing food and shelter.
Money shuffling and its supporting and depended jobs keep more people busy then farming.
What would all those people do if there was no game to get out of bed for?
Another (green?)illusion would need to be invented.
People have to be kept busy being busy. I see no harm in a digital game where the players try to outsmart one another and tally up the digits at their deathbed.
Everybody growing their own food, building their own shack and needling clothes is boring.
This otherwise superb article is tarnished by not pointing out that the alleged link between increasing interest rates to reduce wage increase pressure is misdirection. The FED had to increase interest rates to entice any remaining real demand for US Treasuries in a World market not just over saturated with them but actively dumping them certain in the knowledge that BRICS+ and OPEC+ are now accepting their own currencies from overseas customers if they want the option not to pay in US$. Since 2020 demand for US Treasuries is increasingly from either US buyers or US proxy buyers. Saudi road to lasting peace with Iran via SCO & BRICS+ will kill the biggest market for US arms exports ( ie OPEC members ) and petro $ now that this region requires Yuan to pay for Chinese products and Rubles to pay for Russian missiles and air defense systems not to forget the new massive appeal of Iranian drones as opposed to Turkish drones for future ATOs.
Alrenous: Who are you, an ignorant scheisskopf, to assail an individual who appears to be capable of thinking outside the imposed box?
Some good points, but overall a bit tawdry, as proclaiming that ALL American music is (derived) from the black church. Certainly the Bluuz, Jazz and Rock n’ Roll certainly have some Afro roots. Undeniable.
However, there are mountain and Southern strains which go far back into Scots-Irish and even Elizabethan English roots…not much Afro influence there
If you see back to the land is “boring”, that may no longer be the case when the shit hits the fan and those comfortable consumerist suburban lifestyles collapse. All the while you will be quite ignorant of the very survival skills which are about as common as teeth on a Rhode Island rooster amongst the ensorcelled, bored out of their gourds prissy, preppy, burbie-babies who SPEND most of their free time competing in some silly, meaningless game.
Yes, I know.
So personal attacks and gratuitous, empty insults constitute [walking the spirit-path]?
You came at me, bro. Don’t act surprised when I start goring your sacred cows.
“Fed is getting squeezed from two sides. It’s paying higher interest rates to banks on the reserves they keep at the Fed, as well as on borrowing in what’s called the reverse repo market.”https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/opinion/silicon-valley-bank-federal-reserve.html
Fed gave away billions to banks and other entities at 0 – 0.5 % for too long .
Those money ere invested in Yen or Rupee in India or in domestic unproductive real estate and stock or stock buy back . Those money also were deposited back to Fed at interest more than it was loaned to them .
Rep market story is more checkered Fed entered into it in late 2019 to save the banks because their deposit was not low and they lost trust of repaying to the loaning bank, That should have imposed stress tests on the banks .
“A period in which the central bank is seen as having to create reserves (to pay interest on its liabilities) to stabilize the purchasing power of money will rightly unnerve and very possibly unhinge inflation expectations,” Goodfriend wrote.” NYT above. Not sure what it meant .
I can’t remember if it was in the movie about Ray Charles, or something I read about him. It was something like, a confused young Ray asks, “How do I do this new music?” The guy he’s talking to says, “You basically write and play church music, but you do it to your girl friend.”
Depends. Sovereign Nation States where the Central Bank and Banks are owned by the State with the purpose of serving the population desire full employment and high wages which are not reduced via inflation.
3 paragraphs from this website, http://www.henryckliu.com/public_html/page3.html , which highlight the above:
Gore away Jose. Al Gore Rythym’s daughter married up, waaaay up, into the descendants of the Jacob Schiff minion for the Rottenchild Crime Clan. So then you box in “walking the mindless confusion path is most important to me”….your stoopid dig, not my words. Doesn’t fool me for a moment, but perhaps you are virtue signaling with that bit of pilpul.
I think this happens because it charges a fixed premium to USD on “public” debt, meaning, if the interest rate is really low, a huge proportion of Fed revenue is this premium. Say it’s 1%. If interest rates are 0.25, then it pays 0.25% to other banks for holding reserve, while Uncle Sam pays it 1%. It can hold four times as much reserve as the public debt. (It’s something like this. Perhaps way more complicated but for this purpose works exactly the same way.)
But if interest rates go up – hey wait, who controls interest rates – then it’s like 4% vs. 5%. The Fed can afford 1/4 as much reserve as there is public debt.
1/16th as much as when interest rates were negligible.
If it creates new money to pay the reserve interest, then this will cause inflation. (Keynesians know this but pretend they don’t in public.) It will have to raise interest rates to “control inflation.” Which means it will have to make even more new money to pay the even higher reserve interest. Which will cause inflation. Which means they have to raise interest rates, which means…
Hyperinflation.
The phrase ‘unhinged inflation expectations’ is a euphemism for hyperinflation. The NYT is ‘respectable’ and can’t hysterically mention Weimerica. Even, or perhaps especially, when it’s literally true.
(As another example, riots = ‘mostly peaceful protests.’ They don’t do that ‘sensationalist’ rhetoric at the Grey Lady. Especially when it’s not a lie. Double especially when it multiplies syllables and wastes your time.)
…then why is it a majority?
Especially when their rhetoric rises to the level of “I’m not stupid, you’re stupid.” (“Logic? Evidence? What’s that? Yes, I was born yesterday, why do you ask?”)
Also, can’t agree with [emerging]. Been a majority for something like 500±150 years. Playground insults for everyone! The intended audience is small children, after all. Don’t worry, you too can be, uh, young at heart.
I suppose it is a spiritual path, the sinister path.
No, in the end, Satan doesn’t fool anyone. A majority of mortals genuinely prefer pain and failure to success. Satan promised immiseration and loss, these were ordered, these were delivered. The game is you’re not allowed to just self-mutilate, you have to come up with a fig leaf, some elaborate theory as to why you expect socialism not to render your country entirely bereft of love. A joyless, uninhabitable wasteland. (Unless someone sets off a nuclear reactor at e.g. Chernobyl. Then animals can live there. Radiation is, of course, holy. Satanists can’t stand it.)
Even when discipline is cheap mortals avoid it like a vampire avoids garlic.
Mortals genuinely despise virtue, I guess? Saying you hate virtue when you hate virtue would be honourable, which is a virtue. Saying you want to suffer and then cutting your own arm would be honest, which is a virtue. Makes it all tricky.
The funny part is that Satanists really are a majority. Why are they so terrified of a single speaker who borrows Truth’s authority by speaking on Truth’s behalf? They act like even a single Truth-thinker is an intolerable, existential threat.
Are they right? Does speaking Truth give you unfathomable power? Is the Satanist regime genuinely existentially threatened by pseudonymous internet comments on fringe websites?
Alrenous, I think I understand why you misread my comment.
A common mistake is to take a statement out of context and apply that statement to one’s own worldview. I am confident that everyone at the Unz Review has done that.
The statement that you took out of context is:
“All this because the Law of Gender Polarity makes the man think he is a big strong defender.”
In context, there is nothing I said that would justify your confusion. Further, being a male defender is not the same as thinking you are a BIG STRONG defender. These descriptive adjectives are in stride with the female marginalization by way of polarization.
The point that you missed is that, in a civilized society, there is no need to physically marginalize the female at her expense. We do this as a culture because this gene expression of polarity worked at the “watering hole”.
Reading between the lines you should have grasped that much of our mental illness comes from outdated gene expressions that are still very active.
From experience I have found that when I take a statement out of context, it is because I am more interested in what I have to say rather than what the other person has to say.
Americans are trading their labor for colored paper. An American will work around forty hours in a week, and then exchange this real labor for colored paper that is not backed by a personal possession of gold, silver, or other matter of temporally perpetual absolute value. This is very risky when the nation is run by a hostile ethnic competitor.
There is a lot of talk right now about Social Security and Medicare running short of adequate funding. I have always suggested that instead of wasting all this money on biologically obsolete senior citizens, a much cheaper option would be to provide free euphoric euthanasia. When a person is no longer mentally and/or physically able to work, then his usefulness to the nation comes to an end, and he should be provided with free government funded euphoric euthanasia. We can have euthanasia theme parks where people can die in a fantasy of their choice, such as a science fiction theme park, or various religious theme parks, where the biologically obsolete individuals can go on the various rides, and during the ride they can be administered the suicide drugs or gas or what-have-you, and they can also be given euphoric drugs at the same time so it can be a very happy and exciting event.
I myself am not a senior citizen, but I am already biologically obsolete, and I am ready right now to acquire a free ticket to one of these prospective suicide theme parks.
Sanjay
Cleverness occludes wisdom.
“Euphoric Euthanasia” is in most instances a fully perfected oxymoron. I do have a level of compassion for your suffering soul and adumbrated spirit, even so reaching out to share the pain. Choose joy instead. Seek it out if you must. Please do not expect it in the form of materialistic gratification, for that is truly a dead-end.
I don’t really find myself that interesting.
I guess I’m glad you do. A world with more interesting events is better than one with fewer.
Men could easily cook for themselves. Women cook due to comparative advantage – when she’s taking care of simple, mundane tasks, the man has more time to do the important and difficult tasks. By doing things the man could do for himself, she enables him to do (more) things she can’t do for herself. Indeed most professional cooks are men and all the best professional cooks are men.
Backwards day. I think there’s more to life than mere survival, and women are excellent at contributing to these non-survival aspects. At least, outside the Democratic or Iron Age. Rather, it’s misogynistic to claim women need to contribute to survival; if you spend five minutes looking, you notice they can’t. It’s an underhanded way of undermining women at one remove. Deliberately foment a faith that’s going to be challenged by experience, to create a crisis of faith. In other words I think it’s fine for women to be feminine, and feminists think it is not fine for women to be feminine.
Misogyny is of course about fanatical Egalitarianism. One human is a man, therefore, every human is a man. And if men (women ver.) aren’t doing manly things, it must be because men (man ver.) are stopping them. (Why can’t a man fight off another man? Don’t ask.) And the fact women ‘need’ to do man things is a backhanded message that woman things are never good enough.
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By the way, I find your lies just obvious. I’m glad you find me interesting, but perhaps next time try looking instead of armchair philosophy, so you notice I’m not part of your superstitious religion. Claiming I’m a low-status Egalitarian is simply off-topic and wouldn’t be a suitable replacement for a rebuttal even if it were true.
So you’re claiming to be extremely clever?
For example, using a bon mot in lieu of rebuttals?
This one is especially clever – it could be a response to literally anything. You don’t have to grok anything, or indeed even be literate. You can just mix-and-match. Very efficient. Indeed not having to be literate seems to be a pattern. Extremely efficient.
The FED is at war with the ECB/WEF/Davos. Fighting inflation is the cover story. A CBDC would end commercial banking, the last thing Jamie Dimon wants. Therefore, we have a real fight.
Eliminating the pools of non-BTC crypto and eurodollars is what the Fed is trying to do by raising rates.
SVB, along w/ FTX, were targets. (These banks were also DNC slush funds.) WEF/Davos fighting back by trying to take down CS.
I don’t really think the Fed really cares about rising wages, that’s Whitney’s bias.
This article is the usual “collapse p0rn” so much in demand among dissidents. The truth is that there is nothing wrong with the banking system. SVB and Signature were exceptional cases, insanely managed the former, enmeshed in crypto the latter, and both deserved to go bust. This is good. The Fed has taken powerful measures last weekend to stop contagion to healthy banks. Higher interest rates are GOOD for banks’ business, not bad.
Sorry, guys.
Allegedly the point of a government is to solve coordination problems. That’s what ‘regulation’ is supposed to be about.
In other words, the point of a government is to ban mortgages and ban student loans.* These things do nothing but cause local inflation. They make house prices and degrees go up in price without making houses bigger or degrees more degreeable(?).
Of course the real point of a black government is parasitic corruption. The point of student loans is to effectively give tax money to universities, because in fact America is a universocracy. Useful idiot Communism; the professors tell it what to do. It turns out professors like money.
*(In an actual free market interest rates would prevent such shenanigans, and thus there wouldn’t be any coordination problem to solve. It’s manufactured as a result of previous corruption.)
As I read your comment, a famous quote came to mind:
“HOUSTON, I THINK WE HAVE A PROBLEM”
……………….OVER AND OUT………………………
I see.
Ref: can’t wake up someone pretending to be asleep. It was already aware that no rebuttal exists, and therefore doesn’t try to offer one.
Ref: unlicensed preaching. The professional priests probably have some higher-tier lie about the facts that doesn’t instantly explode on contact with common knowledge. However, the lay clergy can only repeat the sermons they’ve already received. Once those are exhausted, all they have left is general-purpose point-and-sputter. Can’t even come up with customized point-and-sputter, because that requires verbal literacy.
Your response is typical pilpul. Cleverness is exemplified by pilpul. So confess already.
I didn’t know you were Jewish. (I don’t really care.) How does it feel to be chosen by Jehovah?
So it’s true that Satanists are genuinely existentially threatened by single pseudonymous pure-text posts on fringe websites? How does it feel to be so weak mere words can hurt you?
I don’t think you really need to confess to pilpul. No harm, no foul. Didn’t fool anyone, as noted previously.
The real source of all American music is the black church.
You left out the other half of the equation. “Rock and Roll,” is the amalgamation of black blues and country hillbilly music. The blues and music from Appalachia, were developing separately in parallel at the same time.
Those early Bill Hailey, Elvis, Buddy Holley, Chet Atkins, Jerry Lewis and Even Chuck Berry tunes had a lot of country “chicken pickin” licks, and arrangements in them. Black blues, is mostly in minor pentatonic, or the six note “blues scale,” minor pentatonic with the added flat 5th, the “blue” note.
Hillbilly – country more major key – major pentatonic, the major scale and its modes. The Catholic Church “modal system.” As used by the classical composers. That’s why early Rock had a more upbeat sound “major,” as opposed to the darker, more depressing black blues sound, “minor.”
This is an over simplification, but the trope that rock and roll is exclusively a product of black culture is not accurate.
Both genres “borrowed” from the other.
Is it thats why we are trying to start fight everywhere ?
Damn good question.
You are a snake. This is the second time on this thread that you have rewritten my words to suit your perverse nature. The essence of pilpul is to twist words. You stand guilty as a troll and a creep.
I do love this libertarian sewage where ‘better’ means greedier and more unscrupulous.
Yes, we’ve established that. Jew and all that.
Yes, I don’t believe in lies.
Which is why I have to untwist them.
You won’t tell me what it’s like to be the chosen of Jehovah? Shame. I guess I’ll never know.
I could imagine but…like…ew. No thanks. Gotta have at least a ten foot pole before I touch that.
https://www.unz.com/mhudson/why-the-bank-crisis-is-not-over/#comment-5867471
Alrenous: As for poles, you might not quite handle the ten footer. A 10″ might delight you.
So if I’m against sodomy, you concede that you have no idea what I’m like and I can safely ignore literally everything you say about me? Or anyone else, for that matter?
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/the-truth-is-not-important-to-conservative-leaders-they-are-anti-christ/#comment-5723471
Oh wait I get it. Slaves want to be whipped.
I knew this, but I didn’t really know it, you know?
Wait, is Gnon really sadistic?
He’s just doing what the slaves want.
“Master master, whip us more! Maximize our suffering!”
Gnon: “Um….well okie dokie.” What a nice guy. The heavens really are incomprehensibly generous.
Slaves see me and go all like, “shit I need a good whipping” and then disobey to provoke a whipping.
And then there’s me, actually whipping them like an idiot. It takes two to tango, as they say.
The person on Twitter was correct. You’re wrong for thinking it’s a bad thing.
Dividends aren’t an expense. You shouldn’t even be commenting if you don’t understand the most basic financial concepts.
@anon, @vinnyvette
These are all good points and I don’t disagree. In reality most “American” songs I personally play are scotch-Irish folk songs which have no negro influence at all. For example, “Annie Laurie” and “my gentle harp” (the orangeman’s version of “Danny boy” which dates to around the time of the American and French Revolutions, about 100 years earlier). I have not ever considered the modal system to be Catholic but of course a lot of classical music notation comes from Italy (hence markings like “Andante”), and TIL Bach converted to Catholicism from Lutheranism, so that’s an interesting point you raise. However, these “American” songs I mentioned are 100% written in the old world. It’s also true there’s native bluegrass, saloon tunes, etc with little or no negro influence.
Please keep in mind that what I wrote was in response to Space Cowboy’s comment about 20th century popular American music having something that European music lacks. In retrospect I’d say my comment was carelessly worded and exaggerated – so that was the context, and why I emphasized the role of the black church, since the original comment I was replying to was already comparing American music to the European music which you rightly point out influenced it considerably.