Bankers versus people .the future of democracy

BankersversusPeopleThe Future of Democracy

S&P index drops by 7.1% on 23rd Sept 2011.Biggest fall since the crash of Sept 2008

$10 Trillion + pumped inglobally to save the ‘Big Banks’

NOhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jul/29/us-economic-growth-slows-down-sharply

So what did it do?

It empowered Wall Street Banks andhedge funds to grab commodities!

http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFN1E77A0E820110811

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/05/wholesale-food-prices-soar

Texas crude rose by 22% and copper by 26%

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/07/08/metal-warehousing-pays-off-for-goldman-sachs/

The big question.Did Fed action help the average citizen?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/14/uk-usa-economy-poverty-idUKTRE78C45220110914

Income disparity between Bankers & the rest grew rapidly.

The Gini’s disparity index for US rose to45, much higher than UK 34 or even India36.8

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/02/01/are-greek-bonds-the-new-subprime/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576634933293244342.html

Fed pumped in liquiditywhen Banks were sick When Greece, Spain, Portugal became sick IMF,ECB squeezed out liquidity …… Why ?

As a result http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/j an/03/credit-crunch-iceland-ireland-greece- dubai-spain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/oct/16/stoical-spanish-soul-hardship

•As growth suffered and cashdisappeared from the market, defaultlooked imminent. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/20 11/10/10/is-europe-sliding-into-a-double- dip-recession

….. And the distress investment specialists likeWilbur Ross, Mark Mobius and George Soros

They downgrade credit rating oftenprematurely. Raise borrowing costsand make debt recycling difficult. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business- 15222803

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-01/whitney-municipal-bond-apocalypse-is-short-on-default-specifics.html

Finally they are forced to sell offassets for repayment. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/ mar/04/greece-sell-islands-german-mps

•They each have mammoth assetsover $2 Trillion, ten times that of big oilExxon, Shell or BP.

Joseph Ackerman DeutscheBank CEO and ex-boss of IIFrefused haircuts on Greek loanmore than the agreed 21 %. AndSaid Banks won’t take haircut forany other Eurozone economy. http://www.emergingmarkets.org/Article/2 906503/Banks-rule-out-further-eurozone- debt-haircuts.html

Now that nations struggle……Bankers do not agree thatit is payback time

•Rather, for the Banks the Eurozone crisisprovides opportunities to strengthen theirportfolio by buying into distressed assets. http://www.time.com/time/business/article /0,8599,1916998,00.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2011/0912/1224303946844.html

It is true that Europe’s democracies have lackedfiscal discipline, but so have Dexia and Max bank,BOA and Wells Fargo.

Vote and coalition politics have oftenmade elected leaders of democraciespamper to populism.

Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Italy, allhave missed the EU Maastricht treaty fiscaldeficit targets by a mile. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/m ar/11/eurozone-agree-debt-limit-laws- bailout-deal

Greece deficit surged from 4% to 15%on discovery of accounting oversight.

Since debt was 1.7 times GDP it was not possible to fix the Greek debt crisis with short term measures..

Despite knowing this Greece was put on ashort lease with IMF & ECB making no longterm commitment ..

Speculation mounted and Greek debt rating was repeatedly downgraded. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405. 3111904265504576568693911614726.html

Fund squeeze led to successive years of negative growth making recovery impossible and default imminent.

So the aged Greek pensioner who paid taxes throughout her life has been handed down a hair cut of 40% of her monthly pension to facilitate the repayment of the Banks. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-. 20110919-704332.html

Now the IMF, the ECB and IIF the banklobby want to manage the economy andvirtually dictate public policy in Greece. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe- 15147855

They are not interested that hospitalservices and educators in Greece have notreceived payment for services since 1 year. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/ 05/greece-healthcare-brink-catastrophe

They are not interested in structuralreforms of the antiquated licensing policyin Greece that throttles competition.

They only want to control the fundflow and the disinvestmentprocess, so that prize assets flow theirway.

It is obvious that Mr. Papandreou willnot be able to stop that

So a big question arises for thedemocracies around the world. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/ 2010/feb/14/greece-uk-european-union-euro

Will Banks takeover control if ourelected leaders fail? http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/a ug/11/berlusconis-partners-grow-restive- over-ecbs-prescription-for-italy

If that be so, will the Fed, the ECB, theIIF and the IMF work for the benefit ofthe citizen or only for the Banks?

Prophetic words from US President ThomasJefferson who said that if private Bankscontrolled monetary policy, they would makethe citizen penniless and homeless.

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