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Australian Prime Minister Savages Geithner's Performance (1); Fed Staffer Savages Bear Rescue (1); savage business (1); wealth savaged (1); Wiliam Black Savages Treasury's Conduct (1).

Culture of Life News Tue 2010-04-06 10:23 EDT

Ireland And US Will Be Devoured By Derivatives Beast

The banking mess in the West continues. It has rather deep roots. That is, we decapitalized our own banking system long, long ago. The fix for this was to create a fake banking system with virtually no real capital reserves at all. This was possible thanks to the floating fiat currency created when Nixon suddenly cut the gold standard back in 1971. By 1987, the banking collapse was tremendous during a deflationary time that followed a hyperinflation era. This fix created conditions that caused the near-total collapse in Western banking...So far, governments in the West are being bailed out by Asia. And this is being done so Asia can continue to rapidly expand its own industrial base. This savage business gets worse and worse over time due to the self-feedback system of this debt expansion: you get more credit from export powers via letting them export even more to your own home base. So as capital vanishes, the need for debt shoots upwards and the system continues to get more and more unbalanced...Sure, we have little inflation except in important commodities but this is due to the Goddess of Zero slashing away at the mountain of debt, using the default tool to fix this mess in a very brutal way. Unfortunately, the bankers still control our `democracy' so they are moving all their losses onto our books and far from things going to zero, it is actually heading towards infinity: infinite debts owed by the taxpayers who want to continue stupidly cutting taxes while increasing credit based on virtually no capital at all! Sheesh.

Culture; Derivative Beast; devouring; Ireland; Life News.

Asia Times Online Thu 2009-09-17 09:23 EDT

POWER WITHOUT CREDIBILITY : A lost decade ahead

The US Federal Reserve faces an intractable unemployment problem. Households, their wealth savaged by the financial crisis and their job security threatened, are now paying off debts and cutting back on purchases. Until consumer spending picks up, no recovery can come.

Asia Times Online; credibility; lost decade ahead; Power.

Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Wiliam Black Savages Treasury's Conduct on AIG

2009-03-16

AIG; naked capitalism; Wiliam Black Savages Treasury's Conduct.

Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Former Australian Prime Minister Savages Geithner's Performance in the Asian Crisis

Asian Crisis; Australian Prime Minister Savages Geithner's Performance; naked capitalism.

Wed 2008-05-14 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Former Fed Staffer Savages Bear Rescue

former Fed staffer Vincent Reinhart

Fed Staffer Savages Bear Rescue; naked capitalism.