dimelab dimelab: shrinking the gap between talk and action.

well connections Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

rapaciously well-connected (1); well-connected Robert Fisk (1).

Jesse's Café Américain Thu 2010-04-01 11:50 EDT

Brown's Bottom Is an Enormous Issue In the UK: Was This a Bailout of the Multinational Bullion Banks Involving the NY Fed?

The bottom referred to, of course, is the bottom of the gold price, and the sale of approximately 400 tonnes of the UK's gold at the bottom of the market...There is also a credible speculation that the sale was designed to benefit a few of the London based bullion banks which were heavily short the precious metals, and were looking for a push down in price and a boost in supply to cover their positions and avoid a default. The unlikely names mentioned were AIG, which was trading heavily in precious metals, and the House of Rothschild. The terms of the bailout was that once their positions were covered, they were to leave the LBMA, the largest physical bullion market in the world...long before AIG crafted its enormous positions in CDS with the likes of Goldman Sachs, requiring a bailout by young Tim and the NY Fed, it was engaging in massive short positions in the metals markets, especially silver, and may have required a bailout by England to preserve the integrity of the LBMA....the gold sale provided a front-running opportunity for that most rapaciously well-connected of Wall Street Banks, Goldman Sachs.

Bailout; Brown s bottom; Enormous Issue; Jesse's Café Américain; Multinational Bullion Banks Involving; NY Fed; UK.

Jesse's Café Américain Sat 2009-10-10 11:50 EDT

The Plan to De-dollarise the Oil Markets: Its Roots and Implications

The breakdown of US dollar reserves being held overseas in the attached article of news is interesting, even though estimated. I am curious to see when Kevin Phillips and Chalmers Johnson start speaking to this as this sort of historic change is in their respective ballparks. Of course, there is always the option to listen to those in the American financial media who dismiss the internationally respected and well-connected Robert Fisk as a commie crank, a liberal web spinner, and a tinfoil conspiracty theorist.

De-dollarise; implications; Jesse's Café Américain; oil markets; plans; rooted.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: Too Big to Fail, Too Well-Connected to Jail: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit

Jesse's Café Américain: Too Big to Fail, Too Well-Connected to Jail: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit; ``Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalties for abuse give owners an incentive to pay themselves more than their firms are worth and then default on their debt obligations.'' Akerlof and Romer; Yves Smith

bankruptcy; big; Economic Underworld; fail; jailed; Jesse's Café Américain; profits; well connections.