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Did Tim Geithner Leak Every Fed Announcement To The Banks?
On August 17, 2007, the Fed's Board of Governors announced a key change to primary credit lending terms, whereby the discount rate was cut by 50 bp — to 5.75% from 6.25% — and the term of loans was extended from overnight to up to thirty days. This reduced the spread of the primary credit rate over the fed funds rate from 100 basis points to 50 basis points. News of the emergency measure was supposed to be kept secret from market participants as it was substantially market moving. It wasn't. And just when we thought our opinion of the outgoing Treasury Secretary and former NY Fed head Tim Geithner, whose TurboTax incompetence is now legendary, couldn't get lower, it got lower. Much lower.
From the August 16, 2007 transcript (page 13 of 37) of the conference call preceding this announcement.
MR. LACKER. If I could just follow up on that, Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN BERNANKE. Yes, go ahead.
MR. LACKER. Vice Chairman Geithner, did you say that [the banks] are unaware of what we’re considering or what we might be doing with the discount rate?
VICE CHAIRMAN GEITHNER. Yes.
MR. LACKER. Vice Chairman Geithner, I spoke with Ken Lewis, President and CEO of Bank of America, this afternoon, and he said that he appreciated what Tim Geithner was arranging by way of changes in the discount facility. So my information is different from that.
CHAIRMAN BERNANKE. Okay. Thank you. Go ahead, Vice Chairman Geithner.
VICE CHAIRMAN GEITHNER. Well, I cannot speak for Ken Lewis, but I think they have sought to see whether they could understand a little more clearly the scope of their rights and our current policy with respect to the window. The only thing I’ve done is to try to help them understand—and I’m sure that’s been true across the System—what the scope of that is because these people generally don’t use the window and they don’t really understand in some sense what it’s about.
At least we now know who the bankers' mole on the FOMC was before, as gratitude for his services, he was promoted to Treasury Secretary of the US. Because if he leaked one, he leaked them all.
h/t Manal
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" their rights "
Geithner is one of the snottiest little douches in the entire corrupt cabinet. I look forward to the day the people's justice finds him and makes him pay.
sad sad sad
This country is screwed, the 'folks' do not have time or interest in following all this 'complicated' stuff. Those who's job it is to do so...just don't.
Congress is in a coma and regulators are watching porn...come on Dylan...there is a song in here somewhere.
I remember that day very well. The rumors leaked on the 16th around 12 or 2 p.m. in the afternoon. I was short, and from the low of the day, I lost $68,000 by the time I got out of the market rampathon. I went home flat, and when I woke up the next morning to news of an "Emergency" rate cut with maybe 15 minutes to go to the opening bell on options expiration Friday, it made me sick. Fucked by the insiders for the last time.
I was in the same boat for a lot more money. When we corner a few of the elitist pigs someday, I'll give you a shout.
same here, i don't remember exactly but i was out around 70k before i could get to my account. learned about setting stops that day. and it only cost about the same as a porsche. talk about education cost inflation, lol.
And since then a lot of us here and zh fought the tape for 4 fucking years....how's your head feel boyzz
I am always wondering what is the difference between beeing a government or mafia member.
Cheaper suits, from what I can tell.
Wfich ones
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Mafia members have morals, and we don't pay for their 'honorable services'.
Everyone here already assumed that the banks not only know what fed policy will be but also formulate it. Anyone who does not assume that they are all in cahoots to rob the american people blind is a retard.
But... but... they love me!
Of course he leaked to the banksters - the owners of the Fed, the institution he was working for.
probably......I mean nothing is impossible with this lot
and managed to piss the germans off on his way out the door, which is why they announced they want thier gold back, they aint waiting untill 2020. that was being polite
What are they gonna do about it? It's not like they have $1trill in treasuries to dump
No. There's no chance that anything phunny happened that day, none at all.
LMphAO.
Nooooo o o o O 0 oooww w w w... now why should he?
when he is hanged for treason, it will be 6 years to late !
sometimes I get the feeling we are so Ra, Ra Rasputin, here on zero Hedge; when I read that all is well in Romanov Russia of Joe Weisenthal! :
We Are Now So Close To The End of The Era Of Crisis... - Business Insider
The guy is guilty of trillion dollar insider trading.
"scope and rights with respect to the window"
Here's one for you,
"The window, or the stairs?" - Jack Spade
No wonder this asshole was laughed out of China.
BOO this man!!!!!
His pic says WEASEL!
Timmy belong in chains and an orange jumpsuit, along Obama and the rest of the Beghazigate, Newtowngate traitors.
Little fucking weasel timmy is a financial terrorist just like his masters running the show.
I see the same financial terrorist where at work today in the Gold pit.
Ps....fuck YOU timmy
Strict laws and prison for us at the slightest mistake and no laws and certainly no punishment for them at all ever
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well not much to see here: I've been telling you about this guy for years! You can check and even @ some point I've said that when Gaitner speaks the obamer shuts up and listens! And how often have I mentioned the evil trio of the big G, easy benny and cool dimen...perhaps not in such terms.
Did we expect anything different? Have they not stolen from under our noses before?
Goldman always seemed to have instant 3500 word analysis of the decision. Either they were like a newspaper with prewritten obits or they knew what was going to happen. I'll take the latter for $200 Alex
It is common knowledge Henry Paulson was telling all the bank CEO what was to come. He was clued them in about the fFannie and Freddie rescue, Bear Stearns and that Lehman would go down. All except Fuld. Fuld must be WASP?
I think it goes back to the LTCM or whatever that group of genuises out of Boston was called. When they went BK there was one bank that didn't want to bail the global financial system out and that bank was later shafted for not being a team player. If you are a team player your race won't matter, much.
that bank was bear stearns...
read Lowenstein's book about LTCM...a great read
You've got it ass backwards. Fuld is a Jew, Paulson is a WASP
You are both correct. Paulson once said during an interview, "I'm not Jewish, but my parents are". Henry Paulson's parents were Jews who converted to Christian Science. He was born to a Jewish mother so he's ethnically Jewish.
So he's in the Club.
Githtner needs a good ass-kickin' to wipe that smirk off his smug mug.
Hey Timmy, many thanks for trying to make sure Ken Lewis doesn't look a dumbass. YOU CUNT.
He probably gives his wife the nod before his slides inside, otherwise she'd never fuckin' know.
This is all so silly. He wasn't "Leaking" things the banks, He was Reporting to the Board Of Directors.
Who owns the "Shares" of the private Fed? The Big Banks. US and European.
Who owns them? Rockefellers, Rothchilds, (someone continue the rest if you want)
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You are so right and this is never pointed out enough times. How would anyone think the private FED that is run by members of the banks, would have their members, not head back to the head offices and tell everybody the direction where the FED "says' their going is ridiculous.
End the Fed.
OJO
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Of course Geithner leaked information to others in his tribe, it's what Jews do. Two sets of laws, one for the goyim and another for Jews. Don't expect a Jew or your TV to share this fact with you, all one has to look around and draw their own conclusion.
I don't think Geithner is a Jew. He is a goy.
"All the main candidates for the crucial job of Treasury Secretary, the man who will have to deal with the global financial crisis, are Jewish. They include Robert Rubin and Larry Summers, who both held the job in the Clinton Administration, former president of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Tim Geithner and even New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is mentioned as an outside candidate." -- Shmuel Rosner, November 6, 2008, The Jewish Chronicle, Analysis: The American election: America’s President-elect engineered a remarkable rise in his popularity among Jews with assurances on Iran and Israel.
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-special-reports/analysis-the-american-election
You don't think - that's nice
Drop dead and make the world a better place.
Of course, the CEO of a bank doesn't understand what the Fed window is when a nobody like me does. *facedesk*
Geithner takes a leak on the world economy. No news here.
Nothing to see here - move along
How long, oh Lord, will the scales cover our eyes? Had Geithner undergone a complete transformation into a "I-cannot-tell-a lie" George Washington, the international bankers would have fired him. He. Works. For. The. Banks. Until. He. Dies! Not. For. Us.
Why are people still surprised when the bankers’ hired hands steal their money? The bankers move heaven and earth to get their operatives into office. Why? To cheat! To steal! The wealth.
These financial rustlers have no moral or legal claim to their ill-gotten global wealth aside from possession. America once again is the wild West, savage. Its last court of appeal is again a six-shooter.
And that is why they are trying to take the guns from you
Has the top always been this corrupt? I mean the top of anything; cycling among other things?
Do you by definition have to be this corrupt to "make it" everywhere?
Am I just looking back to the past with nostalgia, a dim recollection and rose tinted spectacles? Were all the leaders of the past just as venal?
At lest once upon a time they went through the trouble to at least try to hide their crimes. Now that they have been deemed to be above the law and too big to jail, they just flaunt their crime and laugh at us.
Fuck jail for these scumbags. Execute them all. No trial, no lawyers, just a guillotine in time square and broadcast it on the big monitors so everyone can get a good look. Off with their fucking heads.
Occasionally, even the worst that could be done is not enough to make amends for the scale of wrongs committed.
Hanging them would be too easy and too kind. At least let's first torture them like they do in those 'evil' Middle East countries. Torture to death sounds a lot better.
From Marshall Smelser (American Colonial and Revolutionary History, College Outline Series):
“Practically everyone in the thirteen colonies believed in a personal God who had created the universe and most accepted the divinity of Christ; nearly all were Gentiles and nearly all were Protestants. Furthermore, the religious groups had certain fundamental agreements: they believed in the immortality of the soul and in an afterlife of reward or punishment; the Bible was accepted as an inspired revelation, the authors of which had been protected from error.”
With this culture, which by the way is not in dispute, the emphasis on a personal morality was not only common throughout the colonies at the time the nation was established but the leaders were both expected to be moral and were believed to be moral.
Hamilton and Jefferson may have disagreed wildly on basic policies but in neither man was there ever a hint or suspicion that he was not an honest, moral leader. With these religious principles the nation moved forward on a foundation of mutual trust. Following the surrender of the Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781, it would be seven long years before America had a Constitution. The new Americans, with only the loose agreements of the Articles of Confederation to guide them, trusted each other enough to work for a peaceful and unified government of sovereign states. Those years were the triumph of moral leadership.
Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, long ago gave the answer: "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
"Practically everyone in the thirteen colonies believed in a personal God who had created the universe..."
Well, except for a fair number of the Founders themselves. The "creator" part applied, but not the "personal" part.
The “fair number” is inaccurate. The key point to make here is that the overriding belief of the early Founders was that Jesus Christ was the Son of God and that a government should be formed which respected the principles outlined in the Bible.
If the principles of Christianity were not included men such as Patrick Henry would never have been involved in the founding for one single solitary minute.
James Madison
“ We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.”
John Adams and John Hancock:
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775]
John Adams:
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity…
Samuel Adams: Powerpoint presentation on John, John Quincy, and Sam Adams
“ He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all… Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.” [ "American Independence," August 1, 1776. Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia]
John Quincy Adams:
“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?
Benjamin Franklin:
“ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel” –Constitutional Convention of 1787 | original manuscript of this speech
“In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered… do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?” [Constitutional Convention, Thursday June 28, 1787]
In Benjamin Franklin's 1749 plan of education for public schools in Pennsylvania, he insisted that schools teach "the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern."
In 1787 when Franklin helped found Benjamin Franklin University, it was dedicated as "a nursery of religion and learning, built on Christ, the Cornerstone."
Alexander Hamilton:
• Hamilton began work with the Rev. James Bayard to form the Christian Constitutional Society to help spread over the world the two things which Hamilton said made America great:
(1) Christianity
(2) a Constitution formed under Christianity.
“The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.”
On July 12, 1804 at his death, Hamilton said, “I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.”
Patrick Henry:
"Orator of the Revolution."
• This is all the inheritance I can give my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.”
—The Last Will and Testament of Patrick Henry
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]
“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.”
Samuel Johnston:
• “It is apprehended that Jews, Mahometans (Muslims), pagans, etc., may be elected to high offices under the government of the United States. Those who are Mahometans, or any others who are not professors of the Christian religion, can never be elected to the office of President or other high office, [unless] first the people of America lay aside the Christian religion altogether, it may happen. Should this unfortunately take place, the people will choose such men as think as they do themselves.
[Elliot’s Debates, Vol. IV, pp 198-199, Governor Samuel Johnston, July 30, 1788 at the North Carolina Ratifying Convention]
George Washington:
Farewell Address: The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion" ...and later: "...reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle..."
“ It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”
“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” [speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779]
"To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian." [May 2, 1778, at Valley Forge
Thomas Jefferson:
“ The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”
“Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.”
"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus."
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
ET CETERA………….
Cherry picking quotes is fun, but it doesn't prove your case. I'll match a few notes, but folks should really read this stuff. It's true that many Founding Fathers were devout Christians, but the real architects of the USA were split evenly.
Of foremost importance is the fact that Deism is compatible with Christian morality and most of its teachings. The only Deist distinction that need be drawn is that there is no "personal and/or interventionist" God. It was generally accepted that there HAD to be something responsible for the creation of the universe, and calling that "something" God was as good a name as any.
Jefferson sounds far more like a Christian based on your highly selective quote from that Rush letter. A slightly longer and more honest excerpt: "To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; and believing he never claimed any other."
He identified as a Unitarian and cut up a New Testament to make it BETTER.
Madison was certainly a savvy enough politician to proffer respect for Christian ideals, but how devout could he have been to have written something like this? "What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."
John Adams was strongly anti-Catholic Church, and was committed to the heresy that Jesus was not an incarnation of God. He also identified as Unitarian, and even if you find a way to believe he was a devout Protestant, he was impatient with the "religious enthusiasts" whenever they got in the way of scientific and RATIONAL inquiry.
"And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes."
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"We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact! There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel. In England itself it is punished by boring through the tongue with a red-hot poker. In America it is not better; even in our own Massachusetts, which I believe, upon the whole, is as temperate and moderate in religious zeal as most of the States, a law was made in the latter end of the last century, repealing the cruel punishments of the former laws, but substituting fine and imprisonment upon all those blasphemers upon any book of the Old Testament or New."
Franklin wrote at some length of his Deist views in his autobiography. He made some comments very late in life that he thought God was working on our side, so perhaps he had some kind of revelation, but it's quite a stretch to pretend his religious views are represented by those quotes from his political speeches at the Convention.
Washington could have been anything, so to be charitable, sure.
John Jay and Alexander Hamilton were definitely Christians.
Washington, Jay, Hamilton, vs. Madison, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin.
The cherry-priced quotes, as you call them, are accurate quotes from the Founders of this country relating to Jesus Christ. As Christians do in modern times, these men were critical of the way Christianity was practiced and politicized by some, such as today’s John Hagee who uses the Christian religion to actually support wars for Israel.
Jefferson’s correspondence and writings constitute some of the most extensive material on many subjects ever written by an American public official or politician. Your material is selected to prove your point; if you want to disprove the belief in Jesus Christ by the chief Founders of this country, you need to show that the quotations that I provided are inaccurate.
A word of caution here as we begin to look back at the history of our country: The sources that can be found on Google, Wikipedia, Bing and atheist-commandeered universities such as Harvard and others bare the upside down influence of the elite control of our culture over revisionist history. To ask these sources for information is to get extensive replies couched in the corrupted culture of modern America. If you “google” almost any aspect of biology, anthropology, geology, et cetera, your answers - particularly on Wikipedia - will be revised and riddled with evolution, anti-creationism, anti-religion, pro-environmentalism, pro-diversity, and especially anti-Christianity.
In our modern day only a fool would consult the New York Times for information on the teachings of Jesus Christ.
If you would like to disprove that the primary Founders of the United States did not believe in Jesus Christ and Christianity, you need to disprove the quotations I have used or provide an exact quotation from these Founders that they did not believe in Jesus Christ.
If you would like to disprove that the primary Founders of the United States did not believe in Jesus Christ and Christianity, you need to disprove the quotations I have used or provide an exact quotation from these Founders that they did not believe in Jesus Christ.
No, I really don't, because as I said, Deism is compatible with Christian morality. I'm an ATHEIST who supports the teachings of Christ as the fictional figure he was in the New Testament.
Is your "Christianity" big enough to include ME?
Your effort here is similar to the Mormon practice of inducting the dead.
“I'm an ATHEIST who supports the teachings of Christ as the fictional figure he was in the New Testament…Deism is compatible with Christian morality.” --secret_sam
What a perfect example of the corruption of the greatest force that ever swept through the civilized people of the world, the teachings of the Son of God when He walked the earth... and how ignorance has corrupted our modern world and is now endangering the greatest nation ever established to provide justice and freedom, namely the United States of America.
Surely you don’t mean to say that non belief is the same thing as belief.
I asked a simple question. Why not answer? Is God telling you to hide your light these days?
The definition of Christian is a “follower of Christ as the Messiah.” You’ll have to answer that question for yourself. I’m not in charge of membership.
Yes, it's always been this corrupt, it's just that it has historically been much easier to keep secrets than it is today. Virtually anyone in a developed country can learn something and share it with the entire world in a matter of minutes or hours.
It'll probably take two generations before the implications of this development are understood.
Actually, no, it hasn't been. and one wonders why you would say that.
It's just because I've read some history, and have learned that there were scumbags doing all the most perfectly heinous and awful things to each other for as long as anyone's been taking notes.
The scholarly environment that existed as the new American nation was formed and began to prosper was an environment of Christianity. The foundations of its leading institutions of higher learning prove it; and the decline in the Christian foundations at those institutions show the impact of anti-Christian campaigns that parallel the decline and fall of America.
From author Bodie Hodge:
“Many of America’s and England’s oldest universities were established as religious institutions, but now they advocate evolutionary thinking. What happened? …
“Most of the colleges in the United States that started over 300 years ago were Bible-proclaiming schools originally. Harvard and Yale (originally Puritan) and Princeton (originally Presbyterian) once had rich Christian histories.
“Harvard was named after a Christian minister. Yale was started by clergymen, and Princeton’s first year of class was taught by Reverend Jonathan Dickinson. Princeton’s crest still says ‘Dei sub numine viget,’ which is Latin for ‘Under God she flourishes.’ …
“So what happened to cause so many schools to abandon their Christian roots?
“Accepting a naturalistic worldview and compromising Scripture were the first cracks in these universities’ Christian foundations. These cracks led to the collapse of their Christian heritage. …
“Naturalism opposes God’s Word in Genesis, the foundational book of the Bible. As Psalm 11:3 states, ‘When the foundation is destroyed, what can the righteous do?’ Cracks in the foundation led to a collapse of the Christian worldview at these schools.”
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n3/harvard-yale-princeton-oxford-once-christian
Now, Harvard, et al., has abandoned its Christian roots and is trying to knock out the moral code in the foundation of this country.
Here’s a taste of today’s Ivy League theology from Michael Coogan who teaches at the Harvard “Divinity” School, is director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, editor of the New Oxford Annotated Bible and author of a new book, God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says. Here’s a bit of what the “Bible really says,” according to Coogan, “who sees sex around every corner and under every rock in the biblical text”:
When Time magazine asked Coogan if people in biblical times were less prudish “than we are today?,” i.e., those people today resisting the Sexual Revolution, he replied: “I think in some ways they were, even though they used a lot euphemisms. When they were thinking about their god, they thought of him in ways not that different from the way other people thought about their gods. If you could describe God as a king or a shepherd or a warrior, then you can also describe him as a husband, and doing the sorts of things that husbands do. In the Greco-Roman world in which Christianity arose, the idea that a deity would come down to earth and have sex with a mortal would have been not surprising at all.”
Dr. Robert Sungenis, Sr, in his review of Coogan’s book finds it, “one of the most revolting and heterodox pieces of prose I’ve read in a long time.” He says, “Make no mistake about it. Coogan is attempting to turn traditional sexual mores upside down…
“[W]hat he believes ‘the Bible Really Says’ is not what the Bible says at all. It is a figment of Coogan’s fertile imagination that he intends on using to create a new sexual revolution or, at the least, give traction to the one already upon us… His introduction is filled with disclaimers on the origin of the Bible. In one instance he says: ‘But unhappily we have not succeeded in changing the way most nonspecialists and even many in the clergy think about the Bible. People still maintain that the Bible is God’s word…’”
Yes, you can cut and paste, I get it. Now quit wasting everyone's time with other people's work and say what you've got to say.
See above.
Bernank: Yes, go ahead.
TurboTax: Yes.
Teleprompter: Forward!
This shit has gotten so shamelessly fucked up that I can barely stand to look at the markets any more. It's starting to make me physically ill. I need a fuckin Scotch NOW!!!!!!!!!
Alien-IQ
I hear ya, dude! I hear ya.
It's times like these, that I like to quote a great, mid-20th century philosopher,John Blutarsky,
http://youtu.be/uepFO4psgKE My advice to you is to startdrinking heavily.
And they wonder why the retail guy has left the building?
OJO V-V
"I need a Scotch, NOW!!!!"
Define 'a'....
Well, I guess grabbing a scotch is a better reaction than what 99% of people would be doing. Like myself I'll be typing in a comment at how this is a rip off that keeps on coming.
Little did I know in '08 when I started calling it the fraudancial sector how rancid the whole thing really had become. The USSA decomposition continues...
Yup, the whole bail out was probably the single largest heist by the insider banksters in financial history. They should have put AIG, Goldman and anyone else into receivership. More than a few schmucks would be doing serious time after the government accountants ploghed through the cookbooks. I mean cookedbooks.
Friday humor
US Federal Reserve 'underestimated financial crisis'"The US Federal Reserve may have underestimated the looming 2007 global financial crisis, released transcripts from its meetings that year have shown."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21092849#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source...
My life's goal is trying exactly who was going to roll tanks on the streets. Tanks are a bitch to maintain and anybody who has worked in one would rather have another job.
Ole' hank paulson said we need to put a tarp on them as best I can tell.
Turbo Timmah! Now there's a fucking Patriot! All I can say to Timmah is, "Please jump, fucker, jump"!!!!
The lying, cheating, conniving and scamming continues. The only thing certain is the exponential rate at which the thick wool over the sheeples' eyes grows.
"Did Tim Geithner Leak Every Fed Announcement To The Banks?"
How do you know what your are looking at..... It's all a delusion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnozSXyF4k
WE ARE ALL DUPES TO THIS NON REALITY
If you've let video define your reality, there's a demon that's controlled every sensory experience you've (n)ever had.
Being on ZH is a video experience,,, FLAT PANEL perceptibly my point, you need to calibrate the differences relative to long imbibed experiences. Dig through the illusion..
"It was the secretary of the secretaries secretary"
"We have people looking for her"
He's the evil twin of South Park's Timmy.
Did Tim Geithner Leak Every Fed Announcement To The Banks?
That's in the job description. I think it's number 1 or 2. This has been going on since Greenspan.
Loose lips leak during the scavenging phase of the suck cycle !
If a Timmah falls in the forest, does anybody here it?
I'm going to start my own McHugepenis Comedy Jihad if Monedas no longer wishes to pursue that avenue.
"I’m sure that’s been true across the System"
That qoute sent shivers down my spine. Just to hear him refer to 'the System' speaks volumes.
At least we know why the Fed waits 5 years to release full transcripts. That's when the Statute of Limitations expires for prosecution.
"You prosecute the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common, but leave the larger felon loose who steals the common from the goose." Oppression by Optimism, GKC
http://www.readbookonline.net/read/19314/55225/
To call Mr. Geitner a scum-sucking piece of shit would be insulting to any scum-sucking piece of shit.
"You fucked up. You trusted me."
Wasn't that a quote from Bluto Blartowski?
Is that the same Bluto from Popeye?
If I were to assay IQ based on this quote, it would be in the low 80s.
Just go back and read and re-read and re-re-read "ATLAS SHRUGGED" and you will "follow the bread crumbs" to the reality of what the fuck is actually going on. As a Canadian, I am begging my wonderful Yank friends to "Take back your Country."
not sure what happens when you get a bunch of bright people (say 3-5 million) in one place..maybe they won't follow Demopublican policies and will have no debt, not taxes and a "no benefit" system.
You do understand that we have a significant number of ObamaPhone voters don't you? This may take some time...
Sorry I had to gulp down a Martini as I was typing that. Sincere apologies.
Fuck the BUNDES-bankers that tried to make you think that the Amerikan "gut rit off ower gow-elt" when all they are trying to do is make you think that they should "Get the fuck rid of yer no-good Kraut-ass gold an' the fuckin' horse it rode in on..." Read and re-read and re-re-read Atlas Shrugged and you all will "get it"
hmmm...since the amount of insider trading goes all the way to the top, it ought to be easy enough to start a ZH religion that always looks after its members interests and simply makes money out of figuring out what the corrupt and ignornat poltiical sect will do next.
maybe its keeping aapl above 500, the Fed acting against the public interest, i eman who couldnt have seen those mortgage purchases coming at values in the mortgage pools that keep the home owners under water and not able to refinance at lower rates without massive penalties.
santas list might be:
weaken the dollar - ok, short the dollar against...mmmm...something
keep the five year below 80 bps and the ten year below 200 bps ....write one month calls 15 bps out the money forever!
stop the stock market from ever falling more than 5% in a month...hmmm...sell 5% out the money puts forever!
make sure the banks are always building share capital...well ths one is easy, take some of the proceeds from the sold options and buy out the money calls on JPM, C, BAC, GS, MS or just sell CDS protection like AIG did...forever!!
Need a high oil price for XOM to make huge profits and for BP to pay huge fines....use some more of the option premium generated and buy calls on the oil majors.
theres all that other pork barrel shit ou just have to identify as it is being drafted in the 435 + 100 + 1 mental asylums..
invest the profit in GOLD, rinse and repeat!!!!
and if it doesn't work out..take a job at wally world for 23,000 a year and top it up with 46,000 in benefits from Uncle Tom...er Uncle Sam
You'll have to put in some time and work your way up to $23,000/year at Walmart, tho.
Timmy looks like a dog passing a peach seed in that pic.
Most likely every Fed announcement and every ESF intervention....full audit please
Let me put it simply...and bluntly:
They're all crooks and they're running things!!!
...any questions??
Should we send some war criminals to the Hague?
Start with Biden who has been at the apex of U.S. government for decades, stuffing his pockets full of tax dodging cash, and waging endless war.
No wonder he wants gun 'control'. He doesn't want the people he abuses to shoot back at him when they discover that he has shafted them, ritually, routinely, for decades.
The Diocese of Bridgeport does so love him. Newtown, not so much.
Okay, Biden is a fine one! Would the Hague refuse Cheney? What about W?
ever notice that Kissenger isn't much for travel?
Obama should turn himself in! That would be leadership.
Actually, Rumsveld would would be a hilarious trial, "Did we have people tortured? Sure we did..."
Anyway, let's do start with Biden, he'll rat on the rest.
Prosecute the war criminals before they die of old age.
If you're here...
AND you helped send Ron Paul out to pasture...
even in the smallest ways...
and you don't feel ashamed...
It's not that you patted Ron Paul on the ass and sent him on his way...
it's that you didn't understand.
And you're still around... to do things such as shout... and maybe even "vote."
Gosh, just when everyone was about to trust government.
Well, off to the gunshow.
And no, they may not be Tyrants, but they also are not supposed to act in their own best interest or in the interest of the greatest fucking thieves in known history.
And I don't even like guns. They're like drain rooters to me.
Anti-Illuminati
http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2013/01/anti-illuminati.html
The real question should be; Do the banks dictate policy decisions to the fed?
Yes. The BIS had better get up off its fat ass, and fight.
I am more than a little peeved with their performance so far. Not that it matters.
One leak to rule them all
One leak to find them
One leak to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them
Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner & Obama
MT FLUSHMORE
Tim with your free time start digging a hole to hide in because the good people of america will be coming for you
I traded bonds on the floor and now understand how goldman was always able to front run any announcement
I hope all the elits security people read zero hedge and are spiritual people
Turbo Timmay has the protection of his tribe. Not jews, by the way. He is protected by the Trilateral Commission. Fact, not 'conspiracy theory'.
When they are most fearful, they wage war on small countries in order to distract attention from their grotesque sociopathic psycohopathic theft.
See Algeria and Mali as the latest example.
FORWARD! O'bomba gets his wish, and his freak thug tax grabbing Biden et al. Along with Repugnants who lazily assist that fascism.
I would rather that his tribe dies horribly, but there is no reason for me or mine to make it so. Turbo Timmay and his Trilateral Commission freaks will die horribly by the hands of the people they trusted or cheated. There is no honor among thieves, including them.
Good.
Oh, and by the way: FUCK YOU, BIDEN TRAMP LIAR, TWO FACED SHILL, AND USELESS MONEY GRUBBING WHORE. NO FRIEND TO ANYONE - DEM OR REPUB. ONLY SERVING YOUR SLEAZY SICK PRIVATE LIFE, AND PRIVATE BANK BALANCE.
Ahhhh. Gotta love ZH, for the place to pull the rip cord.
FUCK YOU, BIDEN FREAK.
Did Tim Geithner Leak Every Fed Announcement To The Banks?
Yes. Every single one.
Turbo Timmay loves the Chinese fake figures too.
Forward, comrade dishonestann :-)
How is that $ a week Foxconn slavery working out for your Politburo? Profitable, yes messy missy?
You are a silly money statist whore, no different than tax dodging Timmay and your Chinese Polluted Bureau.
But President Shit for Brains said he was the only choice to run the treasury for 4 years. Seriously, epic fuck up refused to let this criminal quit FOR FOUR YEARS.
Four years? The communist, socialists, despots are entrenched for decades in most of the world.
Best we stop them from making their one party state in the U.S.A., contrary to the Constituion and Declaration of Independence which is most hated by the money whores, and their servants on the internet and DC.
SOMBART, WERNER. 20th century German economist."Capitalism was born from the money loan. Money lending contains the root idea of capitalism. Turn to the pages of the TALMUD and you will find that the Predators made an art of lending money. They were taught early to look for their chief happiness in the possession of money. They fathomed all the secrets that lay hid in money. They became Lords of Money and Lords of the World...
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. 20th century American novelist."Down a tall busy street he read a dozen Predatorish names on a line of stores; in the door of each stood a dark little man watching the passers from intent eyes - eyes gleaming with suspicion, with pride, with clarity, with cupidity, with comprehension. New York - he could not dissociate it from the slow, upward creep of this people - the little stores, growing, expanding, consolidating, moving, watched over with hawks' eyes and a bee's attention to detail - they [were Predators.]
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. 19th century American philosopher, poet."The sufferance which is the badge of the Predator has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth. (Fate an essay)
WELLS, H. G. 20th century British writer. "The Predators looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Predatorish heel." (The Outline of History)
"Zionism is an expression of Predatorish refusal to assimilate. If the Predators have suffered, it is because they have regarded themselves as a chosen people." (The Anatomy of Frustration)
"A careful study of anti-Semitism prejudice and accusations might be of great value to many Predators, who do not adequately realize the irritations they inflict." (Letter of November 11, 1933)
Wells was in the habit of referring to KARL MARX as "a shallow third-rate Predator," and "a lousy Predator" in private correspondence. (Norman MacKenzie, H. G. Wells
LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 20th century American aviator, writer.
Wednesday, August 23, 1939 "We are disturbed about the effect of the Predatorish influence in our press, radio and motion pictures. It may become very serious. [Fulton] Lewis told us of one instance where the Predatorish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual system if a certain feature were permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed."
Thursday, May 1, 1941 "The pressure for war is high and mounting. The people are opposed to it, but the Administration seems to have 'the bit in its teeth' and is hell-bent on its way to war. Most of the Predatorish interests in the country are behind war, and they control a huge part of our press and radio and most of our motion pictures. There are the 'intellectuals' and the 'Anglophiles,' and the British agents who are allowed free rein, the international financial interests, and many others." (The Wartime Journals)
ADRIEN ARCAND, Canadian political leader of the 1930s "Through their (Predator's) international news agencies, they mold your minds and have you see the world not as it is, but as they want you to see it. Through their cinema, they are the educators of our youth - and with just one film in two hours, can wipe out of a child's brain what he has learned in six months in the home, the church or the school."
NESTA WEBSTER, in her book Germany and England "England is no longer controlled by Britons. We are under the invisible Predatorish dictatorship - a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life."
HENRY WALLACE, Secretary of Commerce, under President Harry Truman, wrote in his dairy that in 1946 "Truman was "exasperated" over Predatorish pressure that he support Zionist rule over Palestine. Wallace added "Pres. Truman expressed himself as being very much 'put out' with the Predators. He said that 'Jesus Christ couldn't please them when he was here on Earth, so how could anyone expect that I would have any luck?' Pres. Truman said he had no use for them and didn't care what happened to them."
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANT, three times the Democratic Party candidate for President said: "New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed."
HENRY ADAMS (Descendant of President John Adams), in a letter to John Hay, October 1895 "The Predatorish question is really the most serious of our problems."
SPRING-RICE, SIR CECIL. 20th century British politician."One by one, the Predators are capturing the principal newspapers of America. (Letter of November 1914, to Sir Edward Grey, foreign secretary. Letters and Friendships)
CAPOTE, TRUMAN. 20th century American writer. In an interview, he assailed "the Zionist mafia" monopolizing publishing today, and protested a tendency to suppress things that do not meet with Predatorish approval. (Playboy magazine, March 1968)
AND It Continues.
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks." John Dalberg Lord Acton
“Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.”
-Naked Gun
Predators, Predatorish = 13th Tribe
Dr. Alfred Lilienthal from his book What Price Israel:
I'm guessing the 44yr retiring nyc teacher did not teach history?
dont you wish-poor white trash, take your net worth and buy a happy meal-if only, dream on-maybe in next life you'll be lucky enough to be a jew!!
Oh , so predator = Jew. Thanks for the clarification but your a little off. Why do want to label your whole race as predators when it's hundreds of thousands out of millions?
New ZH troll:
http://www.zerohedge.com/comment/reply/468525/3165873
There's scum and there's Geithner...
It wasn't me!
People from the same tribe have no secrets.
Of course the 'Word' on each and every move was leaked and leaked to all. The 'Call' came from Paulson to Geithner to GS who positioned accordingly and then down the gravy train. This is Fact and known by those who were there.
More specifically, it was a 'Directive' from Paulson to- Geithner to- the Desk @ GS- down the line/food chain.
So you still think Lloyd Blankfein did not choose his words as he intended when he said they were "doing gods work"?
Blankfein meant every word of it. It is the duty, the birth right, the moral obligation of the Apache's of the East to their god, to pillage the "gentile".
There is no Jew, no Gentile anymore, the "jews" just don't believe this though.
I don't believe in "Jews" as a race (hell it was taken captive, diluted and contaminated by so many other hairy tribes and nations) so I cannot condemn the "Jew" I do believe that there is a group that think that they are "Jews" and that they have a moral obligation to band together to skim for their god. In the end, they are just people, misguided as they are who have a propensity, a need, maybe it is a lust for filthy lucre that drives them to eventually piss off the natives to finally run them off, ban them like they were so many times. But like a dog returning to its vomit, they come back. One of the great mysteries of our times.
+1...Great one sentence summary.
"There is no Jew, no Gentile anymore, the "jews" just don't believe this though."
Well, I'd like to sum up my interpretation of how the Federal Reserve works:
for a profit in the markets.
It's the equivalent of my going to Capital One Auto and saying, "I need a $10,000 loan. Oh, and, by the way, here's what you should pay me every month in interest on the loan."
The Federal Reserve is legalized theft for the banks.
Releasing non-public material?
The only way they will do anything to Timmy and that is a MAYBE is if they connect him to Steve Cohn.
lol the best part is that the bank CEO does not understand what "a Discount Window is"