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Obama Announces Nomination Of New Head Of America's $230 Trillion Derivative Pyramid - Live Webcast

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With Kill-Bill body-double Chilton fading poetically into the dark, and Gensler gone, President Obama is set to nominate Timothy Massad to the Chairmanship of the CFTC. We can't wait to hear how the man who was responsible for bailing out the banks at any cost, will now make sure these same banks don't do anything bad again. And he will also, somehow, "supervise" America's $234 trillion in derivatives and make sure nothing bad ever happens there too?

Somehow, we are a little skeptical. Sure enough: "The party-line split on the commission would probably delay votes on contentious Dodd-Frank regulations." In other words more of the same "nothing must change" hard line stance the CFTC has so sternly pursued since the crisis, and before.

The President is due to speak at 1520ET

 

 

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Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:15 | 4147209 hugovanderbubble
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CDS market and ABS;RMBS, CDO´s to explode...

ISDA org corrupted

 

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:31 | 4147245 TruthInSunshine
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What's the Mossad's relationship to America's 230 trillion in credit derivatives?

Is this sorta' like the missing trillions & lost top secret records that resulted from the WTC towers falling, along with pulling # 7, with Rumsfeld, Feith & Richard Perle (of PNAC fame) in the shadows, that the tin-foil-hat crowd rants on about?

{scratches head in a puzzled fashion}

OH, TIMOTHY MASSAD...my bad.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 17:07 | 4147419 dryam
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My guess as to the primary motive for NSA and all the spying, etc. that is going on is try to stay one step ahead of a total global financial collapse with the U.S. being the epicenter.  The derivatives market is like a 1 mile high Jenga game and it could only take the smallest of players at the table to set things off.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:15 | 4147214 Rusticus
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In the spirit of diversity I was expecting the nomination of  a Rastafarian ?

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 20:29 | 4148166 chemystical
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...or ANY gentile.  Apparently the TPTB run into their synagogue, look around, and say, "Your turn".

Might as well copyright the name Rent-A-Reptile.

To those who'll inevitably call me an anti-Semite (nevermind the complete BULLshit of calling yourselves 'semites')...how long do you expect everyone to be blind?  The odds of  Lew succeeding Geithner: 2500 to 1.  Ditto Massad and Gensler.  Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto.  Start wearing yellow stars of david and America will think it up woke up in Tel Aviv.  Fuck you.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:16 | 4147217 Sufiy
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Send him this video, please


Capitol Account: GATA Chris Powell On Gold And Silver Manipulation 


Why The System is so concerned now with its exposure of the Gold and Silver market manipulation? We continue to dig out the available information for your own conclusion. Chris Powell provides very simple explanation - these markets are manipulated by the Government agents themselves.   Infamous PPT comes to light in this conversation as well - under the law Exchange Stabilisation Fund is exempt from the Freedom Information Act and any market supervising at all. http://sufiy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/capitol-account-gata-chris-powell-on...

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:21 | 4147237 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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Ha, saw this link posted 7 minutes ago, first reation was I've already missed it, then of course, nah, it's Potus, the guy who took the word prompt right out of teleprompter ...

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:29 | 4147267 NotApplicable
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Televentuallyter?

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:28 | 4147263 ParkAveFlasher
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This fekker is late AAAGAIN.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:32 | 4147278 TruthInSunshine
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151st round of golf in 5 years?

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:30 | 4147268 ParkAveFlasher
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To my left, a man who looks kind of like a rat.  To my right, a man who looks kind of like a rat.  Say, these are two good rat-looking folks!

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:30 | 4147270 AL_SWEARENGEN
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Do Gensler & Massad look like weird twin brothers or is it just me?

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 17:01 | 4147395 Seasmoke
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Most dual citizens do look alike. And they also prefer Israel over the USA.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 20:33 | 4148181 chemystical
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what was the name of that movie with Charlie Sheen where the terraforming aliens had human facades?  Sheen noticed that some of the facades were duplicated over and over.  Guess the reptiles have only so many to choose from.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 20:41 | 4148211 chemystical
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it's curious how the older they get, the more obvious their reptilian genotype becomes.  (Frog, lizard, and turtle are the most common) As youths they have the ability to more closely mimic their environment (aka hosts), but after a few decades the features of their specific genotype express themselves in more obvious ways.  If you classify them, you'll find that 99.99% belong to one of 5 possible types. 

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:30 | 4147273 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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I gave up smoking choom decades ago, but if I could get what he's smoking, man on man ...

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:32 | 4147280 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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When I did this. My this. My that. I did this. I did that.

You ....

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:34 | 4147284 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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Lotus.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:35 | 4147292 Pairadimes
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Nothing says "Clusterfuck!" like a $16 trillion economy with $234 trillion in derivatives. I think I would rather be in charge of the Fukushima cleanup.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:55 | 4147376 29.5 hours
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Don't be a pessimist. In theory, all those derivatives cancel each other out, right? So if the next crisis operates at 99% efficiency (our leaders are up to that) then we only end with 2.34 Trrrrillion dollars we need to scrape up to make the banks whole.

 

 

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:36 | 4147298 buzzsaw99
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pure comedy genius!

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:38 | 4147307 AgileArjuna
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Massad did 9/11 ;)

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:46 | 4147336 FiatFapper
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Which bank will Gary Gensler now work for?

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 19:40 | 4147990 waterhorse
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Goldman?  He was the youngest ever to make partner, at the time.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:48 | 4147345 ILikeBoats
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Does the guy look like a mini-Chertoff to you?

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 21:56 | 4148416 Colonel Klink
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I see the family resemblance.  So yes.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:58 | 4147390 Seasmoke
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How long before this Tribesman is saying he is sorry.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 17:17 | 4147458 q99x2
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This is a conspiracy.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 17:30 | 4147494 moneybots
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"And he will also, somehow, "supervise" America's $234 trillion in derivatives and make sure nothing bad ever happens there too?"

 

I thought the House voted to dergulate derivatives trading.  So for how long is have going to have derivatives to supervise?

 

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 18:38 | 4147753 10mm
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Yes, HB 992.

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 22:31 | 4148489 mobydick
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Supervise, what the f.... does that mean? I've marked this to infinity and my counter party has marked this to infinity, so they cancel each other out and it's all good?

Tue, 11/12/2013 - 22:32 | 4148491 mobydick
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Supervise, what the f.... does that mean? I've marked this to infinity and my counter party has marked this to infinity, so they cancel each other out and it's all good?

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