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"Cluster Of Central Banks" Have Secretly Invested $29 Trillion In The Market
Another conspiracy "theory" becomes conspiracy "fact" as The FT reports "a cluster of central banking investors has become major players on world equity markets." The report, to be published this week by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), confirms $29.1tn in market investments, held by 400 public sector institutions in 162 countries, which "could potentially contribute to overheated asset prices." China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has become “the world’s largest public sector holder of equities”, according to officials, and we suspect the Fed is close behind (courtesy of more levered positions at Citadel), as the world's banks try to diversify themselves and "counters the monopoly power of the dollar." Which leaves us wondering where are the central bank 13Fs?
While most have assumed that this is likely, the recent exuberance in stocks has largely been laid at the foot of another irrational un-economic actor - the corporate buyback machine. However, as The FT reports, what we have speculated as fact for many years now (given the death cross of irrationality, plunging volumes, lack of engagement, and of course dwindling credibility of central planners)... is now fact...
Central banks around the world, including China’s, have shifted decisively into investing in equities as low interest rates have hit their revenues, according to a global study of 400 public sector institutions.
“A cluster of central banking investors has become major players on world equity markets,” says a report to be published this week by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (Omfif), a central bank research and advisory group. The trend “could potentially contribute to overheated asset prices”, it warns.
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The report, seen by the Financial Times, identifies $29.1tn in market investments, including gold, held by 400 public sector institutions in 162 countries.
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China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has become “the world’s largest public sector holder of equities”, as the report argues is “partly strategic” because it “counters the monopoly power of the dollar” and reflects Beijing’s global financial ambitions.
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In Europe, the Swiss and Danish central banks are among those investing in equities. The Swiss National Bank has an equity quota of about 15 per cent. Omfif quotes Thomas Jordan, SNB’s chairman, as saying: “We are now invested in large, mid- and small-cap stocks in developed markets worldwide.” The Danish central bank’s equity portfolio was worth about $500m at the end of last year.
So there it is... conspiracy fact - Central Banks around the world are buying stocks in increasing size.
To summarize, the global equity market is now one massive Ponzi scheme in which the dumb money are central banks themselves, the same banks who inject the liquidity to begin with.
That would explain this.
That said, good luck with "exiting" the unconventional monetary policy. You'll need it.
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I was here for those debates but the question lingers. It is vital to know in order to prepare an effective defense, so obviously we will never have a clue. Cannot have the sheep avoiding the sheering. Well, this sheep has fangs.
Effective defense? You might be lucky to survive the first month, after that all bets are off. People will do some pretty insane things if they get hungry enough.
The Mike Moloney school of thought suggests a sharp sudden deflation will prompt such frenzied printing as to end in hyperinflation
But the other element to that debate was about Bi-flation - i.e. - if a man doesnt have enough money to buy food for his family, he will sell his house or his car for a pittance
Using money from public treasuries to buy stocks is abjectly immoral.
It would be more moral for them to send every citizen $3 Million (or equivalent) tax free.
It would be more moral to eat the young than this mess-abc news had a story on a $1,500 pair of socks....
We need a word stronger than fleeced or robbed....(?)
Gang raped?
Skull fucked?
I concede.
fiat face fuck...
I been Yellen'ed
As bullish as it gets!
DOW up at least 3% tomorrow.
Yep, and on no volume as usual. Now we know why volumes have been collapsing. Just sit and wait for the only buyer to show up, do a transaction at another inflated price and put the tick on the tape. Ta da!
JUST LIKE THE JGB MARKET LAST WEEK THAT DIDN'T TRADE ANYTHING FOR HOURS. There is only one buyer left at those prices, so nothing trades at those prices until the central bank comes in a does their transactions for the day. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Which is why the move, most days, is done in the first 15 minutes, and then the string gets played out for the day at no change from there.
Is this the economic planning taught at Princeton? Was there a parallel course in keeping it secret?
"Was there a parallel course in keeping it secret?" Yes, but that's at Yale.
Just to make sure none of the "riff-raff" get wind of the details.
Bush passed?
The stock market is just a thermometer that they can meddle with.
The real temperature can only be gauged by reference to employment levels and remuneration of employees.
The gap between the two will eventually collapse.
Gosh, global government banks "nationalizing" everything paper and subsidizing CEO stock options, convertible to your "green".
Whodathunkit...lol.
Now, press your claims dickheads.
Um, Wikipedia says total market cap of all publically trade companies worldwide was about $60t at peak around 2008, can't be much higher today. Have central banks really bought half? Even if they bought a lot of it at much lower prices than today? I dunno. Certainly not in their own names.
My own guess is that the US Fed might have bought about $1t in US stocks, but again just what name they are being held under I just dunno. That doesn't count any stocks they've bought and sold again, that's what they've bought and currently hold.
Yup they bought half. Rest of the float they own indirectly through bailed out institutions and cronies.
Fed is not world's biggest hedge fund anymore : it's tge biggest private equity firm
It will be interesting to see how many free passes to missed earnings and revenue will be handed out before the inevitable. Look at Amazon.com's stock. That piece of malinvestment finally cracked to the tune of a ~25% decline after nonexistent earnings and terrible guidance.
At some point, the concept of squeezing blood from a stone will be obvious and that fact will finally sink into the investment collective.
Should the central banks continue to prop up digital wealth, seems the smart money will be looking for the exits to tangible assets, as the markets may continue rising in good stead, but as Kyle Bass points out, 'they won't buy three eggs.'
It's but one scenario, but one covered years ago here on ZH: everyone will be rich in the virtual/digital markets, but no one can ever sell.
In the meantime, the smart money bailed and already owns the real assets that matter when those in the digital realm figure it out.
Time will tell.
This is exactly why you cannot short this market. These clowns make the rules and will never let the bottom fall out. BTFATH bitches. You simply cannot lose.
Lmao! The simple fact this comment got so many down votes is proof enough fools will continue shorting and in the process, get skinned alive. Gotta love people looking for rationality in a world gone mad.
You think you can play their game and win, yet you have the audacity to call others "fools"?
oh my...
I knew what you meant.
In the land (or casino) of the blind, the one eyed man, is king ;-)
You are no fool nmewn.
Didn't downvote you.
See my points above. I see the endgame being potentially this: The Central Banks will provide all the market gains to those invested, but the banks won't be able to guarantee their purchasing power.
It reminds me of Alan Greenspan's 2006 speech before congress. To paraphrase: we can guarantee cash benefits as far out and in any size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
The 'risk' markets seem to be approaching this point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqUzQjXNliU
"It will be interesting to see how many free passes to missed earnings and revenue will be handed out before the inevitable."
To imply that the market is giving free passes is to imply that there is a market. There is no market, there is only the bernakyellen. I don't know why accreditedeye got beaten up so bad. He is right, anyone shorting this beast will continue to get blowtorched.
Agreed. While I didn't edit my post to this point, there very well may be a nominal deflation in the markets (but potentially very difficult to short), it won't hold. The CB's are going to inflate this beast to sky high levels in the end game.
Edit: Fonz, to be clear, I do think a deflation in the markets will happen (and thus the inevitable phrase used as you point out), but I don't think it will hold. I don't think it's shortable, except for a very talented few. As you say, there is no market. As I also pointed out, I think this has become nothing more than a managed social security fund, where the fund is now in 'risk' assets.
yeah I hear you I think we are all pretty much on the same page.
I agree with you both, especially with Yellen running the show. Deflation would hurt the banks most; the fed will not hurt the banks.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-02-20/stock-market-giant-ponzi...
lmao, your avatar is probably indicative of your character if not your comment suffices..
That was my initial read. Well, not so much the short issue as much as the 'market' being just another spigot they control.
They will inject when they want to stimulate mkt price. Sell if it gets too frothy.
....they determine the 'market' price. Not the market.
I admit I may be misreading it. Thoughts?
It was mentioned in an earlier post that this is a game of Monopoly. I prefer to see it as a game of Risk. The big players in this each have their own agenda. I expect we will witness some serious "court intrigue" in the coming months. They may appear to have one face towards the camera, but that will quickly evaporate when push comes to shove. First you ask, then you tell, then you order, then you shoot.
Keep up with your preps...
;-/
[@ AccreditedEye: I didn't down vote you either. I will say this: There is no way in hell they can keep this up much longer. WMT (Walmart) is showing serious signs of stress.
"This is exactly why you cannot short this market. These clowns make the rules and will never let the bottom fall out. BTFATH bitches. You simply cannot lose."
The law of cycles is that the up phase is followed by the down phase. 100% of bubbles burst and deflate. Math ALWAYS wins.
Secret???
Not here.
So, to get a clear picture, the bastards at the very top are putting printed money into everything, increasing the price of every thing, intend to own everything, and planning for it when we finally figure it out. They have all the money and all the military resources.
Have I got this right?
Talk about a game of Monopoly...
Yes, basically.
But they intend to force the issue by making you believe in their version of law & justice, which should be fun ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVjezsQfrW0
We actually have to pray for our defeat, to have any hope. Wow.
Great song, send chills up my spine.
Not ours MsC (we cannot be defeated) its impossible...its theirs.
Government power structures and the ones who abuse it (laws, regulations, courts & contracts are matters of current opinion, dwelling only in the present) however the people will always be here long after all this has been tossed aside.
"We" cannot be defeated, its all about what "we want" it to be, on the other side of all this.
nmewn,
I Agree. It will all fall down. The only thing that I fear is people wont be able to understand the actions that have caused these conditions and will beg for another round.
We look for the land of the sane, in insantiy.
Whats going to be be on the other side needs to start with a new exchange medium that is exchangable for its fungible collateral, can no to counterfitted and can be used to participate in a free market. Since we have none of those I think its a great place to start.
Might want to confiscate some empire estates of the shadows and ban certain people and families from participating in anything for the "public" ever again.
Accoutability starts with the people.
Withdraw consent and support, and its a good start to becomming of the independent mindset.
RIPS
All collapsing empires/countries/societies start anew. Personally, I'd like to keep it open to all of the same mindset (the core beliefs/concepts of a free society) but of course, thats practically impossible.
Everyone has an agenda and I'm not interested in starting a Stasi-like arm to "check beliefs" or loyalty oaths, those can be subverted (given enough time) as we have seen, people lie and decieve, there's not much one can do about it.
Actions have always spoken louder than words as to what someone is loyal to or believes in ;-)
We're at the end of a game of Monopoly where the "banker" was allowed to use the bank's money. No surprise that he bankrupted everyone and now owns everything.
I think that even for the many of us here that had no doubt this was taking place, that 29T price tag is FUCKING JAW-DROPPING.
I imagine creating that much electronic money out of nothing is like being able to make a new Canada out of nothing every year, for five years in a row, in the sense that one could buy everything that could be sold in Canada every year, year after year, with the "money" that the central banks were creating out of nothing, since the financial crises in 2008.
I believe that Canada itself only made a couple hundred billion Canadian dollars out of nothing to pay for its share of bailing out the big banks after 2008 events, while I do not know how much of this buying equities the Bank of Canada might have been engaged in. HOWEVER, THE MOST IMPORTANT SOCIAL FACT IS THAT THE CANADIAN MASS MEDIA, AND SO VIRTUALLY ALL CANADIANS, ALMOST TOTALLY IGNORED THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA TRANSFERRED MORE THAN $100 BILLION TO THE FIVE BIGGEST CANADIAN BANKS, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA'S BUDGET SUDDENLY SWITCHED FROM BEING THE PREDICTION OF A SMALL SURPLUS TO BECOMING AN ADDITIONAL 50 BILLION DOLLAR PUBLIC DEBT.
The fact that those kinds of events were almost totally ignored by all the big political parties, and the mass media, and most of the Canadian public, demonstrates the degree to which the vast majority of people in Canada, as well as around the rest of the world, ARE political idiots, that act like Zombie Sheeple, who are being fleeced to exhaustion, while being set up to be slaughtered. It is maddening to comprehend how completely MAD our economic systems have become, especially since, when one studies that more thoroughly, there can be no reasonable doubt that at least about 99% of the population acts like utter political idiots with respect to the political economy that was made and maintained by the banksters. As long as the vast majority of people continue behaving like Zombie Sheeple, then the tiny minority of people who are aware of how criminally insane the established economic systems actually are end up, paradoxically, becoming even more personally mad, because the more you know, the worse it all gets.
There is NOTHING whatsoever like capitalism, nor free markets, when the public "money" supply is being made out of nothing as debts by private banks. That is obviously due to the way that the banksters were able to apply the methods of organized crime to the political processes, in order to capture control over the puppet politicians, who have more and more rubber stamped systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence.
What actually EXISTS is a runaway system of organized crime dominating the global economy, whose basic structure automatically and necessarily makes everything important get worse, faster. However, since the real world was controlled by lies, backed by violence, so much, for so long, the overwhelming vast majority of people continue to act like political idiots with respect to all of those things, and there are no good reasons to doubt that they will continue to be fleeced to exhaustion, and then slaughtered, because there are no good reasons to believe that the masses of Zombie Sheeple are going to stop acting like Zombie Sheeple.
For the few who are aware of what it means, indeed it is "FUCKING JAW-DROPPING" to imagine central banks creating that much "money" out of nothing in order to "invest." However, the vast majority of people will almost certainly continue to not know anything about that, because they will continue to not want to know, which SOCIAL FACT IS EVEN MORE "FUCKING JAW-DROPPING!"
The Canadian Pension Funds thru mandate and Law must make Profits and thus are heavily invested it the American War Machine. The CIA tells a hint about Dollar Stores and the Canadian Government buys in....The price goes up and Up......That is Oterio Teachers Pension Plan. CPP etc.....I won't be surprized for our money (public) to be heavily invested in Monsanto even though most Canadians don't even know what food is Genetically Modified going aginst their own wants. This will come out at the next election too bad we don't have a good choice for representatives........ seems our dictator may even win again and although lately I sense that some one shored up his back, thru is butt with a 2"X4" giving support to his Backbone but time will tell.
I agree with most of what you wrote, litemine, except the part where you suggest that any serious issues "will come out at the next elections." I expect the next Canadian elections to be as superficial and stupid as previous elections. I DOUBT that anything substantial will really be at issue, but rather, just another cynical, shallow puppet show put on by the mass media.
Meanwhile, one thing that remains to be seen is whether or not the Canadian BUBBLE will have popped before the next elections. So far, Canada has been quite a bit different than the USA, because most Canadians are still in the BUBBLE:
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/canadas-housing-market-bubble/
Canadian Housing Market, Bubble or Not?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CzfDDOPnoE
Live chart: Parting company
Central banks still have to Hoover up a whole of worthless paper leftover from the Gogo years.
Guess what? All those companies and banks just created a whole ocean more of precarious toxic paper that needs to be bought by CBs.
So explain to me how it is not a conflict of interest for the only market maker, a privately owned institution in the case of the US Fed, is allowed to own something that they can dictate the policy environment in which they "compete" in.
The problem starts when we try to make sense of this. Making sense of this is the distracting quality about it.
The outrage IS what it IS.
That machine would instantaneously project solid matter to any point on the planet, in any shape or color they might imagine... for any purpose, Morbius!
Creation by mere thought.
Why haven't I seen this all along?
they are above the law. this should be painfully obvious by now.
So who yells "Fire!" in the packed theatre? ISIS? Gazprom? Spanish bonds? Who?
John Galt ?
Who is John Galt ?
( Joke) ;0)
So I was looking at this page which claims to represent the market cap of the G20 as of 2012.
So in billions here:
18,668 + 3,697 + 3,681 + 3,019 + 2,016 + 1,823 + 1,486 + 1,286 + 1,263 + 1,230 + 1,180 + 995 + 875 + 612 + 525 + 480 + 397 + 373 + 309 + 34 = 43,949 billion or 43.9 trillion
So what you're say'n here is that central banks represent something akin to 66% of the market circa 2012?
Yikes!
Please tell me my math and/or logic is amateurish and completely off the mark. I can take it, as it's better than the alternative. Hopefully I'm unclear on what a trillion is.
sadly, your numbers may in fact be correct.
sorry.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
Yeeeeeeees!
Goldpercent,
you express what I repeat:
"As long as the vast majority of people continue behaving like Zombie Sheeple, then the tiny minority of people who are aware of how criminally insane the established economic systems actually are end up, paradoxically, becoming even more personally mad, because the more you know, the worse it all gets."
The Norwegian Pension funds have owned about 1% or more of global since forever. Throw in Calpers & 49 (or 56) other US pension funds, then maybe 10 trillion in other SWFs, then a handful of central banks and whatever else makes up these 400 public sector institutions... 66% doesn't sound unreasonable, just OUTRAGEOUS.
Just a little bit more and they'll own everything, after all, they can print all the currency they want. Good idea for a Facebook game, call it bankville.
In the Bay Area, SF, we had/have this 'movement' called "The Hyphy Movement" (pronounched "high fee"). Hyphy is associated with taking ecstacy and doing doo-doo dumb dances and ghostriding your car, shaking your dreads, making the 'thizz' face one tends to make when tasting the ecstacy pill, and generally, jamming to Hyphy music. The culture heavily promotes 'getting stupid' and 'going dumb.' Get stupid, dumb, and hyphy and ride the yellow bus, yadadamean?
Well, my friends, these numbers are hyphy as fuck. I coin these words today: We are seeing 'hyphynomics' and 'hyphynomical' numbers. They are one step above astronomical, and therefore in the realm of the truly absurd space that eventually points to stupidity.
Yadada doo-doo.
OK let my try.
From a hyphynomics perspective there has never been a better time to get into the market.
The consensus among Hyphynomist is that a recession never happened and that the hyphynomy has fully recovered its losses from 2008 that never happened and can never happen again.
You can get some real Nobel Thizzle Pills with that kinda talk!
p.s. BTFATH(yphy) bitchezz
Hyphy makes as much sense as any of this. I like it.
The crime is so big, folks keep trying to explain it, appeal to the rules, or some "laws" of economics perhaps. It is big for a reason...
At the speed of light, time stops, and mass is infinite. But it is a trick of perception. At the speed of light, the light never reaches your eye...so changes in movement are not perceived. Mass is infinite because there is no change, you are part of the one, the all, the total, at that point.
Printing is approaching the speed of light because of the flow of electons, electricity, my fellow bitch, if you follow me here.
Nothing will move.
Hyphy.
I have now helped you theorize hyphynomics. Give me a footnote, would you?
No fucking way, Jose! That's a brilliant thought. We're truly printing our way into a singularity.
Perhaps that's how the machine network gains sentience... to become Skynet.
The system - it's in controlled-mode right now, waiting for the command, saying "Tell Me When To Go"
Bill Black educated me on this:
Gresham’s law, observation in economics that “bad money drives out good.” More exactly, if coins containing metal of different value have the same value as legal tender, the coins composed of the cheaper metal will be used for payment, while those made of more expensive metal will be hoarded or exported and thus tend to disappear from circulation. Sir Thomas Gresham, financial agent of Queen Elizabeth I, was not the first to recognize this monetary principle, but his elucidation of it in 1558 prompted the economist H.D. Macleod to suggest the term Gresham’s law in the 19th century.
And since varying degrees of worth in paper are illusions anyway, the more applicable meaning of "bad money drives out good" might mean in this modern sense, that CBs will manipulate the price of PMs so low that producers stop making it and 'consumers' stop trading it with respect to the dollar. That's for people with PMs, which in America aren't that many.
"The system - it's in controlled-mode right now, waiting for the command, saying "Tell Me When To Go""
Perhaps better than it suggesting a game of thermonuclearwarfare.
(or may be that's the equivalent)
p.s. footnote? I don't do IP/copyright/trademark. You can have the title of Chief Hypynomist of da Wurld.
Open source. Hyphy for no fee, Hyphy for free.
Dum, dum, dum, dum...
Good b(u)y(e) me!
Fun playin' wit choo!
"Mass is infinite because there is no change, you are part of the one, the all, the total, at that point."
So one reaches enlightenment when one can raise their vibration to the speed of light.
I always wondered what light would look like if you were able to slow it down...
hyphynomics:
What you get when Yuppies from the 1980s move to Wall Street, and 20 years later their Ideas have both reached the top of Wall Street Leadership, but also the Top of Fed Leadership.
Stupid Scary.
Looks like that page has historical data too. Someone with more time on their hands might be able to show the progression and therefore make some reasonable future estimates. Knowing the trajectory to 100% ownership could be valuable. How high can it go before it falls apart?
that was fast. it was only 5/13/14 that Wait What commented on his speculation that Central Banks were hammering the VIX using futures positions to prevent declines in the market. that they would eventually own the underlying securities on some of their bets doesn't take a leap in logic.
thanks again, ZH, for confirming my conspiracy theories are more likely than ever to be proven conspiracy facts.
maybe now's the time to throw out another one: 'the universe's equation' is real, even if humans haven't fully discovered all of the components that harmonize (and how) to display its order. chances are a computer will find it first.
My gold and silver are looking better and better.
And I'm glad I have a 2 year plus supply of Charmin toilet paper among my "savings". I ain't going without my Charmin at this point in my life!
Yeehaww!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx7D8p-AoEs
I think you missed the whole point of the artical. Gold has given you zero returns and maybe even a loss over the last several years. Those that controll the game have rewarded those who have participated with nice returns on their stock purchases. BTW I used to be a gold bug but realized it was a suckers bet thinking justice and or free markets might take control at some point. I think Bill Black explains it nicely, the "bad money" drives out the "good money".
In America, yes. In other parts of the world, gold is still king.
I used to think that the whole system was going to collapse and the funny money thing would end. Then I realized we are never going back to any type of gold standard. If you buy gold now you are wasting your money. The rest of the world will follow suit eventually. The economies or countries of the world that put more faith in gold are considered backward.
You are correct, we are not going into a gold standard, but some of us will be charging gold for our services and the rest of you will be screwed without us.
Sin-tral banking.
Global Inflation.
Jump in or be priced out forevah.
The air is thin in here. My nose seems to be bleeding.
Oh my!
The fact that the market has run up so significantly since March of '09 tells me the CB's are just better stock pickers than you & me. They obviously wouldn't buy losing stocks. Duh...
I'm surprised they are purchasing so little; I assumed it would be closer to 90% of the market.
they will own it all eventually. all the stocks, all the bonds, all the hookers and blow.
OH NO! Not the blow too. Somebody just pull out a gun and shoot me...
;-D
""Cluster Of Central Banks" Have Secretly Invested $29 Trillion In The Market"
The most massive stock market fraud in history.
Surprise!
lol
Until the occupational health and safety hazard of activities such as central banking and lawyering is raised higher than that of Alaska crabbers, this shit won't stop.
Wile Coyote, don't look down. Whatever you do, don't look down. And keep running.
This is how the Chinese have taken control of gold.Not just through purchasing most of the gold mining production but now buying up all the equity.And really cheap too.
Wait till one of the Central Banks realizes with only 162 countries participating, it may be a good time to get out when there are only a few players and volume is low and values are high.
When one decides to bail, his buddies will think it may be time to get out as well. Then you will see all the indexes fall like they never did before.
It isn't math, it is human nature, emotion and what happens afterward common sense.
Well, clearly Big Govt, and Big Biz are not just sleeping together these days. They are sharing the same checking account... Meanwhile, Big Media is passed out on the couch.
Reminds me of my college days.
;-D
To defend being front-run to hell buying bonds at all-time highs, the central banks can claim they can hold bonds to maturity if something goes wrong. What would be an equivalent plausible lie regarding stocks?
The article mentions gold in the mix of these CB interventions--calling it "investment." WTF? Gold is not an investment--it is a vote against CB policy and obscene market intervention. Come on Fed, at least leave that to us!
This is very dangerous, because now.
1) The Central Banks essentially own all these corporations, there is no free market.
2) The people of the respective nations do not have a stake in the bank, and the bank has essentially fraudualntly taken over all the assets of the nation with inflation-deflation pump and dump scams.
3) They have destroyed all legitemacy in the "system".
http://cafr1.com/
documents that:
Ouroboros of Incorporated Robbery.
Chinese asset manager
ate my dog ...
Pity, you seemed like such a happy couple! :>D
No picture, no giggles.
Why now. We already knew they were juicing it.. Why now?
I keep asking the same thing.
The world is on fire and now they are admitting they have juiced it? Dam if is doesn't sound like WWIII is being set up.
When a conspiracy theory is proven true it is no longer a theory. It is a conspiracy !
CBs don't "buy", they don't "invest", they control.
Governments and banking cartels already have the senior claims on all income producing assets. This is all about compensating for lack of cash flow and funding operations of governments, banking cartels, and their respective food chains.
Not in the food chains? Thinking about reinvestment in your enterprise? You might have a problem. Or thinking about invention, innovation, rehabbing impaired assets, developing undeveloped resources, or perhaps just improving your own chances? You'd better have a rocket in your pocket. Or maybe an IED up your sleeve. That seems to be a popular new way to shake the money tree.
When prostitution becomes a step up for your daughter and enforcer becomes a step up for your son, Sharia Law will start looking better.
If they can buy equities now, why won't they buy excess ipads and autos in the future? "Invest" in the most connected and influential big corporations, preferably one with a large union.
sschu
Yeah, try to figure out which crony they will favor and "infest" your money there.
Um, who says they aren't. The numbers put up by corporations are impossible based on any metric of true market consuption.
Sorry but it is impossible to sell $5 billion out of 250 small mall stores.
Look at GM's sales, they may well be already buying these items.
sschu
Are they setting the Stage for reset with a war again.. Are people across the globe this stupid not to see something is going on?
Yes and yes.
I've got to think up some crazier conspiracies. Every single one people called me crazy for has been proven to be fact.
It seems the crazier the easier it is to prove.
Well, that settles it (unless this article is pure nonsense).
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There is another way to say the exact same thing as this article:
The predators-that-be who own and control the central-banks of the world, have been creating endless FIAT at zero cost to themselves, then buying up all the key large corporations on planet earth.
Since the FIAT costs them nothing to print, and since LITERALLY NOBODY audits the central-banks (except "themselves", hahahaha), it costs them NOTHING to buy up the entire planet.
Their start is... buy up all large producers. Simultaneously they bribe their bought-and-paid-for politicians to pass endless laws to make business vastly less efficient and more difficult for small competitors. Any exception that manages to break through will be dealt with easily... by creating more FIAT and buying up their stock until they have a controlling interest.
At the end of this game is...
A few families own ALL large corporations and all [one] governments on planet earth. Good luck, human beings!
They already owned a controlling interest in said corporations according to this research: http://www.globalresearch.ca/bankers-rule-the-world-the-network-of-globa....
This was extending the game until the next paradigm is ready. 2008 was a surprise due to its cascade effect (unintended consequences in a complex system) in derivatives that may have been a windfall for the pleebs (control back to the people); just look at how the whole bailout was ramrodded through, consensus be damned; the next time, especially with said MSM article referenced, doesn't appear to be the same.
It appears that they are now ready or very close.
"The lands of Italy, which had been originally divided among the families of free and indigent proprietors, were purchased or usurped by the avarice of the nobles; and in the age which proceeded the fall of the republic, it was computed only two thousand citizens were possessed of any independent substance."
Edward Gibbon,
Decline And Fall Of the Roman Empire
Not much has changed, has it?
Can't short the market. Not yet. Recall that ZH piece a few days ago about the short interest continuing to rise with stock prices? Perpetual short squeeze. Too ez for the HFT machines to run the short's stops.
So how does this all add up? ...
We have massive money printing the last few years
but not massive inflation
because money velocity is moderate to low
but we do have velocity in one place
money flowing into the stock market
with the help of HFT machines
And thus we have massive prices in stocks
Let's have those nice young men in ISIS audit the books of the bankers.
" Invested "... In "the market" they are rigging. Nice, secretly investing in the royal scam that is no secret to anyone.
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Time for a step back gents ...
1) Can this article be trusted to be true?
2) Why would this article be let out by the powers that be?
3) Is the distortion really that bad?
If this is true then all is lost. Really, really lost.
most of th emoney is in bonds, yanno...you moentize my back and i will monetize yours like china and japan being the largest holders of treasuries, allowing the fed to monetize fraudy and funny (oops, freddie and fanny).
this game was first played with petro dollars..the game remains the same, you can do whatever you like at the central bank level...as long as nobody actually wants their money back..heaven forbid, you ever give the value of your money back.
think of it this way...people with money (but not billions) are suffering from financial repression...the mob is the beneficiary, so the assumption is that a minute trickle down from the top plus a force the years old crusted whip cream back in the tube from the bottom = success!
Spot on.
This signals to the pleebs that the CBs got your back in the virtual markets they already control (the water's fine, come on in). See honestanne's post and my reply above.
Everyone's now chasing virtual gains, while the tangible stuff is neglected, but not by those in the know (prices of fine art, classic cars, and high end real estate to name few have gone sky high).
The virtual stuff will be vaporized relative to real purchasing power. They already control those assets (essential corporations), so why care what the nominal value of them is? Buy 100 shares of XON? Sure it will go up, but you won't be able to buy three eggs with it, to paraphrase Kyle Bass. And you'll have no real control of said asset.
For those of us who want to trade the virtual gains, through massive deflation or hyperinflation or anything in between? We may do well in nominal paper terms. But how to translate that value to the real world will be the question.
This article suggests that it's time to think closer to home in terms of tangible gains and leave the virtual gains behind.
and I'm sure they never talk to each other and talk about what equities to purchase beforehand. BBwwwwwaaaaaaaaaa raping the muppets on a whole new level.
Ok. But selling SPY puts to make sure this doesn't collapse on a daily basis: totally conspiracy theory at this point. That's just beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
I contend the primary reason that inflation has not raised its ugly head or become a major economic issue is because we are pouring such a large percentage of wealth into intangible products or goods. If faith drops in these intangible "promises" and money suddenly flows into tangible goods seeking a safe haven inflation will soar. Like many of those who study the economy I worry about the massive debt being accumulated by governments and the rate that central banks have expanded the money supply.
The timetable on which economic events unfold is often quite uneven and this supports the possibility of an inflation scenario. A key issue being one of timing. If the price of gas jumps to $8 a gallon overnight do you buy gas and not make your car payment or stop driving the twenty miles to work? Answer, it could be months before your car is repossessed so you buy gas. It is important to remember that debts can go unpaid and promises be left unfilled. Is this possible and if so where would that leave us? Chaos and major disruption would result from such a scenario. As we have seen from the economic crisis of 2008 and following many other unsettling developments legal actions can continue to drag on for years. More in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/04/inflation-seed-of-economic-chaos....
The Unconstitutional US Federal Reserve Bank has printed Unconstitutional 'money' and used it to illegally buy up productive assets of the US while burdening all US taxpayers with onerous debt.
Any guesses about how well all that's going to end?
that would be "odious debt" as in stinking to high heaven.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/odious-debt-definition
governments take taxes and when governments spend more than they take in in taxes, they create a deficit. when deficits accumulate you get debt, when you get too much debt, governments that knowingly run deficits knowing that (sooner or later) even the interest can't be paid back, then you have odious debt. Japan is clise to the point where interest, even at close to zero, costs more each year than it takes in taxes. the rest of the Governments in the west are religiously following Japans shining example of how to beggar an entire country ..forever.
the central banks are complict in this deficit accumulates as debt which eventually becomes unsustainable, by monetaizing government debt as fast as a government borrows it.
the extent of the manipulation of markets lies when central banks go beyond the simple monetization of profligate government spending (mostly in socialist european countries with completely unfunded and state guaranteed perpetual unemployment benefits, sickness benefits and pension benefits) and start by shares in companies.
what on earth does a central bank know about where to invest money that does not involve a corrupt decision by favoring some companies with capital and letting others go cold? perhaps it can hide against a general system by buying index funds, but even then, if it inflates all prices, it is perpetuating a myth that the only thing an economy needs is money in order to function.
it is not money that makes an economy grow and stay healthy, it is trade and labor. the logical exetension of QE can only be to emply millions who are otherwise priced out of the market because their benefits are higher than wages.
bleh
Obviously, to ensure market liquidity there must be a buyer of last resort.
Also, to avoid market forces from causing the collapse of the Ponzi-slave mechanism, which would massively decrease the power of both the banks and governments, the fraud must continue.
It should be eminently clear that free market forces have been suspended. It should be just as clear that those who are controlling price and have purchased valuable assets with fiat have the ability to collapse the system at will. They said as much when they blackmailed Congress to bail them out and made the politicians accomplices to the theft and fraud in 2008. THEY ARE NOW ONLY WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME (for them). They do not have and have never had any intention of fixing the system. Fixing the system would not accomplish their goal.
is this article about anger?
no ... anger management and a bunch of people who have post-graduate degrees in dysfunction (M.Dys) as opposed ot datfunction which is what the fed uses via goal seek :)
It's about "The best revenge is cornering the market."
Why, when browsing the "IMFIF" website, do I get the feeling that this group is about as useful to a real economy as an appendix is to a corpse? Wtf, another crypto-ngo mouthpiece for the london schleps of economoronics?
I'm not convinced that the proposed inflationary scenario will play out.
(1) Those exiting the rapidly falling equity markets will receive decreasing amounts of cash;
(2) Parties reliant on receipt of collateral to cover losses will experience greater losses due to rehypothecated assets or non-existent assets;
(3) Borrowed capital, used to buy assets that are rapidly falling in value, will simply disappear, becoming losses on the lender's balance sheets;
This is a positive feedback loop of increasing losses. Hence, the amount of money available to invest in tangible assets will decrease as selling continues.
The entire economic system is unstable because it has so many positive feedback loops. Positive feedback increases the amplitude of changes in a system resulting in an unstable system. This is another example of the absolute intellectual bankruptcy of the voodoo science of Economics.
spot on, especially point 2.
you need to actually inscribe the state or city debt (secure it directly on local/city tax receipts) or physically own the assets.
has a certain elegance, if you have to resort to the system to secure paper title..you dont deserve the underlying asset (that thing that produces something that people need to consumer, not more paper).
What about gold stocks, gregga777? Will they go up?
OMFIF = the Banksters = GS = Bilderbergers = Rothschilds
http://www.omfif.org/about/
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d9dfad02-f462-11e3-a143-00144feabdc0.html...
Your homework is to figure out who is the White Shield.
Red, white and blue, green, red flags, are symbols of some things you need to know. Red and Blue are easy.
Hint: Look at all the flags. Consider their historical context.
There will be only one test. The only test is your life.
What if the Government declared FRN's no longer legal tender and started printing their own currency once again, resetting the value in relation to the FRN?
they will but share owners will still own part of real companies...
If you like your money, you can keep your money!
in a few years (if we are lucky) 29 trillion won't buy 3 eggs...viva Zimbabwe!!!
There is no walking this one back. The whole system of world econ is based on fraud. Good thing we have Finra and the SEC. wtf. Explain to me how this ends well.
it need never go down, when a stock worldwide is sold, it can be bought with "batter-whipped" central bank currency. it has worked for more than 5 years, and will probably continue. everybody thinks it will crash, or collapse. but it is in none of the more than 400 worldwide entities best interest not to continue, they cannot, they are on an infinite treadmill.
29 trillion won't buy 3 eggs in 2 years...viva Zimbabwe....Mr. Gono taught us well....
Does $29 Trillion seem like a lot? it should. But it could just as well be $290 Trillion or $2,900 Trillion as this is all arbitrary money creation.
What does that mean for an investor, say a mutual fund? It means that the market is rigged and the big boys with the access to "money" (lol) can screw you and everyone else on the trading price whenever they see fit.
Gotta ask: Isn't this inevitably going to lead to a blood-letting of ordinary investors come "harvet time"?
Should anyone still be puting their hard earned dollars into this trap?
It takes a pretty big one to screw The Bear ... but now I fell better knowing that they had to print 29 trillion to stop me ... unfortunately, if it goes to 290 trillion, I am afraid that's going to really hurt.
novictim
the problem is that your 'hard earned money' is exactly the same as their 'out of thin air' money. I wonder why they did no do this years ago. Print money, buy everything, wreck the currency...own the world...what a scheme.
The reason why they did not "pull it" already is simple. Its because of the Euro.
When you remove all the US/UK propaganda and do a straight forward comparisation of the "Wests" currencies you will come to a sobering result. By no doubt, the Euro is the best managed and most stable Western currency despite all the obvious problems.
1) The ECB has a clear concept which is simply to maintain the stability and the buying power of the Euro. Think about it, the goal is not to have 2% inflation or more, its as little inflation as possible. Of course the ECB does not like deflation but this is something the ECB can accept. But inflation is the clear enemy.
However the Euro is a curency tied to the EU. Its the money of the whole EU (except UK) since even the EU-core countries not yet using the Euro like Denmark and Sweden have agreed, that they are going to become members of Euroland one day. Their currecies do trade since the introduction of the Euro within a narrow bandwith towards the Euro. Its only a technicality in principle, plus a politicum to make the last step. But it has nothing to do with economics.
2) The question is often what is the backing of the Euro. The Dollar is backed by its military that is a clear thing. But what is the backing of the Euro. The answer is simple again, the only backing the Euro has is the productivity of Europe. Europe is producing goods and services which are in great demand all over the world. Thus if one holds Euros he can be sure that he can exchange this money for products and services made in Europe. The Euro is backed by ready available goods and services and this is what is making the Euro a trusted store of value all over the world. This works of course only in combination with a low or zero inflation where again the ECB comes into the game.
3) The Euo stands and falls with Germany and the other core countries of the EU (except UK). Germanies economic success is based on the free move of goods and services all over the world. Thats why Germany is such a peace apostle in general.
4) The Euro is next to the Dollar the biggest position within the Central Banks as far as reserve currencies are concerned. 30% of the Peoples Bank of China reserves are Euros for example. While the Dollar is clearly loosing weight in the regard.
To answer your question: When the plug is pulled now, what would happen. There would be a flight to safety which are tangible assets including most important of all gold. But then prices do start to rise and rise and faster and faster, and when nobody is selling hard assets anymore. Plus there is the necessety to stay fluid. Then you need to move into a widely available and widely recognized currency which looks better than the curency you have now at your disposal. That does not leave much choice. Among the mayor currencies, besides the Dollar only the Euro and the Renmimbi and of course also the Rubble can give some kind of security. Renmimbi and Ruble are not part of the West. These currencies are not a problem for the US/UK. They can be shut off and diminished somehow at least here in the West. But the Euro is within the system. Its the alternative within the system to the US Dollar. The enemy within the walls of US/UK. When the Dollar and the Pound tanks the money is going to be moved into the Euro.
So this explains why US/UK do fight the Euro system till the bitter end. They have to bring the Euro down on their level otherwise, they can not pull the plug and let things ind a new balance. The moment the system crashes while the Euro is still standing tall that ould be the endpoint of the Dollar system. This explains also why the US started the fight with Russia about Ukraine. The moment the free movement of goods and services around the world is hindered seriously, the same moment the Euro is attacked. When you hold Euros but you cant buy goods with this money (because of a blockade of the trade routes) then your Euros are worthless.
So it can be expected, that the US/UK is going to pour oil into the fires all over the world in order to hinder the free flow of goods and services since this would further strengthen the Euro. For example Iran is a very, very inportant client of core Euroland. To isolate Iran economically is clearly weakening the Euro. Under normal conditions Iran and Euroland would execute all their business transactions in Euros including sales of oil and gas. But this had to be stopped under all circumstances.
So the plug is pulled when the Euro is kaputt not earlier. The only alternativ is, that the US Dollar system is breaking down under its own weight prior to the point when the Euro is crumbling.
Greece.
You cannot have a RaceToTheBottom without everyone participating....
Gold bless the Germans!!!!
Larger block in posession means lower liquidity + more possibility for volatility. That being said if markets crash they probably could end up buying up the entire market at lower prices..., which pretty much full ownership, I think there is a ZH post from a while ago, would end up being a bad thing.
Investing in equities allows the CBs to reduce their holdings in the US$. The Central Banks will not sell their stock holdings; they purchased equities with digitally-created units of currency; even with a 50% drop in stock prices, there will be no margin call. The CBs plan to eventually own all productive assets, including companies. By 2050, there will be less than 100 major companies that control the world; monopolies/duopolies all controlling the governments. Small business will be considered quaint or old fashioned, and innovation highly controlled.
The CBs, with their unlimited capacity to print, plan on maintaining control, forever. They wish to drastically reduce world-wide population to save resources (water, energy, etc.) and slow environmental degradation (air, water and soil quality). The CBs will foster local tribal wars, urban gang wars, pandemics. and ruthless elimination of "domestic terrorists." Quality of life will continue to deteriorate for the "have nots."
I think the US$ The CB's used were the ones the Fed printed early on it shore up the worlds CB's. They were told to hold it on there books and not to lend it out.
They saw all this QE stuff and wanted to protect their banks. So they rolled it over to stocks like the Fed is doing. But what happens when these companies start
to go belly up because the people don't have the money to buy?