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Presenting The $303 Trillion In Derivatives That US Taxpayers Are Now On The Hook For

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Courtesy of the Cronybus(sic) last minute passage, government was provided a quid-pro-quo $1.1 trillion spending allowance with Wall Street's blessing in exchange for assuring banks that taxpayers would be on the hook for yet another bailout, as a result of the swaps push-out provision, after incorporating explicit Citigroup language that allows financial institutions to trade certain financial derivatives from subsidiaries that are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, explicitly putting taxpayers on the hook for losses caused by these contracts. Recall:

Five years after the Wall Street coup of 2008, it appears the U.S. House of Representatives is as bought and paid for as ever. We heard about the Citigroup crafted legislation currently being pushed through Congress back in May when Mother Jones reported on it. Fortunately, they included the following image in their article:

 

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Unsurprisingly, the main backer of the bill is notorious Wall Street lackey Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a former Goldman Sachs employee who has discovered lobbyist payoffs can be just as lucrative as a career in financial services. 

We say explicitly, of course, because taxpayers have always been on the hook implicitly for the next Wall Street meltdown.

Why?

Exhibit A: US banks are the proud owners of $303 trillion in derivatives (and spare us the whole "but.. but... net exposure" cluelessness - read here why that is absolutely irrelevant when even one counterpaty fails):

 

Exhibit B: Here are the four banks that are in complete control of the US "republic."

At least we now know with certainty that to a clear majority in Congress - one consisting of republicans and democrats - the future viability of Wall Street is far more important than the well-being of their constituents. Which also, implicitly, was made clear when Hank Paulson was waving a three-page "blank check" term sheet, and when Congress voted through the biggest bailout of banks in US history back in 2008.

The only question is when the next multi-trillion (or perhaps quadrillion now that all global central banks are all in?) bailout takes place.

Source: OCC

 

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Fri, 12/12/2014 - 16:49 | 5545893 Blankenstein
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Jim Himes is a treasonous SQUID

"Jim began his professional career at Goldman Sachs & Co. where he worked his way up to Vice President over the course of a 12-year career. There he worked extensively in Latin America and headed the bank’s telecommunications technology group."

http://himes.house.gov/about-jim/biography

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:31 | 5543798 BlindMonkey
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I understand the sentiment. The numbers are staggering.

However I take solice in this is such an overreach that it can't realistically be back stopped. It just can't. You can pass a law that says we must stand in the street and stop a speeding semi but it doesn't mean it will happen.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:19 | 5543993 MrBoompi
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Of course they know the entire amount of these derivatives cant be backstopped.  All they care about is taking anough money to keep their companies, salaries, bonuses, and stock prices intact.  

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:53 | 5545349 scaleindependent
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Blind monkey,

 

open your eyes and see!  Just because it can not be backstopped does not mean they don't take everything. 

By everything I mean, Social Security, Medicare, your bank and credit union accounts through bail ins, the mineral rights, coasts, forests, deserts, national parks of the United States of Bankamerica, your pensions, your 401K's.

The banksters have done this slowly and thoroughly in other countries.  Now they want it from you. Who is to stop them if they do it slowly and over 20-70 years?  Our sedated populace?  The unions?  The dancers from Dancing with the Stars?  

 

WHo? 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:02 | 5543911 bigkansas
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Correct me if I'm wrong but the new Republican majority has yet to be sworn in and this a bill of the Democrats making and passing?

But congrats on the Alinskite tactic.

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:14 | 5544208 shovelhead
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Shhh.

You're not supposed to notice.

They rely on that.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 15:01 | 5545392 Captain Willard
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No they haven't. 

But the OLD Republican majority in the House was sufficient to pass this. I hear you on the Alinsky stuff. But Wall Street owns both sides of the aisle. Shit, the Street owns the aisle itself. 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:11 | 5543706 Future Jim
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They don't need our money ...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:23 | 5543755 Urban Redneck
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It's never about needs, only desires...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:14 | 5543713 CaptainObvious
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I haven't kept my fiat in a bank since March 2013.  Cyprus was the writing on the wall for me.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:59 | 5545377 scaleindependent
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I guess it is not that obvious,

 

It is NOT just about bank account bail ins. It is about appropriating all of the public resources that should belong to all americans. The national parks, forests, mineral rights, coasts, prairies, deserts, oil, sky and air.

When the crisis comes and the US has to pay for their debts, they will do a fire sale on all U.S. govt properties. They will gut the national parks, forests, lands, etc. IN ADDITION TO MINE AND YOUR PITTANCE OF CREDIT UNION, 401K OR BANK DEPOSITS.

THE END GAME IS FOR ALL THE FUCKIN MARBLES.  DONT WE FORGET THAT. THEY WANT IT ALL. 

THE CURTAIN IN THE THEATER I COMING DOWN AND THEY WILL LET US KNOW THAT THERE IS A BRICK WALL ON THE OTHER SIDE.

 

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:35 | 5544066 Thom_333
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Doesn´t matter. If you are the proud holder of a U.S. citizenship and a SSN-number - you will pay. A lot of money. When those derivates start going south. Serfdom v 2.0

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:34 | 5544618 JRobby
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Several poor fucks are on the wrong side of this oil trade.

WHACK!!!!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:49 | 5544117 Man-Bear-Pig
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You don't have to keep your money in a bank in order to be affected by this... 

You could keep your money under your matress, and your still going to feel it.  If you are a US taxpayer you are on the hook.

Every bank is now, too big to fail.

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 03:43 | 5547641 dolbiere
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me either because i don't have any.

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 16:59 | 5548703 ajax
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"I will never keep my money in a bank again."

It doesn't matter where the hell you keep your money because when Citigroup's derivative trades blow up YOU WILL BE TAXED.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:07 | 5543926 tarsubil
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This is more true than you know.

The American dollar is used because of the threat of force. Americans pay taxes in dollars or are jailed by the use of force. OPEC exchanges oil for dollars or they are droned.

The next phase is a general realizing where all this power originates during the right conditions (a large devastating financial collapse). We'll have a true military dictator within the next generation. Everything points to it.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:21 | 5545203 centerline
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And he/she will be cheered into power by hopeful and ignorant masses.

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 03:03 | 5547616 noben
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"Nothing changes until we roll the "National razor" "

In that case, it's time people joined the Nat. Razor Association.  As upstanding (up and standing) members in training.  If you're not upstanding you ain't up & standing.

Just joking.  I think.  I can never tell when I'm serious or sarcastic, dear Gov.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 08:57 | 5543642 Haus-Targaryen
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Looking forward to Megan Kelly's monologue the day after the collapse

"No one has seen the collapse coming. It caught the entire world by surprise.  My God Bless everyone and the United States as we work through this difficult time."  

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:01 | 5543652 insanelysane
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I am not sure what everyone is worried about.  Americans are saving so much money on low gas prices that we'll easily be able to pay for this, pay down the national debt, and pay down our own debt.  Whou would've thunk that low gas prices was THE FIX.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:03 | 5543671 Haus-Targaryen
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"Next in breaking news, the new weapons collections centers will open tomorrow at noon local time.  You are requested to go to the closest one, and turn in your weapons for your certified Federal T-Bill, which is redeemable in 10 years.  Please also remember to print out your ration cards on both sides of the paper.  In this time of financial need and desparity, you can, not only save money by using both sides, but its better for the environment as well."  

"In other news, Russia just attacked the USS Abraham Lincoln as it was docked in Odessa Ukraine.  We are expecting a press confrence from the President shortly.  Casualties are high."  

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5543682 negative rates
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And your local true-value has stocked up on guns and ammo so don't hesitate to spend that saved gas money on weapons.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:13 | 5544500 SumTing Wong
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Let me say this in small words- it is important to go out and buy weapons from people you don't know and people who don't feel like they have to keep records. Sure, you may have to hand in the guns that are on the books, but that one extra, undocumented, firearm may just save your life.

Amnesty for undocumented firearms!!! Don't ask, don't tell. Of course I just wish I would have bought a gun at some time. I'm probably too late already. Oh well.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:16 | 5543726 CaptainObvious
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The fix for whom?  Oh yeah, those clever Saudi bastards.  Oil could be $25 a barrel and they would still be making money.  This was all engineered to kill shale oil, which can only be produced for profit when gas is through the roof.  So now the USSA has to go kill more brown people, since the shale oil miracle has been slaughtered.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 15:05 | 5545406 scaleindependent
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No,

 

This was engineered by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia to kill Russia. It is financial economic war.

They will even let the S&P crash hard if it means that Russia/Putin is destroyed.

They will allow deflation to happen until Russia crashes, and then they will reinflate. 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 16:27 | 5545755 Sir Edge
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+1000

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:02 | 5543673 redwater
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The conserva-chumps were pretty dismissive and smug against OWS.

They happily sneered the whole thing as an anti-capitalist, commie slum-out.

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:23 | 5543756 booboo
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Well OWS should be gratful they were not anal probed by the IRS on orders of president Zero...oh that's right they had no income, their shtick was wanting mine via the force of a .gov gun barrel, guess they won by the looks of the article.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:28 | 5544037 MrBoompi
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Most people just want to work for a living, you know, a good job with a decent wage.  But paying a fair salary is not something most companies have to worry about these days since there is plenty of competition for the types of jobs Americans are forced to take.  Unless you're banker, money doesn't grow on trees and wages have to be paid by someone.  The crazy fucking conservatives and their oligarch masters now want us to believe a fair wage is wealth redistribution or even communism.  That's messded up.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:27 | 5544277 shovelhead
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Don't worry.

Pretty soon the 'Ministry of Fair Wages' will take over those unfair competetive private businesses and award those 'fair wage' jobs to their family and 'politically reliable' friends.

Got any friends? You already look politically reliable.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:16 | 5543724 WillyGroper
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Cuz we're AWESOME!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:21 | 5543748 lester1
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What about Peter Schiff? The guy predicted all of this. He's been warning us for years!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:34 | 5543807 Haus-Targaryen
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Peter Schiff will be jumping up and down on CNBC screaming at the top of his lungs about this the day after -- and these idiot talking heads will still dismiss him.  

Schiff is a genius -- no doubt.  He just doesn't fit with the official narrative.  

I think Schiff -- like Alex Jones -- needs to -- EVERYTIME HE IS ON TV -- or the internet -- or writes a column, or ANYTHING -- say over and over and over again "I am not suicidal."

If he doesn't -- he might be #38.  

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:28 | 5545262 Meat Hammer
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+1, Hans!

I'm not suicidal; I don't own a nail gun; I don't take baths, My car is 30 years old; I only go into single-story buildings; Basically, I just sit on the couch all day and the only food I consume is blended.... no choking hazards. 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:55 | 5543886 drendebe10
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WTF. Past due to have all theses crook TBTF bankers & their crony corruot elected ruling political elite turds to have all of their skin sandpapered off and buried in salt.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:16 | 5544203 ajax
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Sen Liz Warren objected:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4518885/senator-elizabeth-warren-2015-fede...

 

It's Gramm-Leach-Bliley Part Two ...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:54 | 5544722 de3de8
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Will never change

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 13:23 | 5544894 SAT 800
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That's perfect. Kind of a reverse Glass-Seagull. Glass-Seagull existed to protect the public from the investment banks, and it resulted in 60 odd years of banking security and freedom from worry for the citizens; I wonder what this one will result lin ? It's a wonderful world, when no-one pays any attention anymore; you can do whatever you want and the sheeple just keep their muzzles down in the feed trough.

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 17:04 | 5545947 ajax
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@SAT 800  No, this is even worse. Gramm-Leach-Bliley (1999) put an end to Glass-Steagall when it was slipped into a Congressional packet much like the one passed today.

This latest bit of Citicorp crap is repealing the Dodd-Frank Act provision enacted after the financial system blew up in 2008. 

Why Citicorp wasn't long ago put out of business is already a cause of shame but why Citicorp is now able to slip its own legislation through Congress buried in an omnibus spending bill is ... well, it's gonna end in tears for everyone.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 13:36 | 5544964 pelican
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Who cares... they have stolen everything from me already.  Except my AR15.  Good luck getting that.

 

 

Sun, 12/14/2014 - 00:20 | 5549577 spqrusa
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It will be easy when Obola is spewing from all your orifices and 200,000 Federal Useless Eaters are walking around collecting the gunz.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 17:46 | 5546233 Zigs
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The Lloyd giveth, and the Lloyd taketh away.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 18:07 | 5546313 OpTwoMistic
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Treason!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 22:24 | 5547180 OldPhart
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<--Crash before Christmas.

<--Crash immediately after Christmas.

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 07:27 | 5547730 winchester
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no crash, they are not allowed to make it....

 

QE4  around february.

 

all your points of view  are based on the simple fact that the debt have to be paid somedays.....

 

WHICH IS NOT....

 

this all the strategic point :  nothing will be paid bad ever... period.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 22:29 | 5547191 yepyep
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dont worry guys we can just print our way out.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 08:54 | 5543632 mygameon
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We derivatized some folks...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:01 | 5543667 JenkinsLane
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We examined the prostrates of some folks using a broom handle.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:20 | 5543741 GetZeeGold
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It use to just be the toilet plunger.....now it's the broom.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:38 | 5543827 Bastiat
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When the derivatives bomb goes off it will be a telephone pole.

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:18 | 5543990 oddjob
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Does the NYPD still have that practice as policy?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:54 | 5544721 Big Corked Boots
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+1 for digging deep down the memory hole.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:13 | 5543717 mygameon
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OT, my hugelkultur, chickens, fruit and nut trees move inversely proportional in value relative to the coming shit storm coming when the Senate passes this crap. In my mind this was the last standing perimeter defense to prevent the financial collapse of the USA.

Risk on will now explode towards full retard mode everywhere.

I hope you truly know your neighbor when the blood starts gushing in the streets.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:21 | 5543745 Ahoy Polloi
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the last standing perimeter defense to prevent the financial collapse of the USA actually occurred in 1913

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:34 | 5543810 mygameon
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I agree and get your point.

But a lot of shit has happened between now and then.

It is the now that I am most concerned with.

Peace.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:55 | 5543883 Ahoy Polloi
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I get that. But as slow motion train wrecks go on a 35mm film reel saga, it doesn't occur to me to care much about which frame I'm in at any given moment. I just want the movie to end.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:51 | 5544706 813kml
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I truly do know my neighbor, and his blood will be among the first gushers.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 13:24 | 5544906 SAT 800
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Do you know where your Money Market Fund is tonight ? T ha t's my new question for Mr. and Mrs. "everything's all right, you worry too much".

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5543633 GetZeeGold
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$303 Trillion In Derivatives That US Taxpayers Are Now On The Hook For

 

Happy Christmas.

 

It's now open season on Oompa Loompas. Get your urban camo gear today.

http://www.gandermountain.com

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:24 | 5543765 NoDebt
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Over here we say 'Merry Christmas'.  But only in places where you are allowed to say the word Christmas.

Don't try this in any public school.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:25 | 5543769 GetZeeGold
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Alrighty......Merry Christmas it is.

 

All you had to do is ask.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:31 | 5545274 Meat Hammer
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When people say Happy Holidays to me my standard reply is which holidays? Do you celebrate them all? 

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 03:16 | 5547626 noben
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Call it a Miracle, but "Christmass" is still observed in our school district.  With pride and fun.

As are demands for a quality curriculum, top teachers and results that work.  It also so happens that people move into our area for the great public schools, parents are actively involved, and we seem to be strangely unrepresentative of the country's demographic mix.  We don't like to advertise, lest we attract all the wrong sorts (riff-raff) and the place goes to hell.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 08:56 | 5543635 SickDollar
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JPMorgan Chase

Total Assets: $2,520,336,000,000 (about 2.5 trillion dollars)

Total Exposure To Derivatives: $68,326,075,000,000 (more than 68 trillion dollars)

Citibank

Total Assets: $1,909,715,000,000 (slightly more than 1.9 trillion dollars)

Total Exposure To Derivatives: $61,753,462,000,000 (more than 61 trillion dollars)

Goldman Sachs

Total Assets: $860,008,000,000 (less than a trillion dollars)

Total Exposure To Derivatives: $57,695,156,000,000 (more than 57 trillion dollars)

Bank Of America

Total Assets: $2,172,001,000,000 (a bit more than 2.1 trillion dollars)

Total Exposure To Derivatives: $55,472,434,000,000 (more than 55 trillion dollars)

Morgan Stanley

Total Assets: $826,568,000,000 (less than a trillion dollars)

Total Exposure To Derivatives: $44,134,518,000,000 (more than 44 trillion dollars)


Sheeple get back to work for your masters

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:03 | 5543666 Bernoulli
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But all these derivatives are necessary to provide liquiditiy to the market, no? This is purely for the benefit of main street, isn't it?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:23 | 5543757 Freebird
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Yes, derivitives keep us all safe & warm. Praise be to our wise & altruistic masters.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:53 | 5544714 813kml
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Think of the children this holiday season, a CDS in every stocking.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:19 | 5543739 Brazen Heist
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Honestly, these gross notional amounts outstanding of derivatives that you speak of are actually misleading. They count the underlying principals that the derivatives are based on (but are not usually exchanged), thus not the actual cashflows that take place under the contracts. While they give a "size" of the derivatives market, they do not indicate the true risk exposure.

For a better idea of derivative risk exposure, see net notional amounts outstanding. They are much less than the numbers you often hear such as the gross "$600 quadrillion derivative timebomb" quoted in the press.

I'd keep a close eye on the net notional amounts outstanding, particularly of CDS products on various entities, particularly those which are unthinkable to fail yet do (Lehman anyone?). CDS payouts are what brought AIG to its knees (it was a net payer of insurance for underlying Lehman CDSs that blew up). But data for such is hard to come by due to the OTC nature of derivatives and lack of central exchanges. ISDA is the only real authority for OTC derivatives.

That being said, a black swan event is bound to come along and fuck the party up for everybody. Always does.

Get ready for the next round of drama from Greece.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:32 | 5543799 Calmyourself
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So what is the real risk number as we always get the overal figure?  I would like to know how big a check I am writing..

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:37 | 5543825 Brazen Heist
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Well according to ISDA, if you remember the last Greek drama in 2012 about whether or not it constituted a "credit event" to thus trigger CDS payouts....apparently the real risk number was only $3.2 billion.

They must have done the calculations first and announced the credit event later because it was deemed "manageable" to the system. If the numbers won't be acceptable, I bet they'll find a technicality to not call it a credit event.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/03/09/on-greece-defaults-...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:36 | 5543818 Urban Redneck
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Net notional is only an accurate measure of exposure if every counterparty makes good on their commitments. If ShittiBank goes tits up (again), then US taxpayer will have to cough up perhaps USD 30 trillion (2x US GDP) in order to keep JPM, GS, BoA etc afloat (so they can maintain their net notional myth)...

Net notional hasn't worked in theory (much less practice) since Hank "tanks in the streets" Paulson chose to BK the House of Kuhn Loeb (Lehman).

I still haven't seen any full accounting of how they cleared ALL the derivatives that Lehman was a counterparty to? (i.e. How many tens (or hundreds) of billions of derivatives where Lehman is the counterparty are still marked to myth (anything other than 0) on the other Banks' balance sheets?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:40 | 5543830 Brazen Heist
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We won't know until it is leaked in the year 2100...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:32 | 5544116 WillyGroper
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ekm1 has been banging the drum on triple Lehman.

It would appear he's grossly underestimated. ;)

Kudo's ekm1!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:38 | 5544329 centerline
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Dont worry -bilateral netting will save the day!

hahahahahahaha

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 08:31 | 5547774 Withdrawn Sanction
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"While they give a "size" of the derivatives market, they do not indicate the true risk exposure.

For a better idea of derivative risk exposure, see net notional amounts outstanding...."

That's one way to look at it, and certainly the way bankers would prefer it be considered.  Another way (either net or gross) is that the sums involved are multiples of either balance sheet values (insurance) or even transactions volumes.  In other words, the excess of derrivatives over either of these amounts represents pure gambling (or speculation if you're squeamish).

They are desperately pursuing a Martingale strategy hoping for the payoff before the casino closes.  Unfortunately for them (and us to some extent) is their strategy is a circle jerk among the top 5 big boyz.  If one wins, the others lose, which is why they needed to bring in the taxpayer (mark).  In this they have miscalculated however.  The mark is broke.

As we saw in 2008-09, these instruments whether for insurance purposes or speculation, fail in non-linear fashion.  That suggests that those on this site who write, the bail out does not matter are probably correct.  The potential losses are so staggeringly large, the only solution will be a force majeure declaration and all bets are off.  This is the path of least resistance since the derivatives are off-balance sheet.  They'll try everything else short of that but will ultimately be forced to the inevitable.  A debt (derivative) that CANnot be paid WILL not be paid.  

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:32 | 5544057 localizer
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They's nicely distributed though, right? Just the Deutsche Bank is missing...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:43 | 5544360 Watch Bird 1
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think about what constitutes "assets"

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 17:01 | 5545959 ajax
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And Wells Fargo??

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:00 | 5543637 Government need...
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When the shit goes down, head West.  200 West St, that is.  Seriously, 30x leveraged derivatives can be just as dangerous as 30x leveraged loans.  They aren't THAT stupid.  American taxpayers will be paying with their dollars (or freedoms) for all the bankster bonuses that have been doled out as a result of this terrific derivative engineering.  When you get pissed off today, kick a bankster.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 08:56 | 5543643 Last of the Mid...
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Lets swap! My turd for your hard earned money. Same as it ever was.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 08:57 | 5543645 B2u
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what difference does it make....

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:04 | 5543647 JustObserving
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Well played, Nobel Prize Winner.  You sold out this country to the banksters so totally that there is nothing more to sell. Free trillions to Wall Street even as 0.1% own more wealth than the bottom 90% in the land of the free.

You sold out your country to Israel in March 2009 by handing over all NSA data collected on Americans to Israel without any legal restrictions.

You promised to label GMO foods in 2007 and then reneged.

Bombing 7 Muslim countries and destabilizing Ukraine was an apt way to celebrate your Nobel Prize.

If not for selling-out, you would have no accomplishments.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:21 | 5543749 Ahoy Polloi
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We sold out some folks

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:29 | 5543780 Brazen Heist
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We also rectally fed some folks.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:01 | 5544007 RaceToTheBottom
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This was predestined before the nobel prize winner smoked his first reefer....

Keep your eye on the ball!

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:42 | 5549574 spqrusa
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100 Years ago another academic was elected as POTUS and we got WWI, Federal Reserve, Income Tax, Neutered States, ...

Obamba is just making up for lost time.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 08:59 | 5543651 Catullus
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The Congressional staff that put that in there needs to be dumped into the Potomac

But don't worry, fellas: it's for bona fide risk hedging only!

And no way would they sell in the money derivatives to do it.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:05 | 5543675 GetZeeGold
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The Congressional staff that put that in there needs to be dumped into the Potomac

 

If they float they're witches......if they drown.......they were probably OK.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:18 | 5543991 Max Cynical
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But these are "systemically important financial institutions" so it's all for our own good, right?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:00 | 5543653 darteaus
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Brilliant!

Just when you think you are totally screwed, they take the game to a whole new level. Now it's HUNDREDS of trillions the taxpayer is on the hook for.

Who says the game's not rigged?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:25 | 5543767 WillyGroper
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You can bet your sweet ass not one off shore account will be euthanized in the process.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:02 | 5543663 p00k1e
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We must start the wholesale euthanizing of the Baby Boomers and sell their stuff on ebay....  or our lifestyle decline will continue. 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:29 | 5543794 Oldwood
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I certainly hope you bring proper weaponry, for your sake, as there WILL BE RESISTANCE.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:16 | 5543982 p00k1e
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Yea, yea, yea.... 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:25 | 5544022 fuu
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Yeah the oxygen toting walker brigade is a thing to behold.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:03 | 5545114 Government need...
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They might run over your foot with their power mobility scooter!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:02 | 5543664 deflator
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 As if they can just wave the magic wand of government decree and risk can disappear.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5543684 Dre4dwolf
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Risk does not disappear, it is shifted from one persons back to anothers.

The banks are paying off politicians to pass bills that allow banks to privatize the gains from selling their fraudulent paper, and to spread the "costs and risks" of doing so onto the publc.

(Make money with fraud, and put the public on the hook for the down side)

Thats all thats going on here.

Its a Bail-In Package.

More Bailouts for 2b2f banks that will fail regardless.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:38 | 5543824 Solio
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Since it is fraud it should stop right there. Money made on fraud practices should be zero!

Oh, the fraud got written on paper and voted on by a bunch of fraudsters.....alls well.

Carry one!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:43 | 5544646 deflator
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 I already had an assumption that profits are privatized and losses are socialized. 

 I also have had an assumption that the global Ponzi will eventually blow up and take pretty much all of us with it.

 They can assign themselves lifeboats all they want because it isn't going to matter.

When this thing blows up those decrees will be  worth less than the paper they are printed on because confidence in paper promises will be gone. When confidence in paper blows up it doesn't quickly return without some sort of physical backing. 

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:02 | 5543665 strateshooter
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if this report is accurate this the end..WS are now openly advertizing they own the Gov.

O, Congress and the Senate  ought to be shot for this.

I am truly truly appalled that elected reps could shaft their own people like this.

Democracy is over.

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:05 | 5543681 p00k1e
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Drink a Samuel Adams beer and relax.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:09 | 5543699 adr
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The government has always been owned by Wall Street. We have just reached the point that people are too stupid to realize it even when they openly show it.

Wall Street and the government are the only places that exist where you can be completely corrupt and completely worthless, yet still become insanely rich without lifting a finger.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:24 | 5543758 Ahoy Polloi
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You could also be a Kardashian

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:24 | 5544014 BurningFuld
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Are those the big assed aliens from planet Kard that are on the new Star Trek Movie?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:29 | 5543785 10mm
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"If this report is accurate" IF?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:02 | 5543669 skbull44
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Get those machines printing, Ms. Yellen...

 

http://olduvai.ca

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:03 | 5543670 Bone Nower
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Communal living in unsanitary pig sties and cat food for dinner.  

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:02 | 5543672 T-NUTZ
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 shut up and put your wallet in the bag!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:06 | 5543679 Rainman
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This is your country. This is your country on traitors .

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:05 | 5543680 adr
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The goyim must always shoulder the burden.

It's about time for the cattle to break down the fence and stampede on the heads of the overburdening masters.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5543689 negative rates
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Even a cattle knows when to avoid pain.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:12 | 5543708 GetZeeGold
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The goyim must always shoulder the burden.

 

My ancestors crossed Caucus Mountains and my drivers license identifies me as a Caucasian......no way in hell I'm paying for this crap.

 

I'm grandfathered in.....go see someone else.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:33 | 5543800 Arnold
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You're invoking Caucasian privilege , are you?

ummmmm.......

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:36 | 5543819 GetZeeGold
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If that doesn't work.....I'll whip out my Zebulon card.

 

No way in hell they'll question that.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:44 | 5543820 Arnold
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I'm thinkin' bein' called WHITE is racially Insultin'.

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zebulon

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:13 | 5543709 Seasmoke
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can cattle swim across the ocean , to find the real masters ???

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5543683 BiteMeBO
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Aren't the sheeple on the hook for everything?  

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5543685 Peter Pan
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Last time they were socilaizing the losses. This time round they will be socializing the destruction if the taxpayer has to foot the bill for derivatives gone bad.

A fractional system of banking is corrupt and as fragile as they come, but to foist derivative losses on that system as well, shows a blatant disregard for markets, savers, the system and the rule of law.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:09 | 5543687 falga
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Citi simply getting ready for the next finanCial crisis. They are ready! Are we ready?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:11 | 5543690 Kaiser Sousa
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KILL THEM ALL...
ALL CONGRESSPERSONS...
ALL SENATORS...
ALL BANKERS...

death to the MoneyChangers.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:15 | 5543722 GetZeeGold
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Someone took a whip to those boys once.....they killed him for it.

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 00:17 | 5547448 Dragon HAwk
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I think what he really meant was give them a fair trial, and a Quick Hanging  everybody in the Mob volunteering to be a juror raise your hand..

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5543694 q99x2
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Arrest Jim Himes for treason. Jump Bankster Jump.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5543695 Kina
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The message to the world at large, stay out of USD, banks, fiat....own something real useful and productive....and some real coin.  Also gold miners starting to look extra cheap....the ones without so much debt of course.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:10 | 5543698 venturen
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my family waits till Dec 25 for presents....I guess the banks front run even that....giving them gifts so early

Mon, 01/05/2015 - 04:10 | 5584170 spqrusa
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In time for Hanukkah. Who cares about Christmas? That's for Goyim and Chinese take-out.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:13 | 5543705 _SILENCER
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AS USUAL: Nobody gets in trouble, nobody goes to jail.

 

Until we start horizontalizing the Wall Street Skyscraper People, we're never going to see the end of this goddamn idiocy.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:12 | 5543707 Calmyourself
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LIMBAUGH, I know you and Snerdly are here.   That lady was right wasn't she, we are on the hook and you DAMN well know there is no Red team why not grow a set and tell the truth.  Repugs are not scared of the press they are in on the conspiracy bastard!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:13 | 5543716 GetZeeGold
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Did you get lost on your way Huffpo lil fella?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:49 | 5543831 Calmyourself
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Yes my friend Huffpo, you know not of what you speak, Limbaugh is the pressure valve for those who think conservatively, I am sick of his techniques. We have been here before..  BTW, how the hell does that make sense, I tell Limbaugh he is a lying ass and I showed up from Huffpo?  WTF, after 4 years you should be brighter..

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:58 | 5543895 GetZeeGold
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I gotta ask.....how do you feel about Ted Nugent?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:09 | 5543942 Calmyourself
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Another pressure valve, how do you feel about Elizabeth Warren?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:23 | 5543966 GetZeeGold
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About the same as I feel about those trying to pass themselves off as fake Navy Seals.

 

I actually am part indian.....Cherokee.

 

You're up.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:27 | 5544039 Calmyourself
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Umm, non-sequitur much, fake Navy Seals and your better than fauxahontous.. Ok then got ya Chief, up the meds friend..

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:37 | 5544072 GetZeeGold
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Cut to the Alinsky tactics.......so soon?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:46 | 5544112 Calmyourself
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Ha, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks", before we get to my Alinskyite tactics perhaps you could explain how we got to fake Navy Seals and Fauxcahontous from the previous post..  Getting me off topic is going to be a bit tougher than that...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:52 | 5544124 GetZeeGold
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Naw....you're off topic twice now.....the next one will be the third time.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:18 | 5544526 Calmyourself
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Well, we know for sure your more Cherokee than Elizabeth and your ambivalent towards fake Navy Seals.  Any other enlightenment you care to share Pocahontas? This is the subject you wished to stay on, right..

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 06:59 | 5547711 GetZeeGold
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The subject I would like address is character.

 

If she lied about that what else would she lie about?

 

The answer to that is simple.....probably everything.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:17 | 5543733 mygameon
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You clearly do not listen to Rush. He has more contempt for repugs than you do. I think you meant to reference Hannity.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:21 | 5543752 GetZeeGold
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Don't even ask Levin........forget about it.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:41 | 5543838 Calmyourself
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You need to listen closer and bring some common sense to the effort.  Preaching to Republicans about not being afraid of the media while winning landslide elections.....  Wipe that Kool-aid off your chin boy..

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:13 | 5544195 redwater
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Hannity and Limbaugh are there to keep the spooked sheep from leaving the plantation/farm.

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:18 | 5544530 Calmyourself
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Damn right and they should be called out as the fake pressure release valves they are, nothing more nothing less..

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:14 | 5543719 alexmark2013
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New spending bill allows wealthy donors to give 10 times to political parties http://investmentwatchblog.com/new-spending-bill-allows-wealthy-donors-to-give-10-times-to-political-parties/
Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:16 | 5543720 overmedicatedun...
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The CFR, davos deviates,bilderbergers,bohemian grove, members just were given their christmas present from the american  .gov, run for the elite by the elite

Novus Ordo Seclorum
Fri, 12/12/2014 - 09:16 | 5543721 youngman
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Its amazing how easy our congress is to buy.....with all these new billionaires...one of them someday is going to buy them all....and be a ruler without being elected...

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