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Studeo
10th September 2010, 11:24
Global Collapse of the Fiat Money System: Too Big To Fail Global Banks Will Collapse Between Now and First Quarter 2011 When Quantitative Easing Has Run Its Course and Fails

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20853

by Matthias Chang

Global Research, August 31, 2010
Future Fast Forward

Readers of my articles will recall that I have warned as far back as December 2006, that the global banks will collapse when the Financial Tsunami hits the global economy in 2007. And as they say, the rest is history.

Quantitative Easing (QE I) spearheaded by the Chairman of Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke delayed the inevitable demise of the fiat shadow money banking system slightly over 18 months.

That is why in November of 2009, I was so confident to warn my readers that by the end of the first quarter of 2010 at the earliest or by the second quarter of 2010 at the latest, the global economy will go into a tailspin. The recent alarm that the US economy has slowed down and in the words of Bernanke “the recent pace of growth is less vigorous than we expected” has all but vindicated my analysis. He warned that the outlook is uncertain and the economy “remains vulnerable to unexpected developments”.

Obviously, Bernanke’s words do not reveal the full extent of the fear that has gripped central bankers and the financial elites that assembled at the annual gathering at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. But, you can take it from me that they are very afraid.

Why?

Let me be plain and blunt. The “unexpected developments” Bernanke referred to is the collapse of the global banks. This is FED speak and to those in the loop, this is the dire warning.

So many renowned economists have misdiagnosed the objective and consequences of quantitative easing. Central bankers’ scribes and the global mass media hoodwinked the people by saying that QE will enable the banks to lend monies to cash-starved companies and jump start the economy. The low interest rate regime would encourage all and sundry to borrow, consume and invest.

This was the fairy tale.

Then, there were some economists who were worried that as a result of the FED’s printing press (electronic or otherwise) working overtime, hyper-inflation would set in soon after.

But nothing happened. The multiplier effect of fractional reserve banking did not take off. Bank lending in fact stalled.

Why?

What happened?

Let me explain in simple terms step by step.

1) All the global banks were up to their eye-balls in toxic assets. All the AAA mortgage-backed securities etc. were in fact JUNK. But in the balance sheets of the banks and their special purpose vehicles (SPVs), they were stated to be worth US$ TRILLIONS.

2) The collapse of Lehman Bros and AIG exposed this ugly truth. All the global banks had liabilities in the US$ Trillions. They were all INSOLVENT. The central banks the world over conspired and agreed not to reveal the total liabilities of the global banks as that would cause a run on these banks, as happened in the case of Northern Rock in the U.K.

3) A devious scheme was devised by the FED, led by Bernanke to assist the global banks to unload systematically and in tranches the toxic assets so as to allow the banks to comply with RESERVE REQUIREMENTS under the fractional reserve banking system, and to continue their banking business. This is the essence of the bailout of the global banks by central bankers.

4) This devious scheme was effected by the FED’s quantitative easing (QE) – the purchase of toxic assets from the banks. The FED created “money out of thin air” and used that “money” to buy the toxic assets at face or book value from the banks, notwithstanding they were all junks and at the most, worth maybe ten cents to the dollar. Now, the FED is “loaded” with toxic assets once owned by the global banks. But these banks cannot declare and or admit to this state of affairs. Hence, this financial charade.

5) If we are to follow simple logic, the exercise would result in the global banks flushed with cash to enable them to lend to desperate consumers and cash-starved businesses. But the money did not go out as loans. Where did the money go?

6) It went back to the FED as reserves, and since the FED bought US$ trillions worth of toxic wastes, the “money” (it was merely book entries in the Fed’s books) that these global banks had were treated as “Excess Reserves”. This is a misnomer because it gave the ILLUSION that the banks are cash-rich and under the fractional reserve system would be able to lend out trillions worth of loans. But they did not. Why?

7) Because the global banks still have US$ trillions worth of toxic wastes in their balance sheets. They are still insolvent under the fractional reserve banking laws. The public must not be aware of this as otherwise, it would trigger a massive run on all the global banks!

8) Bernanke, the US Treasury and the global central bankers were all praying and hoping that given time (their estimation was 12 to 18 months) the housing market would recover and asset prices would resume to the levels before the crisis. .

Let me explain: A House was sold for say US$500,000. Borrower has a mortgage of US$450,000 or more. The house is now worth US$200,000 or less. Multiply this by the millions of houses sold between 2000 and 2008 and you will appreciate the extent of the financial black-hole. There is no way that any of the global banks can get out of this gigantic mess. And there is also no way that the FED and the global central bankers through QE can continue to buy such toxic wastes without showing their hands and exposing the lie that these banks are solvent.

It is my estimation that they have to QE up to US$20 trillion at the minimum. The FED and no central banker would dare “create such an amount of money out of thin air” without arousing the suspicions and or panic of sovereign creditors, investors and depositors. It is as good as declaring officially that all the banks are BANKRUPT.

9) But there is no other solution in the short and middle term except another bout of quantitative easing, QE II. Given the above caveat, QE II cannot exceed the amount of the previous QE without opening the proverbial Pandora Box.

10) But it is also a given that the FED will embark on QE II, as under the fractional reserve banking system, if the FED does not purchase additional toxic wastes, the global banks (faced with mounting foreclosures, etc.) will fall short of their reserve requirements.

11) You will also recall that the FED at the height of the crisis announced that interest will be paid on the so-called “excess reserves” of the global banks, thus enabling these banks to “earn” interest. So what we have is a merry-go-round of monies moving from the right pocket to the left pocket at the click of the computer mouse. The FED creates money, uses it to buy toxic assets, and the same money is then returned to the FED by the global banks to earn interest. By this fiction of QE, banks are flushed with cash which enable them to earn interest. Is it any wonder that these banks have declared record profits?

12) The global banks get rid of some of their toxic wastes at full value and at no costs, and get paid for unloading the toxic wastes via interest payments. Additionally, some of the “monies” are used by these banks to purchase US Treasuries (which also pay interests) which in turn allows the US Treasury to continue its deficit spending. THIS IS THE BAILOUT RIP OFF of the century.

Now that you fully understand this SCAM, it is left to be seen how the FED will get away with the next round of quantitative easing – QE II.

Obviously, the FED and the other central banks are hoping that in time, asset prices will recover and resume their previous values before the crisis. This is a fantasy. QE II will fail just as QE I failed to save the banks.

The patient is in intensive care and is for all intent and purposes brain dead, although the heart is still pumping albeit faintly. The Too Big To Fail Banks cannot be rescued and must be allowed to be liquidated. It will be painful, but it is necessary before there is recovery. This is a given.

Warning:

When the ball hits the ceiling fan, sometime early 2011 at the earliest, there will be massive bank runs.

I expect that the FED and other central banks will pre-empt such a run and will do the following:

1) Disallow cash withdrawals from banks beyond a certain amount, say US$1,000 per day; 2) Disallow cash transactions up to a certain amount, say US$10,000 for certain transactions; 3) Transactions (investments) for metals (gold and silver) will be restricted; 4) Worst-case scenario – the confiscation of gold AS HAPPENED IN WORLD WAR II. 5) Imposition of capital controls etc.; 6) Legislations that will compel most daily commercial transactions to be conducted through Debit and or Credit Cards; 7) Legislations to make it a criminal offence for any contraventions of the above.

Solution:

Maintain a bank balance sufficient to enable you to comply with the above potential impositions.

Start diversifying your assets away from dollar assets. Have foreign currencies in sufficient quantities in those jurisdictions where the above anticipated impositions are least likely to be implemented.

CONCLUSION

There will be a financial tsunami (round two) the likes of which the world has never seen.

Global banks will collapse!

Be ready.[

Fredkc
10th September 2010, 14:37
"Good, clear report. Will show on your record. Might make Sargent in a few years." - John Wayne, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

Actually it is a great point by point, no BS summation of what is/has been going on.

Fred

conk
13th September 2010, 19:33
Biggest, baddest, boldest Ponzi scheme in some time, perhaps all of history! They've stolen from two or three generations in the future with zero chance of paying back. By design! Designed to fail, as it has numerous times since fiat was 'invented' hundreds of years ago.

Tane Mahuta
4th May 2011, 13:35
Awesome post Studeo,....now we need to get this out to the masses!

ktlight
4th May 2011, 14:28
Michael Ruppert - We Have Until July at the Latest Before Economic Collapse Begins
We have between now and July to get ourselves as ready as possible, to feed ourselves, to protect ourselves, to keep ourselves warm, to stay out of the way as much as possible until things settle down. I really do not think that we will be living in anything like the society we have known, the civilization we have known, by this fall.

I’m as confident with this as I have ever been. This is a serious alert. We now have a calendar, we now have a clock. Get your stuff together no later than July, and that’s assuming that anyone of a half a dozen other things doesn’t go wrong to bring it about before that. But it’s pretty clear – a caveman could see it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uMDRCwRtiNM

source
http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-pr...video_04142011

Lord Sidious
4th May 2011, 15:43
Not all currencies and banks will collapse.
Remember, the nuggets that run the world need to be able to keep the wealth they have stolen.
Find their safe keeping area and you will be safe too.

777
4th May 2011, 16:01
Not all currencies and banks will collapse.
Remember, the nuggets that run the world need to be able to keep the wealth they have stolen.
Find their safe keeping area and you will be safe too.

We talking Switzerland, Guernsey, Monaco etc here?

Lord Sidious
4th May 2011, 16:06
Not all currencies and banks will collapse.
Remember, the nuggets that run the world need to be able to keep the wealth they have stolen.
Find their safe keeping area and you will be safe too.

We talking Switzerland, Guernsey, Monaco etc here?

I would say Switzerland is a gimme.
Not sure about any more.
Do the numbers, when was the last time it was invaded? The franc was devalued? The banks were destabilised?

777
4th May 2011, 16:44
Not all currencies and banks will collapse.
Remember, the nuggets that run the world need to be able to keep the wealth they have stolen.
Find their safe keeping area and you will be safe too.

We talking Switzerland, Guernsey, Monaco etc here?

I would say Switzerland is a gimme.
Not sure about any more.
Do the numbers, when was the last time it was invaded? The franc was devalued? The banks were destabilised?

True true. Their non committal, lack of involvement in WW2 was one of those cases where lack of an action spoke louder than words.

Shadowstar1370
17th June 2011, 00:35
http://www.lp.org/blogs/wayne-allyn-root/the-unraveling-of-a-ponzi-scheme


Wayne Root goes into respectable detail about this subject on the American Level, granted he is a politician. As a spokesperson, I have respect for his viewpoint as I have noted little unreasonable discrepency in his record as far as faithfulness to his espoused credos as a libertarian. What catches my eye in this article most is the names he rattles off in his alarmist vent. Bill Gross and Meredith Whitney are two names that aught to be bringing attention to this issue. I am neither a collegiate nor a businessman yet I know who these two are. If they support Wayne Roots' declaration here, and by default the main purpose of this article given our status in the world economy, this is worth paying attention to and sweating over a little bit.

mosquito
17th June 2011, 02:03
Well, we're already onto the 2nd quarter of 2011 ..............

This going to happen soon, but when ?

I reccomend everyone watches Alex Jones' film "The end of the Republic" - a brilliant expose, well researched, well presented and I'd go so far as to say undeniable. And for all Americans here, see if you can get all your friends and acquantances to watch it, stand there and bang their heads against the wall until the message gets home !!!! :rolleyes:

Power to you all

davyj0nes
17th June 2011, 02:42
what i don't understand is why don't they just revalue the debt to reflect its current value. I also don't understand what Matthias Chang means by liabilities. A liability could be thought of a responsibility. is he saying then, that the banks are responsible for my mortgage that i can't pay? My mortgage would be considered an asset to the bank.

It is a toxic asset, because the house is currently worth less, than the face value on the note. I cannot continue to make the payments, and when the house goes into a foreclosure sale, if the house sells, it will be impossible for the bank to get anywhere near the face value of the mortgage.

Which leads me back to where i started, if i can't pay the monthly mortgage, and the banks can't sell the house for what they lent out, why not just revalue it. the banks get their monthly income, they don't have to pay the property tax, i get to keep the home. Everyone is happy, relatively anyway.

That is what makes fiat currency so great, try doing that with gold.

super t
17th June 2011, 06:51
People that advocate gold backed currencies, either have no clue how money works or are just plain stupid. How does a pile of gold sitting in some vault help in anything, it is not physical gold you are trading. Fiat currency actually is a good invention (if money ever is?) it´s the fact that the right to issue/create money has been given to PRIVATE banks. Also the new global currency will be Fiat money with their "special" drawing rights, so Fiat money system is going nowhere!