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June 1, 2006
Cleaning up the corruption?, Thurs., June 1, 2006, 8:24 AM
There is an editorial opinion of Scott Harshbarger and Goutam U. Jois in today's (June 1) edition of the Boston Globe. The newspaper sets the headline, so it may not be exactly what the writers had in mind, but it reads: "Cleaning up the corruption in business and politics."
This putting blame on everybody else infuriates me. And I think I'll get my own editorial to tell you why. As you might guess, I'm fed up with the fact that segments of our society (Humungous Bank & Broker in particular) have set in place a broken financial system that allows them and their best clients, the Gnomes, to simply divide and conquer.
When will We The People learn that we don't need a patchwork quilt of laws, rules and regulations that allow these people to exploit the holes in the fabric. We are not corrupt; the system is corrupt.
We need to understand why the system is broke, and then work amongst ourselves to fix it.
It is broke because Humungous Bank & Broker (JP Morgan, Goldman, Lehman et al) have put in place a financial system that permits them all the advantages of controlling all aspects of financial transactions. And that is flat-out wrong.
It is, pure and simple, a license to print money for them and to cause untold grief for the rest of us. Not only is today's Securities Act unnecessary; it is killing us.
And now people are saying we need more patchwork legislation, more government. So I'll ask one simple question: why? To protect us or THEM?
Don't people get it yet: "Subject to regulatory approval" is not meant to protect anything but the status quo. So, once again I say it: the status quo is killing us. The Banks and Gnomes are getting richer and more powerful, while the rest of the People are growing more restless.
Unless something is done soon, this will end badly.
I say that the solution has been obvious for many years. Break the sell-side bank monopoly control over the capital markets. Understand the difference between a financial service and the trading of capital. Understand the difference between debt and equity, assets and liabilities, debits and credits.
Understand that we need separate regulatory systems for each because the owners of assets have a different axe to grind than the money lenders and financial product sellers.
As it stands, from the time of the securities legislation in the U.S. in 1933 and 1934, the owners of capital have been marched into slavery by the lenders of capital.
The situation is so ridiculous that in order for an owner or manager of capital to be able to exchange that capital holding with that of another, we must allow the banker to hold it, to advise us, to understand our intentions, to watch our transaction initiate, transpire and close, and to intervene secretly in these transactions, and to act as judge and jury when we complain of our losses.
In fact the whole thing is called THE CREDIT RING. What the hell happened to the debit ring?
And now that We The People have been pushed to the brink of the limits of exasperation, and some of us, like the Skillings and the Lays, are failing, people are pointing fingers at OUR corruption. This is mind-boggling.
If you understood a thing about Pavlov's Dog, you'd know that We are not the problem. We have been trained to do the things We do. But We have been mis-trained and mis-led.
To get out of this mess, We need A DEBIT RING. We need to attack the crown jewels of Humungous Bank & Broker by causing changes in the way they want us to be regulated.
They don't want us to attack the whole structure of the Federal Reserve Banking system, so We ought to. They don't want us to change the way they deal with private equity and hedge funds, so We ought to.
It's time for We The People to turn the tables on the Banks and the Gnomes.
Now, to get back to business; the U.S. Jobless Claims and the Productivity numbers are coming out at 8:30am. Gold is off -$13.00. We now we have to deal with THEIR spin. It's time to go to war.
Posted by Posted by Bill Cara on June 1, 2006 08:24:26 AM | Category: Cara Today in the Market
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Great post. I have been thinking the same thing for a long time. What is the point of having a Federal Reserve but to enrich those in the loop. Cutting rates to 1% and holding them there for years just enriched anyone in the fixed income arena at the expense of mainly seniors. I know of many younger people ( working for humongous banks) who have retired off of that move. Also, the jury is still out on the potential damage in the real estate market.
I had to laugh at the petty thievery that still appears to go on in the markets. Bot was trading on Tuesday late at 91'ish in a tight market and lo and behold about 6000-10000 shares trade at 4:00 pm trade at 92.5. Coincidentally positive news was reported sometime before Wednesday's open and it was straight up from there.
Posted by: kc
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June 1, 2006 10:46 AM [link]
bill -
I've joined this conversation mid-stream, and would benefit from a simple and basic summary of what's wrong, and what you're proposing. Perhaps other readers would too.
I think I just see pieces of the puzzle you are describing. Thanks .. Jock
Best rant ever. The conflicts have never ever been more prevalent. That needs to be your mantra with the big magazines. I wonder if they will print it though
Howard, Front page WSJ tomorrow will be the intro. Then I think it goes to the online edition with free public access. But we'll see.
Posted by: Bill Cara
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June 1, 2006 8:17 PM [link]

Washington and the sell side are setting up the suckers rally with their bogus data. Been there and done that.
The funny thing is that the truth is right there for all to see: Walmart saying that the high cost of fuel is hurting sales and the housing market staarting to slow down considerably.
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June 1, 2006 8:51 AM [link]