Fund Manager Warns to “GET YOUR MONEY OUT OF THE BANKING SYSTEM!”
I stated in 2003 that the insider elitists would hold up the system with printed money long enough to wipe every last crumb of middle class wealth off the “table” and into their pockets. If you don’t have enough cash laying around to buy your own Federal-level “elected” official, you are middle class.
It’s easy for Wall Street to get their share of the crumbs being swept off the table because it’s managed to infiltrate and control every nook and cranny of Capitol Hill. Hillary Clinton is a Democrat? Really?
Then how come she and Bill greedily take millions from Goldman Sachs alone in “speaking” fees. Quite frankly, ex-Presidents OR potential Presidential candidates should be barred from accepting paid appearances from any corporate or corporate-sponsored entity, but especially from Wall Street.
I want to call your attention to an investigative article by Wall Street On Parade titled “The U.S. Government [really, The Taxpayer] Is Quietly Paying Billions To Wall St. Banks.” In the past for years, 2011 – 2015, Freddie Mac alone paid out nearly $12 billion in derivatives counter-party payouts.
These payouts resulted from losses interest rate swaps, 90% of which are owned by Wall Street banks. That money from Freddie Mac is actually Taxpayer money because the Government still owns FRE and FNM. LINK
But it’s even more profound than the WSOP lays out.
Interest rates are held artificially low by the Fed/Treasury, which enable FNM/FRE to underwrite mortgages for people who otherwise would not be able to afford the mortgage.
The Too Big To Fail banks make money off of this is several ways. They source the mortgages and take a fee, they flip the mortgage to FNM/FRE and take a fee, they securitize the FNM/FRE mortgages and sell the mortgage pools to institutional investors and take a fee and they sell interest rate swaps to FNM/FRE and take a fee. When interest rates don’t go up because the Fed is holding them down, FNM/FRE lose money on the swaps and…Wall Street gets the money from the loss.