EU bank failures will crash Wall Street — again

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EU bank failures will crash Wall Street — again

Post by Egg » Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:54 pm

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea party. Soon the Occupation will explode into a new American Revolution.

When? A string of European bank collapses is dead ahead. And like the Arab Spring, they will trigger an economic disaster for American banks.

The big picture for global banks
Andrew Milligan, head of Global Strategy at Standard Life Investments, discusses the implications for banks as European officials try to hammer out a solution to the sovereign debt crisis.

Yes, coming soon says Martin Weiss in his “7 Major Advance Warnings,” which is “bound to have a life-changing impact on nearly all investors in the U.S. and around the globe.” His new Weiss Ratings warnings are the “most important” in a 40-year career. The stress on Wall Street banks will force them back to Congress for more bailouts.

Warning eight: No new bailouts. That will push the economy into a deep recession.

Then what? New Glass-Steagall? Not enough. Tax the rich? Not enough. Perp walks? Not enough. Presidential commission? Useless promises. Occupy Wall Street will fail without a fundamental constitutional change. No compromise. Or Wall Street wins, again. We go back to the same free market, deregulated, too-greedy to-fail, conservative Reaganomics policies that have been destroying democracy for a generation.

All this was so obvious, so predictable. America is at a crossroads. Occupy Wall Street buildup has emerged as America’s last great hope to restore democracy. Last week when USA Today called the Occupiers a “ragtag assortment of college kids, labor unionists, conspiracy theorists and others” hinting they’re a flash-in-the-pan “devoid of remedies,” I smiled, reminded of that famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas 1776, leading what historians also called a “ragtag” Continental Army, surprising the British, and winning the Battle of Trenton.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/eu-ban ... 2011-10-18


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Re: EU bank failures will crash Wall Street — again

Post by Dr Exile » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:30 pm

conservative Reaganomics policies that have been destroying democracy for a generation
:roll:

Apparently the ignoramus does not know that Glass-Steagall was repealed by Mr. Clinton.
Credo quia absurdum.

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Post by lkwalker » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:39 pm

I think it was repealed by the Reptilican congress led by Phil Gramm around 2000.
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Post by Egg » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:46 pm

Go to the link, it lays out everything really well.

Oct.-Nov. 1999
Congress passes Financial Services Modernization Act


After 12 attempts in 25 years, Congress finally repeals Glass-Steagall, rewarding financial companies for more than 20 years and $300 million worth of lobbying efforts. Supporters hail the change as the long-overdue demise of a Depression-era relic.

On Oct. 21, with the House-Senate conference committee deadlocked after marathon negotiations, the main sticking point is partisan bickering over the bill's effect on the Community Reinvestment Act, which sets rules for lending to poor communities. Sandy Weill calls President Clinton in the evening to try to break the deadlock after Senator Phil Gramm, chairman of the Banking Committee, warned Citigroup lobbyist Roger Levy that Weill has to get White House moving on the bill or he would shut down the House-Senate conference. Serious negotiations resume, and a deal is announced at 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 22. Whether Weill made any difference in precipitating a deal is unclear.

On Oct. 22, Weill and John Reed issue a statement congratulating Congress and President Clinton, including 19 administration officials and lawmakers by name. The House and Senate approve a final version of the bill on Nov. 4, and Clinton signs it into law later that month.

Just days after the administration (including the Treasury Department) agrees to support the repeal, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the former co-chairman of a major Wall Street investment bank, Goldman Sachs, raises eyebrows by accepting a top job at Citigroup as Weill's chief lieutenant. The previous year, Weill had called Secretary Rubin to give him advance notice of the upcoming merger announcement. When Weill told Rubin he had some important news, the secretary reportedly quipped, "You're buying the government?"

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Post by lkwalker » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:48 pm

They're all a bunch o' crooks.
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Re: EU bank failures will crash Wall Street — again

Post by Egg » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:51 pm

lkwalker wrote:They're all a bunch o' crooks.
That's the troof.


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Post by Pigeon » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:59 pm

Supporters hail the change as the long-overdue demise of a system that prevents rampant theft by the financial companies.

JP Morgan spokeman states "How are we going to take all the money with regulations in place. This must change. Once we convince the average person that any regulations are bad we'll be home free."

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Re: EU bank failures will crash Wall Street — again

Post by Dr Exile » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:01 pm

Ten years later Mr. Clinton was still defending the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act
Credo quia absurdum.

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Post by lkwalker » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:04 pm

That's only because he's a putz.
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Re: EU bank failures will crash Wall Street — again

Post by Egg » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:04 pm

I'm arguing with some tards on a conservative forum on facebook about this right now.
They say that the New Deal (being a socialist program) caused the US to come out of the Great Depression more slowly than the UK. I pointed out that the UK was more socialist than the US then and now so how can you say that a socialist program slowed our recovery down versus a socialist country.

I then went on to point out the sherman ant-trust regs make the market more, not less, competitive. Yet, that is a regulation on the free market.


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