A Warning From Santa

Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 9:00 am

So be good, for goodness sake!

In all seriousness, this is extremely important. Heed Santa! The guy has been around for a while and he knows what he’s talking about. The ultimate impact of the collapse of MFing Global has not yet been fully felt. Only in hindsight will be able to completely assess the damage.December 2, 2011, at 4:13 pm
by Jim Sinclair

My Dear Extended Family,

We all know bank’s balance sheets are cartoons due to FASB’s capitulation on the fair market value issue, that the euro financial leaders do not deserve the title leader, and that the Fed is the source of liquidity for Euroland in unlimited cheap dollar swaps, but there is more.

That more is the first failure of a major clearing house.

Clearing is the mechanism of all markets.
It is the guts of the system.
It is the engine under the hood of finance.
It is the pulleys that turn inside the watch.
It is basic to finance for, without clearing, trades cannot close.

Without faith in the clearing house system where is faith that what your account statement says means anything whatsoever?

Unless MF clients are made whole in every way, the system is broken. It is as if the heads blew off the engine of finance. Where can you keep your money and investments if a clearinghouse is allowed for whatever reason to go broke, therein leaving the clients to suffer?

Are you safe even in a custodial account if the clearing mechanism can erase assets across the board as a product of insolvency for any reason?

The system is in a critical seizure.

It may take some time, but even the financial sheeple are going to worry about their own funds. God help you if you hit gold right on a paper exchange with the wrong clearing facility.

You are wholly dependent on the ability of the clearing house to pay into your account the winnings by deducting those funds from the loser. You are wholly dependent on the ability of the clearing house to guarantee the safety and security (are T Bills securities?) beyond SIPC levels. SIPC is underfunded but would be made whole by funny paper.

God help all the exchange traded funds that are nothing more than houses of derivative paper requiring a sound clearing system to have even an excuse for existing.

If the clearing system fails then you have nothing whatsoever. God help you if you are a farmer hedging your crop or livestock if you the farmer have nothing whatsoever due to a broken clearing house. You are insolvent regardless of the fact that your hedge may have been perfect for the needs of your operation.

Unless MF clients are made whole in every way the system is broken.

People did not realize then and some even now that the failure of Lehman broke the technical procedures (mechanism) for the functioning of the OTC derivative and for that reason broke the Western world’s financial system for which we are paying dearly today.

MF is a Lehman Brothers, but worse. OTC derivatives have always been a fraud but could have, before Lehman failed, been globally netted to practically zero.

The lack of faith in the clearing house system breaks the mechanism of the marketplace, even for legitimate transactions. This leaves gold in your possession as the asset of last resort. This is quietly driving the gold price towards Alf’s objective of $4500.

For your sake immediately take delivery of your gold and silver.
For your sake immediately take paper delivery of your gold and silver shares from those very few companies still willing to facilitate that kind of transaction.
For your sake immediately make your general securities positions “direct registration” as a second best method of protection the asset against failure of your clearing facility.

You all have clearing facility dependence even if you do not know it. Unless MF clients are made whole in every way, the system is broken.

This is no time to take any unnecessary risk.
This is no time to be lazy.

Respectfully,
Santa

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