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Paul Craig Roberts Rages “Free Financial Markets Are A Hoax”

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Via Paul Craig Roberts,

There are no free financial markets in America, or for that matter anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind. The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the interests of the profits of the few big banks and the dollar’s exchange value, which is the basis of US power.

There is a contradiction between a strong currency on one hand and on the other hand massive money creation in order to sustain zero and negative interest rates on the massive debt levels. This inconsistency is revealed by rising gold and silver prices.

When gold hit $1,900 an ounce in 2011 the Federal Reserve realized that the precious metal market was going to limit its ability to provide enough liquidity to keep the thoughtlessly deregulated financial system afloat. The rapid deterioration of the dollar in terms of gold and silver would sooner or later spill over into the exchange value of the dollar in currency markets. Something had to be done to drive down and to cap the gold price.

The Fed’s solution was to take advantage of the fact that the prices of gold and silver are determined in the futures market where paper contracts representing gold and silver are traded, and not in markets where the physical metal is actually purchased by people who take possession of it. The Fed realized that uncovered short sales provided enormous leverage over the prices of the metals and that it would be profitable for the bullion banks, such as JPMorgan, Scotia, and HSBC, to short the market heavily and then cover their shorts at lower prices produced by selling as a result of triggering stop-loss orders and margin calls.

Dave Kranzler and I have shown on numerous occasions that the bullion banks and the Federal Reserve make profits and protect the dollar by suppressing the prices of gold and silver. They do this by illegally selling huge numbers of uncovered shorts in the futures market. This illegal operation is supported by the so-called “regulatory authorities” who steadfastly refuse to intervene.

It has just happened again. Dave Kranzler describes it in detail here.

If memory serves, Matt Taibbi explained a few years ago how Goldman Sachs got position limits removed from speculators, so that now speculators can dominate market forces.

Neoliberal economists in service to the financial sector have created a rationale for why interest rates can be negative in the face of massive debt and money creation and a slew of troubled financial instruments from corporate junk bonds to sovereign debt. The rational is that there is too much saving: The excess of savings over investment forces down interest rates. The negative interest rates will discourage people from saving and encourage them to spend, because the price of consumption in terms of foregone future income from saving is zero. It even pays to consume, because saving costs more than it earns.

Economists argue this even though the Federal Reserve reported that a majority of Americans are so low on savings that they cannot raise $400 without selling personal possessions.

That economists would concoct such an absurd explanation for negative interest rates, an explanation obviously contradicted by empirical evidence, shows that economists are now prostitutes just like the media. The economists are lying in support of a Federal Reserve policy that benefits a handful of mega-banks at the expense of the rest of the world.

The absence of integrity in Western institutions and politicized professions is proof that Western civilization has declined into total decadence just as Jacques Barzun said.

It is amazing that there still are some Russians and some Chinese who want to be part of the sordid decadence that is the Western world.

It is just as amazing that Americans and Europeans are so trapped in The Matrix that they have no inkling that their future has been destroyed.





Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2015/05/28/paul-craig-roberts-rages-free-financial-markets-are-a-hoax/


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    • ConfuciousSay

      You know the Doc is right in his article. And I believe every word he says in that article. In fact at my level of income I don’t save any cash in a bank because its pointless. I buy hard assets that wont lose much value on an annual basis because if you keep cash laying around and you don’t re-invest it in your business, they just tax the bejeezus out of you for earning it. However, I have to say a few things about the fed just circulating cash around to their friends.

      Does it really make sense for them to do this? Honestly. It’s not real money, its nothing but 1′s and 0′s flying around on telephone connections between banks and being zipped out on ATM’s once in while. They are creating fake money backed up by what? More fake money? The fed doesn’t even have to print much cash anymore. They are lying their assesss off putting fake numbers in data bases in the Federal Reserve Banks and then transferring it to the big banks where it transfers into smaller bankers in “monopoly game money like electronic deposits”… and not paying people this fake money for working in real jobs?

      What I want to know is the place in the banking system where the money turns into a commodity that can actually buy and sell things? We know it isn’t real at the Federal level.

      What bank does it stop in where people start treating it like an actual asset they have to work for? Because this is the problem. The people who have the money before it hits that point are the problem. Who are those people and why are they allowed to do that?

      What effing purpose does this serve? They are keeping all the fake money to cause poverty and civil unrest? So a few guys in New York can drive BMW’s? Whats the game? To see how long it takes for poor people to kill them?

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