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“Crash 2: It’s Not a Good Look”

Monday, February 19, 2018 8:41

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“Crash 2: It’s Not a Good Look”

by John Ward

“One of the fundamental reasons why Bullishness about the global business and markets outlook is so widely believed around the World is the assurances we get on a daily basis that first, there are green shoots appearing; and second, there won’t be another financial collapse, because “lessons have been learned, reforms have taken place, there is new regulation, and now we should all move on to the next stage in growth”.

Most of the green shoots I read about do not bear much empirical examination: in some cases, the color of the object looks suspiciously like gangrene to me. But the real Truth of just how little “reform” has occurred – and how in fact the financial plates-in-the-air construct has become even worse over a decade – is almost completely unknown…even among the younger end of professionals.

Irish financial guru and allround sceptic Chris Quigley sent me this table last week – if it doesn’t convince you that Doom is coming, nothing will:

Look first at 2. – the total REAL currency in circulation that you and I use every day. Then go to 11. and look at the so-called “notional” value of derivatives. Silly bits of paper valued at light years beyond any real worth are 300 times the ‘value’ of real cash. Now go to 3., and see that the actual (as opposed to trading) value of derivatives is sixty times less than the notional figure…but still five times the value of cash money. Now look at 4., and note that even the real value is 37% of Global GDP.

We got to here from an excellent starting point: farmers expecting a good crop in July could go to the bank in March and get cash in advance to develop the farm, by issuing discounted crop value derivatives to the bank. Thus, crop is harvested, bank makes a turn on it, farmer invests in farm, everyone happy.

Over the last fifty years, a discounted value benefiting those who supply fresh food to human beings has been turned into an interbank trading scam benefiting only the sellers, shareholders and directors involved on all sides… to the point where, at a fire sale, the real money it would raise is only one sixtieth of what’s in the bank’s valuation as an institution.

“That will never happen,” says the banking sector – which is a lie on several dimensions. First of all, it already happened after 2009: bogus “investment” packages full of worthless derivatives were a major part of the trillions spent on QE buying it up to bail out idiots with tertiary frontal-lobe syndrome. Second, it was supposed to be regulated, but Wall St spent billions on lobbying to stop it: the imbalance is now twice what it was in 2007. Third, if every single major bank around the globe is so overvalued in overall Reported Accounts estimation, can you imagine how several rapid re-evaluations from $37 a share to, say, $1.85 would play out across the already nervous bourses around the Globe?

But we need to be real here well within the confines of such a broader vision of disaster: even if I’m talking total drivel, how can it be beneficial to economies creating productive jobs that employ poorer people to be in possession of a banking system that contributes absolutely diddley-ding-dong squat zero to that and whose nefarious activities benefit a mere 0.05% of the Earth’s human population? That question is nothing to do with politics, but has everything to do with econo-cultural sanity.

As Quigley comments: “Nearly 16% of world GDP is income earned on dividends, interest and rent: 9.5 Trillion dollars. A further approximately 15 % is earned by banks through “fractional reserving”: 9 Trillion dollars. Thus annually nearly 18.5 Trillion dollars, or 31% of world GDP, is income earned but unworked. This is the financial reality behind the phrase: ‘the money system is not physically working and is therefore virtual not real’.”

- http://investmentwatchblog.com/

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