Holy Bailout! Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank Of America's Derivatives Trades
Submitted by ronpaul_d_1 on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 00:35This story from Bloomberg just hit the wires this morning. Bank of America is shifting derivatives in its Merrill investment banking unit to its depository arm, which has access to the Fed discount window and is protected by the FDIC.
This means that the investment bank's European derivatives exposure is now backstopped by U.S. taxpayers. Bank of America didn't get regulatory approval to do this, they just did it at the request of frightened counterparties. Now the Fed and the FDIC are fighting as to whether this was sound. The Fed wants to "give relief" to the bank holding company, which is under heavy pressure.
This is a direct transfer of risk to the taxpayer done by the bank without approval by regulators and without public input. You will also read below that JP Morgan is apparently doing the same thing with $79 trillion of notional derivatives guaranteed by the FDIC and Federal Reserve.
What this means for you is that when Europe finally implodes and banks fail, U.S. taxpayers will hold the bag for trillions in CDS insurance contracts sold by Bank of America and JP Morgan. Even worse, the total exposure is unknown because Wall Street successfully lobbied during Dodd-Frank passage so that no central exchange would exist keeping track of net derivative exposure.
This is a recipe for Armageddon. Bernanke is absolutely insane. No wonder Geithner has been hopping all over Europe begging and cajoling leaders to put together a massive bailout of troubled banks. His worst nightmare is Eurozone bank defaults leading to the collapse of the large U.S. banks who have been happily selling default insurance on European banks since the crisis began.
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Why isn't this front page news ?
Here is the bloomberg article:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-18/bofa-said-to-split-...
I don't see a 75T bailout from the article, but it appears there is concern by regulators over exposure to BOA 75T derivatives risk to FDIC insurance.
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And then they'll roll out the
And then they'll roll out the one world currency controlled by one transnational bank.
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"I could calculate your chance of survival, but you wouldn't like it." - Marvin the robot
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The only benefit to this
The only benefit to this bubble I can see is the public will quickly learn the utility of writing numbers in scientific notation.
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Not with my money!
They can keep their frikkin' socialist hands the hell out of my pockets!
They are ALL on my shit list.
I'm not surprised
Really I'm not. From what I've read the total of all of this crap is $1.53Q, which is $1,530T. This is what we are on the hook for. You will see more and more of these 'backstops' happening soon. This is why we really need to get rid of the FED. Some say if we cut spending we will be a third-world country; third-world countries are in better shape than The United States is. We are the slaves of the world.
All of the debt of the entire planet will be put on Americans, present and future.
Mr. Chairman, we have in this
Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board has cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.
Louis T. McFadden's Speech, In the House of Representatives
10 June 1932
To read the entire speech go to:
http://www.afn.org/~govern/mcfadden_speech_1932.html
To read more About McFadden in "A tribute to Congressman Louis Thomas McFadden" go to
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/hoax/mcfadden.htm
I just called the FDIC
I just called the FDIC and asked them what their insurance capability is. They currently have a fund of $44 billion to handle any failed banks that are FDIC insured. The FDIC claimed that other banks would simply purchase the remaining funds held by failed banks. They had no comment when I asked if other banks are in a healthy enough position to make these purchases.
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Thanks
I for one appreciate your initiative.
p.s. 44 billion seems a bit meager when all these trillions are being thrown around imo.
donvino
The public has been enslaved, and seems to like it.
The warfare/welfare state is popular. Instead of backing Ron Paul to eliminate government, many people demand more government or its evil twin in disguise, better government, and support the neocons and socialist politicians who seem to mesmerize them.
The US public suffers Stockholm Syndrome on steroids. "In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is a term used to describe a real paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them."
If the US public ever wakes up and realizes that they are slaves and are being fleeced by the system of fascism, collusion of government and corporations to rig the economy in their own favor at the expense of the majority, we will have real revolution, one involving violence. In the interim, we will have just more pain and suffering with the slate of Stepford Candidates being spotlighted by the Stepford press.
Government controlled media and education seems to have done a good job of conditioning and numbing the minds of the masses.
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." Thomas H. Huxley
Just when I thought I was out (of Bank of America)
They Pull Me Back In!
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FDIC on hook for $1 trillion
Because of this deal, which was blessed by Benny, the FDIC would be on the hook for $1 trillion in deposits IF the bank were to go under due to the derivatives implosion.
Yes, the European banks are a big problem because they are insured by US banks. If they start going under it will bring down the big banks here. I certainly won't lose any sleep over that, but it would ruin Benny and Timmy's christmas.
This is important.. Bank of America MADE NO MONEY this quarter. It was all accounting gimmicks, revaluing their debt, unloading reserves, etc. Same deal with the other large banks (JPM, Citi, etc.) They are making no real money and all are on life-support!!
Plan accordingly.
$53 trillion, reported 10/18 on ZeroHedge (from Bloomberg)
But it doesn't matter if it's $53 trillion, $75 trillion, or $500 trillion. If BAC fails to meet its obligations on its entire derivative portfolio, no one, especially the gov't, would be capable of bailing them out. They'll simply just default on their obligations and it'll all be written down to 0. For the government to inflate the money supply by that amount would almost immediately destroy the dollar through quick and severe hyperinflation.
Of course, this is not to say we won't see hyperinflation in the dollar. It will eventually happen (as it has with every other fiat currency in history), this would just be one scenario of it playing out. Hopefully if we get competing currencies, this will be a non-issue for those who got out of the $.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bank-america-forces-depositors...
This could be the largest theft in the history of mankind!
It would put us all in perpetual debt slavery.
I say liquidate the bank!
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BoA just lost the highest asset holder rating yet they still posted a profit and now are getting FED assistance? Sounds like fraud to me.
Glad Paul brought up the debt bubble at last nights debate
I think we'll see the debt bubble collapse before the primary season gets into full swing. It's going to be ugly, but it should bring people around to the understanding that there's only one prospective candidate that actually grasps economic realities.
Another source
"The Federal Reserve and Bank of America Initiate a Coup to Dump Billions of Dollars of Losses on the American Taxpayer"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27166
"Stand Up to the Coup
Bank of America has repeatedly become insolvent due to fraud and risky bets, and repeatedly been bailed out by the government and American people. The government and banks are engineering an age of permanent bailouts for this insolvent, criminal bank (and the other too big to fails). Remember, this is the same bank that is refusing to let people close their accounts.
This is yet another joint effort by Washington and Wall Street to screw the American people, and to trample on the rule of law.
The American people will be stuck in nightmare of a never-ending depression (yes, we are currently in a depression) unless we stand up to the overly-powerful Fed and the too big to fail banks."
My
Mortgage is through bank of america, I am now wondering why I owe them any money on it, haven't the tax payers already paid enough? why should I give them one more penny?
"Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past you must fight just to keep them alive"
So let me get this straight.
So let me get this straight. Between BoA and JP Morgan the US tax payer is on the hook for $154,000,000,000,000? Seriously? Really?
Get to work!
Get to work!
Smoke and mirrors in a sense..
The goal is the total bankruptcy of America...we are the ones keeping a global currency from coming, and the puppetmasters are trying to put an end to that. We are bad enough, with our huge debts, but add on Europes debt...and wala!
"His worst nightmare is Eurozone bank defaults leading to the collapse of the large U.S. banks who have been happily selling default insurance on European banks since the crisis began."
Nightmare or wet dream? We won't be able to find them to hang them from the highest tree...so just take a wild guess.
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I could care less...but thanks for letting me get a good laugh out of you..I needed that. Perhaps some day I will be as full of "knowledge" as you are...I will remember that in my prayers tonight. I pray and WALA...it happens. :O)
p.s. notice I didn't say "I couldn't care less"? I bet that made you want to whip your knowledge out and spread it a little didn't it. I did that just for you of course. Giving smug people the chance to have convulsions over stupid things in order to somehow feel superior just makes me feel good inside.
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because once isn't enough.
Say what you will
but I see the warning signs and I'd be a jerk if I didn't say something to people for fear that they'd lose a little sleep. Hell most people go back into their shell anyway when something is said. I can't do anything about that but I can at least point things out.
I've already got my family promising to buy food storage and I'm compiling my own list.
People should be scared a little. This isn't a distant possibility. It's a more likely event. It might be better if people took it more seriously.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
The definition of insanity
They are fire walling their $75 trillion Euroland derivatives exposure by parking their garbage assets in their FDIC insured books, before the Euro cracks up.
Don't look now, but JP Morgan is exposed to the tune of $79 trillion and is doing the same thing.
This is treason.
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Let's not Scare People!
take this with a grain of salt.... you can not prepare yourself for this anyway!
I mean you if your in the way of anything you can't stop them, you have to move out of their way, unless you want to fight!
But this thing of doomsday tomorrow, most likely won't happen... and people should not be afraid, and unable to sleep at night because of these messages, I've read them say WW3 in 2008 Oct. and it didn't happen, and i'm sure others have heard similar stories as well... it's good to get out of the cities and into the country or mountains and start life there, that's your only real preparation for a financial disaster but even then it will still be tough times once everything is depleted.
"Fear is the mind killer."
Most people who "wake up" to what is going on go through a period of abject terror, and some get paralyzed there.
Mark and I have tried to take a "Hitchhiker's Guide" attitude. We ARE at the bar at the end of the Universe, we have a window seat, and the show is playing out before us in its own good time. Have another beer and enjoy, but remember, it is just a ride. (If you have never seen it, DO watch it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUiwTubYu0
Whatever else I said a minute ago, the last word I want to get in is
LOVE!
Folks here who understand this
should go tomorrow to the nearest "occupy" location and explain to them exactly what is being done, how "in their face" this scam, possibly the biggest bailout yet is, and how it was done in the dead of night by unelected, unaccountable banksters at the Federal Reserve with no public discussion or debate.
More commentary:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/bank-of-america-death...
Oh my...
this is not good.
The dollar is going to crumble.
"It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
--Samuel Adams