Hmmm…
May 22, 2012U.S. Treasury Allows China To Hide Bond Purchase Details
China has been given a direct line to the Treasury, the only country ever allowed the privilege, so that it may purchase (or not purchase) bonds without American banks being privy to the details of their transactions. This is yet another revealing sign that China, because of its detrimental control over the fate of our currency, has been given free reign to roam about our markets and our infrastructure at will. China is being given special treatment for one reason; they are being handed the
keys to our economic castle as payment for the coming devaluation of the dollar based securities they will still be holding when the Fed announces QE3. It is no coincidence that so many gifts have been handed to the Chinese in the past year alone.
[ Story ]
In 2009, when Treasury officials found China was using special deals with primary dealers to conceal its U.S. debt purchases, the Treasury changed a rule to outlaw those deals, Reuters reported last June.
Oh I seeee, it’s a work-around. Evasion by any other name is still…
Cui bono? Is it even legal (I know, when has the government ever obeyed the law)? Does this open up the T market to manipulation? I suppose if they promised never to do that, we’re good. Money good.
It is similar to one drug addict allowing another access to their private stash. Will it be there tomorrow?
It is customary for favored customers get special privileges. Just last week came this related (although neither story acknowledges the other) news:
Giant banks owned by the Chinese government are coming to the U.S.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved plans by three state-backed Chinese banks to expand in the U.S., including the first acquisition of a U.S. retail-banking network by a state-owned Chinese lender.
[ WSJ ]
Not one, not two, but three Chinese banks. A quantity discount? Way to save there, guys.
No film at 11.
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What is that fishy smell?
Motherfucking Global Fucks You Up
April 26, 2012My fellow Americans, join me in welcoming our new banana republik leadership. They’re really great!
Do Americans still love freedom?
March 4, 2012Or have they broken down and given in to state promoted terrorism and accepted their own subjugation. How long could you expect them to last? Given that .gov- really today just the PR arm of financiers, big oil, & .mil- has implemented a tireless, relentless propaganda campaign by corporate controlled media, feeding them a steady diet of shit sandwiches, designed to tune them out of their very own lives. It worked by God, it has.
If Geo Bush can call himself a patriot, well he has ruined that word for any person who though they too were patriotic, hasn’t he?
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terrorism n. the act if terrorizing; use of force or threats to demoralize, intimidate, and subjugate, esp. such use as a political weapon or policy. -Webster’s
Damned liars, lies, and statistics
July 12, 2011The Illinois Association of Realtors dramatically over-reported (ahem, lied) the median price of condominiums sold within the city of Chicago in May, with the price tumbling 23 percent year-over-year, not rising 10.3 percent as the trade group said.
In February, questions arose about the accuracy of home sales data as reported monthly by the National Association of Realtors, and whether the trade group had been overestimating the volume of existing home sales since 2007. [ Chicago Tribune ]
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