Moving Through America's Twilight: Bank Failure Friday's And Bank Failure Insurance

Banks Have Us Flying Blind on Depth of Losses

Commentary by Jonathan Weil

Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- There was a stunning omission from the government’s latest list of “problem” banks, which ran to 416 lenders, a 15-year high, as of June 30. One outfit not on the list was Georgian Bank, the second-largest Atlanta-based bank, which supposedly had plenty of capital.

It failed last week.

Georgian’s clean-up will be unusually costly. The book value of Georgian’s assets was $2 billion as of July 24, about the same as the bank’s deposit liabilities, according to a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. press release. The FDIC estimates the collapse will cost its insurance fund $892 million, or 45 percent of the bank’s assets. That percentage was almost double the average for this year’s 95 U.S. bank failures, and it was the highest among the 10 largest ones.

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IMF Eyes Bank Failure Insurance

Kevin Carmichael

Istanbul — Last updated on Friday, Oct. 02, 2009 10:43AM EDT

The International Monetary Fund appears poised to throw its weight behind the idea of requiring banks to pay for financial crisis insurance.

Speaking to reporters as economic officials from around the world gather for several days of meetings in Turkey's biggest city, Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the IMF will spend the next several months reviewing proposals that would see banks set aside a portion of their profits to mitigate the cost of systemic failure.

Leaders from the Group of 20 commissioned the study after their summit in Pittsburgh last week. While still far from making any conclusions, Mr. Strauss-Kahn signalled that he is sympathetic to the idea, saying governments could force financial institutions to contribute to a fund that could act as insurance or help low-income countries that end up sideswiped by another global credit crisis.

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KISS THE DOLLAR And JP Morgan GOOD-BYE!

December 16 - Gold $841.70 up $5.20 $16.60 - Silver $10.67 up 5 cents

JP Morgan In Big Trouble/Fed Printing In Effort To Keep Them Afloat/... Gold/Silver Fly

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack." … Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

GO GATA!

From My Favorite Favorite Southern Gent - Franklin Sanders

The Money Changer - Tuesday, 16 December a.d. 2008
Whoa! You men paying attention? Stand up where
you are, twist your body to the right, place your right
hand in your back pocket, withdraw your wallet, pull
out a green federal reserve note, lift it to your lips,
and KISS THE DOLLAR GOOD-BYE!
You women will have to fish in your purses ten
minutes to find your wallets, then dig out a
out a buck and kiss it good-bye.
Not only have the Fed & the Treasury executed a
coup d'etat & taken over the yankee government entire, the
Fed reduced the Fed Funds rate to 0.5%, lowest level
in history. But in case that doesn't work, they also have
yet another new strategy: "quantitative easing." That
is "Fedspeak" for printing money. Let the presses begin!
Let there be money, and let it flood the hills & valleys,
yea, let it flow into the shallowest pockets in the land,
& let the desert economy bloom!
Folks, if any of y'all yet cling to the "deflationary"
outcome, you had best let it go today. Although the
economic outcome will be depression, the monetary
outcome will be massive inflation, & quite likely,
hyperinflation. The dollar will evaporate, while silver &
gold will skyrocket, unless the laws of cause & effect
have been repealed by a compliant congress.
Gold closed at US$841.70, up 6.30, until the Fed announced
its "plans", sending gold up to US$861, another US$19.30.
Silver, which had closed up 8.5 cents to 1067.40 cents,
jumped 70 more cents to 1137 cents. The prices show for
gold & silver items below derive from those higher
aftermarket prices.
All bets are off, friends, for any sort of peaceful landing.
Every man for himself! Today your government & the
private corporation that controls the economy & the
money, the Federal Reserve, threw you, and the US dollar,
out of the boat, with an anvil tied to your feet. Every
one of us had better learn to swim.

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FROM GATA

JUST IN … OK, here’s the latest on the coming JP Morgan blow up.

The information I sent your way yesterday was re-confirmed today. The lack of trust in the financial world over counterparty risk is "accelerating." This is forcing "remaining contracts" of all kinds, especially in the Over The Counter markets, to be "settled."

What is stressed to me is that it is a "currency" problem … so I did my best to nail that down. It has to do with the dollar, US interest rates, AND gold and silver, which represent a SUBSTANTIAL part of the JP Morgan derivatives book … and it is TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS … the magnitude of the problem is that large.

JP Morgan, the Fed’s bank supposedly can’t handle it, so the US Government is stepping in … and the only way the Fed can handle the GROWING problem, is to PRINT money. BUT, they can’t PRINT the money fast enough.

And yes ... this a major reason why the dollar is suddenly falling apart. If I, WE, know … much of the BIG MONEY has to know and they are dumping dollars as fast as they can, ergo the dollar is TANKING, and will continue to tank.

The Madoff mess, and $50 billion catastrophic loss, could not come at a worse time for the US Government and JP Morgan. Our government knows they CANNOT let Morgan fail and they are going all out to prevent that from happening. However, the Madoff scandal, and loss of capital, has those fearful of counterparty risk problems accelerating their exit from dealings with Morgan and other US institutions, in which they have dollar based, counterparty contracts. It is so bad that word to me is that the US cannot "waste time" on the relatively insignificant Madoff "disintermediation" nightmare, the JP Morgan problem is so MONSTROUS … because disintermediation is spreading like a horrible, malignant cancer and the numbers are mounting daily.

So, what are we left with? Bernanke’s helicopter drill is NOW in effect. The problem is Bernanke needs B-47’s or some gorilla plane like that. We have talked about this sort of scenario in MIDAS for some time. Well, we are here for sure and it is in play (Bill H and others have been all over this).

What will be critical for JP Morgan to stay afloat is for the Fed to be able to print money fast enough to meet the demand of those closing out contracts with Morgan.

The bottom line: HYPERINFLATION is upon us, or the eve of hyperinflation is.

As far as I know, no one else out there is delving into the JP Morgan mess. The insiders are trying to keep this horror show as quiet as possible.

One more thing, I asked my source about "settling" in regards to gold and silver contracts. Let the shorts cover I said. To cover anywhere near here, after THEY forced the prices down and caused billions of dollars of spec losses, would be more than just a travesty of justice, It would open the potential for hundreds of billions of lawsuits for what would be clear cut fraud by the concentrated shorts who took the market down the past many months. It is one thing to have gold go $1500 bid overnight (or in a few weeks) and silver go $30 bid, and then declare a force majeure (unable to deliver for unforeseen reasons) after letting the free markets play out until there is a legitimate reason WHY something HAS be done. It is another to force settlement of gold and silver contracts in what Dennis Gartman calls a BEAR MARKET!

Now, I am not saying that this gold/silver settle scenario is in the cards at this point in time, so don’t go running to the CFTC, and others, and raise a ruckus, it is just something to be aware of. In the meantime, it seems to me that owning as much gold, silver and the shares is the way to go. That’s where my head is.

GATA BE IN IT TO WIN IT! We Love You GATA & Franklin! Thanks A Bunch!

The Shadow Market Finally Revealed on Primetime

Arcane Maybe, But Definitely The Lovely Centerpiece Of The Robber Barons Banquet Table.

Its been a long, long, time coming for us that stood as a lone voice in the wilderness as to what was really taking place since 9-11. Many of our Christian family scoffed at such conspiratorial ideas and even mocked us to the point where we were no longer taking serious. But not anymore. No, we're being taken serious now. Those that were forewarned are listening to us now. - Johnny

A Look At Wall Street's Shadow Market

60 Minutes: How Some Arcane Wall Street Financial Instruments Magnified Economic Crisis

Say "No" To The Big "Do Over" : Continue To Call Your Reps

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK The Outstanding Public Debt as of 02 Oct 2008 at 01:46:05 PM GMT is:



"...massive lending institutions and banks have been caught with cooked books and gross mismanagement, the American people must bail them out to "recapitalize," reward incompetence and perhaps even criminal activity"

Devvy The Dynamite Red Head Nails It Again!

THE FAKE $700 BILLION BAILOUT RESCUE PLAN