So, what is AIG doing in the plane business and did any of our bailout money go to save a plane leasing company? You bet it did.
ILFC (the AIG unit-explanation added), one of the biggest customers for Boeing Co. and Airbus SAS, is seeking to borrow outside of AIG for the first time since losing access to its traditional sources after the insurer’s rescue in September 2008. New York-based AIG used U.S. bailout funds to prop up ILFC with a $1.7 billion credit line in March and $2 billion in October. (emphasis added but cannot be emphasized enough!)Outraged? You bet I am!
Our bailout money bailed out a non financial industry and they are not even in the automobile business. Now, Goldman and BofA are going to use more of our bailout money to loan this AIG owned company some more.
How many more of these "insider", "backdoor" deals are going on? How much more of our money are these Too Big To Fail Fat Cats going to use to keep themselves and their buddies and affililiates in the "green". What happened to let em fail just like the thousands upon thousands of small business in this country that were allowed to fail? Small business, that produces the most jobs, the most taxes and maintains the disappearing middle class?
Do I care if an airplane leasing company goes out of business? No I don't. Do I care if Boeing loses its biggest customer? Not really. Do I care if Airbus SAS - not even an American company fails? Absolutely NOT! I am outraged even more just when the rage was beginning to subside just a little.
“We anticipate selling some ILFC assets in the future,” Robert Benmosche, AIG’s chief executive officer, said in a statement this month when the company announced the departure of Steven Udvar-Hazy as leader of the Los Angeles-based plane unit. “We continue to review other options, including accessing the capital markets through secured debt financing.”Wait a minute. You have assets and you are considering selling them in the future? Isn't that what should have been done before your owner - AIG - gave you our bailout money? Isn't that what you should be doing now? Isn't that what people are doing everyday all over the country? And isn't that the ONLY alternative most small business has to raise capital? Wake Up America!
Remember the old saying where there is smoke there is fire. Well, the smoke is pretty thick around Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and AIG but there is no fire because the likes of Paulson, Geithner, Bernanke and the Administration - past and present - keep putting it out at our expense. We starve and they thrive with our money. What a smoke screen they have put up thinking we Americans are that stupid. Guess again, we are not and we are coming out of the ether and we will blow right through their smoke.
But there is more insult to this travesty of justice against the American people.
Mark Herr, a spokesman for AIG, Kerrie McHugh, a Bank of America spokeswoman, and Michael DuVally, a Goldman Sachs spokesman, declined to comment.Hmmmm? (The onlly literary word for the above comment) But read on, there is more.
Cut to JunkAIG's, International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) company is JUNK to begin with. Didn't a man by the name of Milkin go to prison for selling "junk" bonds? I guess Mr. Milkin played the game a little to early - before it became fashionable and lawful to peddle junk. At least I can say one thing about Mr. Milkin I cannot say about the rest of the band of crooks, he was up front in telling people what he was selling. He called them JUNK BONDS not things like credit default swaps, derivatives, AAA rated MBS's and CDO's - all fancy names for junk to knowingly mislead investors and other governments around the world.
ILFC is seeking loans less than a week after being cut to junk status by Fitch Ratings on concern about whether AIG would continue to provide support. The downgrade affected about $18 billion of debt, Fitch said in a Feb. 18 statement. (emphasis once again added)
I believe the world's financial markets would be better off without AIG, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and all the rest of this band of thieves. We should have let them fail and used the trillions of dollars on our own citizens. Every trillion dollars would have given about $3000 to every person in this country and that is money they would have put back into the economy. Poof, no Recession, real money flowing to real people circulating in our economy. How many trillions of dollars will we have given away to the AIG's of this country? One, two, three or more? Do the math. What I just suggested is "real" trickle down economics.
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The (pawn broking) Gold: for hire Bank for International Settlements report ranks the United Kingdom with significant exposure to Pigs (Portugal Ireland Greece and Spains banks. In part this is correct but substantially overstated, a clearer picture emerging is the Euro 400 points over value. Could this mistake be related to an earlier at risk report, surely its an error that Gold loans in euros didnt crush members expectations or Prudential pulling out of AIG sale.
On June 2, 2010, American International Group, Inc. (“AIG”), AIA Aurora LLC (“Seller”), a special purpose vehicle formed by AIG, Prudential plc (“Prudential”) and Prudential Group plc (formerly Petrohue (UK) Investments Limited) (“Purchaser”) entered into an agreement, dated June 2, 2010 (the “Termination Agreement”), to terminate the agreement entered into by those parties on March 1, 2010, as amended on May 16, 2010, for the sale of AIA Group Limited (the “Share Purchase Agreement”).
The Termination Agreement provides that all rights and obligations under the Share Purchase Agreement are terminated, except that confidentiality agreements among the parties and certain procedural provisions of the Share Purchase Agreement remain in effect. AIG will receive a termination fee from Prudential equal to £152,569,000 on July 1, 2010. Zurich Insurer is:Zurich Financial Services they owned AIG. US Gov bailed it out. Zurich Financial Services owns thousands of subsidairy companies like AIG.
ZFS fraudulently controls the entire worlds insurance industry, not to mention the millions of companies in every trading estate worldwide and every highstreet.
ZFS are the evil in World finances along with the IMF,International Monetary Fund, they force Governments to enforce their rule.
The BIS, Bank of International Settlement, hire Gold stolen from the Jews in Nazi concentration camps. It was set up by Hitler to control the worlds money/finances,club in the EEC.
The EU, European Union, well it was Hitlers dream to control the world. Now its called the EU. And they are controling the GB Pound and the US dollar lower than the Euro in Crazy attempts to recover gigantic losses.
Well maybe my sight is poor BIS and ZFS have no vested interest, the Euro is bull with Sterling in nosedive and its all someone elses mistake. cheers GF
18.9% of world’s current years Gold production loaned to Bank of International settlements, for Euros???.
The price of gold is weaker and not a hedge or liquidity.
There is anonymity.
Banks such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, HSBC, Barclays, Mitsui, Bank of Nova Scotia, Deutsche Bank,
UBS and Societe Generale, fit the bill.
Its a possible EU bailout to keep quiet the fallout or run on its banks likely candidate: Switzerland UBS, ZFS, or FED Reserve US Bonds with BIG B and AIG /ZFS Group likely,
The IMF need foreign exchange in euros but do / not want to sell gold for its currency needs.
The IMF, has been selling gold earlier this year.
The Pigs appear candidates possibly all four.
Could Bank of International settlements raise €32bn from the bullion in the event of a default, not likely €16bn maybe with the intention to flood the market with liquidity. Euro and Gold overvalued ???? yes.
380 tonnes of gold loaned to which countries bank or banks,??? BIS historicly is secretive like Switzerland its HQ.
Who stands to loose we all do, Euro overvalue yes. Gold an investment yes but long term.
Who says pigs cant fly.
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