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Fraud*
According to the Collins English Dictionary 10th Edition fraud can be defined as: "deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage".[1] In the broadest sense, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud, but there have also been fraudulent "discoveries", e.g. in science, to gain prestige rather than immediate monetary gain
*As defined in Wikipedia

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Goldman Sachs's Favored Status

One wonders whether the Federal Reserve and Treasury systems are complicit in a fraud to assist banks, including Goldman Sachs, no matter what dumb things they do and to ignore the consumers and the unemployed. Some argue that the Federal Reserve has been responsible for prolonging the recession with its foolish monetary and fiscal policies: by bailing out insolvent banks who fraudulently brought about the financial crisis and by ignoring the plight of the foreclosed homeowners and overlooking the unemployed. The Fed's mandate includes responsibilities for consumers' credit rights (poor Elizabeth Warren!), for banking interests and regulation, and for maximum employment through monetary policy. See here.

By focusing on bank bailouts, the Fed has not helped decrease unemployment.

And now the banks themselves, including Goldman Sachs, are increasing the number of unemployed in the economy by "releasing" some of their employees!

'Did It Work?'
By Al Lewis - The Wall Street Journal, Personal Finances

It's time someone answered this question.

The Federal Reserve and the U.S. government injected trillions into the economy, yet the recovery has remained "moderate" at best for two years.

Instead of generating "shovel-ready jobs," most of that money benefited financial companies that probably deserved to fail. So how are these companies doing? They're laying off thousands of people, according to a report released last week by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an employment consulting firm.

Layoffs are up 21% this year at banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies. Challenger expects the trend to accelerate through the year and become more or less permanent. So not even those employed at the national targets of bailout envy, such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are safe.

It's one thing when construction and manufacturing jobs disappear, but losing jobs that pay extremely well yet produce nothing -- well, now that's going to be an economic crisis.

Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke finally conceded that economic growth is going to be slower than he'd anticipated, that high unemployment and sluggish housing would be around for years to come, and that the Fed has done about all it can do, for now, having kept interest rates at effectively zero for years.

Most Americans already knew this, but it sounded more dire coming from the U.S. economy's cheerleader-in-chief. His words confirmed that the Fed would start pulling back, and they sent stocks reeling.

Additionally, it seems only a matter of time before Greece stops paying its debts, possibly toppling dominoes of defaults and unwinding derivatives contracts around the world that no one can really anticipate. Mr. Bernanke predicts the effects will be small, but he once said the same thing about subprime debt.

Fears of a further economic slowdown also prompted a surprise move from the International Energy Agency to open the spigots on emergency petroleum reserves around the world. The U.S. will put up half of the 60 million barrels to ease the threat of a summer spike in gasoline prices from the war in Libya.

Oil prices, however, were already headed down. Was there some emergency -- beyond the usual economic emergency we've been living with for years? Or was it simply that if the Fed's not going to flood the world with dollars, oil is the next best thing?

People forget that we are not so much recovering from a recession, but from a debt crisis brewed in a cauldron of deception and fraud. At some point, we have to wonder whether all this monetary and fiscal meddling is merely continued economic folly.

No matter how long our jobless, house-poor, consumer-hobbled recovery slogs on, we'll be constantly reassured that trillions from the Fed and the U.S. government spared us from another Great Depression.

But what if we are just trillions more in the hole and still face an inevitable malaise? Can fate be changed? Or did our leaders just bloat the balance sheets and prolong the pain?

Maybe all the economy really needed was a wider acceptance of its failures and time to mend.

Read the column here

5 COMMENTS:

Anonymous said...

Please read www.deepcapture.com Mark Mitchell ( former Columbia Journalist turned rouge to expose our financial miscreant's and how they connect from Mike Milken, to Russian Mob, to Jihadi terrorist supporters/sympathizers. It is incredible reading and he NAMES NAMES via connections from his incredible journalist research. Even 9/11 begins to become clear now of WHY it happened. He is on chapter 18, but read all the chapters to fully understand the impact of Financial Terrorism on the USA, and who the players are.
Not a PEEP out of the miscreants thus far,nor from our government, nor from our regulators, or Congress and we are getting flushed down the proverbial toilet into serfdom. SPREAD THE WORD !!!

Anonymous said...

Government Sachs becomes ever more clear as well as many players who brought us to our knees financially......!!!

Anonymous said...

LAME STREET MEDIA ARE ABSOLUTELY QUIET REGARDING MARK MITCHELL's DEEP CAPTURE EXPOSE'!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Change


Two and half years removed from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the investing public has grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of criminal prosecutions of, and absence of truly significant fines levied against, the senior executives and companies responsible for igniting the subprime meltdown. Pundits have criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) as capitulating to the interests of “big finance,” citing SEC settlements that have been characterized as mere “slaps on the wrist” and the DOJ’s failure to convict a single executive responsible for creating the “great recession” despite significant evidence of intentional misconduct.

For decades, the public’s trust in the integrity of U.S. capital markets was a source of economic stability and unparalleled prosperity. To maintain this trust, investors must believe that they compete on a relatively equal playing field and that the laws governing the markets will be strictly enforced. In furtherance of these goals, violators of federal rules face civil penalties from the SEC or criminal prosecution by the DOJ. In connection with previous corporate scandals, the government held a significant number of the principal wrongdoers civilly and criminally accountable for their misconduct. In the wake of the current financial crisis, however, many argue that the lack of such accountability has eroded the public’s faith in U.S. capital markets.

Now, more than ever, private lawsuits are needed to supplement the existing regulatory structure, both to ensure that shareholders are adequately compensated for their losses and to send a strong message that fraudulent conduct will not be tolerated.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2011/06/25/too-big-to-fail-or-too-big-to-change/

Joyce said...

Thank you for the link to the Harvard site. It has a nice summary of all that has gone wrong in (not) prosecuting the banks that caused the financial crisis.

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