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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, September 18, 2011
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The theft of the American pension
In the last decade, the country's biggest companies have raided worker benefits for profit. An expert explains how
There were billions in promises to retirees for pensions and healthcare
and death benefits and life insurance, and the companies figured out
that if they cut or eliminated them altogether then they could get those
billions in profit -- and even use them for executive compensation.
http://tinyurl.com/3cqosp5
Delta One
Policymakers have orchestrated a huge dilemma. The
ongoing simultaneous global expansion of debt and marketable
instruments, along with the policy-induced reflation of global risk
markets, has created an unprecedented accumulation of market-related
risk. At the same time, a financial monstrosity has evolved that is in
the (what had been highly-profitable) business of writing market
insurance to protect against declining stock, Credit, sovereign debt,
currency and commodities prices. The business of peddling ETFs, listed
options, Credit default swaps (CDS), “swaps,” “swaptions,” and
countless varieties of over-the-counter derivatives to protect against
market risk has been booming. And the more authorities intervene to
ensure unending Credit expansion and the ongoing inflation of global
risk markets the greater the amount of market risk to hedge - and the
grander the profit bonanza available from trafficking in market
“insurance.”
From the timing of increasingly vocal outcries
against “high-frequency trading,” one might get the idea that these
players sit back and become active only when they develop a hankering to
see the market get wacked. From my perspective, I assume these players
are among the most sophisticated, best informed and keenly
opportunistic traders in the marketplace. Throughout the policy-induced
rally that commenced in 2009, they likely garnered huge long-side
profits buying (“squeezing”) heavily shorted stocks ahead of an enormous
unwind of bearish hedges and bets (I don’t recall any protesting).
They will gravitate to wherever they can garner a trading advantage
(“front running”) ahead of the crowd. But mostly, I believe the
“high-frequency” contingent is immersed in a game of extracting trading
profits from this monstrous business of structuring, selling, hedging
and managing market (“flood”) insurance. Call it “front running,” savvy
or despicable market manipulation.
http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php/creditbubblebulletinview?art_id=10575
Watch and forward...
"Occupy Wall Street": Thousands March in NYC Financial District, Set Up Protest Encampment
http://www.democracynow.org/
When you're in, you're made....?The Federal Debt As Criminal Scam, The Federal Reserve As Criminal Syndicate (September 19, 2011)Is the Federal debt a criminal enterprise, enabled by a criminal syndicate? Read on before you pass judgment.Correspondent Doug laid out a compelling case that the Federal debt is fundamnentally a criminal scam, operated by the criminal syndicate of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve: The Federal Reserve is a criminal syndicate buying debt that the government eagerly creates and sells for spending money that dumps the debt on us civilians. What perplexes me is that the scam is so simple and all the intellectuals either don’t get it or are handcuffed by mega-corporate media owners. If the majority of the additional Federal spending was in fact squandered to boost the revenues, earnings and political influence of Elites, fiefdoms and special interests, then the taxpaying citizenry footing the bill did not receive any measurable benefit from all this additional debt. As Doug observed, the taxpayers are in effect borrowing vast sums from the loan sharks and not even getting to spend the money on themselves: the money was squandered on Elites, supposedly on behalf of the taxpayers, who must pay interest (i.e. the vig, "vigorish") on the fast-rising debt.As Doug asked: how is this not a criminal enterprise?http://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept11/debt-is-criminal9-11.html
Behind the poverty numbers: real lives, real pain
Standard of livings continue to fall across America as many simply do
not have the resources to cope with rising unemployment and falling
purchasing power created by currency devaluation. A record 46.2 million
live in poverty. Unfortunately, it will get worse before it gets better
because easy solutions to the growing problem of public debt failure do
not exist.
Headline: Behind the poverty numbers: real lives, real pain
http://edegrootinsights.blogspot.com/2011/09/behind-poverty-numbers-real-lives-real.html
http://news.yahoo.com/behind-poverty-numbers-real-lives-real-pain-151738270.html
So We No Longer Need NBBO, Right?
Let's make sure everyone understands what's being talked about here - there were trades executed on quotes that hadn't yet occurred.
Or at least this is what the timestamps represented.
So, what's going on here? Well, there are a couple of possibilities. Some of them are truly sinister. For example, the entire quote system may no longer give quotes to all the people at the same time, and thus the premise that you're trading against a fair market is a total farce. Your quotes go in front of or behind others, and others trade in front of or behind you. What's worse that activity could be happening selectively when it's bad for you and good for someone else, and there's no way for you to know!
The SEC won't stop this crap as is quite clear from the facts over more than a year's time so what options do you have left?
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2718010
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