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What Ultimately Drives Big Bull Runs?
Binance regulator crack-down and MBS funding
BTFP and how the Fed and US Treasury decided to print additional $4.4 trillion (12.03.2023) - implications for crypto
BTFP and how the Fed and US Treasury decided to print additional $4.4 trillion (12.03.2023)
The US Government is about to gaslight the failure of banks as a failure of crypto. Dont be fooled - the bank failure has nothing to do with crypto, and everything to do with banks buying treasuries/MBS and regulatory failure
Heads up: Pace of Fed's QT Doubles starting September. They will offload $95 BN off their balance sheet every month. In between, we will get another rate hike too.
The apocalyptic reality of Bitcoin without ethical guidance
Why are so many of you people "HODLing nomatter what"?
PSA: Bitcoin as a Commodity will blow up the derivatives markets - My prediction.
Prove me wrong: Cryptocurrency will eventually get hacked by a military-grade spyware like Pegasus 2
Banks like Goldman Sachs and others were publically bullish on crypto for the last few days. Now the market dips. This is their playbook. They does the opposite of what they preach.
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2007: Banks stuffed toxic loans into MBS, rated them AAA, and the system imploded. 2025: Bitcoin ETFs hold a scarce asset, fully transparent. One was built on lies, the other on math.
no, its because nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, unleashing unlimited debt creation. MBS really didn't take off for another decade, after the S&L crisis.
MBS were created in 1970 which is why the spike in 71
If you stop being so narcissistic about it, and dont think the US is the world, dont you think people thought Elizabeth, Adolf, Mao, Stalin, Chavez Nazarbayev, The Shah, Saddam, MBS, Lil Bibi N and the G unit, ect ect fit the bill of antichrist? If so, what makes Bigly D the real one?
ETH is awful, SOL about to flood market with incremental coins. I think I’m done here. Gonna buy some MBS for YIELD.
This is 100% money laundering for bribery. This pump had to have come directly from Putin/Xi/MBS/Netanyahu
It's weird how we have completely opposite views. My view is alt coins are good for making some money and accumulating more Bitcoin but that everything other than Bitcoin has no real use-case. Rather I should say everything offered by altcoins can be easily found in the land of traditional finance/corporations. Often with more user-end security and ease-of-access. Bitcoin offers money that is not issued or controlled by central banks. It is the digital equivalent of the possibility to put every country back on the gold-standard, in the digital age. Yes, I agree that if you *like* the world of MBS rehypothecation, social and credit scores, multinational corporations with the ability to "borrow" money for free based off valuations that only exist because of fiat money printing then Bitcoin can probably seem like it does "nothing." But from my view it does one thing and it does it well, it offers an asset that takes energy to produce that has a fixed supply and an open ledger. Bitcoin layer-2's can provide all that financing nonsense *if it is something the world needs* but what nothing else can offer is financial freedom from central banking and multinational corporation control. And it's decentralized in the sense they can't just ghadaffi someone to stop the snowball from rolling.
> He also said the Fed isn’t looking to change that law. Why would they? The FED has bought shit like toxic mortgage-back securities (MBS) in the past too to prevent shit of collapsing and to stimulate the economy. There is no reason for them to own BTC. But it's not unforeseeable that there may come a day in our lifetime that BTC is so inextricably tied to the stock/bond market that it could cause a collapse and the FED would be forced to buy it to prevent a meltdown.
> U.S Treasury holds gold, Fed does not. That's all he said. I think some reporters are confused because of conversations like "Fed holds X on their balance sheet." They've bought shit like toxic mortgage-back securities (MBS) in the past too to prevent shit of collapsing and to stimulate the economy. There is no reason for them to own BTC. Well at least not anytime soon. Maybe there will come a day in our lifetime that BTC is so inextricably tied to the stock/bond market that it could cause a collapse and the FED would be forced to buy it to prevent a meltdown. That is why a lot of people don't want BTC seeping into NASDAQ and S&P 500.
Anyone else noticing the script yet? This is going to be like the MBS collapse, but harder. No lube. Or bailouts. (Or maybe we can go to a 200% debt to GDP ratio? Wouldn't that be fun!) Our "leaders" are allowing shit coin rug pulls, fraud ICOs, and insane leveraged bets by retail. (How TF is "pump.fun" a thing? It ain't just WSB... The masses have become fully regarded.) 14:1 ratio to the upside. Record high #s, record high enthusiasm. (Whole market) BTC being leveraged by companies (msft, amzn, etc) 3x Single stock ETFs.. Retirement accounts, Pension funds, etc can be involved with BTC now. Record level inflows when it launched. If MSTR gets into an index, it will have pull on the entire market. While being leveraged to the tits. Did we forget the dot-com bubble? How did Saylor's stock fare then? History doesn't repeat... but it rhymes. Same ol' names. But "We learn from history that we do not learn from history." Keep in mind, THAT was "The Internet." Kinda useful off the bat... still crashed our world. 10 years deep into Crypto... dafuq are you using it for? Where are the ACTUAL use cases? Not shoehorned in? (I am wondering when they'll try shilling AI socks 🙄) (Other than NFTs and minting shtcoins?) As a CBDC the ledger will allow The Leviathan to view and regulate complex societal energy flows... despite your protests. (Money/Time = Energy = The Ability to "Do") Leaching you like a real world Colin Robinson. THIS is their goal. Cash can move silently. Crypto is forever under their Eye. And their control. When they "rug pull" Bitcoin/Tether---> This is the actual "Generational Wealth Transfer" the media keeps mentioning. (Tether and The US Gold Reserve have 1 thing in common. Good luck auditing them! Suckers!) Retail geniuses are maxing credit cards to buy BTC/Altcoins/Equities... WallStreetBets has showcased "loss p@rn" ever since the GME shenanigans. Randos seemingly rushing to throw away generational wealth on 0DTE options YOLOs. (I really hope this is just bot-produced propaganda designed to influence others, and not actual McD's workers making $1M in 2 weeks and losing it in 1.) US debt is unsustainable... until the entire world economy collapses in synchrony. EXACTLY like WTC7. Somehow The Bankers always make it out on top. Always "neutral" during armed conflict; Willing to lend to both sides... winning regardless of outcome. (Even Grandpappy Bush lent to Nazis until Congress stopped him in the '40s) Cryptocurrency is controlled by the same Leviathan who brought us fractional reserve banking. The top 1% of wallets controls 80%. "Highly Regarded" retail traders are the "exit liquidity." As usual. The idea of BTC is good in theory. In practice: "They" gained control of the lion's share early. Peanuts for piles of digital dubloons. Now they have "ShtCoin Army" propagandists and bots shilling their tokens to the masses. And its working. "Hawk Tuah" yanked $2M just in exchange fees. And she didn't even have to pull out her usual moves. C'mon: DOGE as a government consulting grp AND as the name of a shtcoin with 51%+ of the supply controlled by less than 100 wallets. I wonder what % is in Elon's hands alone. What % of the crypto market is controlled by a16z, hmm? Did Epstein kill himself? How about JFK? Balenciaga still around, eh? Even after the BDSM bear toddler campaign? Boeing killed 2 whistleblowers as their planes fall apart mid flight... their stock went up? After both murders? Pffttt... Perhaps this is what we get... because this is what we deserve. Good luck to us all 🤷♂️ (At least Tulips were pretty 🤣) Satoshi's Wallet has what? 2 million BTC? That is a kill switch. If Tether being backed by used condoms doesn't kill it first...
"Ethereum governance happens off-chain with a wide variety of **stakeholders** involved in the process. Whilst at the protocol level Ethereum governance is off-chain, many use cases built on top of Ethereum, such as DAOs, use on-chain governance (stakeholder/governance token holder voting [parenthesis added by myself for clarity])." -Ethereum.org You said a lot of deflecting things, some of them more valid than others, but I'll touch on a few. -You don't run a validator by contributing 0.25eth in a cluster. You lock up your money with a centralized organization like Lido and *they* set up another validator that you, the poors, have pooled together to pay for. You get roughly the minimum validator % for your stake, meanwhile since all these validators are actually ran by Lido they get the 10% or whatever the high-end rewards are. Making a cool 5-6% extra (plus MEV bonuses!) from your money at little cost to themselves. Individuals who were fortunate enough to get in eth early and had the 32 required to start validating have shared the costs; you can set up an eth validator for $650 in PC parts+monthly cost of high bandwidth reliable data. Without the 120,000USD eth barrier, validating would be one of the most accessible forms of on-chain participation in the history of humanity. But they don't want *that* sort of decentralization now do they? -You mention the ethernodes data is off by a multiple of 3. Okay, that's fine, my point is that generally when you have data with thousands of data points (4100 or so), it's not going to be wildly different when the multiplication factor is as low as 3. If you interview 4000 random people, for instance, you won't find much difference in the ratio of answers if you interview 12000 people. -I don't mean running Bitcoin miners anonymously as in a person monitoring power and data usage couldn't identify it, I mean a person never has to share their identity to run a single miner. And if you are running a single high efficiency miner that's roughly only 3500kwh usage, it's...maskable on a small scale. However, you don't *need* to run a high efficiency miner btw. It is still entirely possible (though hugely improbable) to find a block running a few raspberry pis. Literally everyone in the world can participate in the Bitcoin network (though it might not be profitable without cutting edge hardware). The same thing is true for Bitcoin as Ethereum btw, you can run a node instead of a validator (or miner) and be involved in the way. -You mention you can't take over the network by an attack on Lido. You missed my point entirely. Though I would argue slashing a large portion of lido's eth in the event of a bad-actor would be catastrophic for the chain, that's not my point. My scenario was to infiltrate 3 top validators. And by that I don't mean to make them perform obvious malicious acts on the network, I mean for originations like J.P. Morgan or Blackrock to send advisors into these groups and steer them in the direction of doing the same things central banks have been doing to us for a century or so now. They're not leveraging MBS's or practicing insane usury on ETH (yet) but they're taking your money to collect MEVs, higher validator percentages and exercise more on-chain control than you will ever hope to have as an individual. The dream of crypto has never been to get rid of the old boss in order to have a new boss, and even if we did agree on a new boss we would never want them to be just like the old one. No matter how much you evade and try to put a good spin on it you can never get around the fact that ETH has been infiltrated by multinational corporations and institutions in a way they seemingly can't "get to" Bitcoin. It's not a good thing and anyone who cares about more than "dollar go up" ideologically can't agree with how Ethereum has changed (or maybe it was always like this and we were just blind for a while TBH). J.P. Morgan is "in on" ETH/metamask/infura/etc. They have been *forced* to buy Bitcoin out of sheer market capitulation to the monolith that is the Decentralized Daddy. There's a difference and it's important.
Why? Will there be something announced at Bitcoin MENA in Abu Dhabi? Live streaming of MBS smash buying 100,000 BTC (market order) on Coinbase exchange under Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund account to open the event?😅
Ok. But headline "Is Paraguayan Gurami the future of finance?" might look silly. If all you have is a currency there's not much finance. Loan interest. But there's more to it to be "finance." Derivatives, equities, MBS, CDS, and so on. Is bitcoin replacing all that. Nah, man.
I suppose I was counting "😂😂😂 Youre joking right" and "come on bro" as unnecessary to the conversation. All that aside... Well, now you've got me opening up the project 2025 pdf and working through all 109 mentions of the federal reserve. It seems to mainly criticize low interest rates and haphazardly printing money. Some quotes (I hope you read because this took too long): *Public control of money creation through the Federal Reserve System has another major problem:* ***Government can abuse this authority for its own advantage*** *by printing money to finance its operations* *Hence, even if there is a built-in bias toward inflation, that bias is worth it to avoid the pain of economic stagnation. This accommodationist view is wrong. In fact,* ***that same easy money causes*** *the clustering of failures that can lead to a recession. In other words, the dual mandate may inadvertently contribute to recessions rather than fixing them.* *An example from the COVID-19 pandemic is the Paycheck Protection Program, which sustained businesses* ***far more effectively than near-zero interest rates****, which mainly aided asset markets and housing prices.* (Clearly criticizing low interest rates here) *A primary driver of higher costs during the past three years has been the Federal Reserve’s purchases of mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Since March 2020, the Federal Reserve has* ***driven down mortgage interest rates*** *and fueled a rise in housing costs by purchasing $1.3 trillion of MBSs from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae.* *Additionally,* ***political pressure*** *has led the Federal Reserve to use its power to regulate banks as a way to promote* ***politically favorable initiatives*** *including those aligned with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives....* (appears to be mandating less political influence here)
See btc vs SP500 chart since Sep 2021 when El Salvador started buying btc. BTC’s compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) was 10.31% vs SP500 10.15%, similar gains except SP500 was far less risky. In any case, Bukele gambled a small part of his poor country’s money. It really is a non-event whether he profits or loses. What will be a major event on par with MBS/Lehman Brothers is when MicroStrategy has to sell its coins.
i actually think Saylor will eventually go down in history as one of the biggest pyramid schemers. issuing bonds to buy more? it's reckless. save this comment and let's revisit in a few years. there was a time when nobody thought FTX was a problem. or Enron. or MBS-CDOs.
Correct. It is not risk free, ever. History has shown that trust will be betrayed if it means profiting off the counter party. And the biggest profits of them all can be made by breaching a trusted agreement (severing gold from the gold certificate, dumping underwater CDO MBS onto retail accounts in 2008). Not even governments are above it.
The vast majority of people didn't know (and still don't know) what a CDO is, and even less what an MBS CDO is.
They don't do it in a naive way. These large financial institutions have smart, creative people who'll come up with novel ways of creating money out of thin air. By the time retail investors understand how it works, it's way too late. Very few knew what MBS CDOs were until the market crashed in 2008.
The same JP Morgan that successfully survived the 2008 financial crisis and actually helped with the bailouts because they werent involved in all the bullshit of MBS.
Hey guys remember the fucking ghouls that almost brought our entire civilization to its knees 15 years ago after having squeezed every drop of profit from us through consumption?.. do people not know how filthy rich these banks were BEFORE they all fucking decided to steal the only fucking asset that we couldn’t survive without?.. Bitcoin is literally being centralized by guess who? I shit you not, the very entities that didn’t hesitate to steal our fucking homes as we slept in them, all of them conspiring to do something that would leave us essentially enslaved as a species. Think about that for a second, what happens after they control the value of every human beings home? Digital assets are used to rug pull us today exactly the same way they were using MBS.
Would be more effective if it wasn't just talk. Trump had his chance in gov and only meaningful legislation was to give a $Trillion tax cut to billionaires. Meanwhile energy extraction is at an all-time high under Biden/Harris, while also creating legislation to jump start a long term green plan to kickstart energy projects. Biden also was able to gain independence from MBS and OPEC by using the SPR to keep fuel prices down and make a cool $20 Billion in the transaction when they restocked reserves. Trump had to literally bribe MBS with arms to get any price concessions.
Probably for the better The war on drugs (started 1971) was largely a stop loss measure against the use of psychoactive drug proliferation in the 60’s as the government realized during the CIA’s MK-ultra experiments (1953-1973) that the dissociative objective perspective that psychedelics gave the human brain would allow people to see the tendrils of government corruption from an overwatch perspective. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra That was a threat to a very lucrative and equally corrupt business model that had developed inside of government since Eisenhower warned about it in his final speech. Nixon (Roger stones hero) sabotaged the vietnam war peace agreements to win his election. https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/doj-inspector-general-blames-highly-unusual-roger-stone-sentencing-memo-reversal-on-ineffectual-prosecutor-bill-barr-wanted-installed-asap-not-trump-tweets/ https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/02/16/lbj-richard-nixon-vietnam-peace-talks-ron-origseriesfilms-4.cnn That in turn led to the petrodollar in 74 that basically handed the US economy over to the Saudis and OPEC (the future common ground of Putin and MBS) in a shortsighted and incredibly selfish move by Nixon and Kissinger to stay in office and therefore out of court and out of prison. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untold-story-behind-saudi-arabia-s-41-year-u-s-debt-secret https://mises.org/mises-wire/saudi-arabias-quandary-end-petrodollar Kissinger was effectively doing the work of the Zionist mafia from within USGOV https://jewishunpacked.com/henry-kissingers-jewish-and-israel-connections-unpacking-his-complex-legacy/ https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/henry-kissinger The Central and South America theaters were largely isolated from the Middle East theaters at the time, so iran contra was just them moving chess pieces from one board to another thinking they could cover their corruption plays in the process. But the money and drugs just intensified the corruption that was already there. The Victoria Advocatehttps://www.victoriaadvocate.com › ...Murder case dropped in 1981 CA tribal slaying | Nation & World https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Riconosciuto Netflixhttps://www.netflix.com › articlesAmerican Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders Revisits the Death of Danny Casolaro Mena Arkansas (Barry seals/ the clintons) comes into play there as well https://www.judicialwatch.org/guns-drugs-cia-at-mena-arkansas-judicial-watch-demands-answers/ https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jul/19/activities-at-airport-in-mena-detailed/ https://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/clinton/arkansas.htm All of that led to Kiki Camarena figuring it out by doing actual police work from the bottom side up so they killed him to keep it under wraps. Had Nixon just been held accountable for his crimes none of this would have been systemically able to happen.
>The federal reserve, who prints money to buy the debt with more debt. That's the popular conception. What the Fed does, is issue "reserves". These are a dollar denominated item (but not the same as commercial bank deposits or cash). "Reserves" are a number in a database, that stays at the Fed. They can be attributed to a select group of member commercial banks. The Fed "buys" (really an incorrect word) treasuries on the secondary market. The treasuries having already been purchased by primary dealer (select group of) commercial banks. When the Fed "buys" treasuries, they increase "reserves* attributed to the commercial bank. If they buy a treasury from a non-member institution, then the increase "reserves" for the member bank the non-member banks at. "Reserves" can be used to settle with other member banks, and meet capital adequacey requirements, little else. A treasury can be used for both of those *and* in global wholesale banking (repo), and can be held/traded with virtually anyone. From a commercial banking perspective, QE is just an asset swap; swapping a limited use item (reserves), for a broad use one (treasuries, or agency MBS). >japan just unloaded a ton of treasuries to stabilize the yen Usually, Treasuries are sold as a last-resort to obtain USD cash. >The dollar as the reserve currency is losing power slowly, with the brics nations making plans for a central bank and the issuance of a CBDC Unlikely. USD is the global reserve because it is the purview of global commercial banks. They will not adopt a CBDC as a fulsome replacement as it wouldn't be in their interests. >The whole debt based monetary system is a house of cards. Only a matter of time before the whole thing comes crashing down. We've been waiting since the dawn of money, it's always been debt. Maybe it doesn't have to be.. but who knows.
That's really not what happened. MBS we're used as collateral in a lot of counterparty transactions like Derivatives, repos, and securities lending. MBS started trading at a big discount after the housing market collapsed, because, as you point out, folks could not see the actual loans that made up the securities. When the price of MBS collapsed - those counterparties on the other end of the transaction demanded to be made whole, which lots of banks/investment banks couldn't do, since the MBS we're trading at ~50% of their face value This SAB is pretty inocous and looks to require basic financial reporting of crypto assets and liabilities. This attempt to override the veto seems more about removing the SECs regulatory authority than anything else. Also to many folks' suprise, the Aaa tranches of MBS didn't suffer significant losses from default. If you had bought Aaa MBS during 08/09 - you would have made a killing by 2010.
That is exactly the point. Food and fuel ARE VOLATILE. MOSTLY UPWARD. When Biden took office, the USA was ENERGY INDEPENDENT. MBS could go pound sand for all we cared. We weren't buying one drop of his shit. Joe's executive orders cratered that on Day 1 and soon he was over in Saudi Arabia kicking MBS' boots, begging him to sell us more oil. This is true madness. It's borderline treasonous.
That's not how this works, That's not how any of this works. If you want a measure of inflation that tells you how much the cost of living is increasing just use headline inflation, gas and food and everything else is in there. It is published right next to the CPI. It bounces around all over the place because food and oil prices change so much. But if you want to understand what is happening to the value of money headline inflation is not a good measure. It has too much volatility. I don't want the fed jacking up the interest rate every time MBS decides to cut oil production because his 12th wife is on her period and he's having a bad day; then cutting them when he opens the taps after he got some. Businesses need stability to operate. By stripping out the most volatile elements they get a usable measure so they can make rational decisions. It's not some fucking conspiracy. If they tried to fudge the numbers it would become obvious within a year or two (If not sooner). The error stacks and would soon be much larger than they can hide, or they would have to " catch up " and post massive inflation numbers. dictators in other countries have tried to do it, but it doesn't last long before it anyone who can do a little math sees what's happening. The real problem is when unscrupulous journalists and politicians use the wrong measure because it supports their lies.
Yes, this is classic BS from random influencers. The use of USD for global payments is actually at all time high right now. I still think Saudi and maybe other gulf countries are prime candidates among major countries for adopting BTC, but this is just misinformation. They are also not going to renounce their alliance with the US. Saudi is as US aligned as it has ever been in the last 50 years, with MBS in power. https://x.com/bowtiedmara/status/1797745503326646693?s=61
>Your deposits are simply converted to loans. Car loans, home loans, student loans. Your bank deposits are FDIC insured even if there’s a bank run... Nope. Banks *are not* and *have not been* using a fractional reserve system for close to a century *if not more* (that goes for either central bank issued "reserves" or prudentially retained "reserves" aka a portion of customer deposits). When banks lend, they *create* deposits. From a 2014 report from the [Bank of England - PDF](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf) >In the modern economy, most money takes the form of bank deposits. But how those bank deposits are created is often misunderstood: the principal way is through commercial banks making loans. **Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money.** *The reality of how money is created today differs from the description found in some economics textbooks:* **Rather than banks receiving deposits when households save and then lending them out, bank lending creates deposits.** *In normal times, the central bank does not fix the amount of money in circulation, nor is central bank money ‘multiplied up’ into more loans and deposits.* There goes the money multiplier. In reality, banks *do not loan out other people's money*. Even when there were reserve requirements after the late 1800's, they largely fulfilled a clearing and/or regulatory function and were not a prerequisite for bank lending. There are no reserves being fractioned. Banks *create* deposits by lending, they do not get them from "elsewhere". **Now... What does a bank run look like?** Since banks don't warehouse cash (digital or otherwise).. they *create* the most used monetary format (deposits)... We can look at examples like SVB. Folks that left SVB just transferred deposits from one institution to another. Banks *are* this circulatory function (moving deposits around). When the banking system is healthy (and the management of the bank isn't silly), then the institution replaces the deposit liability with borrowing by pledging assets (e.g. treasuries, MBS, ABS, etc). What could be called a "bank run" today.. only occurs if a bank has no ability to put up collateral, or can't find a counterparty to borrow from due to perceptions of risk (even when the bank does have the appropriate collateral).
Just be aware. The privatization under the guise of austerity is a recurring play. I’m still a little curious why the Roman Catholic Argentinian Milei joined a fundamentalist Jewish organization called Chabad the week after he took office as president of Argentina. https://jewishinsider.com/2023/11/javier-milei-argentina-president-elect-ohel-chabad-lubavitcher-rebbes-grave/ There is an interesting common denominator in Chabad network. https://www.timesofisrael.com/inside-anatevka-the-curious-chabad-hamlet-in-ukraine-where-giuliani-is-mayor/ https://jewishcurrents.org/our-oligarch https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007 Winning World War 2 ended the systemic genocide of Jews in Europe and established the Jewish state of Israel. With that establishment came a migration of Russian Jews as well, both to Israel and to the United States. In fact most of the migrants to Israel are of Russian origins. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/A2ojrtIc3Y https://desk-russie.info/2021/09/06/the-russian-diaspora-a-battlefield.html Mostly good people who just wanted a better opportunity for themselves and their families. But to quote the old Yiddish proverb- “one rotten apple spoils the others” In a very Russian move, Stalin used the opportunity to clear the gulags of the worst of the worst and sent them to Palestine. Technically they were Jewish, but they also happened to be psychopaths and murders. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139050/ In the internment camps they networked with other thieves and murderers on their way to and from all corners of the earth and as criminals tend to do, stole things and murdered people. It was a perfect storm. The worlds worst people hid behind the good people and were able to use legitimate Judaism as a shield to cover their corruption. If anyone poked too closely they would simply call it anti-semitism and anyone with a conscience would do a fast about face. Anyone without a conscience is probably already in on the con. It makes for a highly effective camouflage but when you track it backwards and watch for the unique crossovers it makes it much easier to track corruption. Over the years there seems to have developed some patterns within or behind a sect called Chabad. It is not new to humans. It seems to repeat itself every few generations. The pharisees of the Old Testament and Talmud finding their “technically legal” work around that allowed them to walk more than 40 steps on the sabbath was a warning, not a road map, but some hiding behind the Chabad movement seems to have taken it as a sort of GPS for their current criminal activity. In Ukraine an oligarch named Kolomoiskiy started Privatbank which didn’t exist on paper but was taking and absconding with IMF money. When the IMF figured it out they began demanding that Zelensky have Ukraine, and more specifically innocent Ukrainians, pay it back before the fund would extend any more. https://eurasianet.org/how-an-embattled-ukrainian-oligarch-has-kept-his-grip-on-an-economic-empire Kolomoisky is loyal to Putin and money therefore he used the leverage as a sort of defacto control over the Ukrainian government that Putin lost control of when Yanukovych and trumps soon to be campaign manager Paul Manafort were run out of town during Ukraines Maidan revolution in 2014. Kolomoiskiy is also heavily involved in Chabad. New York Postnypost.comBusinessmen accused of Ukraine money laundering gave millions to New York ... Time Magazinetime.comHow Paul Manafort Helped Elect Russia's Man in Ukraine Trump and Kushner are beholden to the CCP, Putin/Russia, and MBS (and UAE) for loans and business ventures. It’s just massive Kompromat at a corporate industrial level. In Ukraine, Maidan (The revolution of dignity) was, effectively, every sane Ukrainian realizing that the tax of corruption to the old soviet mob model where everyone pays up to the top man was wholly unsustainable. Russia has become so prolific at it that it consumed all the value in Russia and concentrated it into the hands of a select few oligarchs that happen to be Putin’s trusted circle. Most all of them have 3 passports. Russian, Israeli, and United States. Their common denominator was organized crime and money laundering. Because Ukraine is a 2 front war against Russia on the front lines and oligarch corruption at the rear, anything that detracts from the war front is a threat to Ukrainians existence. Seeing and identifying the money laundering networks that the kremlin uses becomes a necessity of survival. This in turn leads to the cocktail of trump laundering the Russian mobs stolen money, first through Atlantic City casinos until some of his casinos managers began seeing discrepancies in the numbers and started asking questions. All three executives, and two pilots were killed in a 1989 helicopter accident that trump was pulled off of at the last minute by a very insistent Roger Stone. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/nyregion/copter-crash-kills-3-aides-of-trump.html Kolomoisky (optima ventures) also happens to own the hotel that trump based his “stop the steal” rally out of in Cleveland as well as most of the blighted commercial real estate downtown. News 5 Cleveland WEWSwww.news5cleveland.comWho really owns the property that's falling down? The New York Timeswww.nytimes.comOpinion | American Real Estate Was a Money Launderer's Dream. That's Changing ... There is a consistent pattern across the U.S. of Putin friendly oligarchs doing minor variations of this same pattern with commercial real estate. Mainly buying a lot of it and letting it rot. This doesn’t make much sense on the surface. It isn’t until you fully grasp the insatiable greed that these handful of morally bankrupt men are driven by that you start to see the full picture of the plan Justin Kennedy (justice kennedys son) was the inside man at Deutsche bank that was getting all trumps toxic loans approved. No other bank but Deutsche bank would touch trump and his imaginary valuations. If trump was trying to avoid paying taxes he would be valuing everything low. Not high. Why? Because Deutsche bank was infested with Russian oligarchs.
Its gotta be either a middle eastern country or Prince like MBS
Yeah, I’m for real. I don’t think so, but I’ve spent countless hours studying bitcoin, so for me, I feel very comfortable, and having most of my net worth in BTC.. also, I guess I wasn’t entirely accurate with my percentages because I do own a fair amount of real estate (completely paid for ((no mortgage)) that generates amazing cash flows); so it’s *technically* more like 45% BTC, 45% real estate, 5% stocks, and 5% cash. I’m not at all worried about the volatility, I *understand what BTC IS* and I’ve actually come to really enjoy the volatility, it’s exciting! And for me (can’t speak for others) it’s very easy to cash out of as I bank with an extremely sound local bank that’s been around for awhile with a legit balance sheet sans a bunch of toxic MBS. It’s definitely not for everyone, I’ll give you that.
Nope, Saudi Arabia is looking to switch to bitcoin. MBS want to incorporate crypto as the currency of the future paired with that city they are building called The Line. These current prices are about to look cheap.
Agree with your premise, but I feel there needs to be a caveat inserted into this assumption. Retail home purchasers only looking to find a place to live aren't the ones driving this real estate speculation. The guilt liess with institutional and foreign investors buying out whole chunks of land and placing 500 homes in a development, or a whale purchasing a whole hi-rise. If it were simply retail investors, we wouldn't see these wild fluctuations, and, instead the price appreciation would be much more modest, just barely keeping ahead of inflation. Oh! The MBS investors in the 2007-08 crash helped things along too. Word on the street is they're back, too.
How would you like a free beenie baby, tulip bulb, MBS, thousands of internet stocks, a South Seas certificate, a RR bond.....
The rates are high because they don't and can't rehypothecate your collateral, unlike fiat based loans or loans based on MBS, and we've watched those institutions blow up repeatedly with devastating consequences for everyone, except the cantillionaires. With time, market competition, increased Bitcoin price and reduced volatility, these rates will either come down, or the tradfi system will burn to the ground around an indestructible foundation of Bitcoin from which a new, open, transparent and FAIR monetary system will emerge where the cantillionaires and the plebs have equal opportunity. We're still early. Hope it happens in my lifetime.
I think we will probably move to a world where bitcoin gains a large chunk of central bank asset holdings, along with foreign bonds, MBS, and other possible reserve assets (gold?). But bitcoin is a fundamentally better store of value than any of those other vehicles. And it will continue its slow march to become the world's preferred reserve asset. Timeline is anyone's guess, but I believe thats where things are headed.
>In 2008 the thing that caused the financial crisis was interest rates being raised from 1% to 5%. It is the raising of interest rates that always causes something to break and this time around we have raised rates from 0% to 5.5%. Sorry, but you lost me there. The 2008 crisis happened due to over-leveraging by hedge funds, who then couldn't meet their obligations when the market soured (Lehman Brothers had a leverage ratio of more than 30x). The mark-to-market requirements for MBS was the other factor, which forced companies to value their mortgage-backed derivatives based on market demand - when the banking regulators allowed in-house valuations then the crisis magically disappeared. IMO, the value of crypto like Bitcoin is decentralized finance, in which money cannot simply be printed and destroyed at the whims of a central authority. The bailouts and unprecedented money printing in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis (which ultimately culminated in the recent bout of inflation) is why Bitcoin exists.
There is no other explanation for his capitulation to Putin, not to mention Jared Kushner getting 2 billion from MBS in Saudi Arabia. Trump is so obviously compromised, you'd have to be brain dead to ignore it.
I'm saying that it wasn't clear to the market which MBS securities contained bad loans and which contained prime loans. It was this uncertainty about the quality of the underlying loans that led to the price collapse of the MBS market. Mortgage underwriters absolutely understood the riskiness of the NINJA loans, but since they could package those loans into MBS and offload the risk, while earning the origination fee they didn't care.
How so? The GFC story goes as follows: 1. Mortgages are packaged into securities, but it's not clear which mortgages underly the MBS. 2. MBS are given high ratings AAA. 3. MBS are used as collateral in repo transactions and other liquidity transformation activities. 4. Housing market collapses as values were driven by loose underwriting standards - subprime NINJA loans. 5. No one has a clear understanding of what loans underly each MBS security. 6. Price of MBS collapse - step 3 counterparties issue collateral calls and demand immediate repayment. 7. Lehman Bros doesn't have available funds to meet collateral calls as MBS are trading at pennies on the dollars. 8. Lehman bros collapses and because it is interconnected to lots of other financial institutions it creates a cascade of stress and failures. By 2009 the RMBS market had recovered - the high rated (AAA to AA) tranches faced minimal actual losses despite trading for 10 cents on the dollar in 2007. The GFC was ultimately caused by a lack of information - the appeal of smart contracts in investments is that they create public ledger of the details. If investors had known which loans were backing the MBS and whether those loans were in deliquency there never would have been a GFC.
What do you mean I'm moving the goalpost? I haven't changed my point in any way, and I didn't say the market was sidelined, I said the market disagrees, i.e. the buyers think it's less, and the seller's think it's more. You are committing a fallacy when you claim the price of a commodity is justified by the amount of wealth already invested in it. They made the same fallacious argument about MBS back in 05, you know.
This is what I’m afraid of. I’m still a little curious why the Argentinian president Milei joined Chabad the week after he took office as president of Argentina. https://jewishinsider.com/2023/11/javier-milei-argentina-president-elect-ohel-chabad-lubavitcher-rebbes-grave/ There is an interesting common denominator in Chabad. https://www.timesofisrael.com/inside-anatevka-the-curious-chabad-hamlet-in-ukraine-where-giuliani-is-mayor/ https://jewishcurrents.org/our-oligarch https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007 World War 2 ended the systemic genocide of Jews in Europe and established the Jewish state of Israel. With that establishment came a migration of Russian Jews as well, both to Israel and to the United States. Mostly good people who just wanted a better opportunity for themselves and their families. But to quote the old Yiddish proverb- “one rotten apple spoils the others” The dreary conditions of mid 20th century Russian communism created the breeding grounds for oligarchs. Hiding behind the good people were the hypocrites using religion as a shield to cover their corruption. It is not new to humans. It seems to repeat itself every few generations. The pharisees of the Old Testament and Talmud finding their “technically legal” work around to allow them to walk more than 40 steps on the sabbath was a warning, not a road map, but some hiding within the Chabad movement seems to have taken it as a sort of GPS for their current activity. In Ukraine an oligarch named Kolomoiskiy started Privatbank which didn’t exist on paper but was taking and absconding with IMF money. When the IMF figured it out they began demanding that Zelensky have Ukraine and more specifically innocent Ukrainians pay it back before they would extend any more. https://eurasianet.org/how-an-embattled-ukrainian-oligarch-has-kept-his-grip-on-an-economic-empire Kolomoisky is loyal to Putin and money and therefore used the leverage as a sort of defacto control over the Ukrainian government that Putin lost control of when Yanukovych and trumps soon to be campaign manager Paul Manafort were run out of town during Ukraines Maidan in 2014. He is also heavily involved in Chabad. New York Postnypost.comBusinessmen accused of Ukraine money laundering gave millions to New York ... Time Magazinetime.comHow Paul Manafort Helped Elect Russia's Man in Ukraine Trump and/or Kushner are beholden to the CCP, Putin/Russia, and MBS (and UAE) for loans and business ventures. It’s just massive Kompromat at a corporate industrial level.
They still remember the ICELAND government bought US government MBS
I'm not saying it doesn't: >Domestic US tax receipts may only play a small part in the demand equation. >the fed can act as a buyer of last resort for treasuries. They can swap "reserves" for Treasuries, yes. >We have been following that formula fairly agressively since 2008 for sure. Yes. But I see that as due to the abandonment of bank-generated collateral (MBS, ABS, etc.. once widely used in repo). The banking system became irreversibly risk averse in that specific area.. leaving government debt (and govt guaranteed debt) as the preferred collateral.
By the FEDs [own admission](https://youtu.be/lK_rYS8L3kI?si=StkjQlB4yMgL_y0q) they flooded our monetary system with currency (~40% expansion in a year), then called inflation transitory and signaled to the CBS that rates would stay low, then the commercial banks loaded up on treasuries and MBS on the FEDs guidance, which turned out to be bogus as inflation was not transitory and they hiked rates so quickly that they caused a banking crisis that required an emergency liquidity program (bank term funding program) to stem the contagion
>So the fed reserves are just to replace bad debt of banks to keep them afloat. So that shouldn’t increase m2 really or make inflation worse. Reserve issuance increases M0, M2, and M2.. but those don't actually measure the supply of money (no one measures it. M3, M4+ and anything further have been discontinued. Bank of England talks about the problem in the last quoted paragraph in the original comment). Fed reserves are the evolution of clearing certificates. They are a balance sheet line item for the Fed, and do not circulate beyond accounts member banks have with the Fed. In other jurisdictions, they can be given other names (e.g. "Settlement Balances"). They don't really replace bad debt, as move eligible security the Fed can hold, to the Fed's balance sheet. I'm not downplaying the "bailout" notion of this... however even the "toxic" sub-prime MBS acquired under TARP (went to the treasury instead), ending up being disposed of at a profit. >But banks making the credit in the first place is the problem. I think this is what George Gammon goes on about… that the fed are really not running the show. Gammon is a doom/gloom huckster. He also doesn't really "get it"... but does go into it a bit more than just pointing at a debt clock. >Well guess we take our money out of the banks. Btc… Well, that's what this sub proposes as a tenet. For most folks, the current system "works"; and it does... in fits and bursts. Global trade intermediation would utterly evaporate with any other currently available alternative.
>1) so you're suggesting the amount of principal has remained constant since then? No businesses have been profitable or mortgages paid off? I don't see how you could get that from what I said. No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that lending does not require "reserves". Either the self-selected prudential kind, or the central bank balance sheet line item. >2) collateral rehypothecation is BS and shouldn't be possible with proper due diligence by a lender in the first place. Collateral rehypothecation is the engine. Repo markets operate robustly using bonds, MBS, etc.. with many instruments rehypothecated several times over... providing wholesale funding for banks and near-banks.
I hope you are correct. But we know how taking real estate and making MBS' and CDO's and synthetic CDO's worked out.
Securitization Securitization is the process in which certain types of assets are pooled so that they can be repackaged into interest-bearing securities. The interest and principal payments from the assets are passed through to the purchasers of the securities. Examples … Examples of securitization Mortgage-backed securities (MBS) or asset-backed securities (ABS) are examples of securitization and can be divided into tranches. Asset-backed securities (ABS) are bonds backed by financial assets, such as auto loans, mobile home loans, credit card loans, and student loans. Tokenization Let's get specific: tokenization is the process of issuing a digital representation of an asset on a (typically private) blockchain. These assets can include physical assets like real estate or art, financial assets like equities or bonds, nontangible assets like intellectual property, or even identity and data. Tokenization is just a form of securitization. They call it something different but it's just the same shit. Tokenizing into a blockchain is a pool of assets. Securitization of mortgage debt in bond-like investments such as mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations was a big cause of the financial crisis. Securitization of home mortgages fueled excessive risk-taking throughout the financial sector, from mortgage originators to Wall Street banks. Tokenizing everything is just an everything bubble. Systemic risk.
2. Is always anti climatic, because it takes time for the scarcity to kick in. 10. Won’t happen, orelse the homie MBS will be removed from power and a new puppet will be installed. He knows that too well.
Qatar, Irán or MBS can build the best mines if they really wanted… No super power is accumulating
They want to allocate a portion of portfolios to digital. It is like the early days of MBS, it offers a low risk chance to massively push the potential returns. By allocating 5% of their portfolio, it allows then to push potential returns by 20-30%.
The same way bankers used over priced real estate market, MBS and retirement accounts to unload their bags before the ‘08 crash, bankers will use over priced Bitcoin, and the etf, to unload their bags before the coming crash. Buckle up!
SOL will be the future MBS will be the next AXIE
I'm down with your TA on MBS
You listed the highest increase items from the inflation pie. Lowest treasury is 4.5% right now. Very few reasons to buy and hold duration assets, more likely better to active manage it and here MBS look relatively attractive for the convexity.
Either they didn't understand them or, more cynically, they understood them but knew it didn't matter because they would get bailed out either way. What is certain though is they didn't bet against the economy. Holding MBS would be betting *on* the economy.
XRPL is so far ahead of BTC in terms of interbank market integration they aren't even in the same category. XRPL has verticals in every interbank settlements market. Customers will hold it for a few seconds but with daily utility comes Institutional investment and market makers making $ from the spreads. Ripplenet is the only product that removes central counterparties like JPMorgan from the interbank markets. Major tier 2 financial institutions don't want anything to do with Ripple because it destroys their monopoly they've had on the interbank markets for over 50 years. It levels the playing field for all financial institutions. Who needs JPM to be a correspondence bank when you can now download software from Ripple and it does all that and more for 10000x less overhead. The demand is there as evidenced by the obscene growth abroad in very small corridors. You as well as this subreddit have a very limited view of what Ripple has made. You think the entire business model is cross border transactions. When it's actually every interbank market not just Forex Remittance. It's Derivatives OTC, Securities, commodities, futures, interest rate swaps, CDO, MBS, anything that requires a central counterparty to facilitate a market by providing liquidity. Sullivan and Cromwell along with JPMorgan, GoldmanSachs, Citi, and the rest of the incumbents stand to lose the majority of their market share to Ripplenet and services like it. Ripple is by far the furthest along in this category.
Y'all need to make up your mind if you want some regulation or not. Bitcoin was born out of the 2008 financial crisis because there was simply no regulation surrounding the complexity of MBS, the legitimacy of Ratings Agencies, the leverage of hedge funds and their over-reliance on short term funds. If Bitcoin and other assets are to succeed and make sure '08 never happens again, some prudent regulation would be good for the sector IMO. Prudence of course is key.
Why? Because of Khashoggi? Because of Free Speech arrests? Honestly both of those aren't enough for me to hate him and I'm a Saudi myself, never we had a leader before him that gave me this much hope in the future of the nation. My life today is so much better. The women of my family finally can breath, they can drive, they can open bank accounts, they can own land and rent houses, they can educate themselves and wear whatever they want. All of these used to be either illegal or it required a permission from male family members. And all I have to do is to not say "Fuck MBS" on twitter with my face as the profile pic lol
Man I hate it that someone like fucking MBS is so competent with this kind of planning and execution.
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Given the low supply of crypto on exchanges, this is an absolutely enormous volume that will have some contagion effects on crypto. ​ Just consider that Bear Stearns was desperate for a bailout and same for Lehman Brothers because they carried so much in MBS that there would be contagion affecting the global market. ​ Now put this on the scale of FTX and the scale of the much smaller crypto market.. the effects could be devastating.
I am honestly surprised MBS hasn't already demanded BTC in exchange for his oil. Why would he prefer fiat for his oil? Must be political reasons preventing him from doing so. He probably fears the wrath of the US Military who would need to bring "Freedom" quickly to SA.
evidently they aren't big enough to blow up the CME.... ;-). (or maybe MBS is afraid to anger the USA?)
Quantitative easing involves a country's central bank purchasing longer-term government bonds, as well as other types of assets, such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Economists tend to agree that QE works, but caution that too much of it can be a bad thing.
Have some copy pasta. This guy words it better than i ever could. *There's 4 big problems that I see with ETF's and I fully believe they will be at the heart of some future financial crisis.* *The 1st is that everybody is in them. Literally, ask anyone you know what is in their retirement portfolio, and 99% of the time it's almost all put into one of two things: an index-tracking ETF like SPY, VOO, or VTI, or some target retirement date mutual fund. If it's the latter, ask them what's in the fund - they'll probably have no clue, but guess what; i can guarantee it overlaps HEAVILY with those same broad ETFs. Look at the Vanguard Target Retirement 2060 Fund, which is what a lot of millenials would probably be in; 54% of its holdings are just sitting in another fund, the "Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares." The end result of all this is that virtually every single person on the planet super heavily invested into the same set of shares; AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, NVDA, TSLA, BRK.B...you get the idea.* *The second is that literally nobody gets how these things work. Even the financial advisors who tout them as a sure thing don't have a clue what the mechanics of these things are. Besides all the operational shorting, something that a lot of people don't seem to realize is that a lot of them have liquidity multipliers that are used as part of allocations. Basically, they are built specifically to have only the most liquid securities, so that they can trade in mass (which is important for issuers because the fees are so low). The result of this, again, is that they are less diverse than you think - the same highly liquid securities are among the top holdings in almost any ETF you find.* *The 3rd thing is, they keep being presented to investors as diverse and "safe", when that couldn't be further from the truth. If nearly every single investor has a huge chunk of their savings in the same top 20 stocks, how is that diverse? You know how there's this weird phenomenon, that fund managers can no longer beat the market for more than a year or 2? That wasn't always the case. It's not that the fund managers suddenly all got bad at it at the same time; it's that these broad market index funds are carrying more risk than anyone cares to admit. More risk = higher returns, but when the market truly turns, its gonna be insane because whether you are selling SPY, VOO, or a retirement fund, you are selling the same shares as everyone else in the world.* *And 4th. The operational shorting. Watch Richard Evans on YouTube if you haven't, because he explains it really well. One of the reasons you have insane short interest and FTDs on ETFs is because AP's have learned to delay the purchase of shares. If there is some systemic event that creates a liquidity crunch in the underlying stocks, I could see the ETFs just straight up breaking.* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncq35zrFCAg&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncq35zrFCAg&t=1s) *It's terrifying and kind of mind-boggling if I'm being honest how we got to this point. It reminds me a lot of the MBS's that were being sold in mass leading up to 2008 - everyone keeps saying - "look, over time they always go up." Only its even worse because this time it's not just banks buying the bags of shit, it's basically everyone who has a retirement account. It's so strange to me how self-assured everyone is that the safest thing you can do is DCA into the SPY and never look back. They say things like "statistically this beats everything in the long run" - but if past results don't predict future returns why is this different? What makes everyone so damn confident?*
Lol simplifies. Doesn't really look that 'simple'. I'm not claiming to have some great understanding of how they work specifically either, just saying i straight up don't trust them, or the people who tout them as a guarantee. I'll copy out a comment that words it better than i could ever hope to. *There's 4 big problems that I see with ETF's and I fully believe they will be at the heart of some future financial crisis.* *The 1st is that everybody is in them. Literally, ask anyone you know what is in their retirement portfolio, and 99% of the time it's almost all put into one of two things: an index-tracking ETF like SPY, VOO, or VTI, or some target retirement date mutual fund. If it's the latter, ask them what's in the fund - they'll probably have no clue, but guess what; i can guarantee it overlaps HEAVILY with those same broad ETFs. Look at the Vanguard Target Retirement 2060 Fund, which is what a lot of millenials would probably be in; 54% of its holdings are just sitting in another fund, the "Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares." The end result of all this is that virtually every single person on the planet super heavily invested into the same set of shares; AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, NVDA, TSLA, BRK.B...you get the idea.* *The second is that literally nobody gets how these things work. Even the financial advisors who tout them as a sure thing don't have a clue what the mechanics of these things are. Besides all the operational shorting, something that a lot of people don't seem to realize is that a lot of them have liquidity multipliers that are used as part of allocations. Basically, they are built specifically to have only the most liquid securities, so that they can trade in mass (which is important for issuers because the fees are so low). The result of this, again, is that they are less diverse than you think - the same highly liquid securities are among the top holdings in almost any ETF you find.* *The 3rd thing is, they keep being presented to investors as diverse and "safe", when that couldn't be further from the truth. If nearly every single investor has a huge chunk of their savings in the same top 20 stocks, how is that diverse? You know how there's this weird phenomenon, that fund managers can no longer beat the market for more than a year or 2? That wasn't always the case. It's not that the fund managers suddenly all got bad at it at the same time; it's that these broad market index funds are carrying more risk than anyone cares to admit. More risk = higher returns, but when the market truly turns, its gonna be insane because whether you are selling SPY, VOO, or a retirement fund, you are selling the same shares as everyone else in the world.* *And 4th. The operational shorting. Watch Richard Evans on YouTube if you haven't, because he explains it really well. One of the reasons you have insane short interest and FTDs on ETFs is because AP's have learned to delay the purchase of shares. If there is some systemic event that creates a liquidity crunch in the underlying stocks, I could see the ETFs just straight up breaking.* *It's terrifying and kind of mind-boggling if I'm being honest how we got to this point. It reminds me a lot of the MBS's that were being sold in mass leading up to 2008 - everyone keeps saying - "look, over time they always go up." Only its even worse because this time it's not just banks buying the bags of shit, it's basically everyone who has a retirement account. It's so strange to me how self-assured everyone is that the safest thing you can do is DCA into the SPY and never look back. They say things like "statistically this beats everything in the long run" - but if past results don't predict future returns why is this different? What makes everyone so damn confident?*
Because that wasn't a fault or flaw of ETF's, it was a fault of the ETF product (MBS). Here's how Bard simplifies how the ETF would work (Coinbase is the AP). An investor wants to buy shares of the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF. The investor places an order to buy shares on an exchange. The exchange sends the order to Coinbase, the authorized participant. Coinbase creates new ETF shares by buying Bitcoin on the open market. Coinbase deposits the Bitcoin into the ETF's trust. Coinbase delivers the new ETF shares to the investor. The opposite process happens when an investor wants to redeem shares of the ETF. An investor wants to redeem shares of the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF. The investor places an order to sell shares on an exchange. The exchange sends the order to Coinbase, the authorized participant. Coinbase sells the Bitcoin from the ETF's trust on the open market. Coinbase delivers the proceeds of the sale to the investor. Coinbase cancels the ETF shares. The ETF's NAV is calculated by dividing the total value of the Bitcoin in the trust by the number of ETF shares outstanding. As long as there is enough demand for the ETF, the APs will be willing to create and redeem ETF shares at the NAV, which will keep the ETF's price close to the price of Bitcoin on the open market.
I don't trust ETF's. They remind me a lot of the MBS securities that everyone was touting back in 2008.. What makes everyone so damn confident in them?
MBS got that damn painting on his big ass boat... ridiculous.
This is directly relevant to XRPL because the derivatives markets themselves are illiquid and require central counterparties to operate. Central counterparties are commercial banks, aka government approved market makers. This is a problem because for example Lehman Bros was the largest private central counterparty for MBS prior to 2008'. They were also the most exposed to the fraud. The most common underlying assets for derivatives are stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates, and market indexes. Contract values depend on changes in the prices of the underlying asset. Derivatives can be used to hedge a position, speculate on the directional movement of an underlying asset, or give leverage to holdings. These assets are commonly traded on exchanges or OTC and are purchased through brokerages. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is among the world's largest derivatives exchanges. OTC-traded derivatives generally have a greater possibility of counterparty risk, which is the danger that one of the parties involved in the transaction might default. These contracts trade between two private parties, are unregulated, and facilitated by central counterparties.To hedge this risk, the investor could purchase a currency derivative to lock in a specific exchange rate. Derivatives that could be used to hedge this kind of risk include currency futures and currency swaps. Not all futures contracts are settled at expiration by delivering the underlying asset. If both parties in a futures contract are speculating investors or traders, it is unlikely that either of them would want to make arrangements for the delivery of a large number of barrels of crude oil. Speculators can end their obligation to purchase or deliver the underlying commodity by closing (unwinding) their contract before expiration with an offsetting contract. Many derivatives are, in fact, cash-settled, which means that the gain or loss in the trade is simply an accounting cash flow to the trader's brokerage account. Futures contracts that are cash-settled include many interest rate futures, stock index futures, and more unusual instruments such as volatility futures or weather futures This is directly relevant to the type of network and services Ripple has developed. They have a service that recreates all of the disparate types of exchange schemes into one platform that can create these markets and settle value without a central counter party. Tokenization of these assets being traded with the decentralized neutral bridge asset XRP that means you no longer need central counterparties makes this a big deal for financial services industry. Literally solves the biggest problem in banking and finance ATM, counter party risk.
Ripples service that utilizes XRP solves the largest problem in banking and finance. Central counterparty risk. This is the exact reason they were attacked by JPMorgan. The interbank settlements markets are facilitated by central counterparties in each market. Usually a handful and sometimes only one commercial entity creates a government approved market for whatever is being traded. I.e. the market maker. For example if you're in the market for the settlements of retail securities just like Robinhood then you would have to go to Citadel to be able to have the liquidity to settle the transactions. I think most people are aware of why this is bad at this point the AMC Wallstreetbets clusterfuck is well known. In every market there is a counter party and JPMORGAN is the largest private central counterpart for the settlement of international payments and their biggest client is Alibaba. Hmmm Or perhaps your familiar with Lehman Bros who was largest central counterparty for MBS in 08'. Side note former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton sold Lehman Bros just FYI JPM doesn't want a system like Ripplenet legal because now any small regional or even local bank can become a correspondence bank or investment bank because liquidity is on demand from an open market with no counter party risk I.e. no 3rd party in transactions in the interbank markets. Ripple has consolidated the entire interbank settlements market and all it's different trade schemes into a single platform. XRP has verticals in every interbank market not just Forex payments remittance.
and the property owner is subsidized by money printing and MBS buying from the FED
And someone buys those MBS and CMBS. But instead they are treasuries. The finest catshit wrapped in dogshit
They invested in one of the safest investment vehicles available because they needed to put the deposits to work at the time they were received. They could’ve hedged against inflation/interest rate risk, and probably should’ve, but it’s hard to anticipate one of the most aggressive interest increases in history. Then - through no fault of their own - other regional banks that DID take significant risks begin to fail due to deposit flight. Fear spreads, other (well managed) banks fail, and the issue perpetuates. If no one pulled their deposits and the banks were allowed to ride the bonds to maturity, none of this would be a problem. People also read negative headlines about *share* price and think their *deposits* are at risk. This isn’t banks getting heavily over leveraged on MBS and CDOs gambles…
Probably. Issue is that there's less one concerted bubble in the US like MBS/banking and more every sector is bloated due to inflation and not enough corrections. It makes it very hard to track or predict what will happen. Likely an external factor (Chinese real estate, OPEC controls, Ukraine war, environmental like Pakistan's flooding a while back, more banks failing causing a run, BRICS influence) will start a cascade for the US economy over a lengthy period that spreads out to the world. The government has enough controls that it will progressively get worse but not pop over small domestic fears, at least probably not soon without a catalyst.
Nobody knows. The FED was supposed to stop buying MBS in 2018 to prove that 2008 wasn't a massive fuckup. Instead they went nuclear with the money printers. Nothing is predictable these days.
Can we talk about the crack epidemic in the 70s/80s and who harmed minorities? 👀…..or 2008 and who condoned the criminal use of MBS’s and bailed out the greedy banks which wrecked peoples livelihood …the g O V t 🫠
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US and the western allies kinda fucked up USD/SWIFT by weaponising it. US froze and took Afghan Central Bank money to try to repay 9/11 victims and now we have US and western allies freezing Russia assets/properties in hope to use that to fund rebuilding of Ukraine. Sure it's the moral right thing to do when Russia invaded Ukraine without any provocation, but the 2/3 of the world are not in line with US "moral value" Now Xi, MBS, Putin, Raisi know that their US denominated assets can be frozen anytime US decided to. So an alternate currency and payment system is welcome from their perspective to hedge against the risk of holding USD and China took the opportunity to increase RMB circulation
A couple crypto projects have registered with the SEC before. It's not wholly impossible. Maybe once some regulation is clearly laid out, an existing entity broker like Fidelity will start tokenizing their MBS. If 'the law is gray' is the reason not to do it, it just means we're early - not it can't or shouldn't be done. MBS doesn't grant you ownership to a house, either. Only ownership over the debt. Crypto is finance foremost so I think a scheme like this would be extremely efficient over typical broker-broker-broker trades.
Ripple's product ODL solves the biggest problem in international finance. Ripples product updates the infrastructure of the financial system. Ripplenet is essentially capable of doing exactly what a correspondence bank like JPM does for 10000x less overhead, it does payments with settlement instantly 3-4 sec, it shows you the quote before transfer and has no 3rd counter parties like traditional transfers. There are 9 main interbank markets with multiple players providing liquidity and playing 3rd party central counterparty for a fee as market maker. There are multiple convoluted protocol and market types in interbank markets. XRPL is connected to 98% of fiat/cash equivalent payout markets Ripple developed interoperability between "Request for quote" (RFQ), "central limit order books" (CLOBs), "anonymous streaming", and "match auctions" for interbank settlements so it can all be done seamlessly with no counter parties. Ripplenet is an on demand liquidity system for banks to borrow financing instantly. That's important because of what's happening right now with the banking system instability. Banks were encouraged by the FED after 08' collapse to hold long duration treasuries the FED printed to save systemically important banks, it devalued treasuries when they bought MBS and distressed assets this flooded the market with liquidity. It hoped those treasuries would be enough to keep the bank's balance sheets healthy. As long as they could hold till maturity. The collapse of Silicon valley Bank was because it's a regional bank that put a lot of money into long duration treasuries.most regional banks don't have the infrastructure for interest rate swaps to offset this. The FED hiked rates very fast because of the delay it has in data. This caused the SVB to have to sell treasuries to meet withdrawal demands, On top of a gloomy venture capital market it began selling 1.25% treasuries into a 5-7% environment. The market ate them alive. Had Silicon valley Bank been an ODL customer they could have used ODL to meet demand instantly. Now it seems Wallstreet is aware of about 100+ other banks in a similar position, now it's short the banks hunger games happening. The interbank settlements markets are $500-700 trillion a year because this number includes all the complex financial instruments /derivatives used by the banks to reduce counterparty risk. Ripplenet ODL has no counterparty risk. It levels the playing field between financial institutions with frictionless fiat transfer without counterparties. Exactly why they're being attacked by the bank cartel that has a monopoly on interbank settlements because they are the central counterparties.
I like this overall explanation of QE, but the increases in the reserves arent really inflationary and dont have a direct effect on consumer prices. The BTFP allows the Fed to accept collateral from banks in the form of MBS and UST at par value in exchange for liquidity and a 5% rate and repayment in a year The increase you see on the Fed’s balance sheet isnt policy-related as its actually the collateral theyve accepted for BTFP and will be returned to the banks next year All this being said opening swap lines is usually a sign of easing as other central banks will no doubt need that ez $
Their written statement confirms they are still reducing its holdings of MBS, Treasuries, and Agency debt at the same pace as previous announcements
well i didn't hear the fed mention anything about clearing about the balance sheet. like for example offloading some of those pesky MBS... no action at this point might as well be QE considering the state of the economy
You are correct. We saw lies like this in 2008 when they kept saying MBS's were AAA credit yet the majority or mortgages were subprime. Same BS, just a different day.
What would happen if a bank invested in #Bitcoin and hyperinflation/hyperbitcoinization were to occur? Would #Bitcoin be considered a hedge bet for a bank? Would such a banker be seen an smart? Or a traitor? If bankers can buy nickel and MBS and rocks, can they buy #Bitcoin ?
When the government can just pump more fiat out to satisfy demand, as more people withdraw, more is pumped into the system, thus the value of fiat will *decrease* during a bank run. The reason the value of the dollar increased during the bank runs of the great depression was because there was only a fixed quantity of dollars because of the gold standard. In 2008, the value of the dollar increased due to a rush to safe haven assets, but then sharply decreased once the fed implemented QE and bought MBS. Bitcoin has a fixed supply and a known minting rate, if there were to be a "run" on bitcoin, the value would increase. It's simple supply and demand.
They have every reason to blow it up and start new because their toxic balance sheet cannot be rescued from MBS & CMBS.
CDC going for that sweet MBS teat.
Right on man! Thanks for the discussion as well. >Can’t compare SVB to WF, JPM, BAC. SVP is a drop in the bucket compared to those 3. Oh I'm not, but alot of the banks are way over leveraged. >Will it take down a big bank? Nope. Full disclaimer, I work for one of them and the risk Culture definitely changed since 2008. Yes, I'm aware there are policies in place to try and mitigate risk. I just think it's going to be something else other than MBS this time. Most Americans have very little in savings and alot of debt. What happenes when they start losing their jobs due to the recession? We keep hearing unemployment is at all-time lows, the economy is great, ect. But it doesn't appear that way in the real world. History doesn't always repeat itself but often times it rhymes. >Either way, remind me in 6 months so I can apologize if I am wrong or bask in my 10 second glory debate win. Haha like wise!
> By trading in their bonds and MBS. No money creation or incremental liquidity happened. At par value, so significantly above their market value. I’d say that this definitely counts as “incremental liquidity”. Yes it’s for a limited time and they get the loan at a rate of OIS + 2bps. It buys struggling banks some time, but it remains to be seen whether banks will be able to resolve their liquidity issues or if they’re going to need additional help.
By trading in their bonds and MBS. No money creation or incremental liquidity happened. Banks trade in their bad bonds and MBS investments that could sink them if contagion (bank run) occurs for cash at par value. However it comes with a 4.5% interest rate. Historically speaking banks taking money from the discount window is embarrassing for them and not good for their business so they're incentivized to pay that back quickly. There's a lot of parallels here to 2019. QE is coming but it hasn't arrived. The Fed just bought themselves more runway.
Let me explain, since Powell is mostly inept at his job, along with the rest of the banking cartel. The Fed has established a long-term goal of 2% inflation, as measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index. The target was officially adopted by the Fed in January 2012, replacing the previous informal target of 2% inflation or lower. These are the primary arguments by the FED, but I will also list the real reason, which is much easier to understand. **FEDs arguments for:** Avoiding deflation: Deflation, or a sustained decrease in the overall price level, can lead to a variety of economic problems. Consumers may delay purchases, anticipating lower prices in the future, which can lead to a decrease in demand and economic growth. Deflation also makes it harder for individuals and companies to repay debts, as the real value of the debt increases. In extreme cases, deflation can lead to a vicious cycle of decreasing demand, lower production, and further price decreases. By targeting a 2% inflation rate, the Fed aims to avoid deflation and its negative consequences. Promoting economic growth: Moderate inflation can stimulate economic growth by encouraging consumers and businesses to spend and invest. If prices are expected to rise, individuals may be more likely to make purchases now rather than waiting, while companies may be more likely to invest in new projects. Inflation also allows the Fed to lower nominal interest rates, which can make borrowing cheaper and promote economic activity. However, high inflation can be detrimental to economic growth by reducing the purchasing power of consumers and eroding confidence in the economy. Historical evidence: Empirical evidence suggests that a moderate level of inflation can be beneficial for the economy. For example, during the 1990s and 2000s, the United States experienced a period of relatively low and stable inflation, which coincided with a period of economic growth and prosperity. Similarly, during the 1970s and early 1980s, the United States experienced a period of high and volatile inflation, which was accompanied by slower economic growth and higher unemployment. The 2% inflation target represents a balance between promoting economic growth and avoiding the negative effects of high inflation. International standards: The 2% inflation target is also consistent with the inflation targets of other central banks around the world. For example, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan both have a target of 2% inflation, while the Bank of England has a target of 2% inflation with a tolerance range of +/- 1%. This consistency helps to promote stability and predictability in the global economy. **The real and only reason the FED targets this:** GDP growth. GDP, or gross domestic product, is a measure of the total value of goods and services produced in an economy. Inflation affects GDP growth in several ways: Inflation can stimulate demand: As noted earlier, moderate inflation can stimulate demand by encouraging consumers and businesses to spend and invest. This increased spending can lead to an increase in GDP. Inflation can lower real interest rates: The Fed can use monetary policy to control inflation by adjusting interest rates. Lower nominal interest rates can stimulate borrowing and investment, which can lead to increased economic activity and GDP growth. Inflation can also lower real interest rates (nominal interest rates adjusted for inflation) which can further stimulate borrowing and investment. Inflation can promote investment: Inflation can also promote investment in productive assets, such as real estate or equipment. If the value of these assets is expected to increase with inflation, investors may be more likely to invest in them, leading to increased economic activity and GDP growth. **So what is the FED doing?** Simply resetting the market. They crash the economy for the vast majority of Americans, drive up unemployment and reset the market. Then to re-stimulate the economy, they lower interest rates again, and participate in quantitative easing. The FED has been aggressively purchasing up MBS, and Treasury securities for the past year, so right now, the declining market has put them in a hole to the tune of 1.2T dollars on the FEDs balance sheet. For normal banks like Silicon Valley bank, their assets vs liabilities and free cash on hand to service customers caused a bank run and a collapse. But with the FED it's different, they get to print money out of nothing and inject it into the money supply with no real consequences to themselves because the only customers they have are other banks. If you look at how Silicon Valley bank actually ran itself, it's not too dissimilar to how the FED is operating. The historical evidence shows that to drop inflation by 2% correlates to a 3.5% increase in unemployment, and we are currently sitting at 6% inflation and 3.6% unemployment. So the FED wants to drop it by another 4%. To do that means that the unemployment rate has to increase by 7%, for a total unemployment of 10.6%. Once that happens, people will be losing their homes, cars, and not be in competition for those assets/liabilities for a long time. The reason they won't be in competition for those things for a long time is because those people will have massive damage to their credit, as we all saw in the last economic crash of 2008. Those people that went into default from losing their jobs, substantially tarnished credit, which in turn effected those individuals from being able to get home loans, vehicle loans etc. The net result is that this will cause a decrease in demand, because those people can't afford, nor get, credit to purchase. Asset values will decrease, not only from demand, but because of an increase in supply due to foreclosures. Then those assets get to be repurchased at a substantial discount, and they ride up the wave of inflation again as the FED injects money into the economy and lowers rates. The interest rates will slowly decline, as this will allow all the real estate assets to be refinanced at a lower rate, with increases in appreciation that lets real estate owners re-fi the debt, and pull imaginary equity out as real estate assets start to rebound in price. The cycle is really simple. Crash economy, drive up unemployment, remove purchasing power out of the market, which drives down demand because those people can't compete for those assets/resources. Once asset values have depreciated enough, last time it was between 20%-30% depending on the asset, and unemployment was 9.9% in 2009, they started acquiring again, and purchasing up distressed real estate. Then as the FED lowered rates to stimulate the economy again, and increase demand, prices for those assets started to increase, and then they could cash out refi to pull equity that had magically appeared due to the increase in demand from the lower rates, and lower the debt service on the commercial property. They do this every 12-24-36 or 48 months, just depends on the bank, how much equity they will let the owner pull (usually 70%-75% of the equity can be pulled). They ride this cycle in the inflationary market of steady decreasing rates, which lowers the debt service on the commercial asset, and the imaginary appreciating quality of the real estate asset as demand increases with the lowering of rates. Once they have done this multiple times, and the market hits a peak, they crash the economy again and start over. But when they start over, they have secured their real estate assets with usually historical lower debt service on their mortgages, and have built a cash-flowing portfolio that has little risk of default since most real estate portfolios are well diversified for the reset. So when it's time to start purchasing again, at the bottom of the next crash, they will have increased borrowing power against their already existing portfolio's, so they can scoop up more real estate assets this time than before.