'War' Against U.S. Economic Terrorists Looming?
Ever since I published a recent commentary on this subject (“U.S. Economic Terrorism the New Winning Trade”), there has been a rapid growth of condemnation from various European leaders of the “speculators” in the credit-default swap (“CDS”) market. France, Germany, and Greece have been the most vocal critic of these financial predators.
As I discussed in that previous piece, while CDS contracts are a form of “insurance” (insuring against the default on a particular debt instrument), unlike fire-insurance, the predators using these “financial weapons of mass destruction” can cause a default (and a pay-out on this insurance speculation), or simply push “credit spreads” to such dangerous levels that they can cash-out huge profits “trading” this insurance. This can (and has) been done by the U.S.'s economic terrorists – through massively piling into the trade (which, by itself has caused credit-spreads to widen dramatically) and then exacerbating the “crisis” with months of around-the-clock propaganda, intended to frighten the market, and exaggerate the severity of (in this case) Greece's financial problems...
...the war-of-words between European governments and the economic terrorists has heated-up, with the current President of the EU openly talking about a “complete ban” on all “speculation” in the CDS market. Specifically, the ban is intended to prohibit “naked” CDS contracts, where traders purchase CDS contracts despite having no “insurable interest” (i.e. these traders are not parties to the original debt transaction).
Not surprisingly, there has been a rapid response from the U.S. propaganda-machine – and the U.S. government. The reply, or threat from the banksters was that if such CDS trading was banned in Europe, that this “trading” would shift to “other markets” (i.e. New York). Essentially, the propaganda-machine claims that the economic terrorists would simply continue their “games”, since there is nothing the Europeans can do to stop such terrorism from across an ocean...
Deutsche:
»Krieg« gegen US-Wirtschafts-Terroristen ab?
...Finanzminister Tim Geithner, der als Chief Besorgung der Wall Street dient, Junge, stimmte in die "Regulierung" CDS-Kontrakten war zu schwer, zu sagen "es ist zu schwer zu unterscheiden, was ist ein legitimes, dass einige Hedge-ökonomischen Wert hat, aus, was manche Leute vielleicht nur das Gefühl ist eine spekulative Wette ... "
Wie bereits erwähnt, hat die "legitimen" Verwendung von CDS-Kontrakten bereits definiert: die Versicherung der eigenen Schuldtiteln - während die "nackte" CDS-Kontrakte sind spekulativ und würde unrechtmäßig. Auch ein Tim Geithner ist nicht so dumm sein, eine solche einfache Unterscheidung unfähig, so seine Ausführungen können nur als eine Absicht seitens der US-Regierung zu einem "sicheren Hafen bieten" für diese wirtschaftlichen Terroristen ausgelegt werden. An dieser Stelle können wir auf den berüchtigten "Bush-Doktrin" fallen: Wer ein "sicherer Hafen" für Terroristen geben, die sich selbst als "Terroristen"...