The short sellers put up collateral, agreed to pay dividends, and paid a small amount of interest. These middle-men companies took a big slice of the earnings.  The 401k funds got only a little,  but did not complain because they thought it was essentially a risk free source of extra money.

Unfortunately, the middle-man companies overseeing the transactions got greedy, and started investing the collateral in commercial paper, instead of safer T-bills.  When the financial crisis hit, and Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, there was a panic in the commercial paper market, and some of the invested collateral suffered losses.

These Wall Street firms then passed the losses onto the funds.  Ultimately, it was the “little guy retirees” who are paying the price.  Effected S&P 500 funds, for example, lagged their benchmark index by 11 basis points (0.11%) before fees.  Mortgage-backed funds lagged by up to 53 basis points (0.53%).

Even though these losses caused by poorly invested collateral are insignificant compared to the overall loss in the mutual funds (e.g. the S&P 500 index lost 36% in 2008), they still angered some investors – who have filed class action law suits.

Overall, this situation seems to be limited to mutual funds.  People with brokerage accounts who buy individual stocks do not have to worry.  All the major brokerages keep 100% of any fees from lending securities to short sellers.  In return, they cover any losses.

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The basis for technical analysis is the belief that stock prices move in predictable patterns. All the factors that influence price movement – company performance, the general state of the economy, natural disasters – are supposedly reflected in the stock market with great efficiency. This efficiency, coupled with historical trends produces movements that can be analyzed and applied to future stock market movements.

Technical analysis is not intended for long-term investments because fundamental information concerning a company’s potential for growth is not taken into account. Trades must be entered and exited at precise times, so technical analysts need to spend a great deal of time watching market movements.

Investors can take advantage of both upswings and downswings in price by going either long or short. Stop-loss orders limit losses in the event that the market does not move as expected.

There are many tools available to the technical analyst. Literally hundreds of stock patterns have been developed over time. Most of them, however, rely on the basic concepts of ’support’ and ‘resistance’. Support is the level that downward prices are expected to rise from, and Resistance is the level that upward prices are expected to reach before falling again. In other words, prices tend to bounce once they have hit support or resistance levels.

Charts

Technical analysis relies heavily on charts for tracking market movements. Bar charts are the most commonly used. They consist of vertical bars representing a particular time period – weekly, daily, hourly, or even by the minute. The top of each bar shows the highest price for the period, the bottom is the lowest price, and the small bar to the right is the opening price and the small bar to the left is the closing price. A great deal of information can be seen in glancing at bar charts. Long bars indicate a large price spread and the position of the side bars shows whether the price rose or dropped and also the spread between opening and closing prices.

A variation on the bar chart is the candlestick chart. These charts use solid bodies to indicate the variation between opening and closing prices and the lines (shadows) that extend above and below the body indicate the highest and lowest prices respectively. Candlestick bodies are coloured black or red if the closing price was lower than the previous period or white or green if the price closed higher. Candlesticks form various shapes that can indicate market movement. A green body with short shadows is bullish – the share opened near its low and closed near its high. Conversely, a red body with short shadows is bearish – the stock opened near the high and closed near the low. These are only two of the more than 20 patterns that can be formed by candlesticks.

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That’s not quite true.  In fact, you may have heard about what many are calling the Next-Big-Wave in financing – securities based lending. Stock loans, which are Non-recourse loans, are currently available at up to 80% LTV, based upon the security being used as collateral.

Securities Lending is a long-established process.  Hundreds of successful stock-lending transactions have been executed involving the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), National Stock Market and Small Cap Stock Market (NASDAQ), New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB), and certain foreign exchanges.

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Stock loans make money available for those interested in taking advantage of investing in today’s Real Estate market.  For those people with money invested in marketable securities, there is a golden opportunity to cash-in on the tremendous RE investment opportunities now available.

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On the other hand, in determining whether or not we’re actually experiencing a world-wide credit crunch, let’s start to answer that question by offering a definition of what is a credit crunch.  Here’s one definition of a “Credit Crunch”, which claims private bankers are the real source of today’s financial problems that have evolved since the establishment of the Federal Reserve System.

“A panic-driven massive withdrawal of credit from all viable sections of society where today credit is desperately needed by the banks who have previously been engaged in the unsustainable, irresponsible and unfounded lending of fictitious money in massive amounts; largely to people who have no means of ever repaying it as agreed.”

With that said, you may say that’s quite an indictment of banks and the overall banking system, so let’s take a closer look at what triggered today’s credit crunch, which has now grown into a full-blown global recession and is clearly responsible for ruining countless peoples’ lives.

As a starting place, you must understand that “money is created by the banking system out of nothing”.

This is wrong, but unfortunately it’s the way it is.  Money is created when banks create debt instruments that are lent at interest to all sections of the community, including governments, international institutions, nationalized industries, big businesses, small and medium sized businesses, other banks  (big and small), insurance companies, hedge funds,  and, of course, private citizens.

This debt is mostly not considered non-repayable because any institution or anyone borrower who manages to repay this borrowed money, plus interest, does so at the cost of other borrowers not being able to perform.

Traditionally governments, even with their power of taxation, have not been able to repay the money they have borrowed.  The core lending is shoved into a pile and called the “national debt” or “treasury bonds”, or something like that.

Because this debt is unrepayable, the whole system is unworkable in the long run.  Sure, it can appear to be working for long periods, while lending is increasing and the amount of money in circulation is therefore keeping fairly constant in spite of large amounts being withdrawn through loan repayments.

But after a number of years the system always threatens to collapse, because there is a limit to the amount of “phony money” the banks can lend before their stockpile of real money – which was supported by gold in former times, now more likely treasury bills and other securities – threatens to dry up and destroy the solvency of the banks themselves.

Indeed, a large number of banks have collapsed in spite of calling a halt to further lending and in spite of billions having been pumped into the banking system by leading governments such as the United States and Great Britain.  Today, in spite of President Obama’s efforts with massive bail-out money being provided to American banks and recent stock market rallies, there are banks in the United States which are still folding.  Where is this heading?

The only people benefiting from all of this are the really huge banking houses such as the Rothschild dynasty and J.P. Morgan.  Today, even Goldman Sachs, who is now again profitable and still paying its fund managers unreasonable and obscene bonuses with taxpayers’ money, is in very dangerous waters.

It’s obvious from even a cursory survey of this situation that the system of having private bankers control the currency, which is an absolutely “control lever” over any economy, is sheer lunacy.  Today, private bankers use the incredible power which has been vested in them for centuries for their own enrichment and power, and the evil “hidden agenda” they pursue in their quest for global domination.

Consider this U-Tube video, which shows Alex Jones’ interview with the late Aaron Russo, producer of the movies “Trading Places” & “America: Freedom to Fascism” where Rocefeller reveals some startling details about the 911 FRAUD, the CFR, the global elite, and the New World Order to Aaron Russo and totally exposes their true agenda for world wide  domination by the global elite resulting in a New World Order.

You MUST SEE this telling video.  It will reveal some astonishing little know facts about how our lives are being manipulated and contolled by the global elite.  This video will shock & astound you.

In Great Britain private bankers have had this power unopposed since 1694, when the UK central bank, the Bank of England, was founded.  It kept its name even after the United Kingdom was formed from the union with Scotland and Ireland some years later.

In the United States there were several attempts to impose a central bank on the new republic early in the nineteenth century but each time these attempts were eventually rejected.  Ultimately they got their way.  In 1913, on Christmas Eve, while most people were going home to their families for the Christmas holiday, a small group of criminal plotters let by Nelson Aldrich, a corrupt senator whose daughter married a Rothschild, managed to get the Federal Reserve Bill passed before only a handful of senators, and economically enslave the United States.

Since then, of course, the USA has suffered the Great Depression of the 1930s, numerous financial panics (which the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was supposed to put an end to), and an escalating level of public and private debt.  The mighty economic engine of the United States has gradually been withered away and is now in serious danger of complete collapse.

Thus is the story, or a small part of it, so far. The worst of the current recession is shortly to come.

Today, most people do not understand where inflation comes from, how our money is printed, and who is in charge of printing our money.  To make it worse the average American does not even know what the Constitution says about our government and money.

To keep it simple, the United States Constitution says in article 1, section 8. “[Congress shall have the power..] To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures”.  The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to print paper money themselves, let alone delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank.

Before the mid-twentieth century our currency was backed by an asset, more importantly it was backed by gold.  For the longest time in our country the dollar was worth 1/20 of an ounce of gold.  After the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 our government went on a mission to not only eliminate the gold standard but confiscate the gold from its citizens as well.

So you may ask why, why would the government do that?  Why would they disregard the Constitution? Well it wouldn’t be the first time and probably not the last.  The simple answer to those questions is this: When an asset such as gold backs money, government deficit spending is severely limited. With the creation of the Federal Reserve we have given the government the ability to have money printed out of thin air and allowed bankers to “create money from nothing”.

Like G. Edward Griffin said, “if you give someone the power to create money out of thin air, don’t be surprised when they create money out of thin air”.  The world we live in today goes like this – the Federal Reserve prints our money and lends it to our government at interest, then this loan is guaranteed by the taxpayers.

It is not a coincidence that the income tax was created in 1913, the same year the Federal Reserve act of 1913 was passed by congress.  The Federal Reserve is a private bank held by private stockholders.  We cannot audit the Federal Reserve.  It is not owned or run by the taxpayers or the federal government.

Although I speak from a minority position which is not well understood by most people, I say “let’s end the Federal Reserve”.  Congress does have the power to do that and we should demand that they do it.

Below is some quotes and text. There is a Federal Reserve Abolition Act that was brought to committee. It is called The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (H.R. 2755).  It is still sitting in committee in congress. With our congressional system, for many bills, this is the closest they will ever come to actually being debated on the floor of congress.  For this to change, we the people need to write our congressmen and demand they co-sponsor this and take it out of committee

Quotes:

G. Edward Griffin quotes:

“Inflation has now been institutionalized at a fairly constant 5% per year. This has been determined to be the optimum level for generating the most revenue without causing public alarm.  A five percent (5%) devaluation applies, not only to the money earned this year, but to all that is left over from previous years.  At the end of the first year, a dollar is worth 95 cents.  At the end of the second year, the 95 cents is reduced again by 5%, leaving its worth at 90 cents, and so on.  By the time a person has worked 20 years, the government will have confiscated 64% of every dollar he saved over those years.  By the time he has worked 45 years, the hidden tax will be 90%.  The government will take virtually everything a person saves over a lifetime”.

Rep. Ron Paul to Congress:

“Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy.  The United States Constitution grants to Congress the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency.  The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank.  Furthermore, the Constitution certainly does not empower the federal government to erode the American standard of living via an inflationary monetary policy.”

“In fact, Congress’ constitutional mandate regarding monetary policy should only permit currency backed by stable commodities such as silver and gold to be used as legal tender.  Therefore, abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to a constitutional system will enable America to return to the type of monetary system envisioned by our nation’s founders: one where the value of money is consistent because it is tied to a commodity such as gold.  Such a monetary system is the basis of a true free-market economy.”

This discussion begs a few serious questions, namely -

1.  What will come of the world’s financial systems?

2.  Is it true that the “global elite” actually desire to establish a “One-World Order” with complete power of every citizen’s ability to purchase goods and live a life free from financial slavery?

3.  Should the Federal Reserve System be abolished?

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