she's totally. dynamic. for. one thirty pm sunday night here in moscow is watching t.v. with the top stories tonight then tara is returned to turmoil cairo central square sees fierce clashes between white police and protesters demanding that the military hand over power to a civilian government over one hundred fifty people are reported to have been injured since the rally began following friday prayers. libyan authorities claim they've captured one look at the three son saif al islam one of the colonels most influential family members and he's being lined up as his successor it's what he

was seized by the military while attempting to escape the new jet following weeks on the run. and in syria the deadline set by the arab league for the country's authorities to end the violence expires this saturday but fresh clashes have claimed a dozen more lives this is russia says the bloodshed will only end if both sides put that homs. and fresh outburst of heavy handed us police against demonstrators pepper spray is used of students in a california university young people peacefully protesting against social inequality jewish and pikes were assaulted by riot police stuff refusing to remove their tents. right now the kaiser report with max and stacy as they discussed the bank has rolled in spiraling financial crisis. max keiser this is the cause report take you there in london i'll be as king said

of birth at eight pm oh my max range live show yeah i'm still on tour taking it to the bankers state herbert what's happening with the bankers and other frauds well max is this here presidential tour because i see from this little video here somebody in pennsylvania is driving around with a nice what is that in eldorado. and the skies are still in say two thousand and twelve yeah well something was going to fund our campaign until he lost it all and i'm f. blog all what's up with that gerald yes no i think that's a fleetwood cadillac's likud. well speaking of a global i have quite a few stories on that first i'm going to turn to a video here and this is bill fleckenstein and he's being interviewed on c n b c and he was asked by the presenter whether or not he thinks he'll see his money back i do think there's some possibility that the money will show up because it occurs

to me that if in fact they were misappropriated that would have had to be several people involved with that and i'm surprised that if that were the case someone hasn't been charged with a crime yet and so that has not occurred it might be the sheer volume of people out in creates that combined with the system could have resulted in this six hundred million that got a lot of bills like and feinstein is a. are desperately trying to talk his way into getting his money back or both this is kind of interesting about professional also written books you know bills written a book about corruption in the banking sector and when it happens to them whether it's bill fleckenstein or jealous ally. today of course is a little more savvy in terms of the fact that he got on mercifully appends stated by the banks bill fleckenstein same was still in denial he's like a wife beating victim oh oh oh i've got my money stolen please do it again well you

must have heard this many times when you. lost money for clients as a banker they blame themselves press was fantastic about having customers when i was working on wall street you lose the money and they blame themselves five plastic you just keep still no money and they keep crying about. help me relieve me of my money and the guilt so here's bill fleckenstein praying hoping believing all the good faith in the world that the money will be found well let's turn to another clip or killed and one of the executives at the c f t c which is regulating this market well he's asked the same thing where is the money good question i've been doing the jury regarder show us the money for a couple weeks here we've had people there it's not where it should be but it looks suspicious as heck to me it's either nefarious or illegal. but that's why we have

an investigation the money should be there in drew it's not that money should be sacrosanct it's really troubling o.-o. shelton keeps coming up reminder remember a few months back he was involved in a cancer exchange h s x box office features scandal we got inside information about how he was working with n.p.a. and all the skullduggery get done behind the scenes on that one now he's claiming anger and like oh we don't know where the money went of course they went into the account as someone today has said so eloquently they spoil it for a good movie they're just steal money now and pretty soon they'll still money accompanied by a knock on the head and thrown into prison that's what happens when you look close the cracks around the system whether it's in greece ireland america the u k. this is their methodology well he refers to rule one point two five and this is great elation right if here is what rule yeah there are

a lot of rules if they are there to see if to say oh yeah so from two thousand and five bankers brokers trading on this exchange share were able to use internal repos to basically buy any debt in the world here he explains that a little bit and one of the things that we did was we allowed these internal reposed back in two thousand and five just to explain if you will this is something where in internally some of the accounts for the part of the day is that we're going to push to co-mingle it becky what you do is you take the segregated customer money which is supposed to be sacrosanct job number one for us they take that money and they use it for something that is supposed to be a safe investment like maybe a aaa sovereign debt or u.s. treasury but it's a temporary thing you agree to buy it back that's the internal report let me explain something about the so-called rules and rule one point two point five all of the banks on wall street doing what they're doing today the money center banks the too big to fail banks if they were being governed by the laws that were in

place fifteen years ago they would all be in jail today. however because of all the money they've made stealing buying congressmen buying senators buying the supreme court buying the judicial system but on the political process those laws don't exist anymore or they change the law here's rule one point two point five what year two thousand and four regulation one point two five which was. relaxed in two thousand and then further relaxed in two thousand and four two thousand and five yeah well this is what is the example of there's a rule in place a law to keep people from stealing like you see a geek in front of winston's jewelry down here on the plaza at seven am paris that gate that former guard the the bullet proof glass is there for a reason because otherwise people would just take all the jewels so there's rules

so you're having two thousand and two thousand and four or two thousand and five every single year the banks or the criminals or people who one thousand seven hundred ninety three in paris got their heads cut off because of the existence of a close call you should go but those people decided to rewrite the laws because they want to steal the money with impunity and the regulator said it was a bride well max you mention winston jewelers and i do believe it was actually robbed a few years ago by a man dressed as a woman don't look him in a. little now but i would never be caught in public with high heels of that color i wish to know ma'am so let's turn to this woman in this next story laurie ferber she's keefe counsel at m.f. global and prior to that he was chief counsel at goldman sachs for one twenty years ok as you know there are children with she's at the heart of this the relaxation of regulation one point two five ok so tiny rules change at the heart of m.f.

global failure from december two thousand the c f t c that's when they first agreed to. amend regulation one point two five to permit basically riskier investments i could make more money for wall street or they didn't have to share any of those profits with their clients but they were taking their clients the customer funds the segregated funds and setting it overnight but they had to replace it in the morning so then in february two thousand and four in two thousand and five regulation one point two five was further amended refined to the liking of ferber and the banks in the end the door was open for firms such as m.f. global to do internal repos of customers deposits and invest the funds in the general obligation of sovereign nations ok well here's the here's the thinking that went on here you see because sovereign debt aaa rated or double a right of sovereign debt is considered to be credit worthy but of course the c f t c c c. c f f o p p p all these regulatory agencies that add up to big bold

office bets soup of nothing they didn't bother to take a look at the fact that concurrently was the sovereign debt being used collateral to perpetrate fraud there is collateralized i'm sorry i credit default swaps and other derivatives that are created to do an end run around the. margin requirement the minimum capital requirement the sovereign debt requirement as stipulated by basil was a long battle to basil three so they went around that because they've got ten twenty thirty times more credit default swaps than there is sovereign debt how come greece's debt keeps getting downgraded how come ireland keeps calling itself in the cooper how can the entire euro zone is collapsing because every time they announce a bailout of a one trillion or five shilling wall street they could banks just issue fifty trillion more part of the faults doesn't matter if you put up one hundred cents on the dollar in a aaa rated sovereign credit if i've got forty trillion c.d.'s to sell make it in

the market and drive your sovereign debt down i'm going to live and i'm doing the penn state on your the fact is here that they were leverage fifty to one so all they needed was a kind of two percent overnight and this was on european debt which was moving at three four five six seven eight nine ten percent overnight so of course there was a run on their break right with it but rather the movement that is on a market behavior it's then you're fractured through market manipulation let's be clear about that that's not a normal market is the normal price discovery happening in this market the prices are determined ahead of time goldman sachs manipulates the markets or j.p. morgan ability to market to achieve the price they predetermine that's where we're at now free market capitalism does dead well i'm surprised you didn't pick up on how i set you up there for this laurie farber and relation to the cooler fast at winston's because i thought and assumed that she could be goldman sachs's own lloyd blankfein just as the general counsel going into these meetings at the c.

a t c are you a suggesting that lloyd blankfein is a cross dresser who dressed up like this regulator for this if he's seeing those in the meetings and lobbies for behalf of his firm playing the woman card he's trying to seduce how many how much does oh my god now that i just very strange thought of going on here tonight i know what i mean what how far did you go. oh how far did lloyd go to get these rules changed the law if you're a bad boy finally i am a cuckoo pig fast twenty eleven bank of america merrill lynch is offering to buy claims against m.f. global. so bank of america's merrill lynch unit is soliciting for the purchase of claims against m.f. global as you may recall max bank of america is one of the major creditors of m.f. global with j.p. morgan and is reported to be one of the debtors along with j.p. morgan involved of the litigation trying to obtain superiority of their claims over

customers whose money was taken last stolen by parties unknown for now that we're close the balance sheet is owned by the federal reserve so when they say oh bank of america wells with other. bank of america merrill lynch they're. just joined into the up with. with the federal reserve bank is just going to expand their balance sheet by however many trillions of requires to make all these these unholy security but it's also max the case is here that because of their power in this mafia of this syndicate this racket they're able to put these segregated account holders in a distressed position by being more powerful to be able to step in front of them in this chain of creditors standing in line at the trustees you know well that's true there is another leg so the massive manipulation scam of putting these people into a stress position similar to what they do want on a mobile and finally on this story jesse's café american says i have nothing

against vulture funds per se although what i hear a few of them have done with two of the failed icelandic banks and their former directors proves rule for of zombie banking land always use the double tax. double refers of course to two shots to the head two shots through the head which brings me to more giago art center max kaiser the vampire banker hunter there i am going to. our i've stated number thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you. no i am much more coming why stay right there . twenty years ago are just countries. to places. but how did. you get

a job. where. i am max kaiser welcome back to the kaiser report time not to go to new york city speak with barry ritholtz of revolt dot com barry is a market analyst blogger journalist and author of ballet out nation welcome back to the kaiser record barry thanks for having me all right barry first let's talk about your piece in the washington post what caused the financial crisis the big lie goes viral tell us about it well there's been this tendency amongst people who helped

create the crisis rather than admit that radical deregulation and allowing bankers to set their own rules and granting special exemptions for the five largest banks to ignore the leverage limitations or allowing derivatives to be completely unregulated with no reserve requirements and no counterparty disclosures rather than say hey this was really a big mistake hoops instead they've created this false narrative this argument that you know what really. because the crisis who was the government forcing banks to lend all that money to minorities and inner city poor people that's what caused the crisis the fascinating thing is the data overwhelmingly says that's not the case we know they took red leverage as soon as they were given permission from twelve to one so nearly fifty to one we know that they engaged in

all sorts of speculative activity where they didn't understand the risks their models were just wildly optimistic they were so busy counting profits and bonuses that they didn't pay attention so the bottom line look it all comes down to some very very simple rules banking is supposed to be boring the job of a banker is to make decisions about who is credit worthy and who is not to give you an idea of how were reckless the banking industry became not only did they create these no doc loans they stopped validating loan to value of the home they stopped valuating credit scores and most importantly they stopped asking borrowers how much money they earned and that is the single most important factor in determining if someone's going to repay a mortgage or a loan how much do they actually own earn can they service that debt so when i hear this nonsensical things banks were forced to make loans to poor people nobody told

the banks don't check and don't check credit ratings don't check all the usual metrics that have worked for thousands of years it's just nonsense and when i see people propagating the big lie like that it makes me stop and say what are these guys hiding it it's pretty clear what they've been hiding they have an intellectually bankrupt ideology and it's causing global damage to the economy are you mentioned the leverage ratios being increased from twelve to one and the banks are leveraged at fifty to one even the federal reserve bank itself as leverage fifty to one that goes back to two thousand. for i believe when greenspan lifted that cap but you refer to that as ignoring leverage limitations but isn't that a hard coded law in terms of what the leverage limitations are courting under laws in place is it going back to the balance all yes ok so they are there for i don't know it depends on who nasa depends on which financial institution talking about if

you're talking about the positon banks they have reserve rules which are implemented by the f.b.i. cia and others if you throw you down investment banks there's the one nine hundred seventy five rule that limited them to twelve to one of the five biggest investment houses in the u.s. got a waiver of that ironically it was called the bear stearns waiver bear stearns lehman merrill morgan and goldman the only ones somehow exempted from that law stop and think about what that means here is a lot applies to everybody except you five guys who happen to be the single biggest donors to congress and that by the way that waiver was granted by the security and exchange commission the bezel rules for depository reserves how much they have to hold what's fascinating about those is that they've been whittled away over time so the amount in reserve has come down fairly substantially which allows their leverage to go up so anything that gets in the way of profit regardless of risk

there is a lobbying effort to try and reduce that it was very successful with the c.c. it's been somewhat successful with the federal reserve and the f.b.i. see and that's why there's so little capital in all these banks both in the u.s. and europe in fact the underlying cause of the entire global headache that we're still dealing with is too little capital too much leverage. though the law is that they have to have certain on a capital versus a leverage on the books and what happens in what we've seen is that when if anyone starts to sniff around then they do something about lehman brothers did with the face. one zero five scam where they simply move down off the balance sheet temporarily to satisfy a regulator that might be looking at them and then when the regulators leave the room they put that back on their balance sheet isn't that also the case he's off balance sheet entities are hiding huge debt first of all what lehman brothers did with one hundred five that's just broad says this let's not mince words let's not pussyfoot around with this they're

a bunch of criminals some of those some of them go to jail and unfortunately most of our prosecutorial staff are too busy chasing other nonsense but there's just no doubt in my mind that dick fuld and his c.f.o. should be wearing striped suits with numbers that is criminal you cannot hide one hundred billion dollars or fifty billion dollars at a time in spending and then put it back at the end of the quarter i don't know where the f.c.c. is i don't know where the u.s. attorney general is this it's laughable that's number one number two if you look at the the movement that's starting to pick up a little speed in the united states people have been moving their money away from the big banks to the small local community banks and what we found is that these small community banks they're much more solid they weren't involved with the riveted as they were involved with subprime lending they embrace what we call boring banking they borrow money at four percent they landed at six percent and

they're out on the golf course at four pm and that sort of local community bank and that sort of credit union banking is potentially the biggest threat to the major banks there's six or seven thousand of these banks in the united states some of them are five and ten branches large some of them are one or two they're all insured by the f.b.i. see so your money is safe there it hasn't been enough to affect their quarterly earnings yet but if that were to happen i think you would really start getting people's attention i have very. we've been watching these banks commit massive fraud not not the community banks the credit unions as you were just mentioning but the the too big to fail banks the big wall street banks they're in violation of the minimum capital rules without a doubt they're violating the law every day we've been watching this grow over the past few years but recently just this past week i think we're setting a new standard for criminality with this with the i.m.f.

global scandal it seems that they're just reaching right into people's accounts and taking their money directly what's very talk to me is just a new chapter in in the fraud max what do you think it's your money you think you're entitled to your money that's a lot of money and if we decide we're going to need it to leverage up even more the hell with you we're taking it m.f. global there's just a whole different order of magnitude of this basically you know when you fill out an account form there are all sorts of things about what the bank or the investment house can do with your stock let's say we can hypothecate it we could true against it we can lend it there's a bunch of things that could be done and it's supposed to be governed in regulated pretty clearly this is a pretty bright line as to what you can do and what is just out now to theft at least what it appears so far to end up global and maybe they'll find the missing missing six hundred million dollars maybe you know it's in a draw as someone made

a line entry somewhere that's wrong but from the the appearances we've seen this looks like someone just backed up the truck wiped out the clients' money and said the hell with them we're stealing it it's just beyond outrageous and i think if anybody is going to jail in this whole past five year period it has to be someone from m.f. global if they can find this money there's no other description for it it's just grand theft all right now i j.p. morgan and bank of america creditors to m.f. global are saying our claims come ahead of the customers is that it is not proper. you know when you're involved in this sort of bankruptcy litigation everybody says that sort of stuff i think that there's some insurance on the accounts and there's some guarantees but if it turns out that the creditors have a superior claim to people who are opening accounts. why the hell would i ever open an account with anyone again mattress sales are going to take up because that's

going to become the new banks it's unthinkable that somehow an outside credal or is going to have a superior claim to. somebody who actually had their money with a brokerage firm in this case it's a combination of s.c.c. and commodities futures regulators who are supposed to be watching this look at the key takeaway from all of this is regulators can only do so much if someone is intent on stealing they going to steal what you have to do as a regulator or a government is make sure that when these people get caught they're thrown in jail as a discouragement to other people who might take away from the crisis of zero seven zero eight zero nine is still whatever the hell you want and run for the hills nobody cares no one's going to prosecute you maybe m.f. global get get us to the point where someone goes to jail and it acts as a as a discard judgment to future people but right now the lesson that they're going to

be teaching in business schools is don't do what lehman did don't just screw up a little bit do it bear stearns did screw up really big and don't worry if you're a bond holder you'll be made whole yeah i don't think a lot of people realize that when you open a brokerage account you sign off on documents that you're bound to arbitration for any disputes you don't get to go to a jury it's going to go to a judge ninety eight percent of all. complaints against the industry are on resolved nobody ever gets their money out of the industry and the purpose is that a judge rake off on the citi group case to two hundred eighty five million a city under the stall judge or a cross says that yes the sea is going to have to figure this out because they the federal judicial system doesn't have dominion over these criminal acts sound there is no law gun. running the criminal acts of these various banks is there it's good to be the king listen you know when you have

a congressional system that is based on e bay when you could buy a congressman or senator or when they get sold to the highest bidder who gives a shit about regulation who cares about any of that you can do whatever you want about thirty seconds left what do you think about this story that congress is legally allowed to engage in insider trading with pre i.p.o. stock given to congress people and it's not legally considered to be a bribe your thoughts it's consistent with everything else we know about the parliament of whores that is the us congress they are up for bid you know we really need a third party to actually see if we can maximize how much we could sell them for our place your bed by a congressman get whatever regulation you want passed that's how america works in two thousand and eleven all right private all right all stock comp thanks so much for being on the kaiser report my pleasure max are to make you work with the. problem that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max

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