or. yes i saw that fact on twitter but facts that this horror frog exists and i thought it was a good analogy for the global financial markets and central banking monetary policy is there are literally ripping their limbs off an order to defend themselves even if what they are defending themselves from is kind of fictional was the currency war isn't there it's a race to the bottom they're all trying to deep bass simultaneously it's a suicide banker you have suicide bombers and we have two sons bankers and they basically have cut from the same horror cloth so here's the headline regarding this horror frog ben bernanke bernanke you seen buying one point one four trillion in assets and twenty fourteen federal reserve chairman ben s. bernanke these latest round of bond buying will reach one point one four trillion dollars before he ends the program in the first quarter of two thousand and

fourteen according to median estimates in a bloomberg survey of economists well he thinks he's fighting deflation and he thinks he's really neutralizing any impact of inflation but as we know people are watering down milk portions so procter and gamble go to the store a little so patters they're smaller the coca-cola is smaller but the same price here in the u.k. they're serving horse meat instead of beef in their burgers that's inflation but they don't recognize it as such they they're so sound of one hand clapping it's a one eyed football see one hand clapping doesn't make any noise. well let's look at this chart here this is the fed's balance sheet from two thousand and eight you see the horror frog moment you see when ben bernanke rips the leg off of the u.s. financial markets and currency system because in the first round of purchases begun in two thousand. eight the fed bought one point four trillion dollars of housing

debt and three hundred billion of treasuries and the second round beginning in november twenty ten the fed but six hundred billion dollars of treasuries in the current round the fed's total purchases will be split between six hundred billion dollars of mortgage backed securities and five hundred forty billion dollars of treasuries according to the median estimates of congress in the survey and g.d.p. in america is down just like g.d.p. all around the world is down real g.d.p. adjusted for ben bernanke you ripping off his prosthetic limbs of fake mortgage backed securities and beating us up on the head with it is negative around the world we're living in a. frickin snow global fraud perpetrated by bernanke so hard up there is the art of dark. nothing but. in the amazing thing is that house prices the total stock of housing has fallen by four trillion dollars in value in the united states since the crisis began so he's bought one point four

trillion in the first round and now he's buying six hundred billion of mortgage backed securities so he's bailing out somebody is clearly not the homeowner now the bad thing about all of these fed asset purchases these mortgage backed securities he's buying forty billion dollars a month of mortgage backed bonds and forty five billion dollars a month to treasuries. according to the economists surveyed by bloomberg said asset purchases will probably do little to help reduce seven point eight percent unemployment economist said with fifty seven percent of them predicting the program won't help boost the number of jobs created this year so it's doing nothing again for the real economy it's only wealth transferring money from pensioners and savers and it's bailing out the horror frogs who of the banking system who have ripped off all of the legs and arms and fingers and toes of the global financial systems that

that's why they're broken because are no limits to our financial system ok let's examine something at the point of the. central bank bank incestuous relationship of buying toxic assets and talking about how this is going to improve employment and how this is going to improve g.d.p. it's a massive subsidy for the criminal that are running wall street is no question about their criminal activity we've had testimony now from dozens of regulators and people in the industry was so blowers are committing massive fraud if the goal is to increase g.d.p. i'll say something that'll make the comment section below explode ok if you want to improve g.d.p. pay raise minimum wage ok just raise minimum wage a matter of fact double minimum wage g.d.p. will go up the bank stars will continue to commit fraud that problem is with us apparently forever and other than all things being equal you all have their people

being all food stamps. which are just the same equivalency of bailing out banks except that the people on food stamps don't get the same amount of free money from the government that j.p. morgan gets in the free money from the government i say just raise the minimum wage well most people out there and most governments do accept the notion of a minimum bonus they all agree that because this they i don't know i guess they like lloyd. blankfein they think that these horror frogs deserve the money so however speaking of horror frogs let's move on to france france totally bankrupt says labor minister michel sat down france's labor minister sent the country into a state of shock on monday after he described the nation as totally bankrupt and this is covered of course now he said the state is bankrupt as a normal this is what happens when we can it's impossible sit in pa see him in

france to help anybody this is a common refrain anyway but it sent everybody into a frenzy apparently the french population was shocked to have to be told this but but then the finance minister responded and said france is a really solvent country france is a really credible country france is a country that is starting to recover but he's the salvador dali or my great of economic policy makers basically he's saying soon there. you know he's saying that yes the economy is bankrupt but it doesn't much care why they're concerned with whether the economy is bankrupt or not bankrupt assaut about having an accounting of the economy with inputs and outputs and a g.d.p. that's were tied to manufacturing or labor it's an economy based on transactional ism it's an economy based on financial fraud as long as the fraud keeps going then

you know the economy will exist in this existential. nightmare called global financial ization a little but to suddenly say that the economy is broke as if that means anything so is the same thing for every economy in europe or economy in the world because there are six hundred trillion in derivatives the total total global g.d.p. is sixty trillion there's ten times more debt just the little basis if you add in the flow derivatives there's twenty times more debt than there is actual g.d.p. there is no economy there there's no collateral there it's just flow it's just flow it's frozen flow got to ring the fraud its fraud flows to bluff after the f. to the q it's f q it's f u q it's fraud low fi that's all there is to it that's what they generate to generate their salary bonuses that's all or is well this finance minister after saying that they're a credible country they're a solvent country they're a recovering country it's all fine he then went on to say what he meant was that

the state's financial situation was worrying in two thousand and seven it's more worrying now because we've accumulated six hundred billion euros more in debt well the government has no intention of paying any of that debt that people who are workers who are not satisfied with their wages should understand that the government is taking an adversarial position against them so either they get off their butts and go and do something about it or they're going to be arguing with the surrealists in the bank of france and around the world about what is flow and what is fraud and what is a fee and what is my wage well the bank of france workers are on strike but speaking of you know throwing your arms and legs and pulling them off in order to defend yourself in response to this six hundred billion euros more in debt the french finance minister should look to what is happening in dijon because dijon has ripped off its arm its leg right now in the terms of selling off its seed corn its wine bottles the national post says the great state of the french economy was further highlighted after the eastern city of was forced to read its wine cellar to

try and plug the gap in. budget so max they auctioned off three thousand five hundred bottles of wine to pay for social services you know those wine bottles went to the city of london where the potential bankers and bankers of barclays and r.b.s. and lloyd's are drunk dead drunk on the street you're naming on themselves laughing because they've got these stupid french people to sell the assets to pay for their fraud of course so the debt ok they're not going to admit that there is such a thing as a debt but they'll take all of your wages and all of your land and all of your assets there's a too tall so what are the people going to do all that's right they're going to sniff bath salts and watch porn all day finally e.s.r. no on images poverty and squalor that's the google translation of the greek headline that apparently the national broadcasting council has banned the broadcasting of images of poverty or squalor in greece without the express

permission of those being photographed obviously we're going to also see the same thing with tourist photos because france gets tourism lots of tourism to france it's their biggest industry so no photos of french people not able to drink wine because we've had to sell it all off to the london bankers in order to keep our social services afloat well this is an extension of the american policy under obama not to photograph the debt soldiers coming back from iraq and afghanistan as if they don't exist so in a bowl and dead soldier we had no photo so he did these a lot of it is spinning close to the british and the goldman sachs and so now you can't photograph poverty therefore it doesn't exist it's surrealism come to economics as i knew it would as i predicted that's why gold and silver by the way continue to make new highs against everything current in the world things are banks are much bigger because report thank you all right stay tuned for the second half we'll be speaking to simon rose of save our frick and savers.

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welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to turn to simon rose of save our savior simon rose welcome back thank you max all right now you are over at parliament we see the building my pinus and you were testifying on the impact of quantitative easing you said it was a monumental mistake please elaborate yes well the treasury select committee

decided last year that it might be worth looking into whether quantities and how as wonderful as the bank of england claimed there was some thought that possibly not everybody had benefit from benefited from it so they also bank to produce some document about how it affected everybody and the bank effectively came back and said well it's really boosted asset prices and it's particularly boosted the asset prices of the wealthiest five percent in the country if you actually look at the numbers of course. i guess we we find that seventy two percent of all the u.k.'s net financial assets and and pension fund wealth is held by the wealthiest twenty percent of people well the bank claims this has been a pretty fantastic for everybody ignoring what's happened to the majority of the people who are in the eighty percent with of course lost out so they produce the talk about which most of you said if we're not in court. easing the world would have ended that have been dragons and sky fishes would have opened up in the us and we'd have all gone to hell but the quality of me easing is basically an industrial

policy cooked up by the government to help a few bankers who has no application for the real economy and just to give some some look at the numbers here and i noticed the bank of england some put out a report saying that sure lowering interest rates has saved seventy billion in mortgage costs another interest related cost but the impact on savers if you include the last pension accounts as you just mentioned plus if you add the amount of money that corporations have had to move out of their working capital into their pensions which are now fall falling ok if you put those two numbers together which was covered in the economist magazine also you end up with one hundred forty billion pounds so for every pound they save on interest i lose two pounds from the real economy now kind of more excuse me well kind of morons don't know how to add or subtract was this all that i was appalled that i did that stupid well this is rather treasury select committees are going to and i have to say they are relatively sympathetic toward savers it's nice that somebody is at least bringing

this the public is very sympathetic toward savers the way jimmy savile's sympathetic told children well because it may well end up being the way the un is sympathetic towards people who are being massacred but it's either it up she will do. the other thing in the report of course they say will save us a lot about seventy billion because they're getting less in interest rates they ignore the fact that cost of easing is an inflationary policy and as a result save the us not massively because of the cost of the process of going up obviously because everybody loses out to an inflationary policy when wages are not actually rising anything like as much as inflation is but don't worry the top five percent of the people they're getting much much wealthier so it's working the bond market of course is now starting to come unglued the economy is down or one one quarter of what will soon be two quarter's of a triple dip recession so didn't even help. the economy cause a bond bubble which bursting the economy is sinking and savers are being penalized now there's an interesting study of course they said if they just let interest

rates remain at five percent and let banks take the head like iceland did you know iceland are made of men they're not made of parliamentary blisses you've got a policy that's ended up bankrupting the company and the country and there's absolutely no policy going forward to rectify the situation of policy of pain relief it's like giving a terminally ill patient morphine and same with i'm not complaining about the pain anymore so i must be getting better they have actually put anything right that was wrong five years ago now they do blame the so-called neuters there's a big conversation happening in the u.k. about all the moochers living on the dole but isn't much of the city actively really form a living off. it's an interesting concept i hadn't thought about not just rather more expensive moochers i think it is not true there there are moochers they're living on the dole they're being given money they want to want to save face i mean this is a you know it's your disability payment they're claiming it's not printing money but in fact to be that's exactly what it is three hundred seventy five billion

pounds of new money is not only it's increased if i get out of billions of pounds that didn't that came from the central bank it hasn't made the economy any wealthiest there are some of these people are getting much much richer only be because the rest of us are getting much poorer now it's actually because the the one reason they claim it's not printing money is because they can reverse it you can imagine can you the bank of england actually sitting on a third of the stock u.k. gilts one day going to say well we're going to try something that now what on earth is going to happen to good prices right there are only starting to fall and there are starting to your credit rating of course for the u.k. set to be downgraded again of going from negative watch to doubt right negative and you lose loss of the aaa rating and you have this of course of europe now which it could be a potential buyer of these bonds are splitting from continental europe so who would be the buyer of these bonds it will come to the point where the government by edict forces pension funds that are in let's say portfolios of things other than government bonds that they'll just put a gun to their head and said you have to buy these government bonds which you know we're in we're in financial repression really of some sort but it hasn't become

incredibly severe unless they recognize their mistakes which quite clearly they are not going to do all they can do is get more repressive i hate to think what is going to happen but they're showing almost no sign you know there's a little chink here all that mervyn king is about to retire and go off and dig is allotment for the rest of his days and he is now saying some moderately sensible things but not at any stage by admitting that he was responsible he's out there only that so he says what he said in the economic club and you know it's very british like a baby see i wander out the door they say oh the b.b.c. did all these horrible things but i say yeah they never do anything while they're actually in office unfortunately that is true but he says we need to raise our national saving ratio but. what sees through the right thing to do in the short term to maintain support for i go good to mung is absolutely opposite of what we know we need to do in the long to in other words what we're doing is really about from the economy what we feel it's the best thing to do in the short about five years to sort them so far how long is the short term going to last well what about the scientist emulating aggregate demand internet economy that doesn't generate any

supply in other words an economy is demand and supply supply being the stuff you manufacture export the u.k. if you take out the has been in negative export of manufactured goods for something like twelve or thirteen years with one very small bubble recently in terms of cars but the services industry which is financial fraud that they export take that out they're not exporting really anything export except bombs when they go invade people so it's all supply so they say go to stimulate demand demand to buy stuff the manufacture elsewhere it's completely the opposite to make the economy they want to stimulate china's economy that's what they're doing there's still a chinese economy why don't apply for the role of governor of the bank of england well well why would they that's theory you see i mean it's a parliament it's must be democratic but yet they're working for chinese people they're working for asian people to stimulate demand of their products without in

a blue terrain in the manufacturing of wages for supply driven and economic manufacturing health in this country that's thai radical that's not just irresponsible and well why would they do it because they get bribe money because they're wealthy they get fat on it because they're crooks and as was said by one of the m.p.'s at the treasury could be at least you know we've got lower interest rates that holds growth which i have to challenge and of course we we've not suffered a massive increase in unemployment well you know no but off productivity is going down all the time this is right as i don't be economy but it's in fact it's a zombie economy it's even having trouble walking towards you hate it's lying down no i saw the prime minister question time david cameron's up there in. pounding the table will increase jobs or increase jobs they don't mention that wages are falling precipitous likely that these are part time jobs these are not not not jobs benefits attacks these are these are does are mcdonald's is hiring twenty five hundred people there is ok but there is even if if it donald's hired five hundred

thousand new employees they would not generate enough tax revenue to bring the u.k. economy out of its current deficit so those jobs will never bring a can the economy out of deficit doesn't love or work and never generates taxable income to take about it out of the deficit of it and they don't seem to want to some other the importance of saving social thing i had to explain you know it's all very well having they could really just over there it was there was a business plan and some of the old cards lords and they just sit around so i look i quite like the treasury select committee they're the only people we've got in this country who are actually challenge when i'm due to reruns it under leadscrew sort is the chairman of the treasury select latino m.p. somewhere he is an m.p. where you have to be an m.p. to be on the committee who weren't so worse is going to talk about where his constituency is but he's i think he's a good ag and most of them are trying to hold the bank of england to account now i don't know what they'll be able to do in the end but surely it's better for them actually to oversee because it is easy and to try and turn over the rock and have a look underneath than just to ignore it but they were just like another one of

these committees like the levinson committee here this committee here that committee they just it's a talk fast to gen y. do nothing status quo perpetuates in their defense let us wait and see it's going to go on for a while so you know you're probably going to be right but i would actually like to see that you know you do it in a world of be they was so swayed by my argument you know that if you actually undermine savings you undermine the whole economy because you're de capitalizing it then and gone like that even thought you know i'm guy simon rose is absolutely right i'm going to change my view we're going to. tell mark carney i'm sorry but you've got to stick to inflation it's in the bank of england that two percent stick to it stop letting it run out of control and they have to listen ok so maybe that pigs may fly what is markets coming in there's talk of adopting what's called nominal g.d.p. growth getting away from inflation targeting is a part can you summarize what that sounds to me as if they're just making another excuse to print more money but i'm sure that's exactly what it is but that but like

as with quantitative easing what they're going to do is cloak it in nice name that nobody really understands so nobody appreciates what's happened until it's too late and the inflation catches on the bottle ok now let's talk about another fraud here i think you've been covering also interest rate bursts wap scam there isn't an argument that can be made from our creditor bank of england creates this point the more fraud is committed by those receiving their credit in other words ok they are releasing more money into the system they've got quantitative easing interest rates are cheap but then that is being packaged as interest rates which is the banks it's not really my bear witness essentially they were selling relatively simple businesspeople incredibly count complicated interest rates it would interest rates one eye or doesn't it neutralize the ability of peddling this type of fraud. i don't even understand the one have to know all i know is that what happened was interest rates went down people tried to get out of it and of course there was this massive penalty clause in the small print so you could actually pay a fortune to unwind the position that you should have been sold in the first place are you from my experience that of race one up you're arguing to save the savers so

i'm in rosa's to saving the savers if interest rates went up this type of fraud would be obliterated because they this is the way they make an arbitrage between the rates between the central bank and the investment banks and they create these scams and then they load up on the balance sheets of these four companies and they and they did jimmy savile and so finally yet so yet more misselling by the banks yet more fines are going to be imposed on the banks who ends up paying in the end it's not the bankers yes you and me it's the facts are there not us every it's just it's just ludicrous are not. r.b.s. is any two percent owned by the public because after the big scandal they got involved in the library mass which is now they're going to be eight hundred million dollars in penalties so i mean if the u.s. taxpayer that owns a bank are going to pay off a scandal that happened after they was discovered that they were already involved in other scales going back to two thousand and eight one of the or the savers doing about this what are the people doing about this so there's nothing you can do about

the banks it doesn't mean there was no matter what happens they were going to come out smelling roses when when was the last time a banker actually except in iceland you mentioned before paid a penalty for anything but i got a great idea let's bring back the stocks i'm doing keeps talking about wanting to restore confidence i would feel confident some of these people actually got put in the stocks and we go make fun of them and here's a way to boost the economy we had a terrible summer last year farmers can sell rotten fruit and vegetable well that's a great source of demand for rotten fruit and vegetable i think that would be very good people will pay a fortune if they can actually stop flinging rotten fruit and vege so people who got us into this mess named it's a new definition for stocks and bonds. i'm with a bloody great woman there and just tell them what rotten tomatoes but oh well i wouldn't be able to it would really cheer me up mentally they would probably enjoy it because they're on the best of them anyway they're all kinky little find a way to make money out of it fair enough all right simon thanks so much for being on the kaiser report frank ok that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser

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