"They're All Libertarians Until Their Deposits Are at Risk" - zerohedge.com
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Recommended podcast: The Truth About the 2023 Banking Crisis, by Various Speakers.
Recommended reading:
- 2nd Biggest Bank Failure in US History - "We Found Our Enron" - "On the Verge of a Much Bigger Collapse than 2008 - theeconomiccollapseblog.com
- Bailout Arrives: Credit Suisse to Borrow $54BN from SNB to "Pre-Emptively Strengthen Liquidity" - zerohedge.com
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Recommended video: Man in America: Shocking Video: FDIC Knows Banking Collapse is Coming & They’re HIDING it From You
Recommended podcasts:
- Describing the US House of Cards - Extreme Volatility and Flakiness, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
- The Age of Greed is Out of Control - $2.5 Quadrillion of Derivatives, Debt, Etc., by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Recommended reading:
- Goldman Trader: I Said "This Reminds Me of 2008" More Times This Week Than I Can Remember - zerohedge.com
- 'Big Short'; Investor Michael Burry Dumps Stock Portfolio After Market Crash Warnings - nypost.com
Michael Burry saw the financial meltdown of 2008 coming. The book The Big Short tells the story. The following quotes are from The Big Short, which told the story of the financial meltdown in 2008 and who profited from it:
“Being short in 2007 and making money from it was fun, because we were short bad guys. In 2008 it was the entire financial system that was at risk. We were still short, but you don’t want the system to crash. It's sort of like the flood’s about to happen, and you’re Noah. You’re on the ark, ya, you’re okay, but you’re not happy looking out at the flood. That’s not a happy moment for Noah.”
Second quote:
“In early October 2008 after the U.S. government had stepped in to say it would...absorb all the losses in the financial system and prevent any big Wall Street firm from failing.”
Third quote:
“Maybe the best definition of investing is gambling with the odds in your favor. The people on the short side of the subprime mortgage market had gambled with the odds in their favor. The people on the other side – the entire financial system, essentially – had gambled with the odds against them. What’s strange and complicated about it is that pretty much all the important people on both sides left the table rich.”
And the last quote:
“The world’s most highly paid financiers had been totally discredited; without government intervention, every single one of them would have lost his job. And yet those same financiers were using the government to enrich themselves. I can understand why Goldman Sachs would want to be included in the conversation about what to do about Wall Street. What I can’t understand is why anyone would listen to them”
