Some of the very banks that received trillions of dollars in cash transfusions and loan guarantees from the Federal Reserve and U.S. government – at tax-payer expense, directly or indirectly – are now “manipulating benchmark foreign-exchange rates used to set the value of trillions of dollars of investments, according to a Bloomberg investigation.”
ZeroHedge 6-12-2013: Banks Rig $4.7 Trillion A Day Currency Markets To Profit Off Clients [Excerpts]
“Employees have been front-running client orders and rigging WM/Reuters rates by pushing through trades before and during the 60-second windows when the benchmarks are set, said five current and former traders, who requested anonymity because the practice is controversial.
Dealers colluded with counterparts to boost chances of moving the rates, said two of the people, who worked in the industry for a total of more than 20 years.
The behavior occurred daily in the spot foreign-exchange market and has been going on for at least a decade, affecting the value of funds and derivatives and all investments.
The Financial Conduct Authority, Britain’s markets supervisor, is considering opening a probe into potential manipulation of the rates, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Informed observers have long warned that the global $4.7-trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, the biggest in the financial system has all the hallmarks of a casino.
The inherent conflict banks face between executing client orders and profiting from their own trades is exacerbated because most currency trading takes place away from exchanges.
“The price mechanism is the anchor of our entire economic system,” said Tom Kirchmaier, a fellow in the financial-markets group at the London School of Economics. “Any rigging of the price mechanism leads to a misallocation of capital and is extremely costly to society.”
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The traders interviewed by Bloomberg News declined to identify which banks engaged in manipulative practices and didn’t specifically allege that any of the top four firms were involved. Spokesmen for Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Barclays and UBS declined to comment.
It is becoming increasingly evident that many key financial markets are being rigged and manipulated by banks and central banks today. Some of the manipulation is overt, some is covert.
The world’s largest banks are fixing prices in many key markets and benchmarks which is affecting the value of money itself and will ultimately leading to the value of money in your pocket becoming worth much less.” Full article
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And the key question remains… “If America chooses to continue transfusing billions-trillions of dollars to major banks (which continue ton engage in “overt” or “covert” criminal activity – according to Bloomberg) – at the expense of U.S. taxpayers and others around the world, then shouldn’t honest American citizens also be granted the provision of direct credit extensions to resolve financial stresses at ‘ground level’ in America?
Answer: Yes.
The Leviticus 25 Plan.