Commerzbank AG, headquartered in Frankfort, is the second largest bank in Germany.

Bloomberg  Nov 28, 2011  –  Excerpts:
Commerzbank AG agreed to buy Dresdner Bank AG from the insurer Allianz SE for 9.8 billion euros ($14.4 billion) on Aug. 31, 2008. Two weeks later, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy, sinking global markets and saddling both banks with bad loans and trading writedowns.

While the Dresdner price was later renegotiated down to 5.1 billion euros, by 2009 Commerzbank was heading for an annual loss and getting emergency liquidity from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Commerzbank borrowed as much as $22 billion from the Fed in July 2009.

The bank, which also had to get about 18 billion euros ($26 billion) of capital injections and 15 billion of debt guarantees from the German government, declined to say whether it got emergency liquidity from Germany’s central bank.

Peak amount of debt on 7/16/2009: $22 billion

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Commerzbank and Dresdner, chasing ‘yield’ in the red-hot subprime market, wired themselves up with some of Lehman’s supposedly high-grade securitized mortgage instruments.  The highly leveraged Lehman bled out quickly when the housing market collapsed and default waves began rolling in.  And Commerzbank and Dresdner got body-slammed with bad loans and trading write-downs.’

U.S. citizens, who did not make those disastrous investments were then called in to bail out Commerzbank…. to the tune of $22 billion.  To help make this foreign bank ‘healthy’…

This is another one the many Fed bailout stories that is… ‘too wild’ to make up...

It’s time to level the playing field.  It is time for U.S. citizens to receive nothing less than the same direct access to liquidity extensions that foreign banks, and U.S. banks and insurers, received from the Fed during the great financial crisis – and continue to receive.

It is time now to activate the most powerful economic acceleration plan in the world — to eliminate massive amounts of public and private debt — and make American families once again ‘financially healthy.’

The Leviticus 25 Plan – An Economic Acceleration Plan for America

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The Leviticus 25 Plan.

Commerzbank AG – #22 recipient of Fed’s ‘secret liquidity lifelines’

Posted on July 23, 2014

Commerzbank AG, headquartered in Frankfort, is the second largest bank in Germany.

Bloomberg  Nov 28, 2011  –  Excerpts:
Commerzbank AG agreed to buy Dresdner Bank AG from the insurer Allianz SE for 9.8 billion euros ($14.4 billion) on Aug. 31, 2008. Two weeks later, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy, sinking global markets and saddling both banks with bad loans and trading writedowns.

While the Dresdner price was later renegotiated down to 5.1 billion euros, by 2009 Commerzbank was heading for an annual loss and getting emergency liquidity from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Commerzbank borrowed as much as $22 billion from the Fed in July 2009.

The bank, which also had to get about 18 billion euros ($26 billion) of capital injections and 15 billion of debt guarantees from the German government, declined to say whether it got emergency liquidity from Germany’s central bank.

Peak amount of debt on 7/16/2009: $22 billion

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Commerzbank and Dresdner, chasing ‘yield’ in the red-hot subprime market, wired themselves up with some of Lehman’s supposedly high-grade securitized mortgage instruments.  The highly leveraged Lehman bled out quickly when the housing market collapsed and default waves began rolling in.  And Commerzbank and Dresdner got body-slammed with bad loans and trading write-downs.’

U.S. citizens, who did not make those disastrous investments were then called in to bail out Commerzbank…. to the tune of $22 billion.  To help make this foreign bank ‘healthy’…

You’ve got to be kidding me…  big banks made disastrous investments and get ‘bailed out.’  And we get ‘austerity’…(?)

It’s time to level the playing field.  It is time for U.S. citizens to receive nothing less than that same access to direct liquidity infusions that foreign banks received from the Fed.

It is time to make our own American families ‘healthy.’

The Leviticus 25 Plan.

“The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather “What can I and my compatriots do through government” to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of-good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.” – Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 1962

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The path to restoring freedom in America begins with reducing, by millions, the number of people who need to depend on government for their daily sustenance.

The Leviticus 25 Plan is a dynamic economic initiative providing direct liquidity benefits for American families, while at the same time scaling back the role of government in managing and controlling the affairs of citizens.  It is a comprehensive plan with long-term economic and social benefits for citizens and government.

The inspiration for this plan is based upon Biblical principles set forth in the Book of Leviticus, principles tendering direct economic liberties to the people.

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America needs a qualitatively new economic strategy – one that will elevate large segments of our population up the scales of financial security, so they do not need so many of these social programs to survive…

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The GAO Shows That Data Matching Can Reduce Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

Source: https://www.cdiaonline.org/data-delivered-for-good/2021/12/20/the-gao-shows-that-data-matching-can-reduce-waste-fraud-and-abuse/

Excerpts:

In 2021, the GAO conducted a review of several programs that assist low-income individuals and concluded, among other things, that better data matching can prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, and can better direct funds to people that really need it. 

In a report, the GAO looked at Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Housing Choice Vouchers, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Medicaid (Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) eligible), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).  All of these programs have income eligibility requirements.

The amount of improper payments made for a number of federal assistance programs is staggering.  In 2019, improper payments for four programs was around $90b: Medicaid ($57.4b), the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) ($17.4b), Supplemental Security Income (SSI) ($5.5b), and SNAP ($4b).

For energy assistance programs, the GAO added that “[b]ased on [its] review of state plans, 13 agencies administering LIHEAP reported using no electronic data to verify beneficiaries’ income, verifying income in other ways, such as checking beneficiaries’ documents.”  The report added that while the U.S. “Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has encouraged LIHEAP agencies to use electronic data to improve program integrity, [it] has not taken recent steps to share information that could facilitate its use. HHS officials said that doing so could help state agencies’ verification efforts.

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The Leviticus 25 Plan will eliminate massive amounts of personal and household debt for working, tax-paying Americans – and grant millions of American families liquidity benefits that will allow them to directly allocate resources that best suit their needs – particularly in the realm of health care.

The Plan will help lift people up economically to a level where they will not need, and subsequently will not qualify for, many of these social programs.

Reducing the raw numbers of people enrolled in these programs will also serve to reduce the scope of fraud, waste, and abuse.

The Leviticus 25 Plan is a dynamic economic initiative providing direct liquidity benefits for American families, while at the same time scaling back the role of government in managing and controlling the affairs of citizens.  It is a comprehensive plan with long-term economic and social benefits for citizens and government.

The inspiration for this plan is based upon Biblical principles set forth in the Book of Leviticus, principles tendering direct economic liberties to the people.

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“He who will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.” – Sir Francis Bacon

Navient is a Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE), formerly known as Sallie Mae, which effectively took over the student loan market in 2010. It is now losing a ‘boat-load’ of money, and taxpayers are ‘on the hook’ for billions.

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WSJ: Navient, the Student Loan Punching Bag

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, Jan 14, 2022 – Excerpts:

The Democrats’ government student loan takeover in 2010 is one of the great policy fiascoes of the age. But politicians can never admit it, so instead they’re kicking Navient, the student loan servicer.

Navient, formerly Sallie Mae, on Thursday agreed to settle 39 state Attorneys General lawsuits by cancelling $1.7 billion in defaulted debt. It will also make $260 payments to 350,000 federal student loan borrowers who were allegedly wrongly placed in long-term forbearance.

The State AGs accused Navient of “predatory lending” for making private loans to lower-income borrowers who attended for-profit schools, and for charging higher interest rates due to their higher credit risk. Heaven forbid a private lender, unlike the feds, try to avoid losing money.

Lower-income students couldn’t pay tuition with federal aid alone, so Navient filled the gap. For-profits also must derive at least 10% of their revenues from sources other than federal aid. So Navient indirectly helped those schools stay in business—and compete with community colleges. That’s another Navient political sin.

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The AGs accused Navient of wrongly placing borrowers in forbearance, which lets them defer payments while continuing to accrue interest. Borrowers enrolled in loan forgiveness plans also accrue interest because they often don’t pay enough to reduce their balance. This is a big reason the federal student loan balance sheet has doubled over the last decade to $1.6 trillion.

Navient denies wrongdoing and continues to fight similar legal charges filed by Obama Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray in early 2017. But it says settling the AG lawsuits was less expensive than continuing to fight. In September it also sought to end its government servicing contract because it was more hassle than it is worth.

But get this—Mr. Cordray, now chief operating officer of the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office, requested that Navient renew the contract through 2023. Democrats need to keep around a punching bag as the government student loan debacle grows.

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Note – “The average student loan debt for recent college graduates is nearly $30,000,” according to U.S News data, Sept. 14, 2021.

The Leviticus 25 Plan grants U.S. citizens the same direct access to liquidity that was provided to major banks and insurers during the great financial crisis. Each participating/qualifying citizen would receive a deposit of $60,000 into a Family Account (FA) and $30,000 into a Medical Savings Account (MSA).

The Plan would put students back in control of their college financing – and allow the government to dramatically shrink its student loan footprint.

It would facilitate a free market environment for higher education financing and provide It would provide direct liquidity extensions to reduce/eliminate loan balances.

It would provide liquidity for loan recipients of non-government financing – and help them also reduce/eliminate debt.

The Leviticus 25 Plan is a dynamic economic initiative providing direct liquidity benefits for American families, while at the same time scaling back the role of government in managing and controlling the affairs of citizens.  It is a comprehensive plan with long-term economic and social benefits for citizens and government.

The inspiration for this plan is based upon Biblical principles set forth in the Book of Leviticus, principles tendering direct economic liberties to the people.

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Massive government spending initiatives – and the law of unintended consequences…

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Real Wages Plummet As Inflation Hits The US Recovery

ZeroHedge, Jan 10, 2022 | Authored by Daniel Lacalle, – Excerpt:

The United States December jobs report shows that the labor market remains weak.

The headline 3.9% unemployment rate looks positive, but job creation fell significantly below consensus, at 199,000 in December versus a consensus estimate of 450,000.

The weak jobs figure should be viewed in the context of the largest stimulus plan in recent history. With massive monetary and fiscal support and a government deficit of $2.77 trillion, the second highest on record, job creation falls significantly short of previous recoveries and the employment situation is significantly worse than it was in 2019.

The most alarming datapoint is that real wages are plummeting. Average hourly earnings have risen 4.7% in 2021, but inflation is 6.8%, sending real wages to negative territory and the worst reading since 2011.

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“Government is not the answer,” as Pres. Ronald Reagan once said. “Government is the problem.”

Government, over the long haul, has an individualizing characteristic of complicating social issues and making problems worse.

It is high time to decentralize the system – and allow U.S. citizens to directly allocate resources, on their own behalf, in ways that best serve their personal needs and wishes, and free them from the tentacles of government control over their daily lives.

It is time to decentralize the system in a way that will eliminate massive amounts of ground-level debt in America, generate significant government budget surpluses and reduce long-term debt, and restore economic liberty for all Americans.

The Leviticus 25 Plan is a dynamic economic initiative providing direct liquidity benefits for American families, while at the same time scaling back the role of government in managing and controlling the affairs of citizens.  It is a comprehensive plan with long-term economic and social benefits for citizens and government.

The inspiration for this plan is based upon Biblical principles set forth in the Book of Leviticus, principles tendering direct economic liberties to the people.

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Norinchukin Bank is a Japanese bank with a hefty U.S. investment portfolio (over $800 billion). It is Japan’s largest hedge fund and has branches overseas in New York, London, and Singapore.

Bloomberg notes below that Norinchukin routinely accessed the Federal Reserve discount window for “usual fundraising needs for U.S. dollars.”

Bloomberg  Nov 28, 2011:
While the U.S. Federal Reserve’s website says its 97-year-old discount window is designed to “relieve liquidity strains in a depository institution,” Norinchukin Bank made the discount window part of the business plan. “We used the Fed’s discount window as part of our usual fundraising needs for U.S. dollars,” Junji Okamoto, a spokesman for Japan’s largest lender for farmers and fishermen, said in an interview.

“We did not have any special urgency or specific needs for the borrowing.” The Tokyo-based lender, owned by more than 4,000 shareholders including farm, fishing and forestry cooperatives, kept a $6 billion balance at the discount window from October 2008 through October 2009. Its overall Fed borrowings peaked at $22 billion in June 2009.

Peak amount of debt on 6/29/2009: $22B

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Question: If a Japanese Bank / hedgefund with shareholders from 4,000 Japanese cooperatives can routinely draw liquidity infusions from the Federal Reserve, then would there be a reasonable basis for allowing U.S. citizens direct access to the same liquidity?

Answer: Yes.

The Leviticus 25 Plan is a dynamic economic initiative providing direct liquidity benefits for American families, while at the same time scaling back the role of government in managing and controlling the affairs of citizens.  It is a comprehensive plan with long-term economic and social benefits for citizens and government.

The inspiration for this plan is based upon Biblical principles set forth in the Book of Leviticus, principles tendering direct economic liberties to the people.

The Leviticus 25 Plan – An Economic Acceleration Plan for America

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“He who will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.” – Sir Francis Bacon

Answer:  $23.7 trillion

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Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program filed an official SIG TARP report in July 2009 projecting the government’s “Total Potential Support Related to Crisis” at an astounding $23.7 trillion.

Barofsky’s report was immediately criticized as being misleading in its characterizations, prompting him to respond on May 12, 2014 to one of the chief critics, Tim Geithner, who was Secretary of the Treasury during the crisis years.

The SIG TARP report did not say that the government might “lose” $23.7 trillion, as critics claimed.

Barofsky: “What the report actually ascribes to that number (at page 138) is the “Total Potential Support Related To Crisis” (and not potential losses) of the myriad pledges of support to the financial system from an alphabet soup of agencies and programs. The numbers underlying that estimate, of course, were provided to us by Treasury and other governmental agencies, the report was vetted with Treasury before it was issued, and the report makes clear in a series of caveats that it was not an estimate of actual potential losses.

Again, the U.S. government’s “Total Potential Support Related to the Crisis” weighed in at an astounding $23.7 trillion.

The effects of that “support” for main street America have been marginal, with the best of it short-lived.
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The Leviticus 25 Plan features a Citizens Credit Facility – to serve as the conduit for direct liquidity access by U.S. citizens – the same direct of access that was granted to Wall Street financial heavyweights during the crisis.

The Leviticus 25 Plan will provide for massive ‘ground level’ debt elimination and restore financial health for millions of American families. Money would still flow into the banking system – after first passing through the hands of U.S. citizens and the millions of small businesses in main street America.

The Leviticus 25 Plan would re-ignite powerful, long-term economic growth and put America on track for substantial budget surpluses. It would drastically scale back government control over the daily affairs of citizens. It would restore basic social freedoms and economic liberty for all.

Question:  What would be the U.S. government’s “Total Potential Support Related to The Leviticus 25 Plan?”

Answer: $21.6 trillion – all of which would get ‘repaid’ to the government over a 10-15 year period.

The Leviticus 25 Plan is a dynamic economic initiative providing direct liquidity benefits for American families, while at the same time scaling back the role of government in managing and controlling the affairs of citizens.  It is a comprehensive plan with long-term economic and social benefits for citizens and government.

The inspiration for this plan is based upon Biblical principles set forth in the Book of Leviticus, principles tendering direct economic liberties to the people.

It is time for an economic recovery plan that grants access to liquidity for all Americans, not just Wall Street and the wealthy ‘elite.’

Loaded up and ready to launch: The Leviticus 25 Plan 2023.

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Global Banks 2008: “We need a transfusion.” And $23.7 trillion later, the Fed said: “Tell Us When to Stop.”

Posted on August 24, 2017

And transfuse they did.

The U.S. Treasury turned the spigot into the ‘flow’ position with the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

And the Fed followed up by turning the spigot into the ‘gusher’ position with their emergency lending, discount window lending, and their QE-based purchases of cesspool-grade MBS and agency debt from various global lending institutions.

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Notes on the liquidity transfusions:
1. SIGTARP, the oversight agency of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), in its July 2009 report, vetted by Treasury, noted that the U.S. Government’s “Total Potential Support Related to Crisis” (page 138) amounted to $23.7 trillion. While this figure represents a backstop commitment, not a measure of total potential loss, it is nonetheless an astounding degree of support, in the form of liquidity infusions, credit extensions and guarantees, various other forms of assistance for financial institutions and other business entities affected by the financial crisis.

One example of the mechanics of these backstop commitments involved two of the major investment-banks which were at the forefront of the U.S. financial crisis, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan who, through their high-risk exposure to subprime debt and derivatives, received enormous financial assistance at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.

Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan received these direct liquidity infusions during the financial crisis via Fed disbursements through the Primary Dealer Credit Facility and numerous other credit facilities. The two (according to ZeroHedge 4-1-11) “had the temerity to pledge bonds that had defaulted (i.e. had a rating of D)… as in bankrupt, and pretty much worthless. . . that have no value whatsoever. . .” Goldman Sachs received $24.7 million and JP Morgan $1.4 million on the worthless collateral (September 15, 2008). Goldman Sachs pledged D-rated securities again September 29, 2008 and received $82.7 million (Citigroup received $102.8 million; Merrill Lynch – $217.8 million; Morgan Stanley – $261.0 million; UBS – $202.2 million).

In addition, the same two investment banking giants, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, earned free interest (again at taxpayer expense) through their access to credit extensions at the Federal Reserve discount window. Within two years, Goldman Sachs was paying out $111.3 million in “delayed bonuses” for the years 2007 and 2009 (NY Times 12-15-10).

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U.S. citizens deserve nothing less than to be grated the same direct access to credit extensions for resolving liquidity issues of their own at the family level, than those that were so graciously provided by the Fed to major domestic and foreign financial institutions.

The initial credit extension outlay with The Leviticus 25 Plan ($21.6 trillion – assuming an 80% participation rate by U.S. citizens) would hardly be prohibitive, in light of the trillions of dollars in Federal Reserve and Treasury outlays over the past 5 years to major U.S. banking and financial institutions (Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, State Street Corp, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, Wachovia, Lehman Brothers, Wells Fargo, Bear Stearns) and major foreign financial institutions (Royal Bank of Scotland, UGS AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Barclays, Credit Suisse. Dexia, BNP Paribas).

The Federal Reserve’s various credit facilities, discount window transactions, emergency loans, Foreign Exchange swap lines, Interest on Excess Reserves (IOER) for foreign banks, and Treasury’s TARP and stimulus programs have done little to improve the financial status for the majority of American families. These government programs have also done nothing to change the dominance and risk profile of “too big to fail banks,” and they have done little to lessen the counterparty default risk in the global derivatives markets.

The time is now to rebalance the financial dynamics of America – and grant U.S. citizens the same direct access to liquidity that was provided to Wall Street’s financial sector.

The Leviticus 25 Plan – An Economic Acceleration Plan for America

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