What’s the buzz, tell me what’s a happening, what’s the buzz, tell me what’s a happening.
This scenario around CDS is scaring the Euro leadership. Greece can force by default, the Credit Default Swaps to cough up. If they are proven to be inadequate as they were in 2008 when they played a pivotal role in the first meltdown after Lehman Brothers, then European capitalism may take a possible fatal body blow.
European exposure to the financial crisis is so enormous that a default of Spain alone would easily wipe-out a fist full of banks and pension funds.
But wait a minute aren’t these loans insured and the lenders protected. Isn’t that the complaint of the Piigs that it is way too costly to insure their bonds.
If you crash a car, you claim insurance. That’s what it’s there for, you’ve paid the hefty premium.
There are fancy financial tools around to cover sovereign default claims such as Credit Default Swaps. Except…..no one seems to be very sure about that.
The world of Credit Default Swaps is murky and highly secretive. Apparently, a chosen few Wall Street Bankers keeps the world in the dark about where these instruments are and whether they are actually worth anything at all. Their personal names are unknown to the general public. But they are drawn from the same anti-social and dangerous clique, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley etc. Their function is putting profit before people.
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| If any Piigs force Credit Default Swaps (loan insurance) to pay out and cover their Debts, the Swaps may be not worth their Bacon. If this happens then Piigs at the market go home. 2011 |
The swap part of the name means the policy is traded around the world willy nilly. It seems their locations are vague and no one knows who holds what and for whose debt. Between 2000 and 2008 Credit default swaps traded upward from $900 billion to more than $30 trillion. In contrast to traditional insurance these Swaps are completely unregulated. Theoretically Greece could be holding the Credit Default Swaps (insurance) which cover their own debts to German and French lenders. It looks like a default swap is never going to pay out to the lenders as an insurance policy.
The secret cartel (who pontificated some time back they were more capable of running the world than politicians) trade their Wall street invented derivatives for extremely large profits. They earn huge fees insuring for events they believe will never happen or will never be allowed to happen, such as exposing a sizeable number of European banks to total failure. It is called hostage taking and blackmail to some folks. In short they say don’t rock the boat or we all sink. Hence the face down between lenders and debtors. No wonder the Euro-Core vanguard sense shaky ground. They also face potential meltdown if the mountain of debt is no longer covered by dodgy insurance policies. What is at stake is the vast hoardings of the Secret Bankers, citizens pensions and the collapse of world inter banking activity.
The Cult of Secret Bankers needs to finish. They have had a run for more than 300 yrs, They need to be resisted and the boat allowed to sink. We can rid ourselves of this parasite banking cartel. Build new modern structures. Put citizens welfare before reckless selfishness.
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