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"Hernando de Soto says this credit crisis is all about (a lack of) paper"

By Justin Fox | March 25, 2009 |

I'm not sure that I entirely understand all the points Hernando de Soto makes in his op-ed piece in the WSJ today, but this one sure is intriguing:

If you think about it, everything of value we own travels on property paper. At the beginning of the decade there was about $100 trillion worth of property paper representing tangible goods such as land, buildings, and patents world-wide, and some $170 trillion representing ownership over such semiliquid assets as mortgages, stocks and bonds. Since then, however, aggressive financiers have manufactured what the Bank for International Settlements estimates to be $1 quadrillion worth of new derivatives (mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, and credit default swaps) that have flooded the market.

These derivatives are the root of the credit crunch. Why? Unlike all other property paper, derivatives are not required by law to be recorded, continually tracked and tied to the assets they represent. Nobody knows precisely how many there are, where they are, and who is finally accountable for them. Thus, there is widespread fear that potential borrowers and recipients of capital with too many nonperforming derivatives will be unable to repay their loans. As trust in property paper breaks down it sets off a chain reaction, paralyzing credit and investment, which shrinks transactions and leads to a catastrophic drop in employment and in the value of everyone's property.Read more: http://business.time.com/2009/03/25/hernando-de-soto-says-this-credit-crisis-is-all-about-a-lack-of-paper/#ixzz1lCKEaF3w

The Debtwatch Manifestoby Steve Keen on January 3rd, 2012 at 8:40 am
Posted In: Debtwatch

The fundamental cause of the economic and financial crisis that began in late 2007 was lending by the finance sector that primarily financed speculation rather than investment. The private debt bubble this caused is unprecedented, probably in human history and certainly in the last century .... Its unwinding now is the primary cause of the sustained slump in economic growth. The recent growth in sovereign debt is a symptom of this underlying crisis, not the cause, and the current political obsession with reducing sovereign debt will exacerbate the root problem of private sector deleveraging.

 

How the Banks Broke the Social Compact, Promoting their Own Special Interests
by Prof. Michael Hudson
READ ALL ; http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28938 
"The inherently symbiotic relationship between banks and governments recently has been reversed. In medieval times, wealthy bankers lent to kings and princes as their major customers. But now it is the banks that are needy, relying on governments for funding – capped by the post-2008 bailouts to save them from going bankrupt from their bad private-sector loans and gambles.
Yet the banks now browbeat governments – not by having ready cash but by threatening to go bust and drag the economy down with them if they are not given control of public tax policy, spending and planning. The process has gone furthest in the United States. Joseph Stiglitz characterizes the Obama administration’s vast transfer of money and pubic debt to the banks as a “privatizing of gains and the socializing of losses. It is a ‘partnership’ in which one partner robs the other.”2 Prof. Bill Black describes banks as becoming criminogenic and innovating “control fraud.”3 High finance has corrupted regulatory agencies, falsified account-keeping by “mark to model” trickery, and financed the campaigns of its supporters to disable public oversight. The effect is to leave banks in control of how the economy’s allocates its credit and resources.
If there is any silver lining to today’s debt crisis, it is that the present situation and trends cannot continue. So this is not only an opportunity to restructure banking; we have little choice. The urgent issue is who will control the economy: governments, or the financial sector and monopolies with which it has made an alliance.
Fortunately, it is not necessary to re-invent the wheel. Already a century ago the outlines of a productive industrial banking system were well understood. But recent bank lobbying has been remarkably successful in distracting attention away from classical analyses of how to shape the financial and tax system to best promote economic growth – by public checks on bank privileges.
 
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Governments can create new credit electronically on their own computer keyboards as easily as commercial banks can. And unlike banks, their spending is expected to serve a broad social purpose, to be determined democratically. When commercial banks gain policy control over governments and central banks, they tend to support their own remunerative policy of creating asset-inflationary credit – leaving the clean-up costs to be solved by a post-bubble austerity. This makes the debt overhead even harder to pay – indeed, impossible.
 
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It is too early to forecast whether banks or governments will emerge victorious from today’s crisis. As economies polarize between debtors and creditors, planning is shifting out of public hands into those of bankers. The easiest way for them to keep this power is to block a true central bank or strong public sector from interfering with their monopoly of credit creation. The counter is for central banks and governments to act as they were intended to, by providing a public option for credit creation. 
READ MORE : http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28938

READ ( http://michael-hudson.com/2001/04/the-mathematical-economics-of-compound-rates-of-interest-a-four-thousand-year-overview-part-ii/

By Michael Hudson

A syndicate of less than one hundred American capitalists, if allowed to collect interest on their capital at a low rate and re-invest for 150 years or less, would at the end of that time own the earth and all real and personal property thereon. This is a simple mathematical proposition, capable of exact demonstration, and any one who doubts the truth of this statement may set all doubts at rest by computing compound interest on one and one-half billions of dollars for one hundred and fifty years, at five per cent per annum.

...Flürscheim elaborated that "All exertions, all improvements in the methods and tools of labor, the strictest economy, the severest self-denial, are powerless to compete with the rapidity of self-increase possessed by capital placed at compound interest, and they cannot keep up with its demands." To illustrate the dynamic at work, he composed an allegory (pp. 327ff.). Many ages after man was driven from Paradise and told "to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, mercy began to prevail. A loving angel was sent down by the Great Master, charged with the task of lightening the burden. The angel's name was Spirit of Invention. He began his work by teaching man to make useful tools" and tame animals, and in time to mobilize water power, air and wind power, fire and steam power to drive machinery.

"It seemed that at last the golden era had come of which men had dreamed for ages past," but "that envious spirit, that fallen angel, Satan," was jealous that his own empire would soon be over for ever. Among the follies of man, one little imp, called Interest, managed to attract his attention. "'What is the matter with you, Interest?' he asked the saucy imp. 'You don't seem to be so dejected as your comrades are?'"

"'Why should I be dejected, master?' replied the spirit, 'Am I not one of your favorite soldiers? Haven't I always been victorious under your august guidance?'"

But Satan answered sadly, "Alas, You are no match for the Spirit of Invention." The Interest imp, however, volunteered to demonstrate his prowess in a dual, helped by his son, Compound Interest.

At this point, Flürscheim introduced an image that Napier had suggested at the outset of his second book on logarithms in 1617, the Robdologia, likening the principle of geometric increase to that of a chess-board on which each square doubled the number assigned to the preceding one. An old Persian proverb told of a Shah who wished to reward the inventor of chess, a subject, and asked what he would like. To the Shah's surprise, the man asked "as his only reward that the Shah would give him a single grain of corn, which was to be put on the first square of the chess-board, and to be doubled on each successive square; which, to the surprise of the king, produced an amount larger than the treasures of his whole kingdom could buy. It is this kind of chess-game which capital is continually playing with labor." The remarkable growth of compound interest soon swallowed "products, capital, the earth and even the workers."

This was in essence the ploy that Flürscheim's Compound Interest demon used. "Look at this chess-board," he told the angel against whom Satan had pitted him. "It seems just like any other chess-board, with sixty-four squares," but it "had the peculiar quality of extending the dimensions of the squares, so as always to be large enough" to hold whatever was placed on them. Instead of asking for grains of wheat to be placed on them, the Interest Imp asked for soldiers. "Now, listen well to what I propose," he said to the angel, pointing to the latter's huge army.

I enter the first square with my son, and you match one of your warriors against us. We enter the second square doubled in number; you send two more warriors - and so on every succeeding square. . . . When we arrive at the last square, and you have a single soldier left after occupying the same, we shall declare ourselves vanquished, and Satan with all his troops will leave this world for ever. If I win, you and your army are to be at the commands of my master. Are you agreed?

The angel agreed, expecting his horde of soldiers to easily exceed the number that the Interest Imp and his son, Compound Interest, seemed likely to accrue.

In the beginning the angel laughed, for, though twenty squares were passed, no noticeable diminution of his forces was perceptible. Demon Interest said nothing, but attended to business, quietly doubling his army on every succeeding square. At the thirtieth square the angel ceased to laugh, and soon saw he was lost.
'I despised you, little fellow,' he signed despairingly, 'and I am punished for my vanity. I see there is no use fighting against you. Demon Interest is more powerful than the Spirit of Invention. I am your slave. Command your servant!'"

"Here I see him coming. He will give you his orders.'

And Satan gave his orders. He commanded that the angel was to continue in his work with all his troops, which were to be increased with all possible exertion, so that humanity - which did not know the nature of the antagonist it had to fight against - would always keep in fresh hope of final success when the new troops were forthcoming. But as fast as they appeared, Demon Interest was to send forth a larger army to capture the new forces, to enslave them, and - instead of their benefiting man - make them increase the slave-chains which weigh him down.

 

THE FIRST TWO BITES TO THE SOLUTION:

1. AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER; TURN THE FED RESERVE INTO THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA (FRBA),RESTORE MONETARY POWER BACK TO THE PEOPLE ,OPERATE  THE  FRBA WITH  ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY, ("GLINDA,the Good Witch, owns a Great Book of Records that allows her to track everything that goes on in the world from the instant it happens."_The Road to Oz) ESTABLISH THE FRBA AS THE ONLY MEANS FOR MONETARY SUPPLY,ALL OTHER INSTITUTIONS MUST MAINTAIN 100% MARGIN ON ALL INVESTMENTS.

The Federal RESERVE Bank of America,make it the melting pot for Federal Reserve.,FDIC,FHFA,and the GSE's,Fannie,Freddie,Ginnie and Sally.

AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER making it a people's owned bank.

1a*All loans by any financial institution must be backed with 100% reserves.No more fractional reserve banking.No more production by private banks of this Monetary Sovereignty's currency.All loans may be used as assets for borrowing from The FRBA so that they compley with the 100% reserve. Any loan that is not in compliance Must be sold to the FRBA os the financial institution will be placed into receivership. 

1b*The Federal Reserve will no longer be needed as its mandate (control inflation,deflation and stagnation,as well as unemployment) will be passed on to THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA. Also the FDIC and FHFA as their mandates will no longer be required. Private banks will have to be self-insured. Risk 100% their own investors money  for 100% reward.
1c*It will be operated by the people,of the people and for the people".THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA will be the source for the American borrower to acquire funds and the interest paid shall be revenue income to be used as funding of their government agenda,for the general welfare.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICAThe Federal Reserve Bank of America will be the maker of all loans,not guarantee them for others, they will be the maker of these loans and will retain all profits. Profits which by law will be turned over to the US Treasury,as funds for Congress for government expensive's.
The Federal Reserve Bank of America:
-Will no longer allow the paying of interest for the use of its own money,rather it will charge interest for the use of its money..
-Will not take deposits from anyone other than the US Treasury.
-Will not be involved in any financial investment services.
The Federal Reserve Bank of America will be the sole lender of legal tender. Any financial institution that wishes to loan American Dollars must acquire(read borrow) any legal tender that it may need from the Federal Reserve Bank of America,as all loans must be backed with a 100% reserve from either dollars on hand or borrowed from the FRBA.
FRBA will purchase ALL residential and commercial loans outstanding at full balance owed.Any private lender may retain any loan it has by simply showing 100% reserve. The American people will be the lenders and no longer will they be the victims of private greed.No longer will they allow the banks that they have entrusted with their money to use that money to make profits for themselves .Profits will be made by the people,of the people, for the people. Taxpayers bailout for Taxpayers by Taxpayers paying compounded interest to Taxpayers . These loans would provide trillions of dollars as TAXPAYER PROFIT (REVENUE)!

Compound interest will cause any amount to double over a certain period of time.(Rule of 72). A 2% compound yearly interest rate will double the base amount in 36 years. The taxpayers will be the direct lender and make the profit (interest).This doubling alone will provide an enormous income stream. If loans are made for $100 trillion,the incoming payments would exceed $5 trillion a year. What a magnificent way to fund a government. 
As Einstein said,"Make it simple."
TERMINATE THE STUPID PRACTICE OF PAYING INTEREST ON OUR OWN MONEY TO PRIVATE BANKS .A PRACTICE THAT CAN ONLY END WITH A FINANCIAL BUST,OR SERVITUDE !

The next wave of stuff that will hit the fan may be the "CRISIS in the derivatives market" if you think stuff was "too big to fail" before,join me in sleepless nights knowing the derivatives market is more than $800 trillion ! ! That's $800,000,000,000,000 !

If $1 quadrillion is needed,better yet,that would produce(2% for 36 years) an income for "We the People" of over $55 trillion a year .WITH NO INFLATION because that is the amount that would be vacuumed out of the economy each year ($55 trillion)  with only needing to use a portion for funding for the general welfare and the remainder for quality and quantity control of the currency. as well as making new loans.No inflation,no new  bubbles with 100% margin.

MUST IMPORTANT it will allow the financial institutions to deleverage their positions over 36 years,thereby preventing a " burst".

It will prevent a "crack- up-boom" because the "created potential money" will not be available for circulation,it will be needed to payback the loans, since they would be otherwise unpayable.

Lord Acton ,UK,"If I am correct, there are even bigger scandals to come when the tide goes out again, although there will be great efforts made to cover them up and excuse them 'for the sake of public confidence in the system.' The derivatives market is a scandal-in-process, and is likely to rock the US banking system and the Dollar to their foundations when it topples. "

Lord Acton, Banking quotes:
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."
John Adams, Banking quotes:
"Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquilit­y, prosperity­, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good."
John Adams, Banking quotes:
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constituti­on or Confederat­ion, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulatio­n."
"There may be even larger losses and anxiety for the unsuspecting who have misplaced their trust in false ideologies, slogans and theories promoted by a self-serving oligarchy."

 

… financial crisis (read loan the financial institutions the money to unwind their derivatives to 100% asset based with a rate of 3% for 36 years.) ,

… housing crisis (read modify all  loans that are  purchased from the lenders AT FULL REAL BALANCE  moditfy with  a rate of 3% for 72 years.Very low and affordable payments.) READ,how this will make a gigantic increase in revenue for the taxpayers, instead of income taxes.

….,monetary crisis (read pay off our debt at a rate of 10% or 10 equal payments per year,by using the income generated by The Federal Reserve Bank of America's interest (revenue) bearing loans.This would be a symbolic gesture since really we could pay off the debt with a click of a computer.

 

WE NEED TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND START ON THE PATH OF A GREATER PROSPERITY.
SOLUTION TO FINANCIAL,HOUSING, MONETARY CRISIS AND CREATION OF MILLIONS OF JOBS (READ BUSINESS LOANS MADE AT 2% FOR 6 YEARS with no payment due till 1 year anniversary date.) IMMEDIATELY AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYERS;RATHER AT A PROFIT (READ INCOME) TO THE TAXPAYERS.
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF AMERICA would be the only legal tender provider for all residential and commercial real estate loans,private personal and business loans.It would have branches in every state and territory.The FRBA shall control the money supply by setting terms and conditions for the loans,thereby fulfilling their mandate to control inflation,deflation,and stagnation. .Affordable loans at low rates and longer terms ( 2011 Private loans would be at 3% for 72 years as rates will be changed depending upon economic conditions .2011 Business loans would be at 2% for 6 (six) years with no payments for the first year.)This would create at least 4 million jobs immediately and may even reduce the unemployment to under 4% within that year by creating the jobs and homes and products needed for this new prosperity that would be a result of this new monetary policy.
The Federal Reserve Bank of AMERICA will replace the Federal Reserve and will be mandated to preserve the quantity and quality of the US Dollar and to provide Congress with funding for the general welfare,life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness
AMERICAN GOLD.
The American Dollar will be based upon THE AMERICAN TREASURE ("ITS GOLD") !
That is the full faith and credit of the American people backed up by the US Constitution and all assets physical and intellectual... Americans " shall and will pay all debts,foreign and domestic."

The American people are BETTER THAN GOLD, and  have tremendously more assets then the worlds gold. Why would we limit our future to only a single metal ?We have all the elements as assets that are greater and in more abundance than gold and intellectual assets that are limitless,why trade them for such a finite amount of gold,gold that is already owned by others?
We the people will create millions of jobs with commercial loans that will insure positive growth and employment.
We the people will have special terms and conditions for student loans that will insure the educational growth of all Americans Ben Franklin,Thomas Jefferson,and many more used this method ,the lending of taxpayers money , to start the colonies on the road to financial success. Then the lender banks took it away from the people by having legislators replace the practice allowing them to make the loans (make our money) and keep the interest for themselves,and at the same time guarantee that they the lenders get paid. We the people will no longer pay interest for the use of our own money,or guarantee lenders that they will be paid interest on our money for making loans.

PART OF THE SOLUTION:

To insure the funding of this great society and insure prosperity there would be only one stream of income.
THE ONLY INCOME STREAM:
1. REVENUE (INTEREST) FROM DOLLAR LOANS.
Lets use a start figure of $51 trillion in loans,that which is already in circulation.(guesstimate,hope it is more)It will go on the balance sheet as $51 trillion loan assets. This asset will double every 18 years….1 X 18 = 102 trillion,2 X 18 =204 trillion. Private Banks will be the only source for deposits and savings. Private Banks will no longer be allowed to do fractional banking . All loans will require 100% deposit backing. PRIVATE BANKS WILL BE ENTITLED TO THEIR PROFITS SINCE THEY WILL BE RISKING THEIR OWN MONEY AND MONEY THEY ARE INSURING THEMSELVES. Banks may borrow from The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America (HOPE THEY NEED ANOTHER $51 TRILLION) and use that borrowed money for their own account for their own investing;at the prevailing rate and terms. NO MORE FREE RIDE !( Some say they may need over $200 trillion to unwind their derivatives.)
Good-bye income taxes as they are known today.
The Return on Investment could be $3 to $5 trillion a year. US TREASURY INCOME to be used to pay off debt,promote the general welfare .
Good-bye income taxes as they are known today.
THIS INCOME STREAM WOULD AVERAGE OVER $5 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
We the people would demand the debt be paid off ,end the possible servitude of our heirs.
We the people would demand a balanced budget.
We the people would demand a real monetary reserve be left in THE FRBA.
We the people would demand the general welfare,life,liberty,pursuit of happiness,for all the people.

CAUTION: They will try FEAR tactics to keep US away from our rights. Remember ,"We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
They will use the fear producing words,"inflation, hyperinflation, stagnation".
You can answer with the words,"I will not be enslaved by the most powerful force in the universe because we the people can use that most powerful force for the betterment of mankind and prosperity."

We the people can use that "most powerful force in the universe to control inflation,hyperinflation and stagnation "! !
We the people will deal with the present possible economic tsunami,one tidal wave at a time .

 

How can we prove that the purchase of $51 trillion of REAL ESTATE LOANS with a FAIR VALUE of maybe just $30 trillion give the taxpayers a revenue income GREATER than the $51 trillion.

THE ANSWER AS EINSTEIN SAYS, "KEEP IT SIMPLE",

It allows for the borrower to be willing to pay off the higher amount in order to gain the asset and eventually actually increase the value of the asset.

 E.G., A loan with todays terms and conditions on a home that has a balance of $200,000 on an asset that is valued at $100,000 with a payment of $1,000 per month (6%rate). Why pay it ? If the loan is for 30 years you would have to pay in $360,000. Plus no one would want to get you OUT of that nightmare mortgage.

But if you take that same loan, $200,000 on that same value $100,000 with a payment of $500 per month (3% rate)

with an assumable mortgage you create an instant "$200,000 " asset value ,because any one out there would be willing to pay $500 a month for that home.Plus if rates increase,they would pay you some added cash for that "mortgaged home" !

WE THE PEOPL MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE AND USE IT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND, OR WE SHALL PERISH !

 

 

PERHAPS,WE NEED A MILLION CITIZEN MARCH ON WASHINGTON ORGANIZED FOR JUNE 2012 .
-WE NEED:
TO CHANGE OUR ELECTED CHOICES!
TO GET THOSE ELECTED TO OFFICE TO AGREE TO THE ONE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM OF CHANGE;THEY WILL ENDORSE THE "AMEND THE FEDERAL RESERVE CHARTER,THE NEW INCOME TAX OF 2012 ,ZERO PERCENT, ( 0% )

 

May  "The Invisible Hand" continue to bless America.

 

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