CHART of banking system collapse, Fed says "Nothing to see here, folks. Move along."

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I encourage everybody to urgently view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBZ81hmZuNk
In it, you will see the following graph, and an explanation:

fednonborrowedreserveseh5.jpg


The Fed has released updated figures, since that video. It's got worse:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/hist/h3hist4.txt

But, hey! Don't worry about it!! The Fed say's the fact that this is the first time in the last 49 years of recording it, that the numbers have gone negative, is nothing at all. Go back to watching your TV.:
Recent Declines in Nonborrowed Reserves
2008-02-07

The H.3 statistical release indicates that nonborrowed reserves of depository institutions have declined substantially since mid-December to a level that is now negative. This development reflects the provision of a large volume of reserves through the Term Auction Facility (TAF) and has no adverse implications for the availability of reserves to the banking system. By definition, nonborrowed reserves are equal to total reserves minus borrowed reserves. Borrowed reserves are equal to credit extended through the Federal Reserve's regular discount window programs as well as credit extended through the TAF. To maintain a level of total reserves consistent with the Federal Open Market Committee's target federal funds rate, increases in borrowed reserves must generally be met by a commensurate decrease in nonborrowed reserves, which is accomplished through a reduction in the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities and other assets. The negative level of nonborrowed reserves is an arithmetic result of the fact that TAF borrowings are larger than total reserves.
Source: http://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Choose.aspx?rel=H.3

Here's an update on the situation, provided yesterday:
http://www.greenrushcapital.com/greenrush_dr_strangemath.pdf

Unlike Enron, the powers that be have assured us, this is an accounting quirk that we have nothing, nothing at all to worry
about. Because unlike Enron, which was moving bad deals into offshore accounts and then borrowing fresh cash against a
falsified balance sheet to maintain their books, this is totally different. Here we have the Term Auction Facility (TAF), newly
created by The Fed to allow banks in precarious financial positions to circumvent the transparency of the discount window, so
as to pledge unknown assets for unspecified reserves under anonymous conditions.
According to the above sources, this is
not because they are in trouble, as one might logically deduce, . It’s because everything is fine, and the effect these transactions
have on turning balance sheets negative is an irrelevant accounting quirk. See the difference?


Something to think about as you try to get to sleep tonight...

Do you know where your FRNs are?
 
I withdrew my money from the bank today. If the banks are insolvent I wonder when it will become so obvious that the public will be able to see it.
 
I encourage everybody to urgently view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBZ81hmZuNk
In it, you will see the following graph, and an explanation:

fednonborrowedreserveseh5.jpg


The Fed has released updated figures, since that video. It's got worse:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/hist/h3hist4.txt

But, hey! Don't worry about it!! The Fed say's the fact that this is the first time in the last 49 years of recording it, that the numbers have gone negative, is nothing at all. Go back to watching your TV.:

Source: http://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Choose.aspx?rel=H.3

Here's an update on the situation, provided yesterday:
http://www.greenrushcapital.com/greenrush_dr_strangemath.pdf




Something to think about as you try to get to sleep tonight...

Do you know where your FRNs are?

Excellent post...thank you for sharing. This is the kind of thing we all need to study.
 
Frankenstein:

Term Auction Facility (TAF), newly created by The Fed
 
Apparently, to get more reserves, the lower banks are possibly giving large chunks of their assets to the Fed. Assets such as non-performing loans, and other such balance sheet items.

So the house where you thought you might lose it to the local bank, will now be held by the private beneficial owners of the Fed's profits.

David Rockefeller, et al, is now your landlord, serf.
 
Gold, buy on the dips.

They need to crash this system so the sheep will accept the new amero currency.
 
I am pulling all my cash within the next 3-4 weeks turning it into Gold and Silver.

If that graph keeps going, as is, it'll be down to -($80-100) Billion by then. The Fed will be just creating the funds they give out via the window at the "Term Auction Facility", so this must be set to pummel the dollar.

One wonders how long the Chinese will continue to sit back while 10% or more of their USD reserves are stolen each year. Perhaps the sovereign wealth funds will just buy the whole Dow, to at least put the funds to better use than watching them be stolen? That, or a strategic decision to get out of the USD, copping a hit along the way, rather than bleeding the 10%+ each year.
 
"Those said to be in very serious trouble included Northern Rock, Paragon, Bradford & Bingley, Alliance & Leicester, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Fortis, ING, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Bank of America, Citibank, Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns, New York Mellon, Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, American Express, Washington Mutual, Countrywide, ACA Capital, Ambac Financial, MBIA, FGIC, XLCA, Nuveen, SunTrust, Westpac, Al Rajhi, Banque Saudi Fransi, Bank of Israel, Leumi, Hapoalim, Bank of China, ICBC, Japan Post System and Sumitomo Mitsui. This list is interim, as new names are surfacing in this context daily."

http://www.worldreports.org/news/121_u.s._supreme_court_orders_president_bush_to_pay

Learn
Randy
 
PROTOCOLS FOR ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN AMERICA
by
Al Martin

And this is how the U.S. Treasury would handle an economic collapse.
It's called the 6900 series of protocols. It would start with
declaring a force majeure, which would immediately be interpreted by
the marketplaces as a de facto repudiation of debt. Then the SEC and
the various regulatory exchanges would anticipate the market's
decline, hour by hour -- when Japan's markets opened the next day,
what would happen when the European markets, and all the inter-
linkages of the global markets. On the second day, US Special Forces
would be dropped in by parachute in the cities where the twelve
Federal Reserve district banks are located.

The origin of these protocols comes from the Department of Defense.
This is contingency planning for a variety of post-collapse scenarios.
Those scenarios would include, obviously, military collapse, World War
III, in other words, and its aftermath. What we're talking about now
is aftermath -- how the aftermath would be handled.

One does not necessarily know how the events would transpire that
would cause the collapse, whether it's military collapse or economic
collapse. In World War III, it would become obvious -- when the
mushroom cloud started to appear over cities.

Economic collapse scenarios were always premised on the basis of a US
declaration of force majeure on debt service. It's a very extensive
scenario. The scenarios are all together, i.e., military, economic,
political and social complete destabilization leading to collapse.
Then they break down individual scenarios. In the economic collapse
scenario, the starting point would be the United States Treasury
declaring a force majeure on debt service, which is de facto
repudiation, and that's how it would be interpreted by the world's
capital marketplaces. Then the scenario goes on from there. The US
Treasury would obviously declare a force majeure sometime after the
European markets had settled down. In other words, they had gone out
on the day, which means 11:38 a.m. EDT, our time. They'd wait until
the European markets closed, and the US markets had been open for a
couple of hours. That's when they'd determine how to begin the process
of unwinding or controlling the collapse to the best extent possible,
mainly because they know that the greatest hedge pressure would be
people seeking to use other markets to hedge their long exposure in
the United States and that the US would be the biggest seller in all
the rest of the world's markets. Therefore you would want to declare
the force majeure when the rest of the world's markets closed. The
declaration of force majeure would be precipitated by the declaration
that the United States is no longer able to service its debt. That's
pretty simple. Who makes that decision? The Treasury Department. The
President does not make that decision. The Secretary of the Treasury
does. He has that authority.
You might ask -- wouldn't he have his arm twisted not to do that?

The answer is that if there isn't any money left to service the debt,
it doesn't make any difference what the current regime might want to
do.

The day of reckoning is now coming. What has happened in the interim,
from 2001 to present, is dynamic, global economic deterioration. The
economic deterioration visited upon the United States by Bushonomics
is not a localized event. It is, in fact, global. We have a planet now
that is sinking into a sea of red ink.

The United States is consuming 80% of the planet's savings rate to
finance its debt. The central banks of Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia
are no longer the powerhouses they used to be. Their reserves have now
been substantially depleted. They can, therefore, no longer hide the
fact that they own a certain number, likely in the trillions of
dollars, of U.S. Treasury debt that isn't being serviced, because they
can't hide it through bookkeeping tricks anymore because their
reserves are so depleted.

Therefore somebody has covertly been putting demands on the Bush-
Cheney regime for payment. Why do you think 2900 metric tons of gold
is depleted from U.S. inventory since March of `01?

Why do you think that $2 billion in currency seized from Iraq last May
is now unaccounted for?

Someone is putting demands on the Bush-Cheney regime. Someone is
saying to the Bushonian Cabal that -- You've got to start servicing
this debt because we, foreign central banks, are in nations - European
and Asian - whose reserves are now nearly exhausted.

Who could be putting that kind of pressure on them?

It has to be coming from whoever is organizing this thing at the very
top, which I would tend to think has got to be most likely a cabal of
people that would involve Henry Kissinger, James Baker, George
Schultz, possibly William Simon. It would be somebody at the very top
that is familiar with how to do this. It would have to be someone
familiar with finances.

So would this be one faction of a cabal blackmailing or forcing
another faction? No, it's not really blackmailing. It's being done out
of desperation. The German, Japanese and Saudi central banks are
saying to the Bushonian cabal, You've got to start servicing this debt
because we don't have the reserves to cover you anymore. We can no
longer make it appear that the debt is being serviced because our own
reserves are so substantively depleted. Therefore you must begin to
cover this debt. If you don't, then, at some point, we will have to
publicly admit in order to save our own necks -- that we were the end
buyers of a lot of stealth debt, a lot of debt that your Treasury
issued illegally and has never serviced. That would then expose the
whole cabal.

The Kissinger-Baker faction are at the top of how this was done on the
economic side of the equation. They were not the original insiders so
much, but the managers of the conspiracy from the U.S. Treasury, to
wit, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve role-play the part.

Take Henry Kissinger. It may not have occurred to anyone why in the
last 3 years Henry Kissinger has been back in Washington more than he
has in the last 30 years. And why are all these quiet meetings in
Washington with alleged senior Bush-Cheney regime officials, as
foreign news services endlessly put it. It's because Kissinger is the
point man. He's the one that is telling them the disposition of other
foreign central banks.

Kissinger would probably also be involved in transfer or hypothecation
of any assets from the cabal. In other words, they're being stolen
from the American people by the Bush-Cheney regime and the Bushonian
Cabal, and they are being used to hypothecate, transfer, service, or
otherwise carry this debt held by certain foreign central banks.

The process of unraveling has already begun because of ever-spiraling
Bushonian budget deficits. The Bush-Cheney regime, even in its overt
policies (now they're overt political, economic, social and military
policies) is generating $600-billion-plus deficit per year, which is
consuming 80% of the planet's net savings rate.

It doesn't have the slack. In other words, it can't refinance stealth
debt by issuing more stealth debt anymore. Nor can they bleed money
out of the system like they could in the 1980s by hiding it when the
overt policies of the Bush-Cheney regime are already producing a
budget deficit of 6% of Gross Domestic Product. There is no other
mechanism that they could use anymore to hide expansion of debt that
could be used to service said stealth debt, and they are, frankly,
running out of assets that they can steal from the American people.

So the proverbial day of reckoning is coming. The Bush-Cheney regime
(and I give them credit for this) are telling the American people
what's coming, knowing the American people are too stupid to
understand. They are telling the American people about the re-
institution of the Gold Confiscation Act and the sudden scrapping of
the Treasury's emergency post-collapse gold note scheme to maintain
domestic liquidity.

David Walker, US Comptroller General and chief of the GAO has said
that should the Bush-Cheney regime be re-ensconced into power and,
hence, the scourge of Bushonomics persist, that the United States
could no longer service its debt beyond 2009. They're not hiding it
from anybody anymore. They are telling you what's happening. Now, what
does that mean? The key is in what Walker is saying when he says the
debt can no longer be serviced. I've been asked this on the radio
shows. People have noticed what Walker said because he's out in the
news more often than he used to be. It's unusual for the Comptroller
General of the United States, which is a rather arcane position, to be
out in the news so much.

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Best
Randy
 
I dont need to watch the video for an explanation. Look at how steep that graph is! Steep graphs killed my kitten.:(
 
I withdrew my money from the bank today. If the banks are insolvent I wonder when it will become so obvious that the public will be able to see it.

You withdrew your "money" but you're still holding a promissory note from a bank.
 
I dont need to watch the video for an explanation. Look at how steep that graph is! Steep graphs killed my kitten.:(

The new report came out today. The previous chart had Jan 30 at -2.4. Feb 13 is at -19.2. Yes, the graph is still a lot steeper.

I've been blogging about this issue since Jan 22nd. Feel free to visit my site RunToGold.com to read some of the posts.
 
Does anyone have a goldmoney.com account? How safe is this? I mean, how can we be sure that our gold is in the vault and that we can get it whenever we want?

Banks today are insured by the taxpayers. How can we be sure that buying gold through these companies is safer?
 
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