CONSPIRACY: Max Keiser & Stacey Herbert -- Big Banks Crashed The Stock Market To Defeat Wall Street Reform
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It's juicy theory without any proof, but it has the air of plausibility. In my mind, there is no doubt the market crash on September 29, 2008 was engineered by Wall Street to scare Congress into approving Paulson's TARP. The authors make the case that the same thing happened last Thursday.
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In the aftermath of Goldman Sachs’ public flogging before the world in Congress, and while under investigation, on the very day that Congress was voting on the “break up the too big to fail banks” amendment and cutting behind the scenes deals to gut the audit of the Federal Reserve, the stock market had its greatest sudden drop in history, plummeting 700 points in ten minutes - shades of September 29, 2008 all over again.
If you recall, back in September ‘08, as Congress was voting down the first bailout, the big banks made the market plunge a record 778 points in one day. Fear and panic then led Congress to pass the bailout. Trillions of our tax dollars, the money that we desperately need to keep our society functioning over the long run, then went out the window and into the pockets of the very people who caused the crash.
What happened on September 29, 2008 will go down in history as one of the greatest acts of terrorism ever.
9/29/08 proved that when you have so much power concentrated in the hands of a few, you can manipulate a computer algorithm and make the market and economy go whichever way you want it to go. So on 5/6/10, just as the power of the big banks was again threatened on the floor of the Senate and a deal on auditing the Federal Reserve was being negotiated, in came a sudden and unprecedented ten-minute 700 point market drop, a precision-guided High Frequency Trading (HFT) attack to show Congress who’s boss.
If you think the massive sudden drop happened because one lowly trader hit one wrong button, if you actually believe that the entire stock market can plunge because of one mistaken key stroke by a low-level trader, you are stunningly naïve. I hate to burst your bubble, but this was a direct attack.
“May 6th was an unequivocal act of domestic financial terrorism in America. A day that will live in infamy.
To scare the lawmakers, themselves large owners of the very banks and stocks that they are supposed to be regulating, a financial Weapon of Mass Destruction was put to their head and they acquiesced.
As the inventor of the continuous double-auction, market-making technology (VST tech. US pat. no. 5950176) that is referenced 132 times by program trading and HFT patents since 1996, I can tell you that Goldman, JP Morgan and the gang simply pulled the ‘buys’ from their computer trading programs and manufactured a crash. And when the coast was clear, and it was clear the politicians were not going to vote for anything that would break up the ‘too big to fail’ banks; all the ’sells’ were pulled from the computers and the market roared back.
This is a Manchurian Candidate market where program trading bots start the ball rolling in whatever direction Wall St. wants the market to go - and then hundreds of thousands of day-traders watching Cramer on CNBC jump on the momentum bandwagon and commit the crime for the Wall St. financial terrorists, who then say, ‘It wasn’t us, it was ‘the market!’”
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May 13, 2010 at 1:17 PM
Reader Comments (9)
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6 part piece...all very short...
Feel free to expand on this. How would we know? I'm not incredulous, I just don't understand how it would have been done -- the same way as Max Keiser describes here?
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it would have to be coordinated obviously...but all it takes is a few simple steps when you control so much of the trading already...
Remove all bids...
Sell major index contracts...big time...to get the flow going down...
Show massive, phantom sell orders...
And then wait for others to panic...
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i might have been exaggerating when i said i was convinced it happened in sep. 2008...should have said i was very suspicious...the above steps are exactly what happened back in '08...bids disappeared...
but of course, you can make the case, that everyone was selling because the bailout didn't pass congress...it's very hard to know for sure...
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yes it's a satisfying explanation, but that doesn't make it true...i consider it a possibility...
Original Story... http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=152773
Google hiding story... http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=152937