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Related: About this forumTYT: Wall Street Setting Up Financial Armageddon
"A crucial change in the way financial derivatives are packaged and sold on Wall Street is enabling traders to bypass new regulations aimed at limiting reckless speculation, enhancing the prospect of another derivatives crisis, warn some market participants."*
The Dodd-Frank financial reform law came into effect in 2007 in response to the financial crisis- it required safeguards for investors to cover losses on their derivatives trades. But what if investors found another, risky, way around that? That's what's happening now. Is it time to start the financial armageddon clock? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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TYT: Wall Street Setting Up Financial Armageddon (Original Post)
WhoIsNumberNone
Feb 2013
OP
Banks have been manipulating countries into "austerity" and then installing Goldman Sachs
Fire Walk With Me
Feb 2013
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newfie11
(8,159 posts)1. K&R
HOLY SHIT!!!!
They_Live
(3,233 posts)2. Elizabeth Warren...
...please tell me you know about this.
Lobo27
(753 posts)3. 600+ trillion??????
How is there so much money in the world, how is that even possible. Printing money? Fake money using money that isn't even there. Good God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)4. This is so scary. How can the average person prepare for this?
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)5. Banks have been manipulating countries into "austerity" and then installing Goldman Sachs
personnel even into top positions (Italy). Look at what has been done to Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and wonder not a moment that they'd do it here, because they are insulated from economic instability. It's called Disaster Capitalism, creating causes and conditions.
Fuck wall street.