Economic/Financial Collapse: The Button Has Been Pushed…Ready Or Not

Tuesday, June 25, 2013
By Paul Martin

Investmentwatchblog.com
June 25th, 2013

This week has started off miserably. China had problems within their banking system last night as bank transfers, ATMs, online banking and wires did not work. Europe announced that their $500 billion bailout fund for banks is no longer the case; they now say that 60 billion Euros will be the limit…retroactively. To put this in perspective, Spain had already been promised 100 billion Euros for their banking system; I guess the money is not coming? Our stock market has started the day down 230 points and the 10 yr. Treasury yield is now 2.64%, this is another .12 basis points higher on the day and now nearly 70% higher than it was back in April.

As I wrote over the weekend, this is “one gigantic global margin call.” Please understand how many of these interest rate derivatives work. When the rates go against you, “margin” must be posted. By “margin” I mean collateral.
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To put in perspective what is happening, Zerohedge calculated that the Fed lost $35 billion this morning alone and $250 billion over the last 2 months. The Fed only has (had) $65 billion of equity capital yet in just several hours they lost half of it…again…this is because they hold $3.5 trillion in assets. This is the equivalent of a trader putting up $2 and buying $100 worth of assets, they have 50-1 leverage. They may not even be the most egregious out there. There are derivative contracts that are over 100-1 leverage that must post collateral each day. At least the Fed doesn’t have to post any collateral against losses because they can be “trusted.”

Can you see what is happening? The “button has been pushed” either on purpose, inadvertently or because “they had to.”

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