The current Cponservative Prime Minister came into office promising to make progress with Brexit. She needed to fix illegal immigration and, most importantly in my view, the Northern Ireland situation. Basically, that is a part of the UK which the EU still has control over. They want it rejoined with southern Ireland and removed from the UK.

Since coming to office she has gone back on that promise and some suspected the hand of the US in there somewhere. Now, perhaps, we have the mechanism?

well Ukraine can only launder so much..

How old is this, do you know? I see no dates. Thanks.

This is a staggering amount. But it's far from the first time this has happened. In the 2008 the Fed sent something like $600-800B to EU central banks. The CB of Scotland got $16B for instance. It was in the TARP relief fund.

SO....... HOW ABOUT WE INTRODUCE A DEPT SLAVERY SYSTEM ON THE CROWN..... okay I'll calm down.... just sayin' End the FED.

So does the US own the UK now?

Just a thought here:

What happens if something as institutional in the current financial world as the British pound fell? What happens to the UK which is one of the world's key financial centers and the 3rd biggest economy in Europe?

Can you imagine the shockwave through the financial world that would occur if something like that happened? How many other countries, currencies, banks, hedge funds, or other financial institutions are in such bad shape that a single disastrous day of bad news would gut them? How fast would the dominoes fall?

I'm not a financial expert, but I do recognize the impacts of a system that has now positioned itself such that 90%+ of its value is entirely speculative. It's built on trust and the promise of stability and future growth rather than on real, hard assets.

If you're young, able-bodied, and working, you can weather the fallout of something like this. It'd be hell on Earth, but if the pioneers could do it, so can we. But what if you're a retiree and your retirement is invested in the stock market, and the stock market crashes? You're wiped out, and if you're 70, it's not like you can just go back to manual labor.

I'm not going to claim to have any solutions to a problem I barely understand, but I do know that this is a very dangerous fire to be playing with.