I am a smart guy... and I can't get my head wrapped around this. Perhaps because I have no experience in the financial markets and inter-workings of the banks.
Regardless, it smells horrible. And as ususal, it is all about the money and control. That part is clear.
Trump is playing the most dangerous game on the planet and is still alive (I think). We almost need super-human intervention that can't be destroyed to step in and clean it up. Or, 5 billion united humans will do the job as well.
Financial language is intended to sound undecipherable to avoid scrutiny of common people.
The Anon is saying Iran was a source of financial alchemy. It enabled London banks to add instant value (collateral) to loans, no matter how risky those loans were. The loans could then be sold to smaller banks. It was a win/win for the London banks, and sanctions against Iran allowed only the big banks to have access to this game.
What u/Mister_Winston said. It takes some time to learn the concepts behind what they’re saying, but most of it is relatively simple mechanically.
The complicated part is figuring out how to navigate the moving parts of the machine as a whole, more than how any part is moving.
I’d like to know how they have some ability to generate all this money and “assets”, yet are still somehow reliant on interest rates being in some sort of range all the time. Those two things don’t seem like they’d go together.
I am a smart guy... and I can't get my head wrapped around this. Perhaps because I have no experience in the financial markets and inter-workings of the banks.
Regardless, it smells horrible. And as ususal, it is all about the money and control. That part is clear.
Trump is playing the most dangerous game on the planet and is still alive (I think). We almost need super-human intervention that can't be destroyed to step in and clean it up. Or, 5 billion united humans will do the job as well.
Financial language is intended to sound undecipherable to avoid scrutiny of common people.
The Anon is saying Iran was a source of financial alchemy. It enabled London banks to add instant value (collateral) to loans, no matter how risky those loans were. The loans could then be sold to smaller banks. It was a win/win for the London banks, and sanctions against Iran allowed only the big banks to have access to this game.
What u/Mister_Winston said. It takes some time to learn the concepts behind what they’re saying, but most of it is relatively simple mechanically.
The complicated part is figuring out how to navigate the moving parts of the machine as a whole, more than how any part is moving.
I’d like to know how they have some ability to generate all this money and “assets”, yet are still somehow reliant on interest rates being in some sort of range all the time. Those two things don’t seem like they’d go together.