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The government needs to do more than manage hybrid derivative safeties and the establishments who underwrite them. They need to inject explanation. Requiring public registrations and a violent regulatory body are needed to ensure public protection in future hybrid protection issuance's. Directors and officers of banks who bet with others' cash ought to obtain heavy charges when their bets fail. Both for the company's they represent and personally. They should lose all huge selection they have actually built up and the accumulated wealth of their direct managers ought to be forfeited. Without consequences these people will cause another world economic meltdown. Because derivatives are complicated, I'm developing a metaphor to make them much easier to recognize for the casual reader as topics such as trading derivatives can easily be fairly complicated.
Exactly what if General Motors were allowed to wager on the failing of a vehicle part? Envision if they were allowed to get an insurance policy which paid them a million bucks every time a fuel injector failed on a Chevy Malibu and caught it on fire. What if GM convinced an insurance business to payout when one of its own products failed and injured an individual? And the repayment went to GM. Let's call these insurance agreements "GM injector default swaps" or "IDS's." Let's pretend that the insurance company has so much faith in the injectors that they over concern them since of their analysis on past injector failings. The insurance companies permit GM to put 50 or 100 of these bets out on each injector put in an automobile. They let Joe Engineer buy them in his 401k even though he is designing the injectors. After all, injector failures have actually been remarkably low and this appears like a piece of cake company decision from the actuaries at the insurance company. In their own globe, it represents a significant quantity of free of charge premium, with no danger, and another person selling the agreements so just what the f *ck. Now let's merely say for disagreement's sake that there were business in Detroit of reduced moral character, (undoubtedly right wing republicans) who chose to in some way persuade GM to alter the design of the Malibu injector. Let's assume that they convinced GM engineers to design it to fail in order to profit themselves on the IDS's. Merely a little failure, no one truly gets hurt, however enough of a failing that induces IDS contracts. Let's even add to our metaphor that these business who convinced GM to produce their own injectors to fail loaded up on the injector failure insurance agreements. Even though they know that the significant, too big to fail insurance company will be fiscally devastated, and that the business is of some considerable importance to the US economy; in fact the whole entire world economy since of its enormity and how many individuals and other morally functional firms depend on it for all kinds of insurance products.
They are convinced that the government will certainly conserve the insurance business if trillions of bucks are owed to these IDS holders due to the fact that enabling the insurance business to fail will certainly create a lynch pin economic occasion. So their wagers are thought to be secure. Let's pretend that persuading GM engineers to redesign the injectors to fail and load up on IDS' was more lucrative to the GM pro-forma than developing and selling sound vehicles. They understand that this short term plan will ruin the economic climate and hurt many individuals. They don't care due to the fact that of the huge payday they will obtain. They justify that the government would step in and bail out the insurance business (s) due to the fact that of its (their) value to the economy. At the end of this game there are whole lots of dead bodies, however no one crucial.
OK, let's place a new twist on this. Let's state that the company plan to sell autos with f*cked up injectors is beginning to look so lucrative that GM determines that offering these autos away to anybody who wanted one would increase and dramatically improve the overall future IDS revenue accruals to GM and its cohorts. Let's also say that the engineers could really create the injectors to fail after precisely two years of usage. The 2 years will certainly give GM time to construct and hand out a huge volume of injector failing made Malibus to wager against. The two years will certainly provide the insurance business, (who understand nothing of the injector failure design) a remarkable amount of assurance in releasing the IDS's. The insurance company will in fact make billions of dollars on the insurance premiums over the two years. Their ignorance/naivete will cost them trillions starting at the two year mark as they have actually not been privy to the flawed injector design charade. All is well in Detroit.
OK, quick forward. The two years have passed and the very first buyers of low-priced Malibu's with unreliable injectors are beginning to have injector failures. It's on the news, GM and their cohorts are laughing their asses off in closed door board room treatments. The capitalists in GM stocks and business bonds are not. The stock is getting pounded, the bonds are getting slugged. The GM executives choose to show S&P, Fitch & Moody's that they even more than covered for faulty injectors with their injector default swap acquisitions. The securities rebound and savvy analysts at Ford and Chrysler understand the gig. They advise their corporate directors to jump aboard and begin designing autos with faulty throttle bodies and faulty crank shafts. Meanwhile they purchase TBDS and CSDS protection from the huge insurance business and GM follows suit. Quickly all vehicles produced in our cherished America are produced with defective parts covered by flawed part insurance payable to greedy immoral b*stards. Automobiles stalled and burnt up all over our highways are not being paid for are being repossessed. Rich men are cashing checks from the insurance companies who underwrote the IDS's and concurrently placing large pressure on the government, everyone and the fed to bail out the insurance company, or there would be financial catastrophe for all. They do not offer a f*ck about the people who pass away in the burnt up automobiles or those who lose their autos ... Small cost for the uber rich to pay (a little smoke on the highway they only require view from their Lear Jet windows - it's tough to see from up there).
This is just what happened in our mortgage market. This is how quick meals employees purchased half million buck residences. The home loans were produced to fail and given away to anybody breathing so that hedge funds and bankers (Scion cap, John Paulson, Goldman Sachs ... the list is not that long however undoubtedly distinguished) can make billions and billions wagering against them. The moral risk - It could well be the relaxing of our economic situation, the international economic situation and political military security around the world.
My conclusion ... Simply as long as we have companies that are too big to fail and who are enabled to DEPEND on citizens to bail them out when they screw up, as evidenced by the recent JP Morgan Chase - Jamie Dimon fiasco, we the people have to make d*mn certain that just how they do business is safe. They have to be regulated. Violently regulated. Better yet, they must have been allowed to fail.
Jeff Greenberg LegalForensicAuditors
