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The government needs to do more than control hybrid derivative protections and the establishments who underwrite them. They need to inject reason. Calling for public registrations and a violent regulatory body are had to guarantee public safety in future hybrid protection issuance's. Directors and officers of banks who bet with others' money should obtain hefty penalties when their bets fail. Both for the company's they represent and personally. They should lose all wealth they have accumulated and the built up wide range of their direct supervisors must be forfeited. Without effects these staff will certainly trigger an additional world financial crisis. Due to the fact that derivatives are complicated, I'm producing a metaphor to make them simpler to comprehend for the easygoing reader as subjects such as mortgage audit can easily be rather complicated.
Everything if General Motors were allowed to bet on the failure of an automobile part? Think of if they were permitted to remove an insurance policy which paid them a million dollars every time a fuel injector failed on a Chevy Malibu and caught it on fire. What if GM convinced an insurance company to payout when one of its very own products failed and hurt someone? And the payment went to GM. Let's call these insurance contracts "GM injector default swaps" or "IDS's." Let's pretend that the insurance company has so much faith in the injectors that they over problem them due to the fact that of their analysis on past injector failures. The insurance business enable GM to place 50 or 100 of these wagers out on each injector positioned in an auto. They let Joe Engineer purchase them in his 401k also though he is making the injectors. After all, injector failures have actually been extremely low and this appears like a no-brainer business decision from the actuaries at the insurance business. In their own world, it represents a massive quantity of complimentary premium, with no risk, and another person marketing the agreements so exactly what the f *ck. Now let's simply say for argument's sake that there were business in Detroit of reasonable moral character, (undoubtedly right wing republicans) who decided to in some way convince GM to alter the design of the Malibu injector. Let's presume that they convinced GM engineers to make it to fail in order to profit themselves on the IDS's. Simply a little failure, no one truly gets hurt, however enough of a failure that causes IDS contracts. Let's even add to our metaphor that these business who persuaded GM to create their very own injectors to fail loaded up on the injector failing insurance contracts. Also though they know that the massive, too big to fail insurance company will be financially devastated, and that the company is of some significant significance to the US economy; in fact the entire world economic climate because of its enormity and just how many individuals and additional morally functional corporations depend on it for all kinds of insurance items.
They are convinced that the government will save the insurance company if trillions of bucks are owed to these IDS holders since enabling the insurance companies to fail will produce a lynch pin financial event. 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 profitable to the GM pro-forma than creating and selling sound automobiles. They know that this short term plan will demolish the economy and harmed many individuals. They do not care since of the substantial payday they will certainly obtain. They justify that the government would step in and bail out the insurance company (s) due to the fact that of its (their) value to the economic situation. At the end of this game there are lots of dead bodies, however no one important.
OK, let's place a new twist on this. Let's say that the company plan to offer automobiles with f*cked up injectors is beginning to look so profitable that GM decides that providing these automobiles away to anyone who wanted one would speed up and dramatically enhance the overall future IDS income accruals to GM and its cohorts. Let's even state that the engineers can in fact produce the injectors to fail after exactly two years of use. The two years will certainly give GM time to develop and give away a gigantic quantity of injector failure made Malibus to bet against. The 2 years will certainly give the insurance company, (who understand nothing of the injector failure design) a tremendous quantity of confidence in issuing the IDS's. The insurance company will really make billions of bucks on the insurance premiums over the 2 years. Their ignorance/naivete will certainly cost them trillions beginning at the 2 year mark as they have actually not been privy to the unreliable injector design charade. All is well in Detroit.
OK, fast forward. The 2 years have passed and the first purchasers of inexpensive Malibu's with faulty injectors are starting to have injector failures. It's on the news, GM and their cohorts are laughing their asses off in closed door board space treatments. The capitalists in GM stocks and corporate bonds are not. The stock is getting pounded, the bonds are getting banged. The GM executives choose to show S&P, Fitch & Moody's that they more than covered for substandard injectors with their injector default swap acquisitions. The protections rebound and experienced experts at Ford and Chrysler comprehend the gig. They suggest their corporate directors to leap aboard and begin creating autos with unreliable throttle bodies and flawed crank shafts. On the other hand they buy TBDS and CSDS coverage from the large insurance business and GM follows suit. Soon all cars manufactured in our cherished America are made with defective parts covered by flawed part insurance payable to greedy immoral b*stards. Vehicles stalled and burnt up all over our freeways are not being paid for are being repossessed. Rich men are cashing checks from the insurance companies who underwrote the IDS's and at the same time positioning substantial pressure on the government, the public and the fed to bail out the insurance company, or there might be financial catastrophe for all. They do not give a f*ck about individuals who die in the burnt up autos or those who lose their automobiles ... Little rate for the uber rich to pay (a little smoke on the highway they only need view from their Lear Jet windows - it's challenging to see from up there).
This is everything happened in our home loan industry. This is just how rapid meals personnel bought half million dollar residences. The home loans were created to fail and presented to anyone breathing so that hedge funds and bankers (Scion cap, John Paulson, Goldman Sachs ... the list is not that long but obviously distinguished) could make billions and billions betting against them. The moral risk - It might well be the relaxing of our economy, the global economy and political military stability around the entire world.
My conclusion ... Merely as long as we have companies that are too huge to fail and who are allowed to DEPEND on citizens to bail them out when they screw up, as evidenced by the current JP Morgan Chase - Jamie Dimon fiasco, we the people have to make d*mn certain that just how they do business is safe. They need to be controlled. Violently managed. Better yet, they ought to have been permitted to fail.
Jeff Greenberg Legal Forensic Auditors
