How Many Trillions for TARP?

Excuse me, but now we have a revision (ugly) in the Mark to Market process. This will provide temporary relief so that the financial oligarchs can find something to do about raiding their systemically risky organizations and not have to do the PPIP fire sale. And the number is somewhere between $3 and @4 TRILLION DOLLARS of toxicity (maybe more as foreclosures continue to mount. Recently published is the proposed (by Geithner and Bernanke) Resolution Authority Statute. It is to non-bank companies what the FDIC has for taking over failing banks. This will have to happen to cure the problem, so that we can stop funding the payoff of the "counter parties" who participated in the CDS and CDO insanity and are the primary recipients of TARP funds thru AIG and others. The MtM rules change is another "back room" scam to protect the oligarchs while their lobbyists can work to get support to defeat the resolution authority or delay it. You notice that the PPIP deadline was recently extended. Why? Because the banks, with now protected balance sheets structure by internal auditors to distort the toxic acidity, don't have to unload their assets at fire sale prices (what they are actually worth), even though their potential buyers are being leveraged 93% by the Government. This reveals the truth without question!!! Unless Geither and Bair step in to force them to sell these at their real value (not market by replacement cost), the PPIP will turn out to be a farce. The change in MtM is the ultimate Red Herring, and any congressional support is generated by the high paid lobbyists for the financial oligarchs. Check out the Baseline Scenario on this topic, or read Simon Johnson's article in the Atlantic (May edition now online).

If we allow the smoke and mirrors routine being pursued to these cheaters, the entire world's economy will implode (by August, if not sooner).

Bumpmeister of GA 8:35PM April 07, 2009