Cohen is providing them their narrative.
Thought we had some pictures of him with Hillary and being all chummy with the dems.
That is the way it is all set up to be.
Central banks replace money with currency notes. Governments use the central banks to sponsor their various deficit spending programs. Free shit.
Commercial banks end up taking the bait to show investment profits, and start doing the whole free shit thing, too, latching onto the central banks - eerily all too happy to buy the poorly structured debt holdings of smaller banks.
Market crashes. People get mad at the regional banks who gave them the loan - regional banks absorbed into or destroyed by larger banks… Rinse and repeat.
We live in a world where people revere their credit score as a nearly religious merit. I am considered insane because I don't care about my credit score. It is a metric of how appealing you look as a debtor. It means you're a good goy, effectively. You pay your sheckles and still might have room in your paycheck for something you don't need. We live in a time where people don't know what to do with themselves if they aren't somehow living hand to mouth.
It's insane.
The exact composition of Chaff is actually classified.
You are surrounded by aluminum, anon. It's the most abundant metal we use next to steel. Relax. You're a high-alert type. Sometimes the shadows at the corner of your eye are just a sign you're well into the yellow stress area.
You're not in enemy territory, anon. There are bad guys out there, there are plans against us, but the overwhelming majority of people are good.
The hell have you been, anon? Welcome to a year ago.
I think all of this talk of financials misses the actual purpose of the economy.
The purpose of the economy is the exchange of goods and services. Farmers plow the fields and harvest the crops because there are people willing to use some mechanism or another to convert that good/service into the roof repair they need, the education for their children, etc.
Even the world of assets is intrinsically tied to this exchange. While I agree that gold has value or that cryptos can have value… All the gold on the planet can't buy a deathstar. At best all it could do is try to use capital incentive to motivate people to design and build one.
Which means the banks can play all the paper games they want to. Spreadsheet warriors can take the boardrooms by storm and have the pie chart pontificators thoroughly subdued and the cat meme consultants routed… But if the production lines can't live according to that spreadsheet, then it never was and never will be.
That's the problem I see in many corporations I have worked with. Somewhere along the line, these guys forgot that there is a real world that their farts trickle down on… And they don't exactly smell as awesome when you didn't make them.
I don't think an arbitrary length of time really solves the problem.
Consider… We exempt stocks from capital gains taxes. However, you pay a sales tax on transactions. Perhaps it is very low - 0.1%, maybe even lower - I don't have the analytics to really assess it - but this way, people can still make moves in trades if/when they feel they need to, but rampant and frequent trades are not really how the concept of stocks is supposed to be used.