Currently running a bit of a tangent rabbit based off of some of the Peter Munk speculation, earlier. Peter Munk founded Barrick Gold - which is one of the biggest Gold IRAs in existence. I am looking for connections to Loop Capital, but also looking at Barrick Gold in general, a little deeper - there are some deep connections into Eastern Europe and the Rothschilds.

Will return with a little more solid/refined information, just throwing it out there to see if anyone else has been doing similar work.

So… new research target…

Rita Ho; short-term municipal securities at Loop Capital, came from Bank One.

https:// www.loopcapital.com/news-loop-capital-celebrates-20-remarkable-years

This is where I was just browsing some of their event pictures (anyone see anyone they recognize? ). I just ran a visible name tag from Rita. Normally, I would pass on it if there wasn't anything relevant… however….

https:// www.richmondfed.org/~/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/economic_review/1986/pdf/er720603.pdf

Municipal securities are bonds issued by local municipalities. Deficit spending by local towns and communities. Banks buy these and hash out deals for payment and repayment. How do you bankrupt a nation? Buy their debt to pay for things they can't afford… then leverage at a later point. Whether she is evil or not is unknown - but she is heading up this department in Loop Capital.

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To reference my prior post. Of particular interest to my line of digging is their holding of municipal bonds.

https:// www.forbes.com/sites/chrisbarth/2011/05/13/reynolds-loop-capital-briefing/#4974c5121811

To quote:

Next week’s guest on Intelligent Investing with Steve Forbes is James Reynolds, Jr., the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Loop Capital Markets. Loop Capital is the largest minority owned investment bank in the country. He is also the Chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority. Additionally, Reynolds also participates as a board member of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, Chicago United, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The University of Chicago Hospitals and The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. He is Chairman of the board for the Chicago Urban League and a member of the Advisory Board of the Levy Institute/Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Lot of hats, anons.

http:// www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110108/ISSUE01/301089982/minority-owned-loop-capital-sees-promise-in-municipal-bond-market

And a major owner of municipal debt in the face of entire cities defaulting.

>>9222

Interesting. Those municipal securities are a pretty interesting deal, as those would be negotiated by politicians. Effectively - it's like a loan or mortgage for the city/county, except the politicians are brokering it on behalf of the tax payer.

Monkey business in the municipal securities is a major red flag - beyond the "bad intersections in a town where every politician has a brother with a body shop" bad.

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>>9281

This all seems related to this:

http:// www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120725/NEWS01/120729874/minority-owned-loop-capital-handles-billion-dollar-deal

http:// www.blackenterprise.com/the-giant-slayers/

These guys were a small bank operation that consistently underbid larger banks. They won out on securities consistently.

http:// www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20150619/NEWS01/150619767/chicago-underwriters-swept-up-in-sec-muni-action

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that 36 underwriters, nearly a quarter of them based in the Chicago area, sold bonds for municipalities that failed to make adequate financial disclosures to investors.

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That all basically translates to the same thing that subprime mortgage lenders got swept up in. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack. Loop Capital makes short term loans to cities before selling that loan up to a larger holder.

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What's even better is that they are a minority company held up as a wonderful cosmopolitan example…. And they are doing exactly as the subprime groups were. Giving loans to cities who shouldn't be given loans - 'da hoodz' - and then selling the risk of default up to larger banks backed by the federal government… falsifying information and destroying records the whole way.