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"A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."
Point
2 Communist Manifesto,
Karl Heinrich Marx
"Why do governments claim businesses and
consumption need to be financed by debt?
The answer is really very
simple.
The wealthy increase their wealth by lending and they do it
without even having to use their own money by means of the Ponzi scheme known
as fractional reserve banking.
When debtors cannot meet their
obligations, assets are
acquired by the wealthy at fire sale prices who then become even wealthier." -
John Kozy
"The world's biggest economies are reaching an
inflection point where the growth in debt loads is becoming unsustainable." -
William Pesek
"Debt
is the source of all power and wealth for the
central banking system as they do not actually produce any tradable good,
such as industry; nor do they provide any necessary service, such as
government.
Interest on debt is the source of
income and authority for the central banking system, and thus, it needs to
continually advance credit and expand debt.
In Marxist theory, the
nature of accumulation
plays a very important part, in that it holds a dual character.
One is
known as accumulation by expanded production,
which, since 1864, has been mostly concerned
with capturing production.
In this case money is made through
extraction of fruits of the
production of labor.
The other nature of accumulation is
accumulation by dispossession,
which is usually framed in terms of
relations between capitalist and non-capitalist modes of production.
This is accumulation derived from
dispossessing someone of something.
The Atlantic slave trade was an
example of accumulation by dispossession, as
Africans were dispossessed of their lives and freedom.
Colonialism is another example,
where resources are extracted, dispossessing the nation of its own resources.
Perhaps it would be helpful to expand upon Marx's
ideas of accumulation by
dispossession in regards to the central
banking system.
Central banking represents an example of
accumulation by dispossession.
Money, loaned at interest which debtors are never able to fully repay,
dispossesses them of freedom through interest payments and
debt bondage.
Debt is just another word for slavery,
therefore, the the central banking system itself, functions through a system of
accumulation by dispossession.
Conventional understanding of accumulation by
dispossession describes it as
an interaction between
capitalist and non-capitalist modes of production, where the capitalist mode
will dispossess the non-capitalist mode of production.
Central banking,
the pinnacle of the capitalist system and the
primary source and avenue of its power, is an interaction between central banks and ALL modes
of production.
Industry/commerce, governments/nations, and
individuals/people, are ALL dispossessed of freedom
through debt
bondage." - Andrew Gavin Marshall
"Here's the scenario:
The
borrower is a retailer that has been in business for 26 years.
They
have five retail outlets, employ 90 people, have revenue of over $10 million
and are well-respected
members of their community.
In 2007, its bank approved a term loan
to expand the business.
The term loan balance is $650,000.
They
also have a $1 million working capital line of credit for inventory and they
owe $800,000.
The loan is supported by the personal guarantees of the
two business owners and UCC filings on the incorporation assets, which is
basically inventory.
The last three years, financial statements reflect
a decrease in revenue (sales) and they have sustained losses.
When the bank made the term loan, the business's financial
statements already reflected losses.
Nonetheless, the bank wrote
covenants into their loan agreement that required the business to produce a
certain level of profitability.
If the business did not meet this level
of profitability, the loan could be called for "technical default" of the
covenant.
From day one, the bank waived this requirement.
That
is, until this year, when they placed the loan in their "special assets/workout
division" and subsequently "called" the
loan.
The bank demanded payment in full by April 1.
It is
important to understand that this businmess never missed even one payment on
either loan.
The owners were working diligently to reduce expenses.
They hired seasoned retail consultants to guide them through the
process of restructuring their business so that they would be able to remain in
business.
The owners showed every willingness to work with the bank and
make the changes that would bring them through this economic crisis with all
commitments met as agreed.
The owners were faced with the realization
that the bank was going to close them down.
Their new loan officers,
the decision makers, were in
another state and communicated with them through e-mail.
Let's examine
the stupidity and short-sightedness of this bank's decision.
If the
bank demands payment in full on the loan, they put the company out of business.
The bank will then sell the inventory and perhaps get 50 cents on the
dollar for the inventory.
The bank will still sustain a loss of
$750,000.
Additionally, the 90 employees will now be out of work.
And five pieces of commercial property would become vacant and no
longer produce cash flow (rent) to the landlords.
If the landlords
cannot fill the space, and don't have the rental income, it is likely that they
will not be able to make their mortgage payments on the commercial properties.
The domino effect is
astounding." - Joe Nocera March 10, 2009
"Asset-price inflation fueled by the Federal Reserve
– is giving way to debt deflation.
We have reached a limit in
which scheduled interest and amortization absorb the entire economic
surplus.
New construction, investment and employment are grinding to a
halt.
Families and real estate investors
are using their entire disposable income to pay creditors or face bankruptcy."
- Michael Hudson 06/08
Chronic Illness and Bankruptcy
#1 Reason Americans File for Bankruptcy
2008 Off-balance-sheet assets, much of it securitized
credit-card debt at just the four biggest US banks -
Bank of America,
Citigroup,
JP Morgan Chase and
Wells Fargo - is about
$5.2 trillion, according to annual filings.
March 23,
2009 Treasury Secretary Timothy Franz Geithner, a protégé
of Henry Kissinger,
announces his latest plan which seeks to harness government and private
resources to purchase an initial half-trillion dollars of
off-balance-sheet toxic
debt of investment
banks.
Timothy Franz
Geithner holds out the expectation that the program will eventually could
grow to $1 trillion.
April 24, 2009
Nonperforming on-balance-sheet assets of
JP Morgan Chase grew 185%
over the past year to $14.7 billion.
Bad assets of
Bank of America
increase 229% to $25.7 billion.
Problem assets at Citigroup rose 128%
to $27.4 billion, and Wells
Fargo jumped 180% to $12.6 billion. |
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