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http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php?p=89965#post89965
The Perfect Storm
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/conte…8/s2482023.htm
Last year Australians watched in disbelief as the financial markets of Europe and America faltered and collapsed. What started as a credit crunch on Wall Street spread round the world, plunging economies into recession, destroying trillions of dollars of wealth and putting millions of people out of work. Now it’s finally hit home in Australia.
For months we were told it couldn’t happen here, that China’s hunger for our coal, iron ore and nickel would shield us from the worst of the financial storm. But now we know that China’s economy is in deep trouble too — its steel industry cutting back, its factories closing. And our resources boom has gone bust. In the last six months, prices for the metals Australia exports to the world have fallen by half. Suddenly, being linked to China looks like a minus not a plus.
Against this backdrop, business reporter and author, Paul Barry travels to Queensland, a state which has been growing as fast as the Asian Tiger economies, to see what’s happening at the coal face.
His report will shock you.
The state’s biggest regional centre, Townsville, is being rocked by layoffs of hundreds of workers, as resource companies cut costs and production or close down mines. The knock-on effects are already being felt as companies that supply the mines also start shedding staff. Local businessman Allan Pike believes unemployment will double within months, to 8 or 9 per cent or more.
Business finance is drying up as companies scramble to secure funds from banks that no longer want to lend. Having lost their shareholders’ money in risky margin loans and subprime mortgages, our banks are now starving enterprises that employ ordinary Australians.
Carey Ramm, principal economist with the AEC Group tells Four Corners, “Productive enterprises that employ thousands of people are struggling to refinance. And you know that’s really the crux of the matter. We’ve got banks behaving very badly.”
Property companies and builders are being forced to liquidate assets or go under. Big names in retail are shutting stores to cut costs or simply closing down. Big investors are getting margins calls again as the stock market heads south once more. And mum-and-dad investors are losing too.
Another collapse — of Townsville’s Storm Financial — threatens to wreck the lives of thousands of average Australians who took the company’s advice and borrowed millions of dollars to invest in the share market. With prices down nearly 50 per cent from the peak, many have lost their homes and life savings, because they believed the boom would go on for ever.
Gary Dietrich is a Storm investor: “I knew there was a risk with the stock market but they kept assuring us it would have to be a devastating loss for a long time before we were even in any sort of trouble.”
Gary and his wife, Pauline, now live in a caravan parked in their son’s front yard.
It’s a mess and it’s only just the beginning. In Four Corners’ first program of 2009, Paul Barry talks to … business giant, Gerry Harvey, Risk Analyst guru, Satyajit Das and the businesses and people in the eye of this financial storm. The way we got here is no longer so important – the pressing question for those being battered is – how and when are we going to get out of it?
Debtland
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/conte…8/s2201740.htm
Mortgages doled out to people on disability support pensions; loans to refugees with no English and no jobs that leave their families with next to nothing to live on; home loans so large they push borrowers below the poverty line…
This isn’t America’s sub-prime meltdown – it’s Australia’s debt debacle, the legacy of a credit binge that’s sent household debt through the roof and lending standards through the floor. Now the hangover is kicking in.
As many as 300,000 Australian households may be at risk of losing their homes. It mightn’t take much – another rate rise or two, a family illness or maybe just the car breaking down – to send people under. And for thousands more who are better off but feeling the pressure, this credit crisis is getting too close to home.
Dianne and her family are frontline casualties. Their home is being repossessed after constant refinancing landed them with two mortgages, one at 10 per cent and another – on terms they didn’t understand – at 20 per cent.
Four Corners meets them as they despairingly pack their belongings and give up the keys. Why did they take out loan after loan? “Because they keep giving them to us,” is Dianne’s blunt reply.
It’s not just fringe lenders but also big banks which have pushed unaffordable credit. “We lent to whoever we could and as much money as they wanted,” admits a former bank credit salesman.
Four Corners reveals how one major bank dished out unsustainable loans to numerous refugee families in one area. Some had no English and no job. In one such transaction a nine-year-old girl acted as interpreter. Elsewhere a disabled pensioner tells how her welfare cheque and small part time wage were enough for another bank to lend her $200,000. She is now in penury.
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Mortgage stress is compounded by plastic debt. “The banks are just handing out money on credit cards like there’s no tomorrow… It’s quite terrifying to think that the average household… now has three months of their disposable income on a credit card balance,” says one analyst.
All the rage now are store-branded cards offering in-house credit with zero to pay for several years – then, typically, punishing interest takes effect. More than 10,000 stores offer these cards and many shoppers have several of them – but behind nearly all of them is one global financial colossus.
Many Australians have gone deep into the red to fund a newfound love affair with the stock market. The amount they have borrowed to buy shares now equals the total they have racked up in credit card debt. And as Four Corners discovers, when the market plunges and a margin call comes, some people are just reaching for the plastic…
Reporter Stephen Long surveys the human wreckage of the household debt crunch and looks at the key players and tactics behind recent aggressive lending. Long’s disturbing report also throws doubt over the data that banks rely on to make crucial lending decisions.
Tax Me If You Can
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/conte…8/s2381529.htm
His present identity and whereabouts are mysteries to all but a select few. When he reveals his story to members of a powerful US Senate committee, he’s just a silhouette on a screen. The man who used to be known as Heinrich Kieber lives his life immersed in secrets.
Six years ago Kieber was an obscure computer technician updating systems inside LGT, a bank owned by the royal family of tiny Liechtenstein. Now he’s attracted international fame, fortune and alleged death threats as a whistleblower, after making off with 12,000 pages of LGT documents that set out its clients’ extremely private financial affairs in embarrassing and often incriminating detail.
“His revelations are explosive,” sums up a US Senator.
Kieber sold the data to German authorities for about $6 million. Now hundreds of Germany’s richest are being investigated for their tax affairs. Jail may await some. And a posse of western governments, including Australia, are tracking the fortunes that their wealthy citizens stashed behind the secret walls of Liechtenstein’s banks.
Four Corners tells the remarkable story of Heinrich Kieber – roguish hero to some, amoral thief to others – and the worldwide fallout from his actions.
In the US, Europe and Australia there is fresh impetus to crack down on tax havens. About 50 countries sell bank secrecy services to foreign clients in a thriving industry worth trillions – and Liechtenstein is seen as one of the worst culprits.
As Four Corners reports, a rare spotlight has now been thrown on the devices Liechtenstein uses to keep its clients’ affairs away from the tax man. Many are complex; some disarmingly simple, like posting letters from neighboring countries to avoid attention.
“Foreign clients come to Liechtenstein because they receive excellent service and excellent products here,” says a Liechtenstein government spokesman, before adding, “and certainly bank-client secrecy might have been a reason.”
US Senate investigators have been poring through the LGT documents and interviewing witnesses – including Kieber – to claw back some of the estimated $US100 billion a year lost in US tax revenues to tax havens. About 1400 people are mentioned in the documents yet the Senate committee plucked out just seven as case studies. One of those seven dealt with an LGT account established by Australia’s Frank Lowy and his sons.
Here is a film you can enjoy for free …
COMMON PURPOSE EXPOSESD!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3664960863576873594
Sinister so-called ‘charity’ … Common Purpose?
They believe in quotas fcor paying the STATE (workers politicians and social workers ‘care’ centres’) to kidnap children and jail adults in PRIVATE PRISONS.
National Socialists?
Nationalists (right / corporates) and Socialists (left / bureaucrats) in league for their New World Order.
This is about the convergence of corporate and state interests in pursuit of naked political power, which is the definition of … fascism.
Pro: E.U., ‘elitist’ and ”diversity’ (useful idiots).
The E.U. is Hitler’s fascist dream wherein everything owned by the public has been either PRIVATISED (sold-off to corporates) or GIVEN to foundations, charities or global organisations such as the U.N.
FIND: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Gentile The founder of fascism, who coined the word FASCIST and was Mussolini’s mentor/ghostwriter.
Psycho Politics … phew!
Hopefully you read this Max,
I thought that your pirate my film idea was great but lacking the whole economic scheme of things. Instead of positioning ones self out of the copy right system why not tell people to opt out of fiat currency system?
Many people keep asking, “well all that information is great but now what do i do?” I think the answer is obvious, stop paying taxes, produce real capital, go gold panning, grow food etc. So why don’t we wake up people to the truth, that they can do something non-violent and productive to position themselves to being less helpless in the future and also protect themselves from being robbed not only by the banks but by the government as well if they are no longer participating within that system.
I took the liberty of creating this video to help promote your idea…
http://bubbaeffect.us/post/94073459
http://www.modavox.com/voiceamerica/vepisode.aspx?aid=37347
One of Faber’s interviews on Jay Taylor’s new gold show.
Excellent idea Max; I’m looking forward to seeing the site.
You propose an honest money system where people actually invest in other people, and share in the spoils and losses; as opposed to this devilish and slavish system of today of debt based greed, and Big Brother anti-free market regulation.
I think the trend, assuming the Internet survives (in question), is private membership websites. Places where people pay a small monthly fee for full access to whatever it is the person/firm offers.
Too many people are not being properly paid online. Google (and many others) are making billions not paying people for content at rates the person providing the content could be realizing.
I doubt most followers of M&S would balk at paying $5 per month say, for more. Get 1,000 of us paying a five spot and you can see how many providing content (like Max and Stacey) for free now could do it for a living and provide even more and better content.
I belong to several pay websites and the model is far superior.
Thats the spirit! – Thank you is not enough but it will have to do for now:)
matt s.,
the bankers are stealing everything and you don’t think there’s a conspiracy? conspiracy is what mobsters do, what the banksters are doing. This is the definition of conspiracy: “An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.” – It means plotting. So what’s not to believe in? Do you think each banker acted individually? It’s not important whether you like jones or not. But if you have caught him in a lie, that would be something to write about.
Jello Biafra used to espouse the concept of creating your own content. It’s a good idea.
Max, your ideas are very good. Keep up the great work.
Alex jones is a prophet of conspiracy. I am not a fan of him.
I personally dont feel the corperate occupation because I own shares of these companies that pay dividends. I plan on living off the proceeds of dividends.
The reason these companies get so big and powerfull is because money and finance is not a subject in school. People spend because they dont know any better.
can you put up the whole interview with alex jones?
it was really great stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDPROKxkX2g&feature=channel_page
I would lie more in the line of my expectations if Max came up with an inventive way to reduce environmental damage..This after all seems to be his most important secondary concern after leading the global inssurection against corporate occupation…
Rock on Max! Good luck with this idea. Regards.
It sounds like a great idea.
Interesting idea, though I keep encountering these fanatics who want everything to be totally advertisement-free, as if no creative person deserves to make a living and they should all be working at Starbucks instead. (I speak of the Creative Commons types and the anti-Google Ads people.) There needs to be some way to fund these anti-corporate projects, through ads or grants, whether any project is creative (movies, music) or software (open source) or both (games, web animation). And the money can’t come from big business, which has been tried already, because that totally poisons the effort and may introduce legal entanglements.