[Video] Max Keiser – Banking Syndicates, Moral Hazard & Gold Standards

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  1. The shocking thing is that this professor can’t comprehend the disaster that Keynesian economics and fiat currency has had on the world.

    This is also an argument for all the “green” people out there. Instead of attacking the problems at the surface (i.e., carbon emissions, plastic in the oceans, polar bears, population increases blah blah blah) why don’t you point the finger straight where it belongs? At the Fed Reserve and their cheap money and easy credit!!!

  2. is it me or does max just blow this guy up in an even more special way than ususal?

    great job.

  3. that was awesome! however, i’d like to see them pit Max against someone whose native language is English. It seems unfair. Max has already got facts and truth behind his argument, the least they could do is put someone on who might have the rhetorical advantage.

  4. after the show..

    he said ‘that was a lot more interesting discussion that we had down the hall’

    …referring to the fact that he was on the french version of the same debate taped just previous.

  5. Ahh….. what fantastic political theater. I wonder what ‘normal people’ thought of it?

    Stacy Explains the American people are Sheeple:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUF1mcvVUTs

  6. Disturbing that an ISEAD professor thinks that interest rates are being set by the free market.
    The guy must read more.

  7. Mr Supergeek

    …..Also I like the fact that Max put a date on the present financial crises….I had been wondering about it recently as had others probably….as it was about a year ago….sorry but Max said 8/9 2007 he did mean 8/9 2008…or am I missing something?…and why can’t usa’ers just say the date and the month the right way round!!!

  8. Max,

    I’m not sure who the bigger dweeb is, this guy or Lawrence O’Donnell , here trying to beat up Peter Schiff:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJMc5c6z3E8

    Lawrence O’Donnell: “In the campaign yer gonna have 30 seconds to say what yer in favor of.”

    (pause)

    Peter Schiff: “I’m in favor of free markets. I think the free market can deliver quality health care…”

    O’Donnell lets him talk for 5 seconds, then cuts him off.

    Classy.

    Anyway, you handled your dweeb well. Lots of dweebs out there, these days. I wonder if they’re READY FOR THE MASSIVE INFLATION TSUNAMI WHICH IS ABOUT TO DROWN THEIR SORRY ASSES?

  9. After this run up crashes and everybody sucking wind then maybe some will see the light maybe good legislation will pass. Making wall st a better place for opportunity instead of toss salad. Goldman is to greedy of a bastard to stand behind this run up when people start selling that is not there game!!!!!!!

  10. THE MARKET MAKER SHOULD HAVE A NEUTRAL POSITION
    in any country and I doubt UK Hong Kong etc is any different. At least you should know the take with options you’ll lose almost 100% of the time

    If I told you I knew this great casino but the tables where rigged would you play. The media in the US pumps this shit out daily and just about everybody that plays ends up giving Goldman Sachs a toss salad! To make matter worst many of these new players just lost there jobs. Goldman Could end up dominating the whole world at least the game should be fair based on supply demand not a super computer kicking your freaken ass

  11. RE: the Rigged Stock Market Game

    If you know the game is rigged, then why don’t you play by THEIR rules?

    I personally cannot endorse the American markets, becuz the rigging is too wild…
    but the global markets are still half-way sane…

    Think of it as playing poker with drunken psych-ward patients…

    you know the game is rigged by fantasy rules, but you should have enough basic intellect to work their system…
    So long as you pay attention…
    it is no market for the passive…
    Keiser and Faber agree to that, at least…

    I can say I’ve taken some EDUCATIONALLY REWARDING losses, but I have made more profit over all than any mutual fund could reward me, and I’m a practical village idiot…
    Granted, I am still looking to find some work…
    There’s no great need for Fabricators/Welders right now in my neck of the woods….
    Savings running out gradually…
    hmmmm

    Shit,
    the market has become my WELFARE SYSTEM (becuz I refuse to go on the dole out of principle… I would rather die hungry and homeless… robbing old ladies or banksters, so I can go buy some fried purple chicken or greasy pizza wedges… maybe some cheap Chinese food on Chinese Market nights downtown…or I suppose I could sell hand-jobs…)

    You see, in Canada, we have this thing called a TFSA, that allows you to GAMBLE your savings away ($5k per annum, 1%/mth penalty on over-contribution, all withdrawls tax free, interest earned is capital gains free)
    No need for High-frequency trading in Canada…
    we got PO’ASS INVESTORS to supply liquidity…

    I am the prototype citizen of Max’ Casino-Gulag Model…
    Think of it as an accidental experiment…
    I even got debt…
    :D
    Of course… there are certain technically fraudulent avenues of a criminal nature that can be exercised under certain conditions that would help to alleviate any overbearing burden of the aforementioned…
    to which, no further detail is necessary…

  12. Market Makers take option players as a serious threat because of the leverage any retail investor playing option should realize this.
    AGAIN!!!

    95% OF OPTION PLAYER LOSE
    95% OF OPTION PLAYER LOSE
    95% OF OPTION PLAYER LOSE

  13. It’s only my guess but the recent run up in stocks was probably caused by a few retail options players buying puts absolutely nothing to do with the earnings economy none of that

  14. Great articulated points Max and kept the head cool against German profs who talk as if they have no knowledge at all? I Know a German economist working in Holland at the moment who is much and much better than this guy. He’s a laughing stock but they are put at the debating table somehow so you gotto deal with them.

    Strange thing indeed that they talk about new regulation all the time when there was old regulation which worked quiet wel but was removed?

    Why they keep arguing that it’s the best to let the fox guard the henhouse which isn’t done in any other sector? What makes bankers so special that we can trust them because…..they say so? My local town junk also tries to convince me of the fact that my wallet his perfectly safe in his hands, it’s ridiculous!

    What these German dude calls trading is in fact betting with taxpayers money in the most crony capitalistic way amongst friends so they make each other rich at great costs of taxpayers bailouts, skimmed fees and bonusses without any risk taking which they dare to call investments?

    And letting them decide their own bonusses is like asking a thief to decide on his own jail time so he will say minus 10 years which means the police has to go to prison for ten years. How bolt can it get?

  15. The reason I know the game is rigged and I’m not bragging but I’m and expert on probability. Most of which is simple math.

  16. @mike…..screw stocks……..cant we just leave them alone altogether and let the parasites feed on each other? Jim Rodgers is right get out of stocks as wallstreet will soon return to the wasteland where you send your idiot sons.

  17. Max….what did you talk about off camera and what was his comment on gold?

  18. awaiting moderation??

  19. Part of the problem with stocks is the market maker can and does increase of decrease market price friction either up or down at will. This allows him to screw the retail trader. When Mr Retail Trader thinking that the SEC has his back and everything is fine purchases a stock. Mr Market Maker Computer knows your a retail investor the computer will track your position moving the stock in a losing position for you as soon as possible. You might see thousands of trades most of this is market maker chruning not many real retail investors are daytrading stocks at least not successful because Mr Market Makers Computer is kicking there ass! So my advice is unless you think you can out smart a super computer don’t daytrade. The same apply s for options Mr Market Makers super computer will move the price anywhere any stock any index doesn’t matter. Pricing has nothing to do with supply and demand NOTHING at all. Mr Market Maker just wants your money.

  20. Also couldnt understand his comment on gold

  21. @ Max…..what words did you have after the show?

  22. OH Special Note about AIG

    Matthew E Winter
    apparently owns 2 shares of AIG…
    that’s right, 2 (two) shares…
    And who is Mr. Winter?
    I DON’T KNOW!!!!

    Yet, it seems that is important enough to file a disclosure with Yahoo…
    Or it is an enforced insult on the poor bastard?

  23. @Phil

    RE: AIG

    how in the hell does that shit-rag of a stock go from 13.64 at open to 22 ?????

    on what news no less? Becuz Greenberg paid the SEC $15Million ?
    HUH?!?!?!?!
    Am I missing something here?
    Nice reverse split on Canada Day even hahahahah

    I’ve seen some shady moves on the CDN markets over the last week, but THAT trumps them all…
    I’d like to see the LEVEL II T&S on that intraday…

  24. @Mike .. AIG

    Here is the data … makes my point qwuite clear IMO.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=AIG

    PS:
    Just multiply the closing price x volume.
    Amazing sudden increase in money flow on AIG.

    I am VERY suspicious !

  25. @Mike

    Did you notice they did a reverse split 20:1 on AIG a few weeks ago.

    Did you also notice the recent trade volumes ?
    ( GS Program Trading ? )

    120 mio. shares per day x 20$ means a lot more money now going through their system than the 5-10 mio. shares per day x 1$ a few months ago.

    Just makes me puke !

  26. Mr Supergeek

    @All Y’All
    For those that need explanation…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_p9AbWQ2wc

  27. Mr Supergeek

    @All Y’All
    Nobody has mentioned that max got away with saying ‘toss the salad’…I’m only 2 mins in wow!

  28. I loved the “controlled demolition” analogy……..911

  29. My suggestion for the past 2 week run up in DOW!

    Aug 6, 2009 DOW went from 8000 to 9250 a 1250 point jump in 2 weeks!
    Once the selling starts from this HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING Its not going to be pretty
    Remember we are in hard times people are losing there job etc. Many of the market participates are using money they can’t afford to lose. I believe the market was artificially pumped and even a slight correction will cause a mass exit.

    Another incredible GOLDMAN SACHS Wall St Sucker Punch!

    REMEMBER THIS POST WHEN EVERYONE IS RUNNING FOR THE DOOR

  30. Mike/Liverpool

    I gone with my brother & his mates, it wasn’t that far away.

    I AM on some footage of that day BTW.
    Mike

  31. Harold fooled me for a sec with the intellectual looking German architect glasses… thought he might be a reasonable, objective, grown-up. But then he opened his mouth.

  32. Mr Supergeek

    @Citizen Zombie
    I thought that but…..sometimes…well it’s too easy.

  33. Citizen Zombie

    Mike/Liverpool:

    You said you were 45 last week, when you wanted a cure for baldness.

    If you saw Malcolm Mclarens gimps in 1976, you must have got in at the age of 12.

    Respect.

  34. max rocks.

  35. Max, although I agree with you on most of your points, you need to brush up on your gold standard argument again. Did the gold standard cause the depression to be worse? How do you stop a run on gold reserves like the French did after WWII? And finally, in an almost cashless world of credit living, isn’t inflation easier to regulate than deflation?

    Thanks a lot for all the good work!

  36. @Guiseppe………….nicely put!

  37. I am getting tired of all the bullshit.

    Max & Stacy, I order you to close down the financial system so we finally get the damn collapse!

    :P

  38. LOL, Good work Max!

  39. BWAHAHahaha

    Where does France24 get these Chumps for you to trounce?
    “Monkey-Cheek” Rouhou, and now Harald “who-dat” Rau ??
    I think they stack the deck on purpose…

    It’s like watching Mike Tyson in his early career…
    Max comes out and starts laying in the beats,
    the opponents use weak defence with shaky pillow-fist comebacks,
    and get KO’d in the second flurry…

    His ignorance of HF-Trading was what made me gawk in awe…
    “Show me scientific evidence”????
    Look at the Level II ticker on the NASDAQ or AMEX…
    Look at the “compromised” software issue @ Goldmung Sucks…
    Salut??? C’est ici ou non ?

    Now if FRANCE24 could get Rat-Face Geithner, Hanky Panky Paulson, or Helicopter Ben on the other side of the table against Keiser,
    we’d see Rumble in the Jungle with Thrilla in Manilla
    all in one…
    Ahhh… but like Tyson vs Ali,
    we’ll only see it in Video Games (at best)

    Of course, in the event that the situation ever arose,
    They’d have to wheel Max out like Hannibal Lecter, so he couldn’t eat their face off;)

  40. @sharon…as always thank you much!

  41. In-Depth Look – Stealing Secrets from Goldman Sachs – Bloomberg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrlQSMCx-aE&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

    Old but just in case anyone has not yet seen it.
    Quite funny … GS faster than Congress in getting the FBI to arrest someone.

  42. Harold thinks “we should have tougher capital standards.” Where could we possibly get capital from? Printing presses don’t produce capital, unemployed people don’t, and neither do employed people with no reason to save at 0.25% interest while high risks of inflation loom.

  43. @ Tim Gandee,
    Apparantly yes. You might want to look up Mary Croft who explains how this worksin the US:-

    http://freedom-school.com/mary_elizabeth_croft.pdf

    I don’t know if you’re in the US or UK but other sites that go into this are:-

    http://www.fmotl.com/

    http://tpuc.org/

    If we were all aware of the fact that we have been made into corporations (this is what happens when a birth is registered and a bond is issued) so that the other corporations (police, courts, gov. depts. etc) can deal with us under statute law (which is contract law and requires our consent) then we could all tell them to go f*ck themselves. BTW members of Parliament are directors of a corporation. We need to get onto this before they take away our soveriegnty. I this can be exposed I think we will find out that America and Britain (and others) are now just corporations owned by the elites. If we want to take back our countries we can.

  44. HANK PAULSON WAS A SUICIDE BOMBER FOR GOLDMAN SACHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    MAX IS RIGHT HANKY PANKY PAULSON SHOULD LOCKED UP!!!!

  45. Harold has two faces literally. I typically only see this in professional liars like poker players. His eyes and mouth don’t match in their expressions. He also suffers from a perpetual pulling down of the corners of his mouth to conceal micro-expressions such as the smirk of a liar who feels satisfied when they believe they’ve lied effectively. You’ve all probably noticed another perpetual liar pull the corners of his mouth down so much that it permanently distorted his face. (Bush Jr)

  46. The American People are awakening to the truth about markets. The movement of truth is coming through the understanding of the actions of the central banks and their dealers, Perhaps the shift in power necessary for abundance for all who pursuit it will come to life in the near term. The biggest quote I try to relate to my little sphere of influence comes from the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Satan, Benjamin “Beelzebub” Benanke. This was stated in past Congressional testimony and is something that can possibly lead the People to finally grasp and understand the magnitude of power held in the hands of the few behind closed doors.

    He stated, “Of course, one can never get something for nothing; from a public finance perspective, increased monetization of government debt simply amounts to replacing other forms of taxes with an inflation tax.” The deficits for all bailouts, warfare, and serfdom of the American People lies in the ability for the central bank to create an environment where there is continuous debt and servitude for all who are not connected in the syndicate. Congress, unfortunately obliges time and time again whether it is Cash for Clunkers, Bailout and TARPs, or werfare throughout the world.

    The reality is the bankers were indeed telling the truth when they stated “We are all going to die!!!” The bankers indeed meant that they were all going to be eliminated from the global ponzi scheme if they could not extort money from the public trough to cover their bets which were intended to implode. The thing that many of the American People did not grasp is that the bankers are referring to themselves in the pronouncement of “we”. The ignorant public mistakenly believed that “we” was a collective statement of all the people. The bankers needed to pile their debt onto the public. End of story. The cycle was then able to continue as it is today.

    That leads me to a question. I have read and heard that this debt load held on by the public right now is already taken care of under UCC code in prepaid accounts. Does anyone know if the scheme indicated in the following website true? http://www.real-debt-elimination.com/debt-elimination/bailout_for_the_people.htm

    I have seen many articles and books that point to this, but I am just a recently awakened American and I have no idea.

  47. @Phil……….… ” Not only will there be no sustained recovery, but if this trend continues, the pigs feeding at the trough will most likely be slaughtered. It is the lesson of history. ” ….

    Right, we need addresses and diary activity. Then we come up with a plan based on the info. Timing will be key.

  48. Ahhhh……………

    A breath of fresh air!

    I went to grad school in Germany for economics in order to try and escape the Math/Calculus/Econometrics tomfoolery that is passed off as intellectual thought in America. Unfortunately I could not escape its clutches even across the pond. I remember this specific example of a top British economist who was actually ADVISING T. Blair’s gov’t at the time, coming in as a guest lecturer and telling us that the more debt a country has the wealthier they are!!!! In the class myself and a Bavarian guy said that in the long run this doesn’t make any sense. We went on to name a myriad examples of the unintended consequences of debt that didn’t seem to be represented in his quantitative examples. After becoming slightly frustrated with us he then silenced the conversation with a poignant statement: “You’ll understand one day,” he said.

    The cold way in which that particular statement was uttered will, I hope, sit with me for the rest of my life. Because what he really meant by that statement is that once you’re on the payroll of the inner-circle/oligarchy THEN you’ll understand the benefit of being purposefully cancerous to society.

    I’m sorry Max that you had to sit with one of these Kool-Aid drinkers….. but I sure enjoyed watching you mop the floor with him.

    Don’t forget to check out these Max Keiser vids…… Let’s make this another viral Keiser video on the web!!!! Oh…. let’s not forget about Stacy either……

    Savers vs. Speculators
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7gDgLScQmU

    Program Trading
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRhyWZnGjyc

    Slavery in America
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vzVsxE98ZE

    Beware of Paper Wealth
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOx1fo7oP2g

  49. they don’t call him keiser for nothing…!

  50. haha! That harold guy is an ass!

  51. BTW Max, that’s the 2nd guy you’ve been on with on France 24 (in just a few weeks) who has laughed at the idea of a gold standard. Have they all decided to dismiss gold? Is that the new agenda? And if so how does that affect us goldbugs?

  52. Max….. every interview with…….. ANYONE ….
    you shine like a brilliant supernova of intelligence and make each and everyone of them look like a complete and utter fool.
    You are the man ! No one compares in understanding of the global financial system and the controlled demolition of the dollar by the entity controlling the money supply.

  53. @rb .. on “Nazi scalps”

    NANCY PELOSI & BARBARA BOXER ATTACK CONCERNED CITIZENS
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzonGRCGJ_Q

    What is really funny – at the end – is that Boxer accuses the Internet media of conspiring to bring down the president.

    … “It’s all planned to hurt our president and it’s to change the congress ” …

    Too right — change the Congress !

  54. I thought that guy would have learned his lesson from the last face off.

    And max, you should make a parody of the Inglorious Basterds preview where instead of asking for nazi scalps you tell your troops to get some banker scalps. I think it would work nicely.

  55. US Consumer Demand Off a Cliff as the Crisis Deepens
    http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2009/08/us-consumer-demand-off-cliff.html

    … ” Not only will there be no sustained recovery, but if this trend continues, the pigs feeding at the trough will most likely be slaughtered. It is the lesson of history. ” ….

  56. @Frances,…..Cash for clunkers will “jump start the economy” ,..now you know they’re taking the piss!!

  57. Max, that statement at the end was priceless haha

  58. MSNBC : Vampire Capitalism

    Did they steal one of Max’s catch-phrases ?
    ;-)

    The Bailouts Have Driven Dylan Ratigan To The Edge Of Insanity
    http://dailybail.com/home/the-bailouts-have-driven-dylan-ratigan-to-the-edge-of-insani.html

    @ca. 4 minutes +++
    “Congress refuses to enforce the rules of Capitalism”

  59. I was just listening to some music,….and watching this, question,..do some folk have too much time on their hands?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq–Nw

  60. Hey, the sleeping giant in the US is up for its morning cup of coffee, as Alex Jones put it.

    The US is waking without any institutionalized form of protest–national labor relations board for instance, which was set up in 1935 to administer disputes between employees and employers. Why? Because spontaneous resistance in the US was too effective. So, just make the workers go through a judge, gatekeeper of the system.

    Geithner is yelling at Bernanke. Representatives are canceling their speaking tours—the last acts of tyrants!

  61. What this guy said when Max said that solution is gold backed currency??

    He was laughing! Gold was currency for 6000yr. Paper money fail after 40 yr.

    Scientific view tell us that Max is totally off base!
    Hahahhaha

    Gold standard will solve mess, but it will take time …

    I was able to predict big problems comming in 2001, when I sow 2 North American engineeers tryng to covert pounds per square inch into N/m2 (pascals)

    It was funny … they downlod some shareware and did the job, but when they close program message appears:
    “This is a demo version, so some results are not correct … ”

    Max (and Stacy) keep up good work …

  62. @vagabond … “why should a ‘banker ‘ or ‘ trader ‘ be worth more than a doctor, teacher ? , ambulance driver ?, health care worker ,/ engineer ?,”
    .
    .
    .
    I agree , and posted the same yesterday at a Semiconductor message board, with respect to e.g. cpu and graphic chip developers that are on the forefront of applied science.

    The reason ?
    … the bankers have “assumed control” over our money … period.
    i.e. they think it is THEIR money.

    Of course , money is supposed to be simply a “trustable wealth transfer” instrument. The economy creates the wealth and the bankers are supposed to “look after it” !
    LOL … Max is right, where’s the guillotine ?

  63. frances snoot

    I imagined the slate-eyed fiend up!

  64. @Frances,….who’s Madelitist, never heard of her, sounds like a right handful!

  65. Nice show … that poor guy from Insead !
    ;-)

    Of course, he has to protect the status-quo and oligarthy , otherwise he might lose his job.
    I attended Insead for a few weeks with Prof. Spyros Makridakis over 30 years ago. I spent most of my time playing gold, horse riding and dining in the beautiful chateaux. It’s certainly “the” Elite University, although I myself do not belong to it .
    ;-)

    The Insead guy was not as naiive as he made out to be, but as I said , has a vested interest in protecting the status quo IMO.

  66. frances snoot

    Mad elitist check-list:

    Lower interest rates to zero. check
    Transfer wealth to friends and family. check
    Carve up American industry. check
    Disrupt the credit cycle, strangle small business, outlaw farms. check
    **
    Devalue dollar and pound sterling
    Start world war #3 in Caucasus

  67. Hunger hits Detroit’s middle class
    Food has long been an issue in this city without a major supermarket. Now demand for assistance is rising, affecting a whole new set of people.
    http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/06/news/economy/detroit_food/index.htm?postversion=2009080608

    …. ” In this recession-racked town, the lack of food is a serious problem. It’s a theme that comes up again and again in conversations in Detroit. There isn’t a single major chain supermarket in the city, forcing residents to buy food from corner stores. Often less healthy and more expensive food.

    As the area’s economy worsens –unemployment was over 16% in July — food stamp applications and pantry visits have surged.

    Detroiters have responded to this crisis. Huge amounts of vacant land has led to a resurgence in urban farming. Volunteers at local food pantries have also increased. “…….

    Pretty sad and scary of course !

  68. frances snoot

    When will Mr. Pritchard-Evans speak?

  69. how infuriating ! ,…these people just don’t seem to get it ? the sense of entitlement is just truely galling ! [ i hope that you were able to settle things out side in car park , give your mate harold glasgow kiss , headbutt , just joking ! ] the thing that comes across from watching people like harold is people like this seem to be the kind to be very ,very, forgiving in and of themselves but very ,very unforgiving of others ,that is why they and the mean minded policies that they espouse are so dangerous . why should a ‘banker ‘ or ‘ trader ‘ be worth more than a doctor, teacher ? , ambulance driver ?, health care worker ,/ engineer ?, scientist ?, fireman ?,policeman , ?emergency servies worker ?, tradesman ? garbage collector, ….? saw a cartoon ,it said that if people like nurses, teachers, doctors tradesmen etc were all on bankers ‘traders’ salaries we wouldn’t be in the mess that we are in ? true or not true ? our values seem to be completely back to front and upside down , whats wrong with a ‘banker’ or ‘ trader’ being on a teachers salary ? harold, sorry mate but you’d better hop it to the back of the queue as there are others far more deserving .

  70. BlackDouglas

    Yeh,
    Saying that you can’t blame the traders is the Nuremberg Defence – ‘I was only following orders’.

  71. liverpool mike

    now THAT’s a thing of beauty.

  72. Mike2liverpool

    Stacy
    Yes, but i want it to totally Crash & Burn……..
    Mike

  73. Mike2liverpool

    Max
    I saw the Sex Pistols LIVE in The Free trade centre in 76!!!!!!
    I Spoke to them!

    One of historys great monments!
    Mike

  74. Hmm..Carter killed Punk in the US..So the happy semi punk was subsidized surrogate and my depressing adolescent years with soap in my hair and all the black army dump clothes where all a Disney production…We could say that the babyboomer generation was the last that grew up dead serious, simply denying that mental state to their offspring. Now decency is killing us..

    My other post I referred to Don King, I intended to compare his vocal liquidity to Maxes, but his person is worth a study too, as he was (and is) a ruthless criminal… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmueNZReeo

  75. Jeannon Kralj

    Max has the wonderful gift of perceiving the absurdity and engaging in the theatre of the absurd. He expresses outrage and “I can’t believe this blatant grand theft” (“incredulity”?) in not only an entertaining way (as Alex Jones often does) but he back ups his antics with pithy logic and facts to teach and expose the bovine excrement.

    Only think I did not like about what Max suggested was some kind of global currency as the solution. Probably definitely going to happen, but to me that is simply saying the one world death and slavery system is a viable solution. (Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.)

    I do believe in non-fiat money, but acknowledge some kind of (U.S.) government issued fiat currency might be an immediate interim solution to imminent meltdown. To me, silver and gold has a whole lot to do with honest weights and measures to be used as money!
    Money is NOT paper (which is a promise), not electronic credits, not chips, not a mark, nor a number!

    Now here is something that is a puzzlement to me.

    Read this article ..

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124940289965505053.html

    • AUGUST 6, 2009
    Ban on Flash Orders Is Considered by SEC
    Schapiro Sees Inequity While Exchanges Wrestle for Market Share in High-Speed Trading

    It speaks of “inequity that results from flash orders”.
    It said Chucky (as in Schumer) demanded a ban on flash orders –said gave high-frequency traders an advantage over retail investors.

    Max seems to use the term “front runners” and “high frequency traders” and “program traders” synonymously.

    Max was a while back saying GS stole 100 mil a day from the trading floor, and is now saying 200 mil a day being stolen by all the high frequency traders.

    Question # 1

    Is this a correct statment?
    “All “frash trading” is “front running trading” but not all “front running trading” is “flash trading”?

    Question # 2

    Are the traders on the floor each day who not using special computer program type trading insane or evil?

  76. nice max.

    looked up http://karmabank.com/

    said it was for sale?

  77. Richard@lattitude30N – I believe Max did actually do theatre at university…

    Awesome appearance Max!

    Balls of steel as always, and letting that muppet speak for a wee while was actually a good move because you could more easily hoist him with his own petard!

    Too bad there aren’t too many like you getting air time. I should plug Webster Tarpley though. The man is a legend. Right on the ball every time. Just breathtaking. Doesn’t get on with humans thaaat well, but is far more morally good than I. Very humanitarian anyway.

  78. @Mike/Liverpool – your thing of beauty started today with more QE, pound tanked against gold

    http://www.taxfreegold.co.uk/goldpriceslive.html

  79. Somewhere a along the line I completely missed what this “Thing of Beauty” is that everyone is talking about. I’m guessing it’s inflation and the implosion of currencies? Gold going ballistic?

    Someone splain it to me. Thanks.

    As to the bonus debate by Max: One of the most one sided intellectual boxing matches I’ve seen and it was sheer pleasure watching that pretender get pounded with the ‘lefts and rights’ of truth and logic.

  80. I agree that the next six months could bring some bad ju ju. I hope people are preparing. BTW – nice power tie!

  81. Johnny Dangereaux

    FOCUS ON AND EXPOSE THIS GUY, HE IS ONE OF THE RING LEADERS!!

    http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2004/05/04/41858.htm

  82. Good work Max – I like that presenter, he just lets the two debaters go at it

    “Russian subs near US waters is normal procedure” – Russian Navy
    http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-08-05/russian-subs-us-waters.html

    Not all empires die in Afghanistan? (LISTEN THE THE CRAP COMING OUT OF THIS SPIN DOCTORS MOUTH)
    http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-08-05/us-nato-afghanistan-ortagus.html

    NZ Employment Continues To Deteriorate
    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nz-employment-continues-deteriorate

    Germany’s Steinbrück Warns of Return of ‘Casino Capitalism’
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,640813,00.html

    China’s New Purchasing Powerhouse: Women
    http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/05/china-women-marketing-leadership-managing-retail.html

  83. Great work Max & Stacey!

    “Stupidity has a certain charm — ignorance does not.”
    Frank Zappa

  84. @Sharon,…Maybe why they are rapidly pushing through all these treaties and new EU laws etc, to rid folk of their present constitutions ! And not forgetting Common Purpose of course.

  85. @Dedo……..well done for checking that out. You know I do really think that the thing that scares ‘them’ the most is if we find out that we can have them by the balls simply by using their laws against them. ie. knowing everything is a corporation and that any dealings must be done through contracts. This means that everything they do (except anything that falls under common law) requires the consent of those contracting – us! Most do not know this and that enables ‘them’ to play out the biggest scam in history. This is our way out because it means that by law we do not have to pay taxes if we decide not to give our consent to paying them. It also applies to just about every law they’ve introduced in the last god knows how many hundreds of years of which there are thousands. The peope need to start dealing amongst themselves and thereby dismissing the authority of the state and the banksters – it can be done; we have the law on our side to do it!

  86. Citizen Zombie

    Can’t help but imagine that these Face-off fliks are akin to the old boxing matches whereby the winner (Max) stays in the ring and the ECB gimps are all sitting around drawing straws as to who gets beaten up next. Great sport.

  87. I realise why they have such a big table on this show.
    So Max doesn’t slug that awful smug git !!!!!

    Max was brilliant. Got out so many points in such a short time. Well done!

    This Harold man just shows the difference between the Bankers world and the Real world.

    That is the problem. These guys live in a fictitious world, like ‘second life’. I think they truly believe that it is a good world. Harold needs to spend some time in a soup kitchen. Its all economic theory rubbish and nowhere near the reality of the real world.

    Its like the queen was before she got cool. No idea of the real value of money in the streets. They live in a Financial Fairy Land.

    “The traders were not to blame”.
    That sounds like a soldier who was “Just Following Orders”.

    Glad it finished, Harold was really frickin’ annoying.

  88. Max vocal rapid fire…Gonzo Max meets the Don King of Finance?

    Btw..Nice going goldylocks ;-)

  89. Hey Mike (liverpool) did you see the link to the article in the Telegraph (posted by @Phil I think). The comments section was the most interesting – the people commenting know what’s going on and seem to have far more knowledge that the author of the article when it comes to the BofE’s QE and what a stupid idea it is. But more interestingly they get the whole central bank scam and are calling it a criminal ponzi pyramid scheme (maybe they’ve been listening to Max). So yes, if this carries on you should get your thing of beauty soonish. Having said that, do you trust the British establishment? Their empire has been going for 500 years, would it be inconceivable for them to have something up their sleeves?

  90. @Mike/Liverpool,….just read that article, about how Darling and his cronies have all agreed on the theft,..was looking at one of Sharons resource sites, and the dastardly Darling is the trading name for the Labour Party! and it’s got diplomatic immunity,….so,.they not only can steal the money,..but they can’t be touched by any laws,…good deal if you can get it!!

  91. UK gov. to stop paying disability benefits (if they can get away with it):-

    http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/disability-living-allowance-(dla)/dla-aa-cuts

  92. Gotta love the way Max stares these clowns down at the start of the debates.

    He’s got more depth and real world experience than these bookish profs!

  93. Mike2liverpool

    Sharon
    Heads up
    The BOE UP’s QE ANOTHER £50 BILLION!!!!!
    Mike

  94. Excellent Max, good restraint. Your points had far more credibility and believability than that pillock arguing on the other side (the side of Satan imo).

  95. Hmmm,….who would I believe,..A professor of finance who’s studied Wall Street, or Maximus Aurelius, who has done battle in Wall Street?
    Great entertainment though,…..

  96. Mike2liverpool

    BLOODY HELL!
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aSgHBHT3dbEU

    MAX/Stacy MUST READ!!!!!

    Mike

  97. I have never laughed so hard at 6 in the morning, I can’t stop laughing. Max schooled the Professor. I love you Max! lol.

  98. @Gold .. Sharp move upwards in pre-market .

    Could be a head fake of course, but interesting is that the US$ isn’t falling right now ! .. which would normally cause a “seemingly better” US$ Gold price .

  99. Mike2liverpool

    Who does Max’s make up?
    Mike

  100. Very good Max. And you have Zen-like qualities. I would have strangled the guy!

    Like this one: “There is a lot of competition for thieves out there. It doesn’t mean that they are not stealing”

  101. TheBlackSwan

    It must have been hard for Max to resist slapping the face off that corporate lacky goldman suchs blowing cum sponge

  102. Richard@lattitude30N

    @Max: great rapport with the host…”…Hank Paulson was a suicide bomber…” You perform great TV theater….what did you major in college???????? Shakespeare would love your political intrigue dialog….and so do I

  103. guess you didnt fancy going for a drink with him afterwards Max?