A lot of comments on this thread are about dead bankers. Here’s some info I found on a thread at another site. I cannot vouch for it’s accuracy, so put it in the category of interesting rumor.
The dead bankers:
1. Deutsche Bank executive Bill Broeksmit, 58, found dead at his home in Chelsea, south west London, on 26 January.
2. JPMorgan Chase & Company vice president in technology operations Gabriel Magee, 39, who died after falling from his London headquarters on 28 January.
3. Chief economist at Russell Investments (a VERY high profile investment advisory firm), and former US Federal Reserve economist, Mike Dueker, 50, found dead at the side of a highway that leads to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State on 31 January.
The “common link” between these bankers, MIGHT be:
A. Sometime in 2013 two JP Morgan whistleblowers confessed that their bank manipulates the gold and silver markets.
That whistleblowers have come forth is widely reported, and this part of the story can be considered confirmed.
B. The above scandal has recently led Europe’s largest bank, Deutsche Bank, to withdraw from the appropriately named gold and silver price “fixing”, as European regulators investigate the manipulation of precious metals prices by Western banks.
This part is also widely reported and confirmed.
C. The following is the part I CANNOT confirm:
Deutsche Bank executive Broeksmit, called among the “finest minds” in his field, and Russell Investments Dueker, ranked among the top 5 percent of economists by number of works published, were a big part of the European investigation into JPMorgan gold and silver price manipulation.
Their “inside man” was JPMorgan tech guru Magee who oversaw the banks computer systems, including the programs used to manipulate the gold price fixings.
If the above is true, then all three “suicides” are connected.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead Banker” ping list is a post-mortem of dead bankers, as such it has a high positive rate.
So far the positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high market contagion, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead Banker” threads will cover the death of capitalism and free markets.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
This article suggests that market manipulation and pension fund raiding is the common thread among the deaths. It does a good job of tying up a lot of loose ends thatbI haven’t seen anywhere ese online:
A reporter also came up missing which makes the whole fiasco more bizzarre:
“The case of David Bird, the oil markets reporter who had worked at the Wall Street Journal for 20 years and vanished without a trace on the afternoon of January 11, has this in common with the other three tragedies: his work involves a commodities market – oil – which is under investigation by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for possible manipulation. The FBI is involved in the Bird investigation.
Bird left his Long Hill, New Jersey home on that Saturday, telling his wife he was going for a walk. An intentional disappearance is incompatible with the fact that he left the house wearing a bright red jacket and without his life-sustaining medicine he was required to take daily as a result of a liver transplant. Despite a continuous search since his disappearance by hundreds of volunteers, local law enforcement and the FBI, Bird has not been located.”