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To: wideawake

Then consider:

Trustee to Seize and Liquidate Even the Stored Customer Gold and Silver Bullion From MF Global
17 December 2011
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/12/attempt-to-seize-and-liquidate-customer.html

“The bottom line is that apparently some warehouses and bullion dealers are not a safe place to store your gold and silver, even if you hold a specific warehouse receipt. In an oligarchy, private ownership is merely a concept, subject to interpretation and confiscation.

Although the details and the individual perpetrators are yet to be disclosed, what is now painfully clear is that the CFTC and CME regulated futures system is defaulting on its obligations. This did not even happen in the big failures like Lehman and Bear Sterns in which the customer accounts were kept whole and transferred before the liquidation process.

Obviously holding unallocated gold and silver in a fractional reserve scheme is subject to much more counterparty risk than many might have previously admitted. If a major bullion bank were to declare bankruptcy or a major exchange a default, how would it affect you? Do you think your property claims would be protected based on what you have seen this year? .......”


29 posted on 12/21/2011 5:41:37 AM PST by mpreston
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To: mpreston
Thanks for the link. Loved this toon:


30 posted on 12/21/2011 5:57:07 AM PST by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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