[when the time is right]

Can anyone say George Soros?

[lookout88]

Hey, guess what? We are still going to collapse.

[SpaceBar]

George Soros’ net worth is estimated around nine billion dollars. Even he doesn’t have the bread to manipulate money markets to the tune of half a trillion dollars.

[mapmaker77]

Is the FEC so completely incompetant that this cannot traced? Aren’t there supposed to be records of all transactions?
Oh, I forgot. The inmates control the asylum, and institutional incompetance is usually rewarded with promotion.

[SpaceBar]

I might add that the amounts of money involved can only point to a sovereign nation like China, Russia, or a middle-east oil kingdom.

[Norman Bates]

Bump for later

[MountainLoop]

Have any of the news outlets been talking about this, or conservative talk radio? This seems like big news to me.

[Texas Fossil]

Because of the shear magnitude of the drain, it must have been a Nation not an individual who triggered it.

Sovereign capital, not individual.

Not even a multi-national corp. could have done this.

[Alia]

Black Swan?? lol. Let’s go back to another time... and talk about what precipitated California’s energy “crisis”. It’s dejavu all over agin.

[hedgetrimmer]

How do you ‘draw down’ money?

[hiho hiho]

We are at war, but the enemy is not obvious.

[nicola_tesla]

Total horsecrap - bad article, don't believe it for a minute. Note what it says: They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts, and announce a guarantee of $250,000 per account so there wouldn’t be further panic How would a guarantee of a measly 250k stop a 5.5T withdrawal ? Such bull. Secondly, most MM funds hold commercial paper and other short-term bonds; they are not pure demand deposits like in banks. What, someone thinks they could sell 5T of bonds in an afternoon ? No, this all happened because a venerable MM fund, Reserve, broke the buck a few days prior to the 18th, and many people, myself included, decided that our MM funds were not very secure. Now, I do believe Paulson and Bernanke used this opportunity to get the TARP passed. It was just another lying, criminal act by Paulson to get his banker friends a wad of taxpayer dough.

[bigbob]

This is THE story.

I think it was someone (group) who wanted to send the strongest possible message in time to influence the US election, but who would have been damaged themselves if the global economy had actually collapsed. Terrorists wouldn’t have cared what collateral damage they caused, as long as they ruined the US.

[M Kehoe]

Chucky Schumer. He started the ball rolling before Sept of '08 (he publicly claim two large banks were insolvent, before they actually were).

We don't live in interesting times (Chinese curse), we live in dangerous times.

5.56mm

[yankeedame]

This whole thing has a creepy, Professor Moriarty feel about it.

" He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected...He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Is there a crime to be done... the word is passed...the matter is organized and carried out. The agent may be caught...But the central power which uses the agent is never caught."

[stylin19a]

he misread\heard the video. Rep. Paul Kanjorski said he was briefed on 9/15 and the briefing said that it was Thursday that withdrawals were happening. It couldn't have been the 18th. The Thursday prior to 9/15/ was 9/11

[R_Kangel]

Just putting my tinfoil hat on for a second, but is there any significance to the Date and time?

9/18/09 11:00 AM. It's a bunch of nine related numbers and an eleven.

OK I shall remove my tinfoil hat now.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Yes, the entire market collapse was manipulated for the greatest political gain. No way exists on God’s green earth that this was a result of “economic” circumstances. Someone MADE it bad on purpose. It has ruined a lot of my coworkers retirement plans.

[TYVets]

ping

[quesera]

Please forgive my ignorance but I have to ask this question if someone can answer it for me. I heard Rush talking about this a few days ago and I agree with most here that this was maliciously staged or at the very least some people took advantage of a very bad economic situation and made it worse so that Republicans would be blamed and empty suit would win the election.

In all of this one thing remains, money is still money. We are not talking about stocks but hard cash that was deposited in some Money Market Account then withdrawn perhaps in a panic.
But where did the money go?
Half a trillion dollars couldn’t simply vanish in thin air, or could it?
Also where is the $350bil we injected in the system late last year?
Any answer would be appreciated.