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At the top of page 11, the Federal regulators reveal that they have “identified a deficiency” in JPMorgan’s wind-down plan which if not properly addressed could “pose serious adverse effects to the financial stability of the United States."

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I laughed so hard, tears ran down my legs!

Altho, quite honestly, my reaction to marijuana is awful. I can't take the stuff.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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And not that we live in a world where advertisers and scriptwriters regularly engage in hyperbole, but that the underlying facts of our current situation, if accurately described, would SOUND LIKE hyperbole.

Some of it goes like "the worst since 1970". Other parts of it go lie "the worst since the Great Depression". Still others reference "the worst since the Cretaceous Period".

The derivatives market - which is always priced in USD - is somewhere between six and twenty times the entire world GDP. Now, "derivatives" are nothing but bets on the future. Financiers who take out loans (in dollars) to play the derivatives market are placing their money (well - the banks'- really) on nothing fancier than a Las Vegas gambling table. There is -literally - no underlying value to these bets. No physical assets than can be acquired and sold if the bet fails, no revenue stream that can be attached ... no nothing. Liquidating the entire world wouldn't pay off these debts.

Banks are highly engaged in derivatives

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http://www.occ.gov/topics/capital-markets/financial-markets/trading/de
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Gee, which banks would those be?
They're the usual suspects: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMChase, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley: http://www.ibanknet.com/scripts/callreports/filist.aspx?type=derivativ
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According to this same institution [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] JPMChase is woefully underfunded. Not only that, but it is also highly interlinked with other institutions

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At the top of page 11, the Federal regulators reveal that they have “identified a deficiency” in JPMorgan’s wind-down plan which if not properly addressed could “pose serious adverse effects to the financial stability of the United States."

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http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/04/the-fed-sends-a-frightening-lett
er-to-jpmorgan-and-corporate-media-yawns/

Wow, hyperbole from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency! And this is WITH Dodd-Frank.

The wealth gap is greater than it's been since the Great Depression
The most prominent reason why I predicted the Great Meltdown of 2008 was because of the wealth gap. Two-thirds of Americans can't raise $400 - the cost of a shadetree mechanic's car repair- without selling items or borrowing from family members. That hasn't been solved since 2008, in fact, it's only gotten worse. It has already impoverished a great number of Americans, and will inevitably lead to another Great Meltdown.

The United States has been losing industrial market share since 1950 and has sharply decline since 2001, when China was included into the WTO by GWB.

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The United States has been in a state of continuous overseas warfare since 2003 and has over 1000 military installations across the globe. Making friends and influencing people since 2003! I guess "blowback" isn't a term that the CIA/State and the Pentagon are familiar with. Significantly, NATO (i.e. the USA) has been pushing the boundaries of the next-greatest nuclear power - Russia- by aggressively expanding right up to the borders, and abrogating the ABM treaty that Reagan signed. It's not good to play nuclear chicken.

Global climate shift isn't coming, it's already here. And not only have we done nothing to slow it down, we haven't even prepared for it.

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