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Historical Quack Offs
Quack Off
by Free Market Duck
Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows
by
David Reilly
Feb 05, 2010
New York, NY Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The idea of secret banking cabals that
control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy
theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this
week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International
Group Inc, you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all.
Wednesday’s hearing described a secretive group deploying billions of
dollars to favored banks, operating with little oversight by the public or
elected officials.
We’re talking about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose role as the
most influential part of the federal-reserve system -- apart from the matter
of AIG’s bailout -- deserves further congressional scrutiny.
The New York Fed is in the hot seat for its decision in November 2008 to
buy out, for about $30 billion, insurance contracts AIG sold on toxic debt
securities to banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch &
Co., Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank AG, among others. That decision,
critics say, amounted to a back-door bailout for the banks, which received
100 cents on the dollar for contracts that would have been worth far less
had AIG been allowed to fail.
That move came a few weeks after the Federal Reserve and Treasury
Department propped up AIG in the wake of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc’s own
mid-September bankruptcy filing.
Saving the System
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was head of the New York Fed at the
time of the AIG moves. He maintained during Wednesday’s hearing that the New
York bank had to buy the insurance contracts, known as credit default swaps,
to keep AIG from failing, which would have threatened the financial system.
The hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
also focused on what many in Congress believe was the New York Fed’s
subsequent attempt to cover up buyout details and who benefited.
By pursuing this line of inquiry, the hearing revealed some of the inner
workings of the New York Fed and the outsized role it plays in banking. This
insight is especially valuable given that the New York Fed is a
quasi-governmental institution that isn’t subject to citizen intrusions such
as freedom of information requests, unlike the Federal Reserve.
This impenetrability comes in handy since the bank is the preferred
vehicle for many of the Fed’s bailout programs. It’s as though the New York
Fed was a black-ops outfit for the nation’s central bank.
Geithner’s Bosses
The New York Fed is one of 12 Federal Reserve Banks that operate under
the supervision of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, chaired by Ben
Bernanke. Member-bank presidents are appointed by nine-member boards, who
themselves are appointed largely by other bankers.
As Representative Marcy Kaptur told Geithner at the hearing:
“A lot of people think that the president of the New York Fed works for the
U.S. government. But in fact you work for the private banks that elected
you.”
And yet the New York Fed played an integral role in the government’s
bailout of banks, often receiving surprisingly free rein to act as it saw
fit.
Consider AIG. Let’s take Geithner at his word that a failure to resolve
the insurer’s default swaps would have led to financial Armageddon. Given
the stakes, you might think Geithner would have coordinated actions with
then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Yet Paulson testified that he wasn’t
in the loop.
“I had no involvement at all, in the payment to the counterparties, no
involvement whatsoever,”
Paulson said.
Bernanke’s Denials
Fed Chairman Bernanke also wasn’t involved. In a written response to
questions from Representative Darrell Issa, Bernanke said he “was not
directly involved in the negotiations” with AIG’s counterparty banks.
You have to wonder then who really was in charge of our nation’s
financial future if AIG posed as grave a threat as Geithner claimed.
Questions about the New York Fed’s accountability grew after Geithner on
Nov. 24, 2008, was named by then-President-elect Barack Obama to be Treasury
Secretary. Geither said he recused himself from the bank’s day-to-day
activities, even though he never actually signed a formal letter of recusal.
That left issues related to disclosures about the deal in the hands of
the bank’s lawyers and staff, rather than a top executive. Those staffers
didn’t want details of the swaps purchase to become public.
New York Fed staff and outside lawyers from Davis Polk & Wardell edited
AIG communications to investors and intervened with the Securities and
Exchange Commission to shield details about the buyout transactions,
according to a report by Issa.
That the New York Fed, a quasi-governmental body, was able to push around
the SEC, an executive-branch agency, deserves a congressional hearing all by
itself.
Later, when it became clear information would be disclosed, New York Fed
legal group staffer James Bergin e-mailed colleagues saying:
“I have to think this train is probably going to leave the station soon and
we need to focus our efforts on explaining the story as best we can. There
were too many people involved in the deals -- too many counterparties, too
many lawyers and advisors, too many people from AIG -- to keep a determined
Congress from the information.”
Think of the enormity of that statement. A staffer at a body with little
public accountability and that exists to serve bankers is lamenting the
inability to keep Congress in the dark.
This belies the culture of secrecy obviously pervasive within the New
York Fed. Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns noted during the hearing that
the bank initially refused to disclose even the names of other banks that
benefited from its actions, arguing this information would somehow harm AIG.
‘Penchant for Secrecy’
“In fact, when the information was finally released, under pressure from
Congress, nothing happened,”
Towns said.
“It had absolutely no effect on AIG’s business or financial condition. But
it did have an effect on the credibility of the Federal Reserve, and it
called into question the Fed’s penchant for secrecy.”
Now, I’m not saying Congress should be meddling in interest-rate
decisions, or micro-managing bank regulation. Nor do I think we should all
don tin-foil hats and start ranting about the Trilateral Commission.
[FM Duck, however, does think Congress should “meddle” into – i.e. audit and
then abolish – the Federal Reserve for precisely the reasons that reporter
David Reilly has just revealed. Nor is this tantamount to donning “tin-foil
hats” as if the conspiracy that Reilly just revealed is not real.]
Yet when unelected and unaccountable agencies pick banking winners while
trying to end-run Congress, even as taxpayers are forced to lend, spend and
guarantee about $8 trillion to prop up the financial system, our collective
blood should boil.
( David Reilly is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his
own.)
– FM Duck
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10 REASONS WHY IDAHO
GOVERNOR KEMPTHORNE SHOULD NOT BE CONFIRMED AS SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
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IS IT SIMPLY LA CAGE AUX FOLLES AT THE
KEMPTHORNE CONFIRMATION HEARING OR WILL SOMEBODY ASK A REAL QUESTION?
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U.S. CONSTITUTION DECLARED
UNCONSTITUTIONAL... NOT SIGNED BY ITS AUTHORS, OR ANYONE ELSE
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IDAHO TEACHERS' UNION PUSHES INITIATIVE FOR
GUARANTEED ANNUAL INCOME BY EARMARKING 1% OF SALES TAX FOR ITSELF
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IDAHO SUPREME COURT FLUNKS CIVICS TEST
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UNIVERSITY PLACE PERPS AGREE TO NOT SUE
THEMSELVES...PAY EACH OTHER $8.3 MILLION...CRYPTIC PARTNERS REMAINS AS
POSSIBLE 'FALL GUY' -- PART II
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UNIVERSITY PLACE PERPS AGREE TO NOT SUE
THEMSELVES...PAY EACH OTHER $8.3 MILLION...CRYPTIC PARTNERS REMAINS AS
POSSIBLE 'FALL GUY' -- PART I
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JFAC GIVES BLANK CHECK FOR GOVERNOR
KEMPTHORNE'S HIGHWAY ROBBERY
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BOISE'S WATERGATE GOES TO
WASHINGTON...GOVERNOR KEMPTHORNE NOMINATED AS SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
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IS IDAHO'S $3 BILLION
GARVEE HIGHWAY DEBT UNCONSTITUTIONAL? More...
WHY IDAHO'S ANTI-GAY
MARRIAGE AMENDMENT IS PRETENDED LAW -- PART II
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WHY IDAHO'S ANTI-GAY
MARRIAGE AMENDMENT IS PRETENDED LAW -- PART I
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WHY WE DON'T NEED
PROPERTY TAXES -- PART II More...
WHY WE DON'T NEED
PROPERTY TAXES -- PART I More...
BOISE RESIDENTS PAY 10-12
TIMES AS MUCH IN "M & O" SCHOOL PROPERTY TAXES AS MERIDIAN FOR SAME NUMBER
OF STUDENTS More...
SHOULD IDAHO ABOLISH
PROPERTY TAXES AND IMPLEMENT A FLAT SALES TAX?
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WHY WE DON'T NEED FEMA OR
BOISE'S "BLUEPRINT FOR GOOD GROWTH
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DID JAPANESE MAFIA STEER
HURRICANE KATRINA DOWN BOURBON STREET FOR FUN AND PROFIT...OR REVENGE?
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GOV KEMPTHORNE IS NOT OUR
"CEO" More...
EAST PARK CENTER BRIDGE
IS A JOKE More...
WILL "BLUEPRINT FOR GOOD
GROWTH" MORPH INTO BOISE TROLLY GATE?
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BIRTH: NATURE'S
TRANSFER OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS
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WHOSE COLLECTIVE RIGHTS?
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IS MICRON WHINING FOR
CORPORATE WELFARE OR DEMANDING FREE MARKET CAPITALISM?
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CATHOLICISM IN LATIN
AMERICA MORPHS INTO SOCIALISM
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OIL COMPANIES TURN EARTH INTO GIANT CO2
SODA POP BOTTLES
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SEX IS ILLEGAL IN IDAHO?
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IN DEFENSE OF THE WOMAN
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AMERICA'S INTELLECTUAL
HIERARCHY
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EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES More...
ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE:
THE STATE VS. THE INDIVIDUAL More...
TAX RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS TAX BURDENS
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DEFICIT FARMING
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IRS AUDIT MICKEY MOUSE,
FILES CRIMINAL CHARGES
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PHILOSOPHY RULES, SCIENCE DROOLS
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NEW ENERGY SOURCE DISCOVERED IN
WASHINGTON DC
OIL STOCKS PLUNGE More...
STATUE OF LIBERTY SHOE SIZE,
WOMEN'S 879
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U.S. PRISON POPULATION SOARS,
TOOTHBRUSH INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX PROSPERS
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Church and State:
GRAND INQUISITOR VISITS AUSCHWITZ
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KING TUT GRANTS CEASE FIRE FOR DECEMBER HOLY MONTH
INTERMISSION ALLOWS BOTH ARMIES TO ORDER FAST FOOD
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FED
NATIONALIZES CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM CONES
KIDS CAN'T LICK CONES ON CHURCH PROPERTY
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RELIGIOUS DISCOVERY: MUHAMMAD BORN IN SHANGHAI
MID EAST WAR SHIFTS TO CHINA
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FATHER FLANAGAN RAPES 25,000
CHILDREN OVER 30-YEAR SPAN, CLAIMS AMNESIA
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School and State:
SANTA 'CLAUSE' SHOWS UP TO SAVE FLORIDA'S TEACHERS' UNION
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ETHNOMATHEMATICS
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WHY JOHNNY CAN'T READ
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EVOLUTION OF MATH INSTRUCTION IN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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O’CONNOR REAFFIRMS Step ‘n Fetch it IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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STUDENT WINS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE; SPELLS “CHRISTMAS” WITH
AN ‘X’
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STATE GROCERY STORES
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PRO-CHOICE FREE MARKET SCHOOLS
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EDUCATION TAXES
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Health and State:
12-31-2005
Does surgery for cancer cause more
cancer?
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FAT IDAHO
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IDAHO'S LOOMING FAKE
HEALTH CARE "CRISIS"
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WHEN GOOD CELLS GO BAD
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PRO-CHOICE CANCER
TREATMENT
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Money and the Federal Reserve:
THE FUZZY MATH OF U.S. COINAGE
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