Friday, March 15, 2013

Truth in Selling

The underlying truth about value is always being distorted by those wishing to benefit from the disinformation.  S&P rating agency knew packaged mortgages were of substandard grade when giving them top ratings because they new the truth about what it took to perpetuate their own business model.  The Fed new the world banking system had run out of money essentially funding a growth model the Fed itself had endorsed through its governance and guidance.  So much money had been put into play on debt that there was no where to turn when the big bet failed.  To fund the next leg and possible the last leg of US/world growth required taking the future savings of a nation to inflate the paper assets of banks and their clients.  The truth is those paper assets are worth substantially less than the size of the obligations required to settle accounts on world debt given the markets trading those assets have act as a liquidator to claim them.  The truth is markets act as a pricing tool to transact a sale and selling is the end game.