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After Being Criminally Charged for Rigging Precious Metals, JPMorgan Chase Controls 53 Percent of All Precious Metals Contracts Held by Banks
by Gunnar Larson 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/04/after-being-criminally-charged-for-r… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 3, 2023 ~ Jamie Dimon Sits in Front of Trading Monitor in his Office (Source -- 60 Minutes Interview, November 10, 2019) Jamie Dimon Sits in Front of Trading Monitor in his Office (Source: 60 Minutes Interview, November 10, 2019) According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), there were 4,706 federally-insured banks and savings associations in the U.S. as of December 31, 2022. Of those, according to the quarterly report released last Friday from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a little less than one-quarter found a reason to engage in derivative trading activities. As of December 31, 2022, just 1,139 FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings associations reported trading of derivatives in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the OCC. Ostensibly, instead of running a derivatives casino, the other three-quarters of taxpayer-subsidized banks were doing what taxpayers want federally-insured banks to do: make business loans; provide affordable mortgage loans to homebuyers; provide checking accounts devoid of hacking, identity theft and predatory overdraft fees; and not blow up the bank by getting in bed with derivatives, crypto or dodgy Wall Street IPOs. As it does each quarter, the OCC report rang this alarm bell: “A small group of large financial institutions continues to dominate trading and derivatives activity in the U.S. commercial banking system. During the fourth quarter of 2022, four large commercial banks represented 88.2 percent of the total banking industry notional amounts [of derivatives] and 62.5 percent of industry net current credit exposure (NCCE).” Those four banks are Goldman Sachs Bank USA with $52.6 trillion in notional (face amount) derivatives exposure; JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. with $49.5 trillion in notional derivatives exposure; Citigroup’s Citibank with $47 trillion in notional derivatives exposure; and Bank of America with $19.4 trillion in notional derivatives exposure. One area that particularly stands out in the current OCC report is data showing JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. held $200.12 billion in precious metals derivative contracts at its federally-insured bank as of December 31, 2022, versus a total of $378.12 billion for all banks in the U.S. holding derivatives. That’s one bank holding 53 percent of all precious metals contracts in the U.S. banking system. (See Table 21 on page 26 of the OCC report.) And there’s no guarantee that the OCC report captures the full picture of this highly concentrated derivatives market. (See our report: Wall Street Banks Are Dangerously Evading U.S. Derivatives Rules by Making Trades at Foreign Subsidiaries.) It is hard to understate the regulatory failure of allowing JPMorgan Chase to continue to have this outsized presence in the precious metals derivatives market. On September 29, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice charged JPMorgan Chase with rigging the precious metals market and a hit it with a criminal felony count for its conduct, to which it admitted. According to the Justice Department, the rigging occurred for more than eight years, from March of 2008 to August of 2016, and involved “tens of thousands” of incidents. The Justice Department wrote that traders at JPMorgan Chase: “…knowingly and intentionally placed orders to buy and sell precious metals futures contracts with the intent to cancel those orders before execution (‘Deceptive PM [Precious Metals] Orders’), including in an attempt to profit by deceiving other market participants through false and fraudulent pretenses and representations concerning the existence of genuine supply and demand for precious metals futures contracts. By placing Deceptive PM Orders, the Subject PM Traders intended to inject false and misleading information about the genuine supply and demand for precious metals futures contracts into the markets, and to deceive other participants in those markets into believing something untrue, namely that the visible order book accurately reflected market-based forces of supply and demand. This false and misleading information was intended to, and at times did, trick other market participants, including competitor financial institutions and proprietary traders, into reacting to the apparent change and imbalance in supply and demand by buying and selling precious metals futures contracts at quantities, prices, and times that they otherwise likely would not have traded.” The trading conduct in precious metals was so bad at JPMorgan Chase that the Justice Department took the unprecedented step of charging some of the precious metals traders involved under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), a statute typically reserved for organized crime figures. Last week, the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee held separate hearings on the bank runs and abrupt collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March, the second and third largest bank failures in U.S. history. (The largest bank failure was Washington Mutual in 2008.) Those banks, respectively, held $175 billion and $88.6 billion in deposits as of December 31, 2022. As of the same date, JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. held $2.015 trillion in deposits in domestic offices, of which $1.058 trillion were uninsured. Uninsured deposits are at risk of flight if customers lose confidence in the management of a bank. The fastest way for depositors to lose confidence in a bank is a steady stream of scandals and criminal conduct while the Board of Directors of the bank fails to replace the Chairman and CEO who was at the helm of the bank throughout the endless series of scandals and criminal conduct. The Board of Directors of JPMorgan Chase Bank have allowed Jamie Dimon to remain as Chairman and CEO despite five felony counts (to which the bank admitted) and a rap sheet that is unprecedented in the annals of banking in the U.S. The Board kept Dimon in place when the bank was charged by the Justice Department with two criminal felony counts for its role in aiding and abetting the largest Ponzi scheme in history – Bernie Madoff’s looting of customer accounts. The Board kept Dimon at the helm when the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a 300-page report on the bank’s “London Whale” derivative trades, using bank depositors’ money to engage in reckless gambling and losing at least $6.2 billion. The bank received another felony count for its role in rigging the foreign exchange market and one felony count each for rigging the precious metals market and U.S. Treasury market. Now, a Federal Court has ruled that Dimon must sit for a deposition in a federal lawsuit brought by the U.S. Virgin Islands, charging JPMorgan Chase with, effectively, being the cash conduit for Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring that victimized underage girls. (See our March 6 report here.) It’s long past the time for federal regulators to do their job and replace management and the Board at JPMorgan Chase and break up this dangerous trading behemoth that is masquerading as a federally-insured bank. Related Articles: JPMorgan’s Board Made Jamie Dimon a Billionaire as the Bank Rigged Markets, Laundered Money, and Admitted to Five Felony Counts If You’re Baffled as to Why JPMorgan Chase’s Board Hasn’t Sacked Jamie Dimon as the Bank Racked Up 5 Felony Counts – Here’s Your Answer JPMorgan’s High Risk Footprint; Bloomberg News as PR Agent for Jamie Dimon; and the Untold Story of the Failed “Rescue” of First Republic by the Mega Banks JPMorgan Chase Quietly Settles Whistleblower Case Involving Charges of Keeping Two Sets of Books and Improper Payments to Tony Blair

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OG carpetbaggers - meh
by professor rat 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

>> >> Blockstream Open-source. Built with accessible parts. This is the cypherpunk way. <<<< Correct me if I'm wrong but 90's punks talked up Galts elitist Gulch and the brilliant entrepreneur more than p2p and open-sauce. This conversation being largely led by Mong and followed along by Backstabber - yes? Those talking up ' millicent ghetto ' populist solutions tended to be coming in from the edges. So then what happened - Circe/ Satoshi turned Mongs men into swine? Now its all P2P, open-sauce all the time. From the crypt in Tim's case. Opportunist OG's indistinguishable from carpetbaggers ( Hi Vinay, Julio, Craig, Eric, etc, etc ) Feh.

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Re: A circle around the letter ‘A’—representing anarchism
by professor rat 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

They can't arrest all of us - especially when severely distracted! So this is a great time to be in Europe - or America, since the SS is so distracted right now. The SS already decided against investigating every threat made against any protected person on their watch Budding C-punks and cryptoanarchists may now ' walk-the-talk ' and get ' skin-in-the-game ' with little or no risk. Its so easy! https://stiffs.com/celebrity/joebiden LET's go BRANDON!

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Wokeism is Doomed
by professor rat 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

WORKERISM is doomed G - or ain't you been keepin' up with current events? Anarchism calls for full-unemployment while the work-ethic remains a lovingly polished turd on both the fascist left and right ( and gray-wolf Nazbol who typically work themselves to death ) GET WITH THE FUCKING WOKE as FUCK PROGRAM or just FUCK OFF!

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Secure Phones: Not Secure, Wikileaks Hacked By TOP-SECRET Govt Implant, CryptoPhone IP-19
by professor rat 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Here is the squalid little WL dictator one month after Snowden "... Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the successful operation of the military ..." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from-… JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.' ASSANGE July, 2013 Reposts not memory-holed Wikipedia entries

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A circle around the letter ‘A’—representing anarchism
by professor rat 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

A man was arrested in Thailand on Tuesday after spray painting anti-monarchy symbols on a wall at Bangkok’s Grand Palace. In videos of the arrest circulating online, police are seen tackling the man after he draws a circle around the letter ‘A’—representing anarchism—and the numbers “112” in strikethrough—a reference to Section 112 of Thailand’s Criminal Code, a royal defamation law often used against pro-democracy activists. https://anarchistnews.org/content/activist-arrested-spray-painting-anti-mon… Reposted from a Governor-Generalate Hell-Hole that needs humanitarian bombing

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Secure Phones: Not Secure, Wikileaks Hacked By TOP-SECRET Govt Implant, CryptoPhone IP-19
by grarpamp 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

#OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenAudit , #FormalVerification , #CryptoCrowdFunding , #OpenTrust , #GuerrillaNets , #P2PFiber , #GNURadioRF , #PrivacyCoins , ... Until then, the only thing you can trust is your own software [2+2=4], and hope that the hardware it runs on isn't smart enough to hide its interception and or modification of it. https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/gsmk/ip19/implant.htm https://vk.com/wall-211958646_4238 https://www.cryptophone.com/en/products/landline/cp-ip19/ https://www.cryptophone.de/upload/files/33/original/CP_IP-19-Brochure_web.p… https://at-communication.com/en/crypto-gsm/na/cryptophone-ip19.pdf https://cryptophoneau.com/product/cryptophone-ip-19/ https://www.reddit.com/r/espionage/comments/124rnow/cryptophone_ip19_implan… https://www.reddit.com/r/craftofintelligence/comments/124rmkh/cryptophone_i… CryptoPhone IP-19 with bug In 2018, this sophisticated bug was found inside a CryptoPhone used by WikiLeaks in London between 2012 and 2016, around the time of the Snowden Revelations. In this article we analyse the bug. Experts think it was planted by the CIA.

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cypherpunks, crypto anarchists, and Internet Exceptionalists, to name a few) thought the Internet would go further.
by professor rat 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

CRYPTO ANARCHISTS DECLARE THE INDEPENDENCE OF CYBERSPACE https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/dream-90s-is-alive-cryptocurrencies Reposts not Austro-libertarian moron factories located in Amerikkka

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This kind of community of cypher punks & anarchists, utopians, technologists, who had utopian aspirations.
by professor rat 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Paul Matzko: I do have a question, maybe you can put this in very practical terms for me. There is a lot of talk, the original goal behind the development of cryptocurrency in Brunton’s take is this kind of community of cypher punks and anarchists, utopians, technologists, who had utopian aspirations. The idea was that these alternative currencies would undermine the power and authority of the state as a flip of the way in which fiat currencies empower the state. https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/building-tomorrow/new-technologies-… Reposts not Austro-libertarian morons - I can't work with such complete fucking morons

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First murder being ordered on the dark web and successfully carried out by hired assassins
by professor rat 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

And where does it say you can't kill a cop? https://harpers.org/archive/2020/01/click-here-to-kill-dark-web-hitman/ Reposts not four year old Harpies Bizarre

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