Has
anyone heard about this?
In a
recent BBC interview financial independent trader Alessio Rastani created an
instant internet firestorm when he claimed that “governments do not rule the
world, Goldman Sachs rules the world.” Answering
questions about world leaders' response to the eurozone debt crisis, the
34-year-old said traders "know the stock market is finished. The euro, as
far as they're concerned, they don't really care".
“For
most traders, we don't really care that much how they're going to fix the
economy, how they're going to fix the whole situation -- our job is to make
money from it," he said.
"Personally I've been dreaming of this moment for three years. I
have a confession, which is I go to bed every night, I dream of another
recession."
He
went on to advise people worried about the European debt crisis not to wait on
the government to come up with a solution, and predicted that in 12 months the
world economy will be in such a state that people’s savings will be wiped
out.
Since
the interview some have claimed that Rastani was a hoaxer with a US based
protest group called The Yes Men trying to stir up controversy, but the group
has since confirmed that he was NOT affiliated with them in any way. Also, the BBC stands by the interview and
claims that detailed research was conducted on his background before he was
invited to be interviewed.
Meanwhile,
response to this interview has been mixed.
Generally there has been justified outrage at such heartless statements,
but some are just shrugging their shoulders and acknowledging that what he said
is just the plain truth.
BBC
business editor Robert Peston said on Twitter that Rastani had merely
"voiced what traders working for big firms and funds say in private,"
while the Financial Times asked in a blog entry "Do traders dream of
defaulting Greeks?"
Personally,
I think that the BBC business editor is right – this IS what traders pray and
hope for in private. In this day of
unregulated financial excesses the rich bankers and corporations are getting
greedier and greedier, making money not from good old fashioned hard work from
manufacturing, production, trade and other tried-and-true methods, but from
smoke screens and mirrors as they push papers, bonds and other complex financial
“products” they dream up for this nightmare called the world economy.
And
YES, I believe that it is the devil’s minions – conservatives, Republicans, Tea
Party racists and right wingers – who are the vessel for which this is being
carried out.
I’ve
said it before and I’ll say it again – the rich have declared war on the middle
and working class of the world and it’s time for us to fight back. And that fight starts with contacting your
elected representative and letting them know exactly how you feel about the
current economic situation and frankly if they don’t do something about it –
VOTE THEM OUT!!!
(And
if that doesn’t work there’s always the second Amendment solution……)
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