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The Quadrillion Dollar Derivative Debt and the “Bail-in”: When you Deposit
Funds in a Bank, it Becomes “Their Money”
By Bill Holter
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*The world is awash with “promises”. Nearly everything we think of as
having “value” is because of a promise behind it. A few examples; your bank
accounts, retirement funds, bonds and even the dollar bills in your pocket.
Your bank account for example, once you deposit the money it is no longer
yours. You can argue this if you wish but we now know this is true for sure
after recent “bail in” legislations passed throughout the west. When you
deposit funds into a bank, it then becomes “their money” held for you …they
“owe” it to you. *

*Do not take this lightly, lawmakers around the world have made this the
new reality. A little known fact, in 1845 Britain passed banking law that
made depositors (unsecured creditors), this is still precedent to this day.
When you deposit money you “accept a liability” from your bank and are
classified as an unsecured creditor. In other words, “get in line with
everyone else”!*

Same thing with many retirement accounts. Think about Social Security. When
you get your annual statement form, it comes with an asterisk. This is to
inform you they “might need to reduce benefits”. With any retirement
account you are relying on the custodian to make payments to you upon
retirement. Think about state and municipal retirement accounts promising
the good life, they are nearly ALL underfunded. Meaning there is not enough
money in there to make (promised) future payments unless some sort of
magically higher returns are realized. These are underfunded by the
TRILLIONS of dollars!

Bonds are an obvious asset class where a “promise” is relied on. Dollars on
the other hand seem the most misunderstood by the public while being the
biggest leap of faith in all asset classes. Dollars rely on the “full faith
and credit” of the U.S. government (a bankrupt entity) yet the populace
sleeps through the night secure knowing they own dollars. ALL non backed,
fiat currencies in the past have failed. The dollar is the widest spread
and widely owned fiat the world has ever known, its failure will be
spectacular upon arrival!

I wanted to point out the above “promises” as a basis to speak about trust
or confidence. The financial world turns on the axis of “trust”. This trust
was nearly broken in 2008 and is the reason the Federal Reserve needed to
secretly lend $16 trillion all over the world. If the Fed had not come up
with these funds, failures would have spread and trust would have been
broken amongst the banks/other financial institutions and even between the
central banks themselves! The Fed’s largesse worked and trust was
maintained.

Now, I believe we are set for another “test” of trust. We have gone five+
years with QE this and QE that, the reality being outright monetization. In
fact, central banks today are buying more sovereign bonds than are even
being issued. The public and even the professional funds have backed away
from the debt markets, you can’t blame them because the interest received
does not even cover inflation not to mention a risk premium. Globally the
pace of trade and business activity is slowing or even declining which will
bring to a head the difficulties in meeting debt service and other
“promises”.

I ask, what will happen when inevitably “trust” begins to wane? Or even
fully break? It is at this point the system goes into “The Great Call”.
Margin call? Of course, because nearly everything financial has leverage
behind it but there is more to it than this. The “call” I am speaking of is
for contracts of all sorts to “perform”. In particular I am thinking
“derivatives” contracts will be called on to perform their contractual
duties.

All in all, there are over *$1 quadrillion* worth of derivatives
outstanding. The problem with this is the “tail” is bigger than the dog. In
other words, the amount of derivatives outstanding dwarfs the total amount
of money outstanding and thus the ability to “pay” and make good on the
contracts. The other side of this coin are contracts promising to deliver
something. Here I am thinking both gold and silver. There are far more
(100-1 or more) obligations outstanding than there are ounces or kilos
available to deliver. This is a default just waiting to happen.

If you listen to the Harry Dents of the world, the dollar will be the safe
haven and where all fear capital will go. In a world based on nothing but
trust and promises, will fear capital really pile INTO a currency based
ONLY on trust and promises …when “trust” is exactly what is come into
question. Actually, it can be said the dollar was originally set up in 1971
on a “never pay” model. The dollar (and bonds) only promise to pay “more
dollars” and nothing else. This game worked for many years, now it looks
like the Saudis after doing many deals with both Russia and China may be
set to transact in currency other than dollars. Are they displaying
confidence?

The Chinese are now net sellers of U.S. Treasuries. Ask yourself this
question, if China could sell all of their Treasuries and turn it all into
gold, silver, oil, copper and other real tangible assets (without
destroying the Treasury market or making gold and silver go no offer),
would they? I say yes, they absolutely would love to be out from under
their Treasury position. Apologetic others might say China is comfortable,
we will soon see.

Because confidence is the only thing at this point holding the game
together …and its fickle nature, it is important for you to think this
through. What will be standing when confidence breaks? Can banks globally
survive “runs” when depositors come calling? Can commodity exchanges
deliver all they promise? Can borrowers “borrow more” if they cannot redeem
past issues with new debt? This is where we are headed both systemically
and globally!

Before finishing I want to tie two connected thoughts together. First, the
great Paul Craig Roberts said last week he feared precious metals could be
suppressed forever. I received MANY fearful e-mails regarding this thought
process. Mr. Roberts would be entirely correct if it were not for one small
detail, REAL gold and REAL silver must be available to deliver. Otherwise
the game comes to an end and the fraud is exposed. He is entirely correct,
“price” can be jammed or rammed with enough “margin” posted. Dan Norcini
once upon a time had it correct when he said, nothing will unnerve the
shorts more than the longs standing for delivery …and making a call for the
product. I would like to remind you, COMEX currently has only 11.7 tons of
gold for delivery. This is roughly $400 million. If I were short, this
paltry sum would not add to my confidence.

Another thought going hand in hand with this is where we are now versus
2008. Back then we were within overnight hours of the entire system coming
down, this is fact. What has changed since then? “Nothing”, but in reality
quite a bit. Nothing has changed from the standpoint of “tools used”. We
have not altered or changed anything that “got us to the brink”… only done
more of it! We have far more debt and more derivatives outstanding now. In
fact, central banks and sovereign nations have even sacrificed their
balance sheets to prolong the game. It has worked …so far. The only problem
is the entire arsenal of the central banks have already been tried and
failed to provide the real economy with any stimulus. The result has been
capital pushed into financial markets and blowing the bubble(s) far larger
than they were. Now, we have far larger markets with far more leverage than
2008. These will need to be met with central banks and sovereign treasuries
with weaker balance sheets and almost no ability to borrow in an effort to
reflate. It is a recipe for disaster.

We already know the sovereign debt markets are very thin on the bid side as
liquidity has dried up. We also know equity markets are displaying horrible
internal breadth. China is actually nearing a 1929 scenario and will be
there shortly if they cannot steady. Confidence is a fickle girl, if it
breaks, then we go back to the 2008 scenario and we’ll find out just how
powerful the central banks really are. I believe the coming “Great Call”
cannot nor will be met and only then will we see what is left standing. It
is imperative here and now to position yourself in assets that do stand on
their own, everything else will be a broken promise!
*Disclaimer:* The contents of this article are of sole responsibility of
the author(s). The Centre for Research on Globalization will not be
responsible for any inaccurate or incorrect statement in this article.
Copyright © Bill Holter, Global Research, 2015

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