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[SOL]

Me a great leader, heaven forbid. I have always looked at myself as an advanced student (and that is when I operating at my maximum efficiency) the day I call myself a leader or great leader is the day you know for a fact senility has won the battle.

Well, there's that old maxim that a true hero never sets out to be one - instead, circumstances choose her.

In the same way, I think an exceptional leader never sets out to lead - circumstances choose her. In my mind the most important quality of leadership is simply the willingness to lead by example. Nothing else matters.

Have you considered the possibility that you might be talking about yourself, despite how brash you might appear to be, you tend to put your money where your mouth is. I would say that is the making for a great leader When it comes to kettle bells you and STEFK can and will kick my ass, but digging and carrying loads of 25kg to 30kg packs of dirt i could give both of you a run for your money

As for me I would be far happier to lead with pushups or drinking vodka and maybe Pho, building up my Pho eating skills in case i have to compete with you

[bpcw]

Me a great leader, heaven forbid. I have always looked at myself as an advanced student (and that is when I operating at my maximum efficiency) the day I call myself a leader or great leader is the day you know for a fact senility has won the battle.

Well, there's that old maxim that a true hero never sets out to be one - instead, circumstances choose her.

In the same way, I think an exceptional leader never sets out to lead - circumstances choose her. In my mind the most important quality of leadership is simply the willingness to lead by example. Nothing else matters.

Exactly, people see the good example and they follow, without realising it you are leading without the need for a title or for others to call you their leader!

[harryg]

Well, that may be true to a degree, but the essential problem, as my spouse likes to point out on a regular basis, is that I tend to be pretty much exactly the same in person as I am online.

In that case I feel sorry for your spouse !


This is a true, somewhat related story. Friends of ours were invited to a works party to celebrate the retirement of the husband. There were a couple of speeches, during which the boss stated that Frank was a quiet, well-mannered person at all times.

To which wife pipes up "Are we talking about the same Frank?!"


Now some Smith & Jones live in 1994. We were there! Whoopee !!!

I've cut it to a short bit.

There is a some very bad language in the full show (but not in this bit).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vvkYOKDEv ... 85&end=835

[George1010]

Well, that may be true to a degree, but the essential problem, as my spouse likes to point out on a regular basis, is that I tend to be pretty much exactly the same in person as I am online.

In that case I feel sorry for your spouse !

Good one Harry. Yodean variety is supposed to be the spice of life, so maybe you should be Dr Jekyll Yodean online and offline Dr Hyde Yodean

[deepthinker]

Now, It Is Time to Harvest China

It was as precise as the tide; the U.S. dollar was strong for six years. Then, in 2002, it started getting weak. Following the same pattern, it stayed weak for ten years. In 2012, the Americans started to prepare to make it strong. They used the same approach: create a regional crisis for other people.

Therefore, we saw that several events happened in relation to China: the Cheonan sinking event {2010}, the dispute over the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu Islands in Chinese), and the dispute over Scarborough Shoal (the Huangyan Island in Chinese). {The latter two are long-standing disputes.} All these happened during this period. The conflict between China and the Philippians over Huangyan Island and the conflict between China and Japan over the Diaoyu Islands, might not appear to have much to do with the U.S. dollar index, but was it really that case? Why did it happen exactly in the tenth year of the U.S. dollar being weak?

Unfortunately, the U.S. played with too much fire [in its own mortgage market] earlier and got itself into a financial crisis in 2008. This delayed the timing of the U.S. dollar’s hike a bit.

If we acknowledge that there is a U.S. dollar index cycle and the Americans use this cycle to harvest from other countries, then we can conclude that it was time for the Americans to harvest China. Why? Because China had obtained the largest amount of investment from the world. The size of China’s economy was no longer the size of a single county; it was even bigger than the whole of Latin America and about the same size as East Asia’s economy.


Qiao Liang

Since the Diaoyu Islands conflict and the Huangyan Island conflict, incidents have kept popping up around China, including the confrontation over China’s 981 oil rigs with Vietnam and Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” event. Can they still be viewed as simply accidental?

I accompanied General Liu Yazhou, the Political Commissar of the National Defense University, to visit Hong Kong in May 2014. At that time, we heard that the “Occupy Central” movement was being planned and could take place by end of the month. However, it didn’t happen in May, June, July, or August. What happened? What were they waiting for?

Let’s look at another time table: the U.S. Federal Reserve’s exit from the Quantitative Easing (QE) policy. The U.S. said it would stop QE at the beginning of 2014. But it stayed with the QE policy in April, May, June, July, and August. As long as it was in QE, it kept overprinting dollars and the dollar‘s price couldn’t go up. Thus, Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” should not happen either. At the end of September, the Federal Reserve announced the U.S. would exist from QE. The dollar started going up. Then Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” broke out in early October.

Actually, the Diaoyu Islands, Huangyan Island, the 981 rigs, and Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” movement were all bombs. The successful explosion of any one of them would lead to a regional crisis or a worsened investment environment around China. That would force the withdrawal of a large amount of investment from this region, which would then return to the U.S.

Unfortunately, this time the American’s opponent was China. China used “Tai chi” movements to cool down each crisis. As of today, the last straw to break the camel’s back has yet to occur and the Camel is still standing. The camel didn’t break. Therefore, the Federal Reserve couldn’t blow its horn to increase the interest rate, either. The Americans realized that it was hard for them to harvest China, so they looked for an alternative.

Where else did they target? Ukraine, the connection between the EU and Russia. Of course there were some problems under Ukraine President Yanukovych’s administration, but the reason that the Americans picked it was not simply because of his problem. They had three goals: teach a lesson to Yanukovych who didn’t listen to the U.S., prevent the EU from getting too close to Russia, and create a bad investment environment in Europe.

Thus, a “color revolution,” took place, which the Ukrainians themselves appeared to have led. The U.S. achieved its goal unexpectedly: Russian President Putin took over Crimea. Though the Americans did not plan it, it gave the Americans better reasons to pressure the EU and Japan to join the U.S. in sanctioning Russia, adding more pressure to the EU’s economy.

Why did the Americans do this? People tend to analyze it from the geo-political angle, but rarely the capital angle. After the Ukraine crisis, statistics showed over US$1 trillion in capital left Europe. The U.S. got what it wanted: if it couldn’t get dollars out of China, it would get dollars out of Europe. However, the next step didn’t occur as the Americans planned. The capital out of Europe didn’t go to the U.S. Instead, it went to Hong Kong.

One reason was that the global investors preferred China, which claimed the world’s number one economic growth rate, despite the fact that its economy started to cool down. The other reason was that China announced that it would implement the Shanghai – Hong Kong Stock Connect {in Nov 2014}. Investors over the world wanted to get a handsome return through the Shanghai – Hong Kong Stock Connect.

In the past, Western capital was cautious about entering China’s stock market. A key reason was China’s strict foreign currency control: you can come in freely but you can’t get out at will. After the Shanghai – Hong Kong Stock Connect, they could invest in Shanghai’s market from Hong Kong and leave immediately after making a profit. Therefore, over US$1 trillion stayed in Hong Kong.

This is why the hand behind “Occupy Central” has kept planning a comeback and has not wanted to stop. The Americans need to create a regional crisis for China, to get the money back to the U.S.

Why does the U.S. economy rely so desperately on capital flowing back to its market? It is because, since 1971, the U.S. has given up producing real products. They called the real economy’s low-end or low-value-creating manufacturing

https://fabiusmaximus.com/2015/10/21/qi ... rica-90041

[outof thebox]

DECEPTION IN OPERATION Z

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near… Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

Sun Tzu, Chapter 1
Most of the opinions aired in the Western media take for granted that the Russian operation in Ukraine is bogged down. Usually when we see someone confidently assert this, we find the assumption “I think everyone assumed that they were going to set Kyiv as their primary objective and their main effort…” That quotation is from Larry’s piece here and quotes one Joel Rayburn but can be found everywhere. The failure to take Kiev was a “defeat for the ages“, it led to casualties, bad morale and so on. It is the fundamental assumption – Moscow wanted to take Kiev quickly, failed to do so and has had to reconsider. It failed through overoptimism, incompetence, poor planning, bad logistics – just poor behavior altogether. “Overestimated” is the word.

That’s what the Americans do when they go to war. Lots of bombing, seize the capital, declare victory. Worked against flea-sized enemies in Panama City or St George’s but failed in Baghdad and Kabul. But the great strategists have always known that the principal object in war is “To conquer and destroy the armed power of the enemy… For only after defeating these can we pursue the other two objects [sources of strength, and public opinion].” Possession of territory does not give victory and the generals pontificating on the cable shows should have learned this after twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan.

To make the point in another way, let us imagine that the Ukrainian government had declared Kiev an “open city” and that no resistance would be offered. Would the Russians have occupied the city? Metropolitan Kiev had a population of two to three million in an area of about 300 square miles and the government had just handed out thousands of assault rifles and founded a cottage industry making Molotov cocktails. How many soldiers would Moscow have had to put into the city to keep it reasonably quiet? Certainly thousands, maybe tens of thousands and they would have faced continual attacks. And what would that have gained Moscow?

So, then, there are two reasons to suspect that conquering Kiev was not the Russian priority – destruction of the enemy’s forces was the real aim (“de-militarization” Putin would call it) and the occupation of a large and hostile city would have taken too many resources away from the main aim.

So what really was the purpose of the Kiev operation? What was the movement, the threat, the “40-mile column” and all the other things the “experts” obsessed about? I invite the reader to listen to this section of Jonathon Houses’ outstanding lecture on The Three Alibis.

Deception. The Soviets were probably the greatest masters of battlefield deception that there has ever been. I recommend David Glantz’s book for those who want to make a real study of it and for those who want a shorter introduction I suggest this essay (“one is awed by the magician’s illusions of objects disappearing and appearing”). Some in the West may remember D-Day’s ghost army but, as far as I know, this was the only time the Western Allies did deception on this scale. As the references above make clear, the Soviets did deception operations on this scale all the time – dummy vehicles, faked tank tracks, silent movement, lights moving at night, loudspeakers making engine noises, feint attacks, radio traffic, carefully encouraging the enemy to see what he wanted to see; as House says, they almost always fooled the Germans. And not just then – the 1939 attack at Khalkhin Gol stunned the Japanese – “we had no prior clue“. One may be certain that the Russian Army has inherited this talent.

Knowing this, what does the activity around Kiev look like now? An attempt to capture something that would not have advanced the stated aims of de-militarization and de-Nazification and, by soaking up large numbers of troops, actually retarded them? Or a deception tailor-made to fool Ukraine’s US/NATO puppet masters? One hand of the magician threatening Kiev to compel Ukrainian troops to guard it while the other degrades their ability to move to face the real threat. The magician knew how the US and NATO do war and revealed the shiny object sure to distract them. The Russian flank was secured by the threat (the other flank was secured by the threat of a seaborne invasion). This legerdemain kept the enemy from noticing what was really happening – the systematic destruction of Ukraine’s fuel and ammunition stocks, military organization and transportation ensuring that the main force stayed in place for its methodical destruction in phase 2.

Yes, there was the possibility that the threat to Kiev would make the Ukrainian government see reason. After all, there has never been a more preventable war than this one – had Kiev retained the neutrality provision of its July 1990 declaration of state sovereignty and adhered to the Minsk agreements, all would be quiet today. But a quick end was just a possibility – worth a try but not essential.

Putin’s stated aims are de-Nazification and de-militarization; Azov is trapped in a catacomb and the immobile Donbass-positioned force is being ground to bits by relentless artillery strikes (so much for the logistics deficiencies the “experts” went on about). No battle proceeds exactly as planned, but this one is moving in the intended direction.

The Kiev operation was a deception operation and a very successful one. And it continues to deceive.

https://sonar21.com/deception-in-operation-z/

[Cinnamon]

Scott what do you make of this video. Do Russians in general share this type of sentiment?


https://youtu.be/LiYL1fuxrBc

[George1010]

For what it's worth, here is another source of alternative news

America’s ideological blinkers and the Ukraine war

Ideological blinkers prevent a correct U.S. assessment of the Russian successes in the Ukraine war, of the likely outcomes and of what to do now

Yesterday’s edition of the premier Sunday news wrap-up on Russian state television, Vesti nedeli, hosted by Dmitry Kiselyov, marked a turning point in what the Russians are saying officially about their achievements on the ground in Ukraine. It set me to thinking over why Washington is getting it all wrong and how America’s ideological blinkers may lead to very unfortunate consequences on a global level.

Up until now, Russian news has been very quiet about the country’s military achievements in Ukraine. The daily briefings of Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov have only given summary figures on the planes, tanks and other armored vehicles, command centers in Ukraine that were destroyed by high precision Russian missiles plus the names of towns that were taken, without elaborating on their strategic or other value. Otherwise, Russian television programming has been showing only the damage inflicted daily by Ukrainian forces on the city of Donetsk and its suburbs from artillery and Tochka U missile strikes. There is a steady toll of destroyed homes, hospitals, schools and loss of civilian lives. The sense of this programming is clear: explaining again and again to the Russian audience why we are there.

Yesterday’s News of the Week devoted more than 45 minutes to Russian military operations on the ground. The message has changed to what we are doing there. Television viewers were led by the Rossiya team of war zone reporters through the wrecked forests and fields of the Kharkov oblast in northeastern Ukraine as well as in newly liberated parts of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Filming from an armored all-terrain vehicle, they showed us kilometers long stretches of burned out Ukrainian tanks and other heavy military gear as well as dozens and dozens of corpses of Ukrainian soldiers “killed in action” and left behind to rot by their fast retreating comrades and deserters. Then came interviews with Ukrainian prisoners of war, whose faces and words tell a very different story from the heroic encomiums raining down from Zelensky and his entourage. Finally, there were interviews with some of the civilians who were let out of the Azovstal underground complex these past couple of days and made their way to freedom via the humanitarian corridor which the Russians set up each afternoon.

I will deal briefly with each of these segments from last night’s News of the Week. But first, allow me to offer two overall generalizations.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/

[Cinnamon]

Another source of alternative news, but I take all my news with a healthy dose of Salt and sometimes add a bit of lime and tequila to the mix

Russia Weighs Confiscation of Western Companies’ Assets In Response to New Ukraine-Related Sanctions

A senior Russian lawmaker has called upon the Kremlin to expropriate the property of Western companies in the country in response to the Biden administration’s proposal to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.

Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, accused the U.S. of “resorting to pure theft” and vowed that any seizure of Russian assets would “boomerang” against Washington.

“In this regard, it is right to offer a symmetrical response by confiscating the assets of businesses located in the Russian Federation, whose owners are from unfriendly countries where such decisions are made,” he wrote in a post on Telegram. “And the proceeds from the sales should be directed to the development of our country.”

Volodin claimed that Western companies had up to $500 billion worth of assets based in Russia. “We have something we can answer with,” he said.

Mikhail Delyagin, deputy chairman of the State Duma’s economic policy committee, voiced support for Volodin’s proposal.

Delyagin told Komsomolskaya Pravda that the government should also institute a ban on paying back any debt to legal entities and individuals from countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia.

“If you want to receive money, write an application to the government commission,” he said. “Maybe you will be allowed in some special cases. Of course, this does not apply to small private debts between citizens.”

Volodin’s warnings come after the Biden administration asked Congress to approve a $33 billion aid package for Kyiv, which includes provisions that would “streamline the process for seizure of [Russian] oligarch assets, expand the assets subject to seizure, and enable the proceeds to flow to Ukraine.” The European Union and Canada are considering similar legislation.

Early signs on Capitol Hill indicate strong bipartisan support for the initiative. Even before the administration publicly made its request, the House on Wednesday voted 417-8 for a nonbinding bill that would grant Biden the power to liquidate the assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs and transfer the resulting funds to Ukraine.

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/interna ... s-response

[Cinnamon]

Random array of events I looked at this week


https://twitter.com/i/status/1521972695516303360

https://twitter.com/i/status/1521731835696349190


What they arent telling the public is that the majority of the cases are those under 4 years of age who are breastfed and who have been actively breastfed (within the last 12 months). The children are unvaccinated, but the breastfeeding mothers (in 100% of the cases) have been vaccinated with at least 2 doses.

The incidences of hepatitis is also hitting the 11 – 16 year old age group, with the majority of the cases in that group having been vaccinated with at least one dose.

www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbrea ... 022-DON376

www.gov.uk/government/news/increase-in- ... estigation

www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbrea ... rn-ireland

news.sky.com/story/amp/a-3-year-old-girls-fight-for-her-life-after-contracting-hepatitis-and-the-warning-signs-to-look-for-12595733
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/sud ... d-mothers/

Since Biden was installed as President in January 2021, natural gas futures prices are UP 216% and heating oil is up 199%.

[Budge]

Now, It Is Time to Harvest China
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2015/10/21/qi ... rica-90041

Another crisis the West has made up to be exploited - the Uyghurs:

"China has committed genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, an unofficial UK-based tribunal has found.

The Uyghur Tribunal cited birth control and sterilisation measures allegedly carried out by the state against the Uyghurs as the primary reason for reaching its conclusion on Thursday."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59595952

Deja vu all over again.

[Tobeornot]

Here is an alternative viewpoint on Black lives matter. Read past the title for the data presented is somewhat interesting

BLACK LIVES REALLY DON’T MATTER

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f Black Lives really Mattered, the black community would rise up and destroy Planned Parenthood. Why? Because 19 million black babies have been slaughtered in abortions since 1972. This is three times the number of Jews exterminated in the Holocaust.

One black brother understands and confronted a group of medical personnel protesting in support of continuing doing abortions:

I want to buy this dude a dinner. His choice. He lays it out perfectly exposing the hypocrisy inherent in the abortion industry.

The leak of Justice Alito’s ruling that states should have the final say in whether or not infanticide is allowed was a planned op. What puzzles me is why the baby murderers decided to blow this up now. The American public has a short attention span. All of the outrage and faux anger being voiced by the Planned Parenthood crowd today is likely to fade into the background when the judicial opinion is released in June. Why did they shoot their wad now? I attribute it to desperation.

Here is the reality. This opinion does not end abortion. It merely codifies that states can set their own policies. If you are black and living in New York or California, these liberal enclaves encourage black women to kill their offspring. It is that simple. Those who proclaim that we are going back to the bad old days of using coat hangers to kill a prospective child are liars.

Democrat hopes that this will change their trajectory of defeat looming in the November elections is delusional. Most Americans are on board for protecting the lives of babies. There is an evil minority that embraces killing those who cannot protect themselves. But they are a minority.

There is an odd benefit from this debate over abortion. During the last two years we have been subjected to a constant hectoring that there is no such thing as a woman. Nope, birthing persons. This madness includes an Oregon school system putting maxi pad stations in boy’s toliets. Yeah, that makes sense. All the boys need a Kotex pad to staunch their monthly menstrual cycle. That is a visible definition of insanity.

Democrats have a choice to make. Is there such a thing as women who menstruate and give birth to children or is this just a social construct? “Our bodies our right” sure is tough to reconcile with government mandates that you must be vaccinated regardless of your views about a vaccine that does not work.

I am just popping pop corn and pouring a cold one. I love watching the loones on the left set themselves on fire

https://sonar21.com/black-lives-really-dont-matter/

[LoriPrecisely]

Founder of Planned Parenthood...

[Budge]

Manipulation and Corruption (another long post)
Volatilty? What volatility??

A friend of mine is a portfolio manager and I'm including a section of a recent email on market corruption and also another article from "Wall Street on Parade" dealing with GS corruption.

First the email:

"...very often, these "Whales" get caught and have to pay fines and penalties for their actions. Nobody goes to jail but they pay fines and penalties instead.....the size of the penalties, and these "Whales" agreeing to pay them without hesitation, means that they can steal the money and then are willing to pay fines and penalties with a fraction of what they stole. No one ever goes to jail, so it's basically just a license to steal....Organized Crime members usually end up dead or in jail for life sentences, so though crime does pay, the risks are too much to take, but here are the fines and penalties paid by the following "Whales" who got caught."

This is his list of top three offenders since 2000:

BAC: 264 offences, fines/penalties: $83bn
JPM:197 offences, fines/penalties: $40bn
GS: 66 offences, fines/penalties: $16bn

"Now if these institutions paid these penalties and fines without hesitation, imagine how much they actually made manipulating the markets. Obviously, the right move to have made in 2009 was to just put those violators out of business, but instead the government bailed them all out. The reason I say this is because if you look at the following table you will see that many of the penalties and fines at J.P. Morgan Chase happened after 2009

Parent Company Penalty Amount Penalty Year
JPMorgan Chase $305,500,000 2000
JPMorgan Chase $1,600,000 2000
JPMorgan Chase $200,000 2000
JPMorgan Chase $10,000 2001
JPMorgan Chase $10,000 2001
JPMorgan Chase $80,000,000 2002
JPMorgan Chase $80,000,000 2002
JPMorgan Chase $1,300,000 2002
JPMorgan Chase $135,000,000 2003
JPMorgan Chase $80,000,000 2003
JPMorgan Chase $80,000,000 2003
JPMorgan Chase $25,000,000 2003
JPMorgan Chase $25,000,000 2003
JPMorgan Chase $25,000,000 2003
JPMorgan Chase $25,000,000 2003
JPMorgan Chase $8,600,000 2003
JPMorgan Chase $6,000,000 2003
JPMorgan Chase $358,974 2003
JPMorgan Chase $90,000,000 2004
JPMorgan Chase $50,000,000 2004
JPMorgan Chase $4,950,000 2004
JPMorgan Chase $280,469 2004
JPMorgan Chase $250,000 2004
JPMorgan Chase $73,281 2004
JPMorgan Chase $26,980 2004
JPMorgan Chase $19,373 2004
JPMorgan Chase $18,094 2004
JPMorgan Chase $17,303 2004
JPMorgan Chase $9,748 2004
JPMorgan Chase $6,682 2004
JPMorgan Chase $5,500 2004
JPMorgan Chase $6,715,000 2005
JPMorgan Chase $2,000,000 2005
JPMorgan Chase $700,000 2005
JPMorgan Chase $404,982 2005
JPMorgan Chase $400,000 2005
JPMorgan Chase $290,262 2005
JPMorgan Chase $160,000 2005
JPMorgan Chase $150,000 2005
JPMorgan Chase $60,000 2005
JPMorgan Chase $23,264 2005
JPMorgan Chase $10,000 2005
JPMorgan Chase $6,688 2005
JPMorgan Chase $250,000,000 2006
JPMorgan Chase $50,000,000 2006
JPMorgan Chase $3,850,000 2006
JPMorgan Chase $2,200,000 2006
JPMorgan Chase $1,500,000 2006
JPMorgan Chase $1,500,000 2006
JPMorgan Chase $500,000 2006
JPMorgan Chase $60,760 2006
JPMorgan Chase $500,000 2007
JPMorgan Chase $5,008 2007
JPMorgan Chase $5,000 2007
JPMorgan Chase $3,525,000,000 2008
JPMorgan Chase $28,000,000 2008
JPMorgan Chase $25,000,000 2008
JPMorgan Chase $1,998,143 2008
JPMorgan Chase $225,000 2008
JPMorgan Chase $150,000 2008
JPMorgan Chase $9,622 2008
JPMorgan Chase $75,000,000 2009
JPMorgan Chase $38,000,000 2009
JPMorgan Chase $4,400,000 2009
JPMorgan Chase $300,000 2009
JPMorgan Chase $250,000 2009
JPMorgan Chase $32,500 2009
JPMorgan Chase $6,996 2009
JPMorgan Chase $49,000,000 2010
JPMorgan Chase $25,000,000 2010
JPMorgan Chase $20,000,000 2010
JPMorgan Chase $2,492,729 2010
JPMorgan Chase $1,950,000 2010
JPMorgan Chase $1,149,028 2010
JPMorgan Chase $675,000 2010
JPMorgan Chase $604,957 2010
JPMorgan Chase $19,125 2010
JPMorgan Chase $228,000,000 2011
JPMorgan Chase $153,600,000 2011
JPMorgan Chase $88,300,000 2011
JPMorgan Chase $75,000,000 2011
JPMorgan Chase $42,000,000 2011
JPMorgan Chase $35,000,000 2011
JPMorgan Chase $3,600,000 2011
JPMorgan Chase $2,000,000 2011
JPMorgan Chase $463,000 2011
JPMorgan Chase $6,555 2011
JPMorgan Chase $5,333,600,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $1,121,188,661 2012
JPMorgan Chase $296,900,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $275,000,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $275,000,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $150,000,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $20,000,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $10,000,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $9,000,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $1,195,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $623,376 2012
JPMorgan Chase $600,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $140,000 2012
JPMorgan Chase $13,000,000,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $1,958,450,341 2013
JPMorgan Chase $1,066,000,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $410,000,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $329,000,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $300,000,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $298,973,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $200,000,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $200,000,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $100,000,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $60,000,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $1,950,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $770,000 2013
JPMorgan Chase $1,700,000,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $614,000,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $461,000,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $350,000,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $350,000,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $310,000,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $16,000,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $5,000,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $2,825,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $2,800,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $1,450,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $650,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $400,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $54,000 2014
JPMorgan Chase $53,800 2014
JPMorgan Chase $51,400 2014
JPMorgan Chase $51,120 2014
JPMorgan Chase $50,460 2014
JPMorgan Chase $550,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $342,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $267,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $186,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $150,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $106,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $100,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $50,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $50,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $30,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $12,000,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $2,400,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $1,084,210 2015
JPMorgan Chase $900,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $675,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $500,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $400,000 2015
JPMorgan Chase $130,000,000 2016
JPMorgan Chase $72,000,000 2016
JPMorgan Chase $61,900,000 2016
JPMorgan Chase $48,000,000 2016
JPMorgan Chase $4,000,000 2016
JPMorgan Chase $950,000 2016
JPMorgan Chase $950,000 2016
JPMorgan Chase $905,000 2016
JPMorgan Chase $225,000 2016
JPMorgan Chase $203,323 2016
JPMorgan Chase $53,000,000 2017
JPMorgan Chase $16,666,667 2017
JPMorgan Chase $5,707,279 2017
JPMorgan Chase $4,600,000 2017
JPMorgan Chase $2,800,000 2017
JPMorgan Chase $1,250,000 2017
JPMorgan Chase $900,000 2017
JPMorgan Chase $800,000 2017
JPMorgan Chase $230,392 2017
JPMorgan Chase $100,000 2017
JPMorgan Chase $135,100,000 2018
JPMorgan Chase $65,000,000 2018
JPMorgan Chase $24,000,000 2018
JPMorgan Chase $8,333,333 2018
JPMorgan Chase $5,263,171 2018
JPMorgan Chase $3,000,000 2018
JPMorgan Chase $11,750 2018
JPMorgan Chase $5,000 2018
JPMorgan Chase $75,000,000 2019
JPMorgan Chase $5,000,000 2019
JPMorgan Chase $1,850,000 2019
JPMorgan Chase $1,100,000 2019
JPMorgan Chase $280,000 2019
JPMorgan Chase $60,000 2019
JPMorgan Chase $38,336 2019
JPMorgan Chase $920,200,000 2020
JPMorgan Chase $920,000,000 2020
JPMorgan Chase $250,000,000 2020
JPMorgan Chase $35,000,000 2020
JPMorgan Chase $9,000,000 2020
JPMorgan Chase $3,750,000 2020
JPMorgan Chase $1,822,438 2020
JPMorgan Chase $325,000 2020
JPMorgan Chase $125,000,000 2021
JPMorgan Chase $75,000,000 2021
JPMorgan Chase $4,642,857 2021
JPMorgan Chase $4,642,857 2021
JPMorgan Chase $50,000 2021
197 Penalties $39,932,907,794

Here's the other article re: GS

"We’ve been reading SEC filings for more than 35 years. We have to sadly say that the 10-Q that Goldman Sachs filed with the SEC on May 2, for the quarter ending March 31, 2022, shocks even our well-documented assessment of Wall Street as a crime syndicate. Goldman Sachs has listed pretty much everything the firm does as a target of an ongoing investigation, notwithstanding that the company and a subsidiary were criminally charged by the U.S. Department of Justice in the looting and bribery scandal known as 1MDB in October 2020, admitted to the charges, and had to pay over $2.9 billion. The good news is that Goldman Sachs’ Dark Pools are one of the areas it lists as being under a probe.

Dark Pools (also benignly called Alternative Trading Systems or ATS) are effectively unregulated stock exchanges being run by the same megabanks on Wall Street that blew up the U.S. financial system in 2008 and received the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. history. The radical right in the U.S. Congress apparently believes that unbridled greed and outrageously reckless conduct that craters America’s economy deserves to be rewarded with less regulatory oversight, thus Dark Pools have not been shut down.

Not only are Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and numerous others, allowed to trade hundreds of New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq listed stocks in their own Dark Pools, but they are also allowed to trade their own bank’s stock in their own Dark Pools. We have asked the SEC for years now how it is legal for a bank to trade its own stock – possibly making a two-sided market in that stock because some of these firms own more than one Dark Pool. We’ve yet to receive an answer. (Dare we hope that this is finally being seriously investigated by Gary Gensler’s SEC?)

The name of Goldman Sachs’ Dark Pool that trades in the U.S. is called Sigma X2. It used to be called simply Sigma X. According to a publicly-available document, Sigma X is now used by Goldman Sachs to designate the Dark Pools it operates in foreign jurisdictions, which include Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.

According to a “Frequently Asked Questions” document from Goldman Sachs, under the question “Is SIGMA X a dark pool that only matches trades anonymously, without information leakage? Or will information regarding my orders be conveyed to potential liquidity providers,” Goldman says this: “The matching process for SIGMA X is completely internal, and SIGMA X will not disseminate any pre-trade information to internal trading desks or external counterparties. Executed trades are publicly reported where required by applicable rules.”

In other words, this is an unlit market where pre-trade prices are not available to the public and trades are only reported after they have occurred in darkness, if they are reported at all."


https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/05/ ... firm-does/

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