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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

New Blog Design & Geithner Plunders Retirement Accounts

I hope everyone likes the new design.  Thank you to everyone who sent me their suggestions.  If you like to read this on your smartphone, it is now set up for that.  I started this blog mainly to discuss topics that you won't see on mainstream media.  The first story today is a perfect example.  Nowhere on CNBC will they be discussing the fact that our Treasury is just stealing from Social Security and other programs to fund our deficit.

Another suggestion I received was to give some investment ideas on the blog.  I would love nothing more than to do that, but I would get in trouble with FINRA and Raymond James.  If you would like suggests, please come to me on an individual basis and we can discuss that.

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Instead of Funding Retirement Accounts As Mandatory, Treasury Proceeds To Plunder The Most Since Debt Ceiling Breach

 As the chart below shows, while at the end of every quarter, the US Treasury is traditionally supposed to fund a quarterly payment into the various government retirement funds (previously discussed here), this time around, instead of putting in even one penny into G and CSRD Funds, Tim Geithner has decided to defraud government retirees by the most since the US debt ceiling was breached, or, specifically, since intragovernmental "holdings" became a mere plug to make room for marketable debt. So while the debt held by the public increased by $21 billion following the settlement of last week's auctions, in order to stay under the $14.294 billion ceiling, the Treasury was forced to "disinvest" another $20 billion from retirement funds. At this point the various funds that fall under this umbrella are underinvested by at least $120 billion and likely much more. Of course, this is not an event of default as per Geithner's fine print: as soon as the debt ceiling is hiked, these will be the first funds that are replenished. On the other hand, if there is no debt ceiling hike, and courtesy of marketable debt having priority to intragovernmental debt, government retirees are increasingly becoming the impaired class in what may be shaping up to be the world's biggest bankruptcy filing in history.

 

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