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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Tuesday Brainstorming - part 1

Greek's tragedy climbs to new level of stupidity it seems but there might be more to it.
After all the dramatic claims of the PM to stop the evil hedge funds we find out that a state controlled bank of Greece is one of the biggest CDS speculators - I have no doubt that he/ they knew that so why all the theatrical performance. Where should be more than meets the eye as such events trigger only a cover up for deeper hidden agenda. We will find out eventually as some 'desperate' moves soon will show what is part of the agenda like the sale of some islands who have plenty of oil resources suddenly in 5-10 years from now

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http://www.zerohedge.com/article/biggest-greek-cds-speculator-has-been-uncovered-culprit-greek-state-controlled-hellenic-post

The Biggest Greek CDS Speculator Has Been Uncovered - Culprit Is... Greek State-Controlled Hellenic Post Bank!


We have officially moved from a Greek tragedy to a Greek surreal comedy. After nearly a month-long scapegoating campaign in which Greek PM G-Pap said he would spit in the faces and skullf#@* all those who dared to buy Greek CDS (because as we have all been lied to by everyone who doesn't know the first thing about CDS, it is CDS buying not bond selling that drives spreads), with the stupidity reaching as far and wide as the Spanish and German secret services, which said they would spy on CDS traders in London and New York, Greek daily Kathimerini has just uncovered that the biggest speculator, holding 15%, or $1.2 billion of the total $8 billion in Greek notional CDS, has been a firm that operates about 2 blocks away from the parliament building in Athens - the state-owned Hellenic Post Bank (TT)! Luckily poetic justice is about to be served, as every single media outlet tomorrow will apply the same circus monkey treatment to G-Pap and his clownshoes henchmen, not to mention the chorus of obese idiots over at the European Commission who fell for the ruse (speaking of EU idiots, has anyone heard of Jenny Craig relapse patient Joaquin Almunia in the past 2 months, with his "Greece will never demand a bailout" arrogance). While there had been speculation that Greek banks were selling Greek CDS to hedge funds, it had never crossed anyone's mind that a Greek bank could be betting on the collapse of its own sovereign host (especially one which does not own Bernanke's printing press), and that in such size! Frankly this beats even our very own AIG fiasco by orders of magnitude in stupidity.

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