Bank of America Dangerous US$53 Trillion Derivatives Deal !

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• The Illuminist banksters are still screwing Joe Public! These derivatives are toxic gambling bets! Why is the FedRes supporting them in this action? Because the shareholders of the FedRes are the same shareholders of these large banks! (emphasis mine)
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  Bank Of America Forces Depositors To Backstop Its $53 Trillion Derivative Book To Prevent A Few Clients From Departing The Bank
  by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com/
  Bank of America, which today reported a big bottom line loss net of one-time beneficial items, did something quite tricky and extremely devious last month: it shifted anywhere up to the total of $53 trillion of the total derivatives it held as of June 30 (as Zero Hedge previously reported) on its books at Q2 from the Holding Company, which was downgraded last by Moody’s from A2 to Baa1 (the third-lowest investment grade rating) to its retail bank, which was downgraded to the far more palatable A2 (from Aa3).
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  The reason for the transfer? Bank customers who were uneasy with the fact that suddenly the collateral backstoping the operating entity handling their counterparty risk was downgraded to just above junk, demanded that said counterparty risk be mitigated by the bank’s $1 trillon in deposits. In other words, … anywhere up to the full $53 trillion (we don’t know for sure how much so we assume the worst case) is now fully and effectively backstopped explicitly by the bank’s $1,041 trillion (as of September 30) deposits.
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  .. we meant the people’s deposits: the same deposits which caused the bank’s website to be inoperative for several days in a row after it was rumored that there was an electronic run on the bank. Why? Just so Bank of America … remaining clients .. decide not to take their business to another derivative counterparty. And who is exposed to this latest idiocy? Why you. But that’s not all: the FDIC, which is the entity backstopping the deposits in a worst-case scenario, is not happy with this move for obvious reasons. Yet even it is hopeless to override the Fed, which as Bloomberg reports, “has signaled that it favors moving the derivatives to give relief to the bank holding company.” And so, once again, we see just how much more important to the Federal Reserve are interests of US taxpayers and savers, over those of the banks that effectively run the Fed.

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