The Complete Economic Collapse of Great Britain | Global Depression.
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you know it's bad when the CEO of
JPMorgan Chase says the following quote
I was surprised to see how much leverage
there was
oh boy
three days ago folks the bank of England
warned us that you have quote three days
left to basically get your Affairs in
order for potential massive pain in the
markets and the potential collapse of
the sixth largest economy in the world
that's the United Kingdom he used to be
the fifth largest well
today that time is up and in this video
I'm going to catch you up to speed with
some new Clarity on the near
bankruptcies that happened over the last
three weeks I'll give you some insights
into this we'll also talk about what's
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alright folks let's get into the bank of
England on September 6th the Liz truss
took over as prime minister of the
United Kingdom replacing the disgrace to
Boris Johnson whose reputation had
really faltered during his handling of
covet and allegations that he was
regularly partying as the country was in
lockdown this became known as partygate
two days later after Liz truss took over
Queen Elizabeth died and Queen Elizabeth
was put to rest on September 19th 11
days later then just four days after
that not even three weeks into Liz
truss's new role her treasury secretary
or the equivalent of that the chancellor
of the exchequer kawasi cavatang
announced plans for a mini budget to be
voted on in November and in this budget
he called the United Kingdom a country
of entrepreneurs and said that the way
out of the depressive economy we face
now is to Simply reduce taxes for a lot
of people and specifically reduce taxes
for rich people by for example cutting
the top tax rate from 45 to 40 and
instead of raising the 19 corporate tax
rate to 25 getting rid of that hike as
well as cutting stamp duties to buy real
estate and offering stimulus for energy
bill to businesses and homeowners all of
this would should have been made
official in November of course that
night quasi-cartang allegedly went out
partying with hedge funds who likely
stand to benefit from the now lower top
tier taxes that was on a Friday but on
Monday oh boy the market led Liz trusted
staff know they hated this because to
the market it sounded like the United
Kingdom was about to spend a whole lot
more money and reduce tax revenues
during an inflationary time basically
stimulating the economy while reducing
revenue for the government requiring
essentially more money printing which
again is more inflation all while
interest rates should be going up to
lower inflation especially when the
inflation rate in the United Kingdom is
just down from a high all the way down
to 9.9 percent yeah that's right they
almost have a 10 inflation rate in the
United Kingdom so when you couple a 10
inflation rate with a bunch more
stimulus of course the Market's going to
free and over the next week the British
pound collapsed to a new low of dollar
and three cents that is one British
pound could buy you a dollar and three
cents almost at one to one it did
recover to a dollar and twelve but not
before causing massive stress in the
bond market and really exposing as uh
Warren Buffett says when that tide goes
out is when you really find out who's
been swimming naked see what happened
was basically their equivalent of the
30-year treasury bond known as gilts
it's just a bond it's like an IOU in
Great Britain they lost 20 percent of
their value extremely quickly so just
think about owning a stock just as an
example let's say it's worth a hundred
and all of a sudden it's worth 80. well
originally If you're sort of a buy and
holder kind of person this isn't a big
deal you're just like all right well I
mean that sucks you know I could buy
more if I have some cash or I just
hoddle and hope one day it recovers
right but Pension funds aren't buyers
and holders they're Borrowed by and
holders in fact there's an entire
pension fund system that's known as ldi
Asset Management and it stands for
liability driven Investment Management
this is why Jamie Diamond came out and
said just today I was surprised to see
how much leverage there was in some of
these pension plans and that's exactly
where the real drama came in these ldis
basically because interest rates have
been so low for over a decade in order
for Pension funds to do their job they
felt the need to borrow a lot more money
remember what Pension funds do they're
basically a retirement plan for you
right let's say you retire and you're
promised a pension of 50 000 pounds a
year for the rest of your life just call
it fifty thousand dollars a year for the
rest of your life right you put 30 years
in you expect to get that pension or
retirement whatever the pension fund
needs to invest money that they have
today to make sure they can make those
payments to you every year in the future
well because interest rates were so low
and cash flows for so low on the things
that they could invest in they decided
the best thing to do is just buy borrow
money to increase their returns and you
know that works really well when the
Market's going up but it becomes a
problem really fast when all of a sudden
rapidly bonds drop 20 and this quickly
led to a spiral of panic as Pension
funds were starting to get margin called
on debt due to the rapidly plummeting
value of their assets this led Pension
funds to sell more bonds depressing
value further and the spiraling is known
as a doom Loop right now there's about
one and a half trillion Great British
pounds worth of ldi investments in the
system so basically it's a way of saying
it's potentially a too big to fail
segment of the entire UK economy on top
of that one of the custody banks that
was dealing with these Pension funds had
so many margin calls they were dealing
with they didn't even have enough staff
to help process how many margin calls
were coming in and there wasn't enough
liquidity to make this to cover that
means Pension funds didn't have enough
cash so they had to dump to be able to
move money and cover so there are a lot
of steps involved the issue here wasn't
so much that rates went up and bonds
fell it's just how quickly the bond
market reacted when Liz trusts's crazy
plan came out which seems like which
ultimately seemed like it would require
more rate hikes to prevent even more
inflation so after this Insanity the
bank of England intervened on September
28th just five days later promising an
unlimited bailout basically setting a
floor price under the price of these
bonds this helped guilts regain
somewhere around 20 in value but they
also quickly gave that up again because
the United States inflation rate came in
at uh on October 13th at a completely
disastrous level and see the more the
FED raises rates the more people are
attracted to invest in U.S bonds and so
they dump their UK bonds and go invest
in something they think is safer like
U.S bonds that's really bad for the
United Kingdom and just creates more
pressures for them so to ease the drama
even further than the Central Bank
saying we're just gonna buy all the
bonds we can and basically bail everyone
out which we'll get into some more
detail about how much they actually were
able to pull off Liz trusses government
u-turned they killed the idea of getting
rid of the top tax rate on October 3rd
they will not eliminate the 45 tax
bracket and at this point her popularity
fell to a lower level than Boris
Johnson's popularity or approval rating
which is kind of sad because she's only
three weeks in her job and today she
u-turned again she said that the
corporate tax raid will not actually be
held at 19 they're going to take that 25
percent rate hike back and they're going
to move corporate tax rates to 25 that
is in April as planned and after quasi
quartang ran out of the IMF in
Washington yesterday he came back home
to learn that he had been fired he now
has the award by the way of the shortest
serving treasure treasury secretary and
almost well Chancellor of the exchange
in almost
190 years he's uh right there in the
yellow the yellow box there on the left
after having served just 38 days he's
the second person ever to have such a
short term in the UK's history now today
Liz trust said that her plans went quote
further and faster than markets were
expecting so she appointed someone else
to the job of Quasi quateng this new
person is named Jeremy Hunt and the goal
is that maybe he can relax markets a
little bit now what's with this whole
three-day thing so on Tuesday Andrew
Bailey said he's the head of the bank of
England that's their Central Bank he
told Pension funds and investment
institutions that you have quote three
days left to offload any bonds that you
have and he said quote you've got to get
this done
and while the bank of England said they
would buy up to an unlimited amount of
bonds they set aside an expectation that
they might have to buy around 100
billion dollars of bonds well today day
three has come and take a look at what
we have this is the total number of
bonds that have been bought and as of
today only 19 billion dollars in bonds
have been bought the majority of those
were bought within the last three days
right before the deadline which sends a
little bit of a signal that potentially
Pension funds just aren't actually ready
to be able to liquidate and take
advantage of the bank of England's deal
though there's also the argument that
what the bank of England was willing to
pay was basically locking in losses it's
kind of like hey we'll bail you out of
your you know crappy hundred dollar
stock that's now worth 80 and we'll bail
you out at 80 and you're like uh but I
don't really want to sell at 80 like I
guess I'll give you some anyway
technically now the bank of England is
done and so now there are concerns that
Pension funds were not prepared enough
to be able to sell I mean you heard
about the debacle of how hard it was
just during the Margin Call era and so
some folks are saying uh oh this is now
a bomb ready to explode now that's the
more Dark Side of course you have
positive people like Larry over at
BlackRock they do a lot of ldi investing
by the way and he's the CEO it's a
little more optimistic he thinks that
this whole craziness we just went
through is a way of normalizing the
markets more of course that's also what
was said when bear Stearns failed to
join the bailouts of 1998 and then they
famously blew up and went bankrupt
during the Great Recession just 10 years
later the CEO of JP Morgan plays both
sides here he says on one hand quote my
experience in life has been that when
you have things like what we're going
through today there are going to be
other surprises someone is going to be
offsides in other words warning of
coming bankruptcies and surprises then
we're not even aware of yet now at the
same time he he also says hey but it
looks like at least some of the problems
are being resolved now and we don't see
anything that looks systemic that's his
argument my response is yeah you don't
see that yet so what happens next well
the bailout floor is technically gone
and if Panic strikes again it's going to
be a matter of the market to deal with
it unless of course the central bank
intervenes again which would totally
create moral hazard and Crush their
credibility because they said they're
done so if they come back nobody's ever
going to believe them again and they're
just going to think they're always going
to come to save the day well if markets
have to deal with any kind of pension
fund blow up then Pension funds could
end up going bankrupt now people are
still technically owed their money from
the corporations they worked for their
pensions so that means if Pension funds
go bankrupt corporations have to pay
those pensions and if corporations have
to pay those pensions they could see
their stock values plummet massive
corporations could see their stock
values plummet because now they have to
absorb all of these extra costs the only
way out of this would be if the
corporations end up going bankrupt which
they could do which would absolutely
decimate shareholders and potentially
have Global implications of companies
just going bankrupt one after another
after another kind of like dominoes But
ultimately you'd probably see the
government slide in to try to restore
some faith in the pension system and
make sure that the 11 million pensioners
in the United Kingdom are covered of
course in the meantime you'd have some
massive shock waves spreading through
the economy again there's also the flip
side that the Central Bank could jump in
but again that kills credibility even
more than credibility has already been
killed and so really as sort of like a
longer bottom line to all of this beyond
the idea that you got to check out those
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before it expires tonight Rising rates
is dangerous Rising rates and seeing
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is even more dangerous this is when
quantitative tightening starts to feel
like quantitative destruction and we
haven't actually really had full
quantitative tightening yet it just
shows you that again the people who are
out there swimming naked or high in debt
are getting exposed and unfortunately
those could be really big institutions
so somehow Pension funds right now are
trying to come up with up to 280 billion
pounds just to have enough collateral to
stop the margin pressures now this could
end up leading to some short-term
corporate borrowing where the Pension
funds are basically like hey Corporation
we need some time to dump some other
assets can you just lend us a bridge
loan and we'll pay you back as soon as
we go sell some other stuff fine that
buys the pension fund some more time but
guess what they end up liquidating then
well they probably end up liquidating
things that take longer to sell like
real estate after all in the United
States for comparison 87 percent of
Pension funds that are public and 73 of
private Pension funds invest in real
estate to a high degree and selling now
could give them the opportunity to lock
in relatively higher prices and build
Capital buffers that they need to buoy
debts that they've taken on somewhere
else now while that might help offload
some of the risks of these Pension funds
it's possible you could end up seeing a
real estate property crash because of
pension fund offloading in both the
United Kingdom the United States and
potentially even other countries
consider the Netherlands the Netherlands
have the world's biggest pension system
at 214 of their gross domestic product
with over 1.9 trillion dollars in assets
almost all of it in defined pension
plans exactly the type of plan that
frequently uses liability driven
investment ldi's so what could happen
well you could have a few things happen
one the United Kingdom could start a
domino effect of margin calls pen should
fund bankruptcies and corporate
bankruptcies which end up flooding to
Liquidations in the real estate market
in the United States market and the
Netherlands Market this could cause a
global depression or nothing could
happen and this was all just a little
bit of a warning call
don't take out too much debt I don't
know what do you think
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