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Mix-Ansicht- Essay: Does The Plunge Protection Team Exist? - Jagg, 06.12.2001, 19:23
- Dennoch: PPT und Staatsräson - El Sheik, 06.12.2001, 19:46
Dennoch: PPT und Staatsräson
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>Black Box Forecasts
>"Six hours ahead of its time"
>by Rick Ackerman
>October 31, 2001
>Does The Plunge Protection Team Exist?
>I'm not big on conspiracy theories, especially the ones that imply meticulous planning, hermetic secrecy and deft execution by Uncle Sam and his covert agents. Given their record of bungling, I firmly believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, that the Watergate burglary was not an elaborate scheme to eavesdrop on the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee, and that FDR was neither unsurprised nor gratified when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. And while Lyndon LaRouche and his ilk evidently think the CIA and Trilateralist Commission run the world, I seriously doubt whether those two institutions combined possess the operational savvy to run a back-alley crap game. Remember, these are the same guys who tried to kill Castro with an exploding cigar, and who believed the Soviet Union was trouncing us in the Cold War until the day the Berlin Wall fell.
>Even so, there is reason to believe that the U.S. government may be loosely in cahoots with some top Wall Street firms to ensure that the stock market does not spook investors too badly, or too often. Now this does not necessarily mean, as some market-watchers now assert matter-of-factly, that there is a Plunge Protection Team which snaps into action whenever some crisis manager monitoring the market's vital signs on CNBC lifts a red phone at the White House. To begin with, who could run an operation like that? With the possible exception of former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, no Cabinet-level honcho comes to mind who could conceivably be entrusted with such a difficult job. And who actually believes that even Rubin could second-guess the markets any more successfully than, say, last month's top-rated guru in Hulbert's Digest?
Vielleicht Herr Fisher?
Daß dennoch große Nationen im Sinne der Staatsräson Interesse haben, etwa über Global Macro Hedge-Fonds Märkte in für sie opportune Richtungen zu manipulieren, zeigt etwa E.Harmes in"Hedge Funds as a weapon of state", Working Paper der University of York, 1995.
Grüße
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