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UPDATED BLOG ARCHIVE MyGlobalUnderstandingFiles "THE NEW JUDASES" (my next blog)

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Blockchain Summit 2016

The SECRET strategy to create a new system: TPP, TTIP, TISA

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The strange new world of the Federal Reserve (GIANT EXPERIMENT) is not your daddy's central banking system

Janet Yellen conducts a giant experiment as Fed decides whether to raise rates: Don Pittis

The strange new world of the Federal Reserve is not your daddy's central banking system

Analysis Don Pittis · CBC News 2 Hours Ago

The world is waiting for a word to the wise from U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen. But some critics fear only radical solutions will get the bank out of its current tight spot. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Stocks surged and tumbled last week as market analysts see-sawed over whether U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and her panel of advisers would raise interest rates this week.

Everyone from Canadian homeowners to stock and bond traders are holding their collective breath waiting to see what Yellen decides. But whether she raises rates, cuts them or leaves them the same, experts say the Fed is conducting a giant monetary experiment using strange new tools, and no one quite knows how it will turn out.

Stocks tumble as markets digest prospect of U.S. Fed rate hike

Stocks surge after Fed board member suggests no hurry to raise rates

Money used to be so much easier to understand, says economist and central banking critic Kevin Dowd, who did one of his degrees at Western University in London, Ont.

Printing money

"The fundamental problem with money is that there has to be some mechanism to control it because it costs almost nothing to print a $100 bill," says Dowd, now a finance professor at Durham University in Britain.
Creating electronic money is even cheaper.

Money being printed a the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington. (Reuters)

Up until 1935, Dowd says, the Canadian dollar was one of the most stable in the world. That was before Canada had a central bank. Instead the value of the currency was tied to gold, and interest rates were set in the market by bankers who would succeed or go broke based on whether they lent money at the right price.

Boring bankers wanted

"You want boring bankers. We've gone away from this model," says Dowd.
Since the banking crisis of 2008, central banking has been anything but boring.
The Fed and other central banks responded to the emergency by flooding the world with a new wave of cash. Dowd says the Fed missed its chance to return to a simpler monetary system.

Before Canada had a central bank, the value of the currency was tied to gold and interest rates were set in the market by bankers who would succeed or go broke based on whether they lent money at the right price. (Reuters)

"Some banks should certainly have been allowed to fail because they were essentially zombies," says Dowd. "Instead the banks were propped up. They weren't recapitalized and made strong again."
Since U.S. president Richard Nixon went off the gold standard in the early 1970s, the U.S. dollar has become the new equivalent of gold in the world's banking system. And since the 2008 crisis, central banking has entered a strange new world, says Canadian monetary policy expert Scott Aquanno.

"They're still in a kind of experimental stage," says Aquanno, whose main area of research is the U.S. Federal Reserve system. He is a research fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and teaches at University of Ontario in Oshawa, Ont.
Under the traditional model of central banking, the Fed used to change interest rates by altering the amount of money in circulation by buying and selling bonds.

New toolkit

But with a glut of U.S. dollars already circulating in the world, that is no longer possible. Instead says Aquanno, the Fed has had to develop a whole new toolkit.

For instance, if the Fed decides to raise rates this week, one tool it can use is something called the I.O.E.R. system, which stands for interest on excess reserves. Effectively, the Fed pays interest on any money banks have on hand.

Since lending for less than that rate to any other borrower would cost the banks money, the Fed is able to set a floor on interest rates.
"The assessment of how the Fed is doing has to begin by pointing out it is in uncharted territory," says Aquanno.

There are several odd things about the I.O.E.R system, but one is that it means the Fed will no longer be paying money to the U.S. treasury — in other words to the U.S. taxpayer.

Instead, billions of dollars will be flowing from the Fed to the banks in interest payments. And the higher it pushes rates, the more the Fed will have to pay. That's especially ironic considering that the current money glut that made the new system necessary occurred because the taxpayers bailed out the banks in the 2008 crisis.

New crisis

Both Dowd and Aquanno believe it is crucial for the Fed to gradually push rates higher. Aquanno says that would allow the Fed to cut rates in the event of a new crisis. Dowd fears that raising rates to their "normal rate" may itself precipitate a crisis.

And fixing the system for the long term?

"I can't see it being done in any other way than through a crisis, but my fear is the crisis could produce the wrong solutions," says Dowd. "It did the last time."

Aquanno sees dangers, and believes the coming period will be "messy." But he believes the Federal Reserve will continue to create new tools to get us through the messy time.

"It's still in its infancy so it's difficult to understand all the potential problems or limitations," says Aquanno of the new regime for keeping the U.S. dollar stable. "By all accounts, it works. We think it works."

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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Vladimir Putin holds press conference following G20 summit (Streamed live)

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Opening remarks AND MORE at NATO-Georgia Commission in Tbilisi, 07 SEP 2016

Published on Sep 7, 2016

Opening
remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the Prime
Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili at the meeting of the
NATO-Georgia Commission in Tbilisi, 7 September 2016.

Know the Risk - Raise Your Shield: Supply Chain Risk Management

New Video Highlights Foreign Risks to Private Sector Supply Chains
Video is latest effort to inform government and industry about supply chain threats

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ODNI News Release No. 18-16
August 11, 2016

New Video Highlights Foreign Risks to Private Sector Supply Chains
Video is latest effort to inform government and industry about supply chain threats

The Office of the Director of
National Intelligence’s National Counterintelligence and Security Center
has publicly released a video highlighting the threats foreign entities
pose to the private sector’s supply chain and to the public sector
organizations that utilize private sector goods and services. The video,
which debuted last month at a Supply Chain Risk Management conference
that included senior U.S. telecommunications officials, coincides with
other NCSC efforts to help government and industry address supply chain
risks.

NCSC leads the integration of the U.S. government’s
counterintelligence and security activities for the common purpose of
countering foreign intelligence threats to information and assets
critical to our nation’s security. NCSC provides counterintelligence
outreach to U.S. government and private sector entities, as well as
issues public warnings regarding intelligence threats to the U.S.

The video raises awareness of increased risk to supply chains due to
the evolving dependence on globally sourced commercial information and
technologies for mission critical systems and services. The risks are
passed to end users through products and services that may contain
defective, counterfeit or otherwise tainted components—such as
compromised telecommunications equipment.

“Our adversaries are
trying to figure out what U.S. industry—whether telecom or defense—will
be doing three years from now,” said Bill Evanina, Director of NCSC.
That is why NCSC and the ODNI are trying to find creative ways to help
U.S. industry protect its supply chain and thereby help protect
America."

In addition to the video, NCSC will help federal agencies and industry through several other measures, including:

Providing threat briefings to government partners and eventually to industry;
Developing
a SCRM blueprint for executive branch agencies, which can also apply to
any organization that acquires goods and services; and
Developing
a SCRM publicly available on-line training course that will introduce
government partners and interested industry to SCRM and the elementary
efforts they can use to protect their acquisition processes against
supply chain subversion.

To see the video, please see the following link: Supply Chain Risk Management
For additional information on supply chain issues and NCSC and ODNI, go to ncsc.gov and odni.gov.
Please also see Bloomberg’s article on supply chain issues.