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TexasTowelie

(116,572 posts)
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 07:58 PM Feb 2014

Why do you think that the bankers are dying?

Over the last few weeks there have been several deaths within the banking industry worldwide in New York, London and apparently another incident in Hong Kong today. Are these incidental occurrences or is something dubious or devious occurring? Does someone have the goods on somebody else? Be creative and go wild (but not offensive)!

My own suspicions about why these incidents are occurring (or at least, being reported) is that later this year EU banks are going to face higher capital requirements under their stress tests than they have previously. The stress tests may reveal more of those banks being undercapitalized than suspected and it could tighten credit markets as a reaction as those banks evaluate their loan portfolios. It could also hinder the stock holdings within those banks.

Any other ideas or was I too high while was creatively speculating?

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Why do you think that the bankers are dying? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2014 OP
See post at link; seems to validate your theory LiberalEsto Feb 2014 #1
There will probably be more fadedrose Feb 2014 #2
Speculation in SMW is that has something to do with FOREX. n/t kickysnana Feb 2014 #3
Link? fadedrose Feb 2014 #5
Not Sure of Cred of This Site Chris Diesel Feb 2014 #10
No time to check this tonight... fadedrose Feb 2014 #11
One link seems to be derivatives. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2014 #12
Maybe they all knew "something" fadedrose Feb 2014 #4
Def Not Suicide Chris Diesel Feb 2014 #6
It does seem to be more than a coincidence. TexasTowelie Feb 2014 #7
"I'll be home soon" can mean something different to someone who knows they're about to die. greyl Feb 2014 #9
any links sabbat hunter Mar 2014 #13
C2C had a show on it NJCher Feb 2014 #8
If you want to keep 'something' quiet, you kill programmers, not bankers Ohio Joe Mar 2014 #14
you'd kill who ever was the threat.... wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #15
Bankers are not a threat... Ohio Joe Mar 2014 #16
I don't know... wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #17

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
2. There will probably be more
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 09:10 PM
Feb 2014

Last edited Thu Feb 20, 2014, 10:03 AM - Edit history (1)

Sooner or later somebody will tell all or a note will be found...

Edited to erase stupid post. Sorry for that..

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
5. Link?
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 10:19 AM
Feb 2014

I put SMW and FOREX in search and didn't come up with anything odd. I didn't open any of the sites because the titles seems innocuous.

Thanks.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,011 posts)
12. One link seems to be derivatives.
Wed Feb 26, 2014, 07:26 PM
Feb 2014

NOw 4 J.P. Morgan bankers are dead.
3 of them worked with derivatives.

All the dead bankers AND the missing financial reporter have in common the fact that their companies were being investigated.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
4. Maybe they all knew "something"
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 09:51 AM
Feb 2014

about some one or some others that was incriminating. Suicides can be faked.

Also, bankers seldom go to jail for "crimes," fines are usually demanded..

 

Chris Diesel

(17 posts)
6. Def Not Suicide
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 02:46 AM
Feb 2014

One of them texted his girlfriend. "I'll be home soon"

another was shot eight times with a nail gun.

The largest monetary theft in the history of mankind occurred in 2008, the mortgage crisis. Not a single banker has gone to jail, and the de-regulated rules that allowed the theft have not been re instated.

What happens when a theft is not recovered and the thieves go totally unpunished? They will steal again.

Germany asked for their gold back that they have in Fort Knox. They've been told they can't have it in the near term. They won't even let them see it.

China is quietly selling it's US debt

George Soros is betting $1,300,000,000, that's $1.3 BILLION that the S&P500 is going to crash.

Dead bankers do no talking.

greyl

(22,996 posts)
9. "I'll be home soon" can mean something different to someone who knows they're about to die.
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 04:51 PM
Feb 2014

Last edited Fri Mar 21, 2014, 10:08 PM - Edit history (1)

(just to put that out there).

It's a possibility that needs to be eliminated or confirmed during the course of an investigation.

NJCher

(37,749 posts)
8. C2C had a show on it
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 02:47 PM
Feb 2014

Here's the summary of the show:


Banker Deaths

Date: 02-20-14
Host: George Noory

In the first half, former commodities trader and "guerrilla economist," V, talked about the recent mysterious deaths of bankers, including three who worked at JPMorgan. According to his sources, there are some 20 dead bankers, and some of the deaths appear to be connected. Two of the JPMorgan bankers that recently died (Gabriel Magee, 39, and Ryan Henry Crane, 37) had similar executive positions, and may have been looking at the same spreadsheets, V conjectured. "They uncovered something that was so heinous, so incredible, that if it were to get out, you would see a massive amount of reprisals...and people getting arrested or thrown in jail...So this is a 'clean house' method being perpetrated before our eyes," he continued.

He suggested that the deaths might be connected to a massive $2 billion loss incurred by JPMorgan trader Bruno Iksil in 2012 involving credit default swaps, a huge manipulation going on in the precious metals market, and fraud involving Libor (London interest rate) and Forex (currency market). V views the bankers' deaths as a harbinger of an economic implosion, and believes they're being murdered, with a "scripted" suicide story placed as a cover-up.




Cher

Ohio Joe

(21,894 posts)
14. If you want to keep 'something' quiet, you kill programmers, not bankers
Sat Mar 22, 2014, 06:28 PM
Mar 2014

You then have 'hackers' wipe everything... It's the only way. Bankers may make the rules but they are kept by computers.

Ohio Joe

(21,894 posts)
16. Bankers are not a threat...
Mon Mar 24, 2014, 10:05 PM
Mar 2014

They could rant and rave all they want about anything and it is far easier and safer to make them look like loons rather then kill them. Without the evidence in the computer, they have nothing. It's the programmers they have to worry about.

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