Goldman's Global Oil Scam Passes the 50 Madoff Mark.

[Xicano]

$2.5 Trillion - That’s the size of of the global oil scam.

It’s a number so large that, to put it in perspective, we will now begin measuring the damage done to the global economy in "Madoff Units" ($50Bn rip-offs). That’s right - $2.5Tn is 50 TIMES the amount of money that Bernie Madoff scammed from investors in his lifetime, yet it is also LESS than the MONTHLY EXCESS price the global population is being manipulated into paying for a barrel of oil.

Where is the outrage? Where are the investigations?

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BP, TOT, Shell, DB and Societe General founded the Intercontinental Exchange in 2000. ICE is an online commodities and futures marketplace. It is outside the US and operates free from the constraints of US laws. The exchange was set up to facilitate "dark pool" trading in the commodities markets. Billions of dollars are being placed on oil futures contracts at the ICE and the beauty of this scam is that they NEVER take delivery, per se. They just ratchet up the price with leveraged speculation using your TARP money. This year alone they ratcheted up the global cost of oil from $40 to $80 per barrel.

A Congressional investigation into energy trading in 2003 discovered that ICE was being used to facilitate "round-trip" trades. Round-trip” trades occur when one firm sells energy to another and then the second firm simultaneously sells the same amount of energy back to the first company at exactly the same price. No commodity ever changes hands. But when done on an exchange, these transactions send a price signal to the market and they artificially boost revenue for the company. This is nothing more than a massive fraud, pure and simple.


http://www.philstockworld.com/2009/11/11/goldmans-global-oil-scam-passes-the-50-madoff-mark/

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Inconceivable amounts of money

[jgraz]

2. I'm sure Timothy Geithner will get right on that.

:banghead:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Puppeteers pulling our purse strings.

Revolt anyone?

[Skink]

4. I haven't had a cup of oil all week.

I mean starbucks:hangover:

[elehhhhna]

5. good old fashioned churning of each others holdings.

"look busy"