FTX no different than the Fed and their dark pools

FTX Was Creating Money Out of Thin Air Like the Fed; and Trading Its Own “Stock” Like the Wall Street Mega Banks in their Dark Pools
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 16, 2022 ~
On June 10 of last year, Wall Street On Parade penned this headline: Seven Years after Michael Lewis Described on National TV How the U.S. Stock Market Is Rigged, SEC Chair Gensler Says He’s Going to Tackle Market Structure. Unfortunately for confidence in U.S. markets, that’s yet to happen. And it’s not just the fault of Gensler. The Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee that should be holding in-depth hearings on the most corrupted market structure since 1929 have opted instead to hold superficial hearings each time something blows up as a result of that corrupted market structure, but never actually get around to tackling the corrupt market structure itself.
So here we are today with another abject failure of market structure causing a week of sensational headlines around the globe that make U.S. markets look unhinged.

You’d think he would shut the F up but no here is Sam’s tweet thread up to #24
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591989554881658880

23) Roughly 25% of customer assets were withdrawn each day–$4b.

As it turned out, I was wrong: leverage wasn’t ~$5b, it was ~$13b.

$13b leverage, total run on the bank, total collapse in asset value, all at once.

Which is why you don’t want that leverage.

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