Max Keiser on Bankers' Bonuses - 27 March 2009 (1 of 2)

[calla1234]

Everyone loves Max Keiser as if he is some kind of preacher to the masses. The only reason that he is taking the moral high ground here is because he has already made his money in investment banking himself years ago and now has enough cash to retire. Morally he is no better than the people who work in banking today. He is just egocentric and craves a bit of popularity. Keiser is just as much a crook as any other banker there ever has been.

[crumcon]

Max tore up a new ass hole to the Frenchman's ass

[greenwindel94]

how about you stop speaking over the frenchman and let him speak his point. this is why americans are frowned upon everywhere.

[Plastering4u]

After bankers crashed the economy in 1929, some committed suicide...after they crashed the economy in 2008 they demanded even bigger bonuses!

[BeholdZeus]

The people must rise up! Imagine the absurdity of suggesting that bankers should be paid absurd bonuses in the off chance that they will take their fraudulence elsewhere! Fecking let them go! They will be replaced in the new order of things. Let this ancien regime go up in flames!

[BeholdZeus]

God bless Max Keiser!

[BeholdZeus]

The ineptitude of that French academic is astounding. He is the old guard par excellence. Move over and make way for the champion of financial reform: Max!

[kingofthepaupers]

Jct: The banking system is designed to be legally abused to divert attention from the root systemic malfunction. "Bailouts to bonuses" is a wonderful diversion from promising to pay 11 when the bank only created and loaned out 10.

[Lagnar]

Sooner or later these Financial Manipulators will get their just deserts. I just wish we hadn't gotten rid of the guillotine quite so soon, not that they deserve such a luxury. Karma always wins...one way or another.

[bearmare]

The bankers and the monetary authorities are in cahoots. Goldman Sachs has managed to penetrate the entire US banking and regulatory systems. Worse yet, they have managed to reach deep into many governments. The control over the Bush Administration by GS is evident, and their control over the Obama Administration will be realized. You want to reform the system? Start with wholesale executions at GS; slaughter the lot of them.

[TheDutchap]

The Vicious uuhh I mean Vicious circle

Bankers wants big bonuses

Big bonuses means lot of money

Lots of money makes people greedy

Greediness makes people shameless

Shameless people are bad

Bad people become bankers

Why do American people have relations with that kind of banks?

[urbanrootz]

Max Keiser is a fucking hero who speaks the truth and is exposing these crooks... And he is downright hilarious too!

[bayhoecott]

Banks say they are making a profit and intend to continue paying bonuses. Of course they are ? Bank makes 200 billion, bank looses 300 billion, government gives bank 200 billion, result profit of 100 billion. Result more bonuses and the debt created to be  paid by the hard pressed ordinary decent citizens. Planet earth is finished it entirely being run by criminals,

[gosciu555]

The right incentives? WTF, thats like saying bonuses for drug dealers give them "the right incentive." Again, thats a big WTF.

[pTrr]

damn i m french and i must admit our english is terrible, just look at this guy !

[bischweier]

the french guy sounds like an guy from india ..kind a funny

[escobari]

well he's not going back there :p

[SHOOTER0072003]

i agree with max 1000 %

[ari1989]

max is economic genius

[b0ondockz]

That fucking French dildo needs the shit slapped out of him. Blow me you French faggot. Go back to whatever university you teach at and get fucked in your Ponce De Leon ass.

[billp4]

HAHAHA I read your comment before I watched the clip. Oh THAT French dildo lol

[putman9]

Who is this silly Frenchmen--oh, I see the blurb, he's an academic. That explains it. Clueless about the real world.

JP Morgan, Warburg, etc., BUILT the damn Fed to begin with. Max is spot on. It's all interlocked. SEC has been captured. Treasury has been captured. FED never needed to be captured, was always owned.

Enough with loony Coincidence Theorists and their rose-colour glasses. Arrest these crooks under RICO.

[jobedied]

We need to put them in jail killing them is to good let the bastards suffer in jail for 20 or 30 years. They will die there then. Crooks and theives full of hubris and distain for the working people. Be nice if about 80%of congress and senate somehow dropped dead also because that is how many are criminals.

[sugarpuddin88]

China executes these guys!

Today, China is now Brazil's biggest trading partner!

[SendinK9]

Keiser is 150% right on!!! He has hit the nail right on the head... This was a planed collapse by the corrupt corporate rich and the Fed Reserve... ( A PRIVATE BANK )

What these bankers have done to the US is nothing sort of treason which in this country is punishable by death... Paulson should be the first to go! Soon after everyone in the Bilderberg group.

[Nolen87]

max keiser is now my hero

[JoshuaSethComposer]

It's a shame we have people who place all the blame on gov't, or all the blame on Wall St, or all the blame on consumers. The professor is right about the Fed. But Max is absolutely right that Wall St committed massive fraud.

The analogy of the Fed pouring alcohol and Wall St getting drunk is incomplete--Wall St hijacked a car and totaled it. Can't blame the Fed for that, just as you wouldn't blame the bartender if your friend got hammered and crashed your car into a tree.

[omegagame1]

Their is a large difference between your analogy and what is happening. If your drunk friend crashes your car, your screwed. If wall ST crashes the economy we are all screwed.

[JoshuaSethComposer]

"Their is a large difference between your analogy and what is happening. If your drunk friend crashes your car, your screwed. If wall ST crashes the economy we are all screwed"

Touche! Well, at least that's what they told us in order to justify giving taxpayer money to banks... so they can lend it back to us at interest.

It's extortion.

Another difference, is that our hypothetical drunk friend didn't mean to wreck the car. But Wall St knew these securities would eventually blow up.

[omegagame1]

I certainly do not bellieve there (Wall ST, Fed, banks, Fiat currency) crashing the economy to be a justafiable means for seizing our money to pay banks who's low interest rates are partly to blame, all while knowing beyond a reasonable doubt that it would lead to this situation, not to mention the politicians who helped usher it in... It is however a very justifiable means to question what there intentions are and whom they are working for. For it most certainly is not the American people...

[newfy777]

nice to hear some truth..god job Max..no no no make that GREAT job Max! bet the banksters would like to stuff a rag in his mouth..surprised he was even allowed on this news program

[codernur]

Decapitate them in a public place.

[vivalabag]

Kaiser is a demagogue. The French professor is right, he is taking the Austrian economics position that our problems stem from the creation of the Federal Reserve. Although Kaiser has a point that the financial services industry and the Fed work hand in hand.

[splintercell99]

they are hand in hand, skipping down the path together.

They always have been

[KhmerD0g]

hang the banksters

[MarcusCMarcellus]

The French professor is correct - he echoes what Marc Faber, Peter Schiff and others have been saying for some time. Max Keiser, on the other hand, is a self-promoting clown, and a dangerous one at that, for he actively encouraging violence and murder on TV. He has been radicalized and over-invests in the idea of French and European educational superiority. The French are philosophically bankrupt and know only anti-capitalism and socialism as remedies for everything. Keiser has no wisdom.

[z8it]

Hey people!

What part of this don't you understand?

This is the largest transfer of wealth (Theft) and concentration of power (facism) IN HUMAN HISTORY!

- the Nazis were taking gold out of corpses mouths and THIS IS WORSE!!!

This economic was planned and it is in full swing!

There is no chance of avoiding global war between these criminal Corporate instituions and the free people of the world unless we arrest them under the laws that have existed for 400 years.

DO IT NOW!

[cazacriter]

we love you max,come to spain we are on the rocks corruption spread across the country,so brave spot on and so smart,great having you

[donkey69donkey69]

wonderful guy

[HumbleLife]

The history of homebuying goes back further though. There are people who got used to buying, waiting for prices to rise, then selling... Without thinking about the long term consequences. This coupled with the bankers "reeling it all back in" has created disaster. So both should be decapitated. I know nurses, teachers and other keyworkers that can't wait to watch it....

[visitorxox]

No seems to understand that homebuyers became huge speculators on the mega-housing bubble. Buy an oversized home with no money down. Thats like buying a stock with a zero margin requirement. Then every year a buyer refinanced their home to extract money for a high life style. Should homeowners be decapitated for depleting bank assets? For leaving banks not able to lend money? Banks assumed people would keep their commitment. Get real about life.

[splintercell99]

They both agree with eachother to some extent.

But the French economist however cant see that the government and wallstreet are one and the same

[ameetcoeur]

The French guy is pathetic!

[ThizzFaceOffNike]

and he's hard to understand lol "ze bonuzez"

[exopol]

YOU have been scammed by the bail out...

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It's time to move to a new energy, space-economy...

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Google :: "Exopolitics"

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[smasila]

I like idea of putting the bankers to death. No one is going to stop a execution like that.

[politickybitch]

Global capitalism is NOT self adjusting. There is nothing to check the system. The very private Federal Reserve should never have been created in 1913.

[Renegen1]

Max, ever so polite. Financial terrorists, decapitated within the first 5 seconds! Yet he keeps showing up on different TV stations. I don't know how he does it.

[ThizzFaceOffNike]

lol i know right. give um hell max!

[doobsta]

I love Max!

[aquariussouldier]

That french guy knows fuck all, the American geezer knows exactly whats happening. ee Aaron Russo's - America Freedom to Fascism. The corrupt world bankers are responsible for ALL of this

[mydantube]

you gotta love max's mischievousness!

[scorpiusaries]

these financial terrorists should be sent to prison yet they still walk free,free to come back and do more of the same and they will you can bet on it.

[tanksloan]

They're in deep underground military bases... we need to go down there and clean out the parasites

[scorpiusaries]

you're right about that, lets take em out with a Ac 130gun ship...strafe the lot...damn bankers!

[Gilgamesh73]

Not mischieveousness - Honesty and Courage.

[calmaconnection]

Max is absolutely correct there is zero accountability. In fact the same people who have created this premeditated financial meltdown are the ones posing as the saviors.

The bonuses are just a distraction for the sheeple.

Notice how the AIG bonuses are dominating the media?

Max and others needs to keep repeating this truth until people put 2 and 2 together and finally get it.

Viva la Revolucion!

[iwasthatdolphin]

OMG...if this wasn't sooo serious it would be hilarious.

[NascarL4806]

Max, I have the gas operated chain saw and I'm ready! Perhaps we can have CNBC televise the decapitation or "Market Correction Special" and the major hardware stores can sponsor it!

[Gilgamesh73]

Decapitation is going a little easy on 'em don't you think?

[pokerfacecom]

Got Rope?

pokerface. com

Startung with Alan Greensperm

[RenegadeTimes]

We love ya Max ..in a time of whiney fake talk and BS..Max cuts clear to the bone !!! Bravo Max...Bravo !!!

[motonegros]

Max is sweeping the floor with Pepe L' Phew.

[WOLF333999]

That French banker shill could use some English lessons, if you ask me.

[ngonea]

And how many langugaes do you speak fluently?

[WOLF333999]

And how many words do you invent daily? You just wrote eight words, and one of them is new to me. God knows what happens if you write an essay of about ten thousand words. Halfway through, you would probably have invented a completely new language (I also like your version) and delivered some potent headaches to many of your readers.

No hard feelings, though. I'm just being silly, especially to people who defend idiotic bankers.

[RealPolyester]

Hey jibbi4one. I respect your opinion to disagree with Max but I feel you might be doing so partly because of his brash style and not because of content. Please look closely at his other analyses (e.g. look up his short films including one about predicting Iceland's collapse). He is very sharp. I think he is displaying virtue in his anger here. I'm not a religious person but there's a great quote by St. John Chrysostom" "Whoever is without anger, when there is cause for anger, sins."

[RealPolyester]

Alright, I just massacred the exact wording of the quote but the meaning is still correct:)--Best

[jibbi4one]

Keiser is a freakin boob!

Excuse me, who audits the fed reserve the biggest ponzi scheme in secret?

With no public knowledge!!

What about the 'community reinvestment act' who came up with that fiasco?

Granted private banks and goofy 'legal tender' instruments is fraudulent but who's fault is it really?

This guy is another media hack blowing hot air up your ass.

[seditionape]

jibbi4one...

Your right. Who does audit the Fed?? Anytime the Fed comes up empty they change what it is that is public knowledge. Goofy legal tender is essentially forced tender, and all together goofy indeed. What hot air is it that you see?

[jibbi4one]

Hot air, meaning Keiser seems to link the economic collapse to GREED by banker.

My contention is that the big gov't central policy maker is really culpable since they ultimately control money supply and monetary policy.

FEAR trumps GREED. The 'fear' of losing your money because of running foul of market and simple regulation (law).

When you remove basic regulations governing finance by diluting or changing accepted finance law you end up with pure greed and the problems you witness today.

[RealPolyester]

Search Alan Greenspans public comment about the Federal Reserve at channel 5qrWlNZKNro. It is "independent" (i.e. unaccountable), opaque (e.g. Bernankes testimonies) and has a banking cartel foundation. Also, examine fractional reserve banking wherein money is created by bank ing corporations and not the gov't. Indeed, the gov't and banks are both responsible here. And by big government I hope you mean plutocracy and not democracy. It's not of the people, by the people, for the people."

[jibbi4one]

RealPolyester...yeah I agree. Big gov't is central policy making non transparency with bankers a willing accomplice with bad monetary policy. That's the confusion that exists in the U.S. now. The investor looks to stability and sanity my view is GOLD has to return as a world standard in setting value to currencies. I also agree the citizen should have detailed analysis of central banking policy and adoption contingent on approval or disapproval by rep. or referendum. Without this its chaos!

[RealPolyester]

You're right on the mark with an Austrian solution to our economic crisis (i.e. rational expectations and sound money). Almost no one has beaten the analytical likes of the Austrians (e.g. Paul, Faber, Schiff, Tice, Rogers, etc). Max may be an exception here, but he's very accurate nonetheless. P.S. I'm with you on gold and silver bullion. My wife and I opened an allocated account and I'm also looking at the Central Fund of Canada (CEF) (it's not a scetchy derivatives based ETF).

[jibbi4one]

Hey RealPolyester you might be on to something with CEF.

I don't want to sound stupid but gov't(tax) has been known to step in between the investor and their gold metal holdings. The other is fees: storage,insurance,U.S. $ peg to metal price etc.

OK-have to do some serious research.

Thanks for the tip...

[RealPolyester]

I'm glad I could help jibbi4one. I have to do some of my own due diligence on CEF. As well, I learned about the fund on the youtube channel QBzNISJM0CQ. The speaker there -Greg McCoach - had some very interesting stories about being in the bullion business. As well, you may want to search for interviews with the metals expert James Turk. He's awesome too and I think Max Keiser said he stores his gold with Turk's company in London.--Cheers

[seditionape]

jibbi4one. So what your saying is the bankers are initially fearful other than greedy and dont control money supply surreptitiously through puppet governments and instruments like IMF. And it's government that is just atypically lackadaisical in that they dont scold the scared bankers from making rash decisions based on fear, ending with calamities in the economy. And in the end the government then loosen laws to attempt to correct the economy and this give's way to pure greed?

[jibbi4one]

Seditionape...maybe if I were to add this:

The fair market environment with minimal gov't control on picking winners and losers in an economy can strike fear quickly into the banker who decides to go greedy at the expense of all others.

It's common sense...

'Regular' capitalism as opposed to 'Hyper' capitalism has its problems too you just don't see the boom-bust and prolonged recovery inherent in Hypercapitalisam.

Input on prosperity.

I think a fair free market gives you a chance.

[fatpius]

I LOVE MAX!! telling it like it is...be safe!

[Rizky06]

I hope Max doesn't end up in a little French car trunk

[ucd77]

Max do you have European ancestry? If not, maybe we can make you an honorary Frenchman so you can run for EU President. It's not fair that the Yanks have all the best analysts (Schiff, Rogers, Jones, etc)

[Unkn0wnGuy]

They may have Schiff, Rogers, and Ron Paul - which is fantastic - but not nearly enough americans actually heed their warnings. Most importantly, politicians don't listen to them.

[sinitskyd]

How about Marc Faber?

[ucd77]

yeah I like Marc's opinions, he's a good guy. need more Europeans like him.

[ucd77]

Well I think he wants to keep the subject focused on banker bonuses to be fair, although I'm glad Max brought it up.

[andJust1ceForAll]

Passion, intellect and truth. That's the Keiser we know.

You go Max!

[FrozenHummocks]

I think he die in an accident soon.

[rollsthepaul]

Go Max Go. Greenspan also said that The Federal Reserve is not answerable to any department of government, and he is right. Private banking calls the shots and The Fed is private banking.

[Hendo1974]

Max Keiser for President! Throw in Ron Paul and Peter Schiff for good measure! Bob Chapman as advisor!

[JoeyPencils]

Max treats his opponent like Moe treated Curly....

[bigmick142]

Way to go Max!

You might like to take a look at "The most important thing to understand about banks." at mickanomics-blogspot-com

[Pandorum4000]

max >all

i consider a fan of him now.

[MikePhilbin]

Max is fearless. He needs to return to the USA to spearhead the routing, like he promised. Good to see the Obama Deception getting a mention here.

[akaider]

GO MAX!

[Probesoul]

way ta go MAX

[jaba987]

whoohoo go MAX!!!

[PlatinumGordon]

Go Max, shove that bullshit straight back up that nobs arsehole

[joediesel187]

that motherfucker need to watch obama

deception. the bankster control the money ponzi scheme in the world,if history repeat it self in a few year it going to be 1776 all over again. buy a gun now and stock up on ammo before obama taxs the shit out of bullet!!!!!!!

[belloOo]

max probably saw it, he is friends with alex jones & appeared on his radio show before .

[FranG1214]

Good points by Max. It's impossible to dispute the truth, and Max supplied a hefty dose of it.

[chena3]

max keiser..

head hunter

[artdeco101010]

Man - they didn't know what they sure didn't know how to respond to Max's points - I think they were just stunned by his perspective of all this as financial terrorism.

[TheFlex21]

the host is such a bitch, he got very nervous and jittery when he heard Max's tough talk

[magi55]

Max has the perfect voice.....

Greate to hear you again live on the front.

Its a pure joy to hear what you brain create.

Peace

Magi

[vonleixy]

due the past experience in wall street, max has more insights on the corruption there i guess. the french dude wish the debate was in french :)

[YouriCarma]

Pitty that this French guy was limited by vocabulaire but Max is right.

[prosvjeta]

too bad that max has kinda repuslive tone of voice.

i hate his voice but i like what he' saying.

[KhmerD0g]

some people born with a nice voice to sing but no brain like jessica simpson while other born with terrible voice but smart and articulate like max.

[prosvjeta]

sometimes, god is so cruel :)

[domeschino]

KEEP UP MAX, KEEP MAX, KEEP MAN!!!

[medulalumosa9]

Max you are so hardcore!!!! YeeHaw!!! Tell the people! Tell the people! I can't wait for the Edge!!

[madhuradi]

ship is sinking.....water is rising fast captain says throw everything that you can they threw life boats now they are throwing away life jackets

happy sinking, you all!

[rockhardxrocker]

This prof is annoying as fuck, he's just taking up time and wasting space.

[ucd77]

you've always gotta have alternative views, mate, even if you & I dont agree with them. That is the definition of a free press.

[rockhardxrocker]

ya true, but at least get someone who can say it clearly and not take forever bumbling around.

[fafne]

Hehe, very good. Decapitate them!

[bigdad06]

Get 'em Max! Off with the banksters heads Max!!:)) Wait until the G-20 meeting on April 2, then we'll really see some fireworks!:))

[marquedesade]

I like this max guy!

[drmihailo]

lets leave afghanistan out of this aaaaaaaaaaahhahahahahahaha LOL

[Igor707]

Thank you Mr. Kaiser for enlightening us all over the world. Thank you for courageously exposing criminal connections between US federal government, FED and the largest banks who have been interfering into the free-market thus who are responsible for the current crisis which affects the whole world. Thank you for opening our eyes while we are being robbed by the international banking mafia. I am afraid that there is no other way to get rid of the parasites but a bloody revolution.

[Gilgamesh73]

Keiser is the MAN!!!

He fearlessly speaks the truth!!!

Amen Max!!!

[TheHairyHeart]

Max ze Hero!

[knightstryder21]

ya MAx,

no more kid gloves

keiser opens with the polish hammer!

that guy was rocked, he couldnt regain composure! these talking heads now are getting a good indication of just how transparent thier criminal operation has become,

the ref had to step in and stop max from pummeling him

hahaha

[ivangrozny27]

Once again Max fucking nails them. The entire American banking, financial, economic & military empire is collapsing under the weight of its own evil & corrupt ways. In the same way as the Soviet Union's teetering worm-ridden empire was kicked in by Afghan guerrilla fighters, it's ironic that the same fate awaits the United States.

[vivaszapatas]

Max just punch the fat bastard in the nose!

[ZedAlfa273]

I totally agree with Max; it was planned.

[KingBaeksu]

Pow! Wham! Zing!

[batflies]

bravo max, bravo!

[mandymas]

Off with their heads!

[getplaning]

Max really nailed it. The "financial authorities" are in the pockets of the BANKS!

Where the hell did Hank Paulson come from? Where the hell did Tim Geithner come from?

Investment BANKS!

What the hell is the Federal Reserve?

IT'S A BANK!!!

Sorry for all the caps, but listening to this stupidity really pisses me off....

[RakeRocter]

Geithner was never at Goldman Sachs.  Most all of them were though.

[jobrien2001]

I am also not sure on that. Didnt Geithner come out of the FR of New York?

Anyone got a definate answer for this?

[RakeRocter]

yes, he was previously head of the new york fed.

[jobrien2001]

Yes i also think Max made a mistake, unless Geithner was working with GS before the NY fed.

Geithner's job was the oversight of the toxic assets. What a great job he did LOL

[Nymphe14]

Geithner never worked in the financial "sweatshops" and was working for the CFR before he worked for the Fed.

[KhmerD0g]

U.S. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner used to work for the IMF and Fed of NY.

U.S. Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson used to work for Goldman SUCKS.

Max got mixed up.

[RakeRocter]

max, i don't think this guy was disagreeing with you that much.

[suki2011]

Max is so brave to say what he said. We are with you MAX tell the truth.

[motina10]

I guess only on France television would max start with Financial terrorist, and they should be decapitated.

[RakeRocter]

dumb? he's basically saying that the monetary authorities are responsible for this. max is saying that goldman sachs are the real authorities and the government and banks are hand in glove. both of them are correct. in the end they pretty much agree.

[mrzack888]

the stuffy french guy is in denial. "dont say zat, don't say zat, Max! Vous est scaring me, I cannot agree with zat!! Government est good, federal reserve est bon!!"

[Freemarketeer81]

LOL!

[OghamTheBold]

Scary is the new leniency - debt is the new wealth - brown is the new turquoise

[biernot12345]

Go Max!!!

[charlesfuchs]

Maxxxxx, you da mannn! your kicked this tools butt hahahaha. He is soooo brainwashed. How pathetic lol

[Mojo1982]

Max is scary, sometimes.

[StandUp555]

Max ... We love you !

[jobrien2001]

Amazing, Keiser speaks even blunter than Celente.

[bher1966]

Where is part 2?

[clayvessel]

Max speaks truth to power.

[p86rocks86]

Max Keiser owned the Frenchie banker stooge.