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  • PhaseFour [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The government will absolutely not be a neutral arbiter. Again, you have no idea what you are talking about.

    The options for federal government intervention are one of:

    • The Fed opening a swap line to cover Hedge Fund losses, which will hyper-inflate the price of GME.
    • The US government forcible seizing peoples' assets and handing them to Hedge Funds to cover short positions.

    If you think either of these options can occur without extraordinary consequences for the financial system, you are deranged. US finance capital is already on thin fucking ice around the world between their use & abuse of the SWIFT system, and the dumping of USD into international markets. 2020 had the fastest rate of de-dollarization the world. The action necessary to cover this crisis will be the greatest accelerant so far to de-dollarization.

    No investigation, no right to speak.

      • PhaseFour [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        They can. If they do, their brokerage is liable for their debts, then their brokerage's bank, hen their brokerage's bank's bank, etc, etc. This might become the next housing crisis if it keeps bubbling up.

        Although, the housing crisis involved collapsed housing prices due to subprime loans. This crisis involves GME stocks inflating due to extraordinary short options that have been put on the company. Unlike 2008, there is no limit on the losses that can occur here.

    • xXSWCC_DaddyYOLOXx [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah everything has extraordinary consequences for the financial system, best case scenario they might throw a body out the door and then make whole whoever needs it, excluding retail investors.

      • PhaseFour [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I don't know you keep responding.

        I'm talking about material reality. You keep responding as if they are going to cast a magical spell to make all this go away.

        • xXSWCC_DaddyYOLOXx [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Because that's their function under capitalism, to preserve property relations through the market. Did you forget about that material reality?

          • PhaseFour [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Because that’s their function under capitalism, to preserve property relations through the market

            If you are talking about the bourgeois class, not some magically they you making up, then this is a miscategorization. The bourgeoisie don't "preserve property relations through the market." They use the market to turn commodities into money, which gets reinvested into capital.

            The bourgeoisie do not have magical control of the market. It is anarchistic in nature and sows the seeds of its own destruction, as we are seeing right now.

            I'm done responding. You are horribly ignorant.

              • PhaseFour [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I mentioned above the possible moves the State has. Again, the market is anarchistic in nature and sows the seeds of its own destruction. The State can intervene, but it cannot resolve the contradictions of Capitalism.

                  • PhaseFour [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    If you are a social democrat and believe the State can manage the contradictions of Capitalism, then we have fundamentally different understandings of the world.