China Announces Its Own Bank and Stock Market Bail Out

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Kevin Hayden – TruthisTreason.net

Source: Zero Hedge

To anyone still believing that capital markets around the world express something other than government policy, the latest news out of China may come as a surprise: “Beijing will buy more shares in China's biggest banks, in an expression of support for the beleaguered stock market and most concrete state action to date to shore up confidence in the slowing economy.”

Hayden's Note:

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Those of you who despise capitalism or say that the free market doesn't work need to step back and realize that this is not free market capitalism in action.  This is croni-capitalism, or a corporatocracy.  This is flat-out market manipulation in its most blatant form.  Those corporations and stocks that fail should be left to fail, not propped up by governments.  By bailing them out, they are conveying to the public, “Have faith! Continue to buy and invest!…don't worry that this stock should have gone under.  Put more money into it.  Their failed policies and ideas will suddenly become great!”

Some mornings I wake up and wish the collapse would hurry up and happen so that we can have a chance at a real free market.  However, I worry that any collapse will simply allow these corporate-government-banking-gods to nail the final coffin in the global market.

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The FT reports further: “Central Huijin, the domestic arm of China's sovereign wealth fund, will buy the shares to help stabilise the pillars of the country's financial system, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday. Coming as the Chinese stock market closed at a 30-month low, the move was the strongest sign that Beijing wants to engineer a restoration of confidence in share prices and the economy. It paid instant dividends with a rally in the final minutes of trading on Monday.” And there you have it: stocks are now nothing more than a means for governments to validate their “success” in something, since they have no more control left over either employment or inflation, or public expression of affection with capitalism as per #OWS. So why not ramp up the DJIA to 36,000? Granted that will happen as all global currencies get terminally davalued against gold, but so what – after all that only thing that matters now is whose stock market is the biggest.

We could say “we told you so” but, so what – at this point only the biggest idiots don't realize that is the last ditch desperation maneuver to preserve social stability by keeping stock markets at a level that will prevent all out panic. Yes, someone will have to pay the piper at the end of the day because not even Keynes could have envisioned this kind of wholesale lunacy, but by then it will be “someone else's problem.”

For now – it is time to buy, buy, buy and, to those who listen to Berlusconi, create some market volatility.

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