We know the Ben and Shiela show has a nice theme music and is set on a fairy tale island with regular appearances by Larry Summers and Timmy Geithner and cameos by Greenspan as "Greenberg", Warren as "Nice gramps", Bartaromo as "Leggy Peggy" and Hank "the Bird watcher"...Lloyd has even been asked on the show, but he's been too busy making money - so he tried to get Trump to stand in for him. Dimon was not invited to appear because he's the director and secretly has a crush on "Leggy Peggy"...
Be that as it may, this show is a distraction and the panics in Afghanistan are a sign of the social distrust permeating the globe at this point. Every now and then the Ben and Shiela show will trounce the reality shows and transfix everyone, but reality will win out.
The popular euphemisms this week are:
“People don’t need to be worried,”
“We’ve got enough cash..." "...to support the bank.
“Even if the whole financial system in Afghanistan collapses, we have enough money to support it,”Other tantalizing clips:
"The biggest mistake, by my partner, Mr. Farnood, was to buy $160 million worth of villas and office buildings in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, at the height of the real estate bubble in 2007 [with the banks money]. The next year, the market collapsed. Nobody could have predicted the crisis, nobody” - Mr. Frozi, Kabul BankIn the show, many of the villas bought with the banks (government's) money, are occupied by friends, and prominent Afghans, like former Vice President Ahmed Zia Massoud and Mahmoud Karzai.
“This is nothing but a panic,” Mr. Karzai said. “People are under the impression that the bank is failing, and it’s not.”In, previews for next weeks show, Mr Farnood, a world-class poker player, was ordered to hand over £100 million of apartments and villas in Dubai which he had purchased with the banks money for figures including Mahmoud Karzai, the president's brother.
Apparnetly, these units and villas are worth as much as Dubai World and its refinanced 59 billion in debt - less than ZERO.
What is interesting about these two shows is that apparently the "Ben and Shiela Show" is a few episodes behind its Kabul sister. They are still sipping Pina Colada's on Ben's get away island. The theme will change and I hear that they will be hiring the writers from "Ka-BULL" back in the US.
I know this post is a bit of a transient, but I think its ironic that we have not heard about Dubai for a while, or quite a lot of other things like Bank Runs and Lehman. Every thing's supposed to be just fine. The last time I heard about bank run's they were occuring in the most prolific debt carnivore of the world - "England" and were shortly followed by Lehman...and the bottom about to fall out...I think this is the same story, different station. The headlines look fine but the crap is all still there...albiet covered by Peggy Leggy's negligee and a few of Ben's Pina Colada's. Yeah, Ben you can drop money from helicopters and throw it out the window for the reason of the month club like buying bankrupt hotel debt for Maiden lane from Bear Stearns...but you could do nothing to prevent Lehman? I would say the show is getting less and less believable by the day.
Ironically, Afghanistan is Obama's worst nightmare and some of it may be coming soon to a town near you...
Ironically, Afghanistan is Obama's worst nightmare and some of it may be coming soon to a town near you...
If this goes on, we won’t survive, If people lose trust in the banks, there will be a revolution in the financial system. - Khalilullah Frozi
