Bretar hræddust vogunarsjóði en gerðu ekkert.

Væri ekki nær að íslensk yfirvöld, eigendur Kaupþings,lífeyrissjóðir og aðrir bæðu Gordon Brown að kyrrsetja allar eigur þessarra vogunarsjóða og framferði þeirra verði rannsakað.

Breska blaðið NEW STATESMAN sagði þetta þann 31. júlí 2006:

...Sell-out: Why hedge funds will destroy the world... . Janet Bush:

...If hedge funds were a country, it would be the eighth-biggest on the planet.

They can sink whole economies, and have the potential to crash the entire global financial system.

Yet they are beyond regulation. We should be very afraid ...    (litur og leturbr .VJ)

                             Þetta sögðu bresk yfirvöld árið 2000, skv. greininni: 

...Howard Davies, then chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA), admitted in 2000 that hedge funds were not very well understood by policy-makers and regulators, but then added: "That is not astonishing in one sense, in that if we do not regulate it, we need know less about it. But it is clear that if we are interested in systemic stability, we cannot ignore a sector which can mobilise around the same volume of assets as the US commercial banking sector."...

 

                              Svo er vitnað í háttsettan bankamann: 

...Enron's core business was failing - or had been hijacked by the greed and venality of its management. But hedge funds have the potential to wreck perfectly healthy and well-run companies. One senior British banker told me: "You talk to any FTSE-100 company and they live in fear of the hedge funds. If they choose to short your shares [a contract in which shares are borrowed for a set period on the bet that they will go down in price, and are then bought back, hopefully more cheaply, and repaid to the institution that lent them] you're fucked." ... 

                             bankamaðurinn hefði alveg eins getað sagt við Íslendinga:  if they choose to short your currency, you are  fucked - það var nefnilega það sem gerðist. 

                              Þá er í blaðagreininni fjallað um viðbrögð ESB.  

...Surely the Europeans, the last bastions against Anglo-Saxon free-market mania, will ride to the rescue. Well, not exactly. The EU internal market and services commissioner, Charlie McCreevy, recently ruled out new rules to regulate hedge funds, saying that they played a crucial role in putting the "fear of God" into company boards, to the benefit of all. A group set up to study hedge funds for the European Commission recently argued that the European industry was adequately regulated and needed to be protected from onerous new rules threatened from the United States. " ...

                               Þetta er aldeilis traustur félagsskapur sem við Íslendingar höfum lent þarna í.

                               Held að við ættum að forðast veislurnar í Brussel hér eftir. 
 

 

Sjá: http://www.newstatesman.com/200607310033        

 

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