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Siempre pago mis pérdidas

[Federico Machado @fede_machado_b]

La realidad es que durante años se dijo que el crecimiento de 8% anual durante el Gobierno de NK había sido pura y exclusivamente por los buenos términos del intercambio.

Hoy con precios el doble de buenos, Milei no logra crecer más del 1% y lo festeja como un logro

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

Frente a la suba del riesgo país los inútiles de Kambiemos dicen que sube por el temor a CFK.
Por un lado el riesgo sube porque el país tiene un endeudamiento explosivo que lo hace insolvente.
Por otro lado si CFK crece es porque los Kambiemos son unos incompetentes gobernando.

[Everett Stern @EverettStern1]

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,

My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.

The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.

I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.

I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.

Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.

Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.

Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.

A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.

This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.

There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.

Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.

I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.

This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.

Three things would change the math overnight.

Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.

End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.

And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.

Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.

I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.

Respectfully,

Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

[Carlos Maslatón @CarlosMaslaton]

El tomador defaulteará. El banco reportará incobrables. El depositante no tendrá de vuelta lo suyo en las condiciones pactadas. El tomador alegará imprevisión y onerosidad por cambio abrupto en el tipo de cambio. El gobierno modificará la moneda de la obligación y compensará, asimétricamente, a las partes con nuevos bonos que a su vez serán defaulteados más adelante. Porque todo, en Argentina, es una joda.

[Marcelo 🌐 @bujemu2]

Al final parece que los que prendían fuego los bosque no eran los Mapuches, era la banda de los Benegas Lynch.

[Leo @leogorbacz]

Sacan líneas de créditos hipotecarios en el Banco Nación y los toman ellos.
Sacan una ley de inocencia fiscal y se anotan ellos.
Quieren modificar la ley de tierras y se arman una inmobiliaria para vender a extranjeros.
Gobiernan para ellos.

[Carlos Maslatón @CarlosMaslaton]

Publicado en 2023, no ahora. Ratifico. No se le puede dar a la compra-venta de propiedades argentinas, por parte de extranjeros, el mero tratamiento de la transmisión general de la propiedad del derecho civil. El orden público argentino, en consideración de la seguridad y de la soberanía nacional, debe complementar el caso extranjero e intervenir en la voluntad de contratación del derecho privado para evitar posibles secesiones y ataques al país por parte de potenciales enemigos. Sí, la autonomía de la voluntad queda limitada en estos supuestos tal como sucede con tantas areas y negocios jurídicos en el orden constitucional de un país.

[Maio @MaioVaRacus]

La gran diferencia es que a nuestros reyes los elegimos nosotros

[Alberto Samid @soyalbertosamid]

Los senadores que ayer gritaban y saltaban por la selección Argentina, hoy se preparan para entregar el país

[Trader Lannister @Rey_del_Bono]

@GuoShenCN7 BTC

[G-Dogg @GDoggBA]

Se confirmó la sospecha.

El presidente del Tribunal de Tasaciones de la Nación reconoció que la decisión de no tasar a las represas del Comahue, Transener, Intercargo, AySA, Belgrano Cargas y Nucleoeléctrica Argentina antes de privatizarlas fue suya y no del pleno del Tribunal.

[Diego Giacomini @GiacoDiego]

Dice el Pastor Chaqueño que convierte pesos en dólares, que vos Adorni te estás zarpando.

[Coronel @CoronelGonorrea]

Imaginate la angustia de ese muchacho todos esos años comiendo lata de pate con criollitas mientras el pendrive con 1 millon de dolares estaba perdido adentro del dos ambientes.

[Hernán Reyes @HernanLReyes]

Adorni me produce un profundo asco moral. Se sirve de la ley de inocencia fiscal, que él mismo promovió, para no rendir cuentas sobre su millones. La presentaron como una herramienta para fomentar inversiones. La terminan usando para garantizarse impunidad a sí mismos y proteger sus privilegios.

[Christian Buteler @cbuteler]

Después de 2 meses de no poder dibujar su declaración jurada, directamente solicita ingresar junto a su esposa al Régimen Simplificado de Ganancias para no tener que demostrar el origen de su incremento patrimonial.
La justicia NO debería permitirlo.-

[Sebastián Lacunza @sebalacunza]

La vara más amoral de la historia:

- Se dan créditos subsidiados del Nación.
- Hacen aprobar una ley para blanquear sus propios ingresos evadidos.
- Cobran millones de USD x un tuit de un negocio de criptoestafadores.
- Llenan el Estado de parientes y lumpenaje.
- Saquean de cuanto contrato estatal se les cruza (5% + 3%).

[Christian Buteler @cbuteler]

A la mañana pilotean los nuevos F-16 que se compraron a Dinamarca y a la tarde hacen Uber para llegar a fin de mes.

[Cachilo @soycachilo]

Desde 1816 me chupa la pija lo que piensan los españoles

[Trader Lannister @Rey_del_Bono]

@GuoShenCN7 BTC