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Anytime all the right wing radio shows are all up in arms over something, I start suspecting the outrage is being engineered at the behest of financial entities higher up on the food chain. The most recent example of this was the Rick Santell incident which turned out to be engineered by some corporate fat cats.
This brings us to the now public outrage over the AIG bonuses. Many of us in the doom-o-sphere are probably tempted to think “maybe this time the outrage is real, maybe the American people really are about to ‘twist of’ on their own accord. Well it’s about damn time!” That’s certainly possible but my best guess — and it’s just that, a guess — is that the public’s outrage is purposely being directed towards the AIG executives for the benefit of folks/entities even higher up on the food chain. In the case of AIG this would the counterparties that the AIG bailout money ended up going to. (That would be Goldman Sachs and friends)
Put another way: the “Big Boyz” at AIG are about to learn a very tough lesson – one already learned the hard way by the “Big Boyz” at Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. That is that as high up on the food chain as they may be, there are others who are even higher than them and that these folks won’t hesitate to toss the kingdom’s lower ranking financial “shadow magicians” out to the seething masses gathered outside the gates.
Heck for all we know, the “numerati class” working in the employ of the higher ranking guys ran this stuff through their enterprise management super-computers which calculated that tossing the AIG guys out to the masses was the best way to preserve themselves. If you don’t know what I mean by “numerati class” or “enterprise management software” then check out the following articles and think about how these sort of programs could be used — not just for making decisions within a company — but also for engineering ways to bring down other companies (or entire economies) while simultaneously profiting from the engineered collapses:
