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Over at Guardian UK Newspaper there is a fascinating piece about Giant American Bank JP Morgan Chase.

According to the Guardian article, JP Morgan is sitting on what is estimated to be 3.3bn ounce short position in silver. And someone has devised a plan on how to punish JP Morgan. If you are all for robbing the rich then keep reading.

Max Keiser Silver Campaign

The author of the article, Max Keiser is leading a campaign to buy Silver so that JP Morgan Chase may go burst. They even have done mathematics of how this will work.

We posited that if 5% of the world’s population each bought a one-ounce coin of silver, JP Morgan would be forced to cover their shorts – an estimated $1.5tn liability – against their market capital of $150bn, and the company would therefore go bankrupt.

The Coming JP Morgan Chase Bankruptcy: Bail Out

You might dismiss this campaign as pure lunacy but it seems to be working,

Right now, silver eagle sales for the month of November hit an all-time record high and the availability of silver on a wholesale level is drying up. The most important indicator is the price itself – holding just under a 30-year high. With each uptick JP Morgan gets closer to going bust or requiring a bailout.

Max even made a close that would make any sales manager proud,

If anyone is interested in helping to crash JP Morgan, buy silver. In the end, it’s about transferring wealth back to the people from where it came.

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John Meriwether is a good example of why many investors never learn from their mistakes. Investors delude themselves thinking “This time its different”

John Meriwether was the co-founder of Long Term Capital Management, together with two future Nobel Prize winners, Myron Scholes and Robert C. Merton. With this two brainys on board it seemed this hedge fund was a sure bet.

The fund got off to a flying start, it raised $1.01 billion from high net worth individuals. It delivered annualized returns of over 40% (after fees) in its first years. Nothing could go wrong.

But when the Russian crisis hit in 1998, it lost $4.6 billion in less than four months. With mounting losses and a bailout from the FED the fund was closed in early 2000.

You would have thought John Meriwether had learnt from his mistakes. But immediately after LTCM closed shop Meriwether launched JWM Partners. A fund that would continue many of LTCM’s strategies. He managed to convince investors to invest in him by promising them this time he was going to use less leverage.

Whoever said lightening doesnt strike twice was wrong, just like the Russian Financial crisis of 1998 killed LTCM, the 2007 Credit crisis struck JWM partners. JWM Partners LLC was hit with 44% loss from September 2007 to February 2009 in its one of its fund. As such, JWM Hedge Fund was shut down in July 2009.

Never buy into the idea “This time it is different.”

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