THE EVERGRANDE SHELL GAME

If' you're following the meltdown of the Chinese real estate developer Evergrande, you'll want to read this story shared by V.T. about how Evergrande's default on bond interest is a mostly virtual default. The story is by Stan Szymanski, whom we've blogged about before in connection to the developing Evergrande story. This is his latest musing:

Chinese Real Estate Developer And Crooked Bond Rating Agency Deceive Wall Street/Main Street In An Epic Shell Game

The first problem is that most of the press is maintaining that Evergrande made an interest payment, except that one holder of Evergrande bonds is maintaining that it did not. So where is the money? It's a shell game, according to Szymanski, it's there, but no one seems to know exactly where "there" is:

Juxtapose the opportunity for training I was receiving at Morgan Stanley against having the opportunity (in my off time) to watch a shell game on the street in ‘The City’. Seems simple enough. See ball under shell. Follow ball under shell. When shells stop moving point to the one with the ball underneath it. In reality, it is a lot harder than it seems, especially when the purveyor of the game is adept at public deception.

Lately, I have been asking the question of ‘where’s the money?’ when it come to China Evergrande Group and all their interest payments to offshore bondholders. Public deception apparently not only by Evergrande, but also apparently by its paying agent and virtually all of the financial press around the world with the notable exception of Dr. Marco Metzler and DMSA where he serves as a senior analyst. DMSA, (as they are Evergrande bondholders), are preparing action against the developer. From its November 10, 2021 press release: …’DMSA itself is invested in these bonds and has not received any interest payments until today's end of the grace period. Now DMSA is preparing bankruptcy proceedings against Evergrande and calls on all bond investors to join it.’…

So virtually all of the financial media has perpetuated the ‘story’ that Evergrande had made its past due interest payments on its offshore bonds when, according to DMSA and Dr. Metzler, they had not.

Under which shell is the interest payment, if there is one at all?

Now, the first thing that followed this that caught my eye was another bond-related scam, and how a particular Chinese firm decided to deal this it. And when you're done reading it, you can relax, because my jaw is still on the floor too:

First, the scoundrel known as Yango Group. In ‘China developer Yango Aims To Avoid Defaults With Bond Swap Backed By Its Chief’ by Andrew Galbraith dated November 1, 2021 (Reuters via Yahoo): …’Chinese homebuilder Yango Group offered on Monday to exchange some U.S. dollar bonds for new notes personally guaranteed by its chairman as it struggles to free up cash and avoid defaulting on upcoming debt payments.’… The article goes on to explain:

…’Yango is offering $25 in cash and $1,000 in new notes for each $1,000 of existing bonds exchanged, it said in a Hong Kong bourse filing. The exchange offer applies to its U.S. dollar notes due in February 2023, January 2022 and March 2022, which have an outstanding face value of $747 million.

The new bonds are personally guaranteed by Lin Tengjiao, Yango's founder and chairman, the filing said. The Hurun Global Real Estate Rich List of March 2020 had estimated Lin's personal fortune at $2.4 billion.

Yango said it is also seeking the support of investors to change the terms of its five other outstanding dollar bonds.’…

...now wait a minute!  I've never owned a bond in my life, but a personal guarantee from the owner of the company!?!?!?  Since when have personal guarantees been a part of bond covenants? Did Bernie Madoff or Bernie Cornfeld (look him up) or Enrico Dandolo (look him up too) cook this one up?

If you're having a bit of difficulty swallowing that one, so does Szymanski:

Did you see that basically, Yango can’t/won’t pay its interest and principle payments? That they offered bondholders (for each $1,000 face value) $25 in cash (that’s 1/4 of 1% of face value-not even the interest due) and to swap the original Yango bond for a bond, not backed by the earnings ability of the company (Yango), but backed by the CEO of Yango!? I don’t care what they say what the value of his ‘fortune’ is-real estate in China is down significantly and may now have potential illiquidity issues-So tell me-how does a bondholder get paid???

Is the CEO of a company that can’t pay it interest and principle when due now supposed to be -more creditworthy- than the company he works for??? I hardly think so.

On top of this, somehow one ratings agency managed to keep Yango's bonds at a AAA rating. Good luck with that... maybe there will be a prize in your box of Cracker Jacks, and maybe not.

Please now turn ‘on’ the implied (but invisible) sarcasm control on this writing up to ‘high’ as I say: ‘Thank goodness that this Chinese rating agency cut its outlook to ‘negative’-Dagong is doing a really good job alerting the public as to the dangers of the creditworthiness of Yango…Boy, Yango is really lucky to still have a ‘AAA’ rating on their bonds! (Now with both hands turn the sarcasm control back to zero…)

Szymanski continues by summarizing Dagong's "ratings methodology," which basically amounts to an accusation that the major ratings agencies - Standard and Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch - basically act unsupervised and only serve America's interests, and what is needed is a ratings agency to serve China's interest.

But it's the final two paragraphs that really concern us, for Szymanski drops a bombshell, and hints at a bit of his own high octane speculation:

Potentially, some your money is at risk as it may be invested in mutual funds that own these bonds. Potentially, more money of yours may be at risk because an institution you entrusted with your money may own derivatives involving these Chinese Real Estate Developers. In the October 29, 2021 DMSA press release in discussing the possible impact of an Evergrande bankruptcy Dr. Metzler concludes by saying … "The Great Reset - the final meltdown of the current global financial system - has long since ceased to be a purely intellectual thought experiment,"….If this happens, a meltdown of the global financial system, just how much of your money is at risk?

Evergrande is one shell, Yango Group another and Dagong yet another. There is an organization who is the purveyor of the shell game whose goal is to go home with all the shells, the ball and your money-just like the guy on the street in Manhattan running his game way back in 1996.  (Boldface emphasis added)

So there we are: we are back, once again, to the problem I've been emphasizing for years, ever since the "bail outs" of 2008: the derivatives, those tranches of securities and bundles of bundles of tranches, all related to vast mortgage and real estate fraud, that have been sloshing around in the system, and no one - and I mean no one - has been talking about them. Instead, the talk has been the usual nonsense: interest rates, quantitative easing, currency, digital currency, but not a word from the "usual sources" about the derivatives. And then comes the real bombshell: all of this - the derivatives swaps - is not only a vast mechanism of fraud, but there is an organization behind it. It is almost as if Szymanski is implying that the "economic miracle" that has been China since the days of Chairman Deng Xiao Ping has been one vast money laundering shell game.

In my book Babylon's Banksters, I began with precisely this problem, pointing out that it was a Chinese economist - Dr David Li - who came up with a mathematical formula that lay behind the creation of these "bundles of bundles" of securities, and who had close associations with the Royal Canadian Imperial bank and who then went on to become a risk assessment manager... in China, of course. The essence of the formula was that any bad paper in a bundle of securities would be offset by the high probability of all the good paper in said bundles, and thus his formula set off a whole new era of speculation: one made money by trading those bundles, and then bundles of bundles, and then bundles of bundles of bundles. The financial world grew rich on a system increasingly several derivatives away from reality.  It was, and is, crony crapitalism on parade.

Or to refer to a name I mentioned earlier, this is like Bernie Cornfeld's scheme, and his Investors Overseas Services, on steroids... the only question is, who's playing the role of Robert Vesco?

See you on  the flip side...

Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

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  1. Robert Barricklow on November 24, 2021 at 11:58 am

    I’m pretty much convinced
    the CCP is determined to save the Chinese economy;
    by not following in the USSA’s footsteps,
    of saving precious investors, at the cost of the overall economy.



  2. Richard on November 24, 2021 at 12:32 am

    There seems to be a money sink (deep hole) in those deep pockets of real-estate laundering for the cash flows. Thimbleriggers seem to have infiltrated most large global places of transactions, too, believing all are none the wiser of their schemes of exploitation. Such is rogue hegemony for the taking. A country can be quite the newly gotten plot of land that comes with scenic views, rivers, and ports as well as the slave labor that has already constructed much of the infrastructure to suit. To think, all without firing a shot, just manipulating the front-end loader in the right direction at the right time. Build anew rather than build back might be the wiser. A paint job just won’t make it for that quick change over.

    They ought to be careful that they do not snag a thread on that pocket’s liner. The stolen goods might fall to the floor at a most embarrassing time for all to see the culprit in plain sight. Makes one wonder what else could be washed out of that liner that’s still stuck. Won’t stick a hand in it to find out, either. Nor make a wager to win big. Could be dangerous. Besides, confidence in certain currency manipulators is on the wane and their limits beginning to show.



  3. Mr Sophistication on November 23, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    Don’t believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free.

    https://youtu.be/OuqKNBW7tcI



  4. marcos toledo on November 23, 2021 at 8:11 pm

    Country simple all this is a planetary pyramid Ponzi scheme since the bonds and money are legalized counterfeit they are worthless. Therefore our elites own nothing and they will be left out in the cold with the rest of us and as a Cree saying ends you can’t eat money.



  5. SoCal G on November 23, 2021 at 2:44 pm

    There one entity I view as the I.G. Farben of financial institutions. They have been around for quite a while and have had close financial relationships with FDR in two corporate endeavors with groups of investors and with our old pal at Deutsche Bank and were heavy into the derivatives markets.

    And that would be our buddie Jay Pea + Morgan



  6. JB on November 23, 2021 at 2:13 pm

    Just my high octane speculation here
    Giving it back to the good and decent folks in George Carlin’s style?

    Going back to high school simple chemistry class using one of periodic table element with Energy (Chi)

    Chi + Na = China
    And you flip ’em
    Na + Chi = Nachi ( Nazi )

    Merely talking about the system, not the good and decent everyday people in the world

    See you all on the flip side..



    • anakephalaiosis on November 23, 2021 at 6:40 pm

      It took me decades of court battles, to realize, that Norwegian freemasonry have had me labeled, as “nazi”, behind my back.

      In 2013, an Icelander warned me against being too much Nordic in Norway, because that is dangerous in Norway.

      Therefore I have returned to Norway, to take revenge, because Norway is betrayal, against the rest of Scandinavia.

      There are Jesuit Court Jew agents on all the Scandinavian thrones, and anyone, who disagrees, is labeled “nazi”, by default.

      https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/guxh06kpqxxk2o9/looney-tunes3.jpg



  7. Barbara on November 23, 2021 at 11:56 am

    Several month ago dr. Farrell had published on the main page of the website a paper of one of the contributors /members of the website. Subject : FASB56. His take on the “villainous” legislation was a little different that of CAF, who often contributes this particular law to sings of complete decay of the financial system in US. According to the fore mentioned contributor, FASB56 was passed during the Trump presidency of all, as a tool to combat in a covert war with Chinese financial system. This article by Mr. Szymanski is to me, one of the proofs of the that war between US and Chinese economies and multilayered reason for FASB56.



    • Laura on November 23, 2021 at 1:09 pm

      I think it is insightful to recognize a rationale likely adopted by regulators to make secrecy legitimate. I wonder if anyone is doing a comparison between inevitable corruption and favoritism justified by security, and, the avoided harm of a full economic attack.



  8. InfiniteRUs on November 23, 2021 at 11:42 am

    The whole world is being bought off by fake money. What happens when a couple families own all real assets and property? Everyone else becomes in essence their slaves regardless whether the term, “slavery” ever gets mentioned out loud or not. It’s all been a scam and great shell game from day one of the creation of The Federal Reserve.



  9. Chris on November 23, 2021 at 9:58 am

    Why not a repeat of 2008 with a US or Chinese bailout, or Blackrock, Goldman Sachs and Buffet cutting a deal? Even just as a delay tactic? All this debt and derivatives is about to take down every fiat currency. The US reserve currency dollar is virtually dead in the water. Why not erase all debt and personal property? A grand reset! We need a December alien “invasion” to relocate everyone’s focus. Nothing is as it seems.



    • Richard on November 24, 2021 at 12:45 am

      One wealthy business entrepreneur might have put it right; (paraphrasing) ‘ It no longer is a matter of the large eating the small, but the fast eating the slow – speed is everything.’ Being big (and numerous) has significant disadvantages as well as the sloppiness of imposed chaos. The moving parts need more than a quick spread sheet of accounting. Copying just won’t do.



  10. KSW on November 23, 2021 at 8:56 am

    Question? Not to be stupid or anything, but to what degree are Evergrande and derivatives bond included in retirement account -mutual funds in the USA? I’ve been out of those for a long time, so I don’t know the impact on those who are still counting on managed retirement accounts.



  11. Peter on November 23, 2021 at 8:39 am

    Remember to report all transactions over six hundred dollars you filthy penny-stinkers.
    All of your FOUR OH ONE KAYS belong to SATAN.
    What does the market say?
    “Inject the kids you effing morons and go die in a medical treatment facility.”



    • Richard on November 24, 2021 at 12:48 am

      To think, military retirees were footing the bill toward building a massive army, navy, air force of an adversary in plain sight. The Party of the east by going west..



  12. anakephalaiosis on November 23, 2021 at 8:11 am

    After paper fraud, then scarcity is used, for the culling, to destroy economy, to buy cheap.

    Witches congress in Scotland is merging of communism and freemasonry, bestowed by royal pretenders.

    New World Order is a corporate passport, showing vaccination status, and carbon credit.

    Pope Satan is the culprit, and Scythian martial art is the remedy.

    BOUNTY HUNT 2

    Sheriff Gunslinger took whiskey shot,
    at Schwab, who held liquor not,
    and drunk under table
    lay rat, unable,
    to stand the Carbon jab it got.

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/poxuy9uu8jwm4nh/parthian-shot.mp4



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