Soros, Rothschild Warn of Brexit Doom (but they are Illuminati, and the
power behind the EU project)
Newsletter published on 23 June 2016
(1) Soros, Rothschild Warn Of Brexit
Doom
(2) Soros threatens: Brexit will make you poorer
(3) Brexit would be
a disaster - Jacob Rothschild
(4) Juncker warns of an acrimonious
Divorce
(1) Soros, Rothschild Warn Of Brexit Doom
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-20/big-guns-are-out-soros-rothschild-warn-brexit-doom-osborne-threatens-suspending-mark
The
Big Guns Are Out: Soros, Rothschild Warn Of Brexit Doom; Osborne
Threatens
With "Suspending" Market
by Tyler Durden - Jun 21, 2016 4:32
AM
The big guns are officially out.
Just yesterday, we recounted
the story of "Black Wednesday" when on
September 16, 1992, the UK was forced
out of the EU’s exchange-rate
mechanism, or ERM, when the BOE tapped out and
allowed the British pound
to float freely, leading to 15% losses in the
sterling. As we noted,
this was George Soros' infamous trade which "broke
the Bank of England"
and made the Hungarian richer by over $1.5
bilion.
24 years later Soros is back, and this time he is warning against
the
kind of devaluation that made him a billionaire and which he believes
will be unleashed by Brexit, when in a Guardian Op-Ed he wrote that U.K.
voters are "grossly underestimating" the true costs of a vote to leave
the EU, saying that there would be an "immediate and dramatic impact on
financial markets, investment, prices and jobs."
He predicts that the
pound would decline "precipitously", seeing a
gargantuan drop of at least
15% and possibly >20% to below $1.15.
Considering it has now become
trendy for analysts to come up with ever
"doomier" forecasts of just how low
cable would plunge in case of
Brexit, we are surprised Soros stopped
there.
Here Soros makes the distinction how the collapse in cable would
be
different from the one that made him richer by saying that this
devaluation wouldn’t be "healthy" like the one in 1992 because BOE
wouldn’t cut rates, U.K. has large current account deficit and
devaluation unlikely to improve manufacturing exports this time. Just
don't tell that to the BOJ, which would gladly leave the EU - twice if
it had to - if it meant a 20% devaluation.
"Brexit would make some
people very rich - but most voters considerably
poorer"; "there are
speculative forces in the, markets much bigger and
more powerful" than the
speculators that profited from the 1967
devaluation at Britain’s expense. "A
vote to leave could see the week
end with a Black Friday, and serious
consequences for ordinary people."
Here is the gist of Soros'
scaremongering, from the Guardian op-ed
titled "The Brexit crash will make
all of you poorer – be warned":
David Cameron, along with the
Treasury, the Bank of England, the
International Monetary Fund and others
have been attacked by the leave
campaign for exaggerating the economic risks
of Brexit. This criticism
has been widely accepted by the British media and
many financial
analysts. As a result, British voters are now grossly
underestimating
the true costs of leaving.
As opinion polls on
the referendum result fluctuate, I want to
offer a clear set of facts, based
on my six decades of experience in
financial markets, to help voters
understand the very real consequences
of a vote to leave the EU.
Of
course, Soros' set of facts may be clouded by his far greater equity
stake
in equity interests around Europe, and the globe, which would be
drastially
impacted by not only a Brexit, but by a European Union which
is suddenly on
the rocks.
From that point on, Soros' entire analysis is on the "worst
case"
scenario centered around a collapsing pound, something which most
ironically every other central bank around the globe is so desperate to
achieve:
... sterling is almost certain to fall steeply and
quickly if there
is a vote to leave– even more so after yesterday’s rebound
as markets
reacted to the shift in opinion polls towards remain. I would
expect
this devaluation to be bigger and more disruptive than the 15%
devaluation that occurred in September 1992, when I was fortunate enough
to make a substantial profit for my hedge fund investors, at the expense
of the Bank of England and the British government.
At least he is
honest.
It is notable that Soros' warning comes just days after that of
Jacob
Rothschild himself who said in another Op-Ed, this time for The Times,
that leaving the EU could lead to a "damaging and disorderly situation"
in the UK as he urged Britons to vote 'remain'. Just like Soros, Lord
Rothschild, suddenly exhibiting a rare strain of humanitarian concern,
said readers should not "risk the wellbeing of our country"and European
countries are "better off together".
He said that "at present we
enjoy being a permanent member of the UN
security council and we are
essential to the G8 and Commonwealth. But
diplomacy, defence, the
environment and our values of being a liberal
democracy will all be at risk"
adding that "I can see no good reason why
we should accept our playing a
diminished role on the world stage,"
especially if his own personal fortune
would be jeopardized.
* * *
Finally, completing the doom loop, was
none other than Chancellor George
Osborne who, according to the Telegraph,
"refused to rule out suspending
trading on the London stock market if
Britons vote to leave the European
Union on Friday morning... The threat
from the Chancellor, made in an
LBC radio interview on Monday evening, after
the market had closed could
force shares down in London as early as Tuesday
morning."
Iain Dale, the presenter, asked Mr Osborne: "If the
financial
markets do plummet on Friday would you have to consider suspending
trading on the FTSE?"
The Chancellor responded: "Well look, the
Bank of England and the
Treasury – Governor Carney and myself – we have of
course discussed
contingency plans.
But the sensible thing is to
keep those secret and make sure you
are well prepared for whatever happens
but if you set them all out in
advance then you rather undermine the power
of those plans."
Pushed again on the contingency plans, Mr Osborne
said: "I have a
responsibility to the people listening to this programme to
do all I can
to protect them. "But I have to tell you that you cannot in
the end
protect people from the economic shock that leaving the EU would
bring
about."
And in case the threat of shuttered markets was not
enough, Osborne also
hinted at imminent mass layoffs, suggesting that
redundancy notices
could be issued hours after Britons vote to leave the EU
at the vote.
Mr Osborne pointed to warnings from the London Stock
Exchange there
would be 100,000 job losses in the City after a
Brexit.
Mr Osborne was challenged about whether redundancies warned
by the
bank JP Morgan could come as early as Friday – the day after the
referendum. Mr Osborne replied: "I think that will start to happen very
quickly, sadly."
Amid all this gloom, Osborne presented the "only"
alternative that would
not lead to the imminent economic collapse he so
forcefully imagines:
"he added that if the UK voted to remain there
would be a "quick
snap back" for the British economy, he said that
"decisions will be
taken and investment will come in". Asked if these
redundancy notices
would be issued on Friday morning if Britons vote to
leave, Mr Osborne
said: "That will start to happen very quickly
sadly."
Now if only the people will do what these noble public servants
tell to
do in their own best interest...
Finally, Osborne also played
down claims he could be forced to leave the
Treasury after the referendum
amid anger form Tory backbenchers over the
way he has campaigned, saying:
"It’s really not about my job".
Oh but is George, just like it is in
Soros and Rothschild's own self
interest for the people to vote "Remain." To
suggest otherwise is naive,
but it may also be irrelevant. With just three
days until the vote, the
scaremongering tactic, not to mention the murder of
an innocent woman,
may have already done its job judging by the reveral in
public opinion.
In any case, one can only hope that unlike the case of
the failed Greek
referendum where the people voted one way only to get the
opposite, no
matter how the Brits vote, it will truly represent the
democratic will
of the majority and that particular outcome is what they
get.
(2) Soros threatens: Brexit will make you poorer
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/20/brexit-crash-pound-living-standards-george-soros
The Brexit crash will make all of you poorer – be warned
George
Soros
My 60 years of experience tells me the pound will plummet, along
with
your living standards. The only winners will be
speculators
Tuesday 21 June 2016 07.00 AEST Last modified on Tuesday 21
June 2016
18.32 AEST
David Cameron, along with the Treasury, the Bank
of England, the
International Monetary Fund and others have been attacked by
the leave
campaign for exaggerating the economic risks of Brexit. This
criticism
has been widely accepted by the British media and many financial
analysts. As a result, British voters are now grossly underestimating
the true costs of leaving.
Too many believe that a vote to leave the
EU will have no effect on
their personal financial position. This is wishful
thinking. It would
have at least one very clear and immediate effect that
will touch every
household: the value of the pound would decline
precipitously. It would
also have an immediate and dramatic impact on
financial markets,
investment, prices and jobs. George Soros: EU exit risks
'black Friday'
Read more
As opinion polls on the referendum result
fluctuate, I want to offer a
clear set of facts, based on my six decades of
experience in financial
markets, to help voters understand the very real
consequences of a vote
to leave the EU.
The Bank of England, the
Institute for Fiscal Studies and the IMF have
assessed the long-term
economic consequences of Brexit. They suggest an
income loss of £3,000 to
£5,000 annually per household – once the
British economy settles down to its
new steady-state five years or so
after Brexit. But there are some more
immediate financial consequences
that have hardly been mentioned in the
referendum debate.
To start off, sterling is almost certain to fall
steeply and quickly if
there is a vote to leave– even more so after
yesterday’s rebound as
markets reacted to the shift in opinion polls towards
remain. I would
expect this devaluation to be bigger and more disruptive
than the 15%
devaluation that occurred in September 1992, when I was
fortunate enough
to make a substantial profit for my hedge fund investors,
at the expense
of the Bank of England and the British
government.
Households would lose between £3,000 and £5,000 a year
on average
It is reasonable to assume, given the expectations implied by
the market
pricing at present, that after a Brexit vote the pound would fall
by at
least 15% and possibly more than 20%, from its present level of $1.46
to
below $1.15 (which would be between 25% and 30% below its pre-referendum
trading range of $1.50 to $1.60). If sterling fell to this level, then
ironically one pound would be worth about one euro – a method of
"joining the euro" that nobody in Britain would want.
Brexiters seem
to recognise that a sharp devaluation would be almost
inevitable after
Brexit, but argue that this would be healthy, despite
the big losses of
purchasing power for British households. In 1992 the
devaluation actually
proved very helpful to the British economy, and
subsequently I was even
praised for my role in helping to bring it about.
But I don’t think the
1992 experience would be repeated. That
devaluation was healthy because the
government was relieved of its
obligation to "defend" an overvalued pound
with damagingly high interest
rates after the breakdown of the exchange rate
mechanism. This time, a
large devaluation would be much less benign than in
1992, for at least
three reasons.
First, the Bank of England would
not cut interest rates after a Brexit
devaluation (as it did in 1992 and
also after the large devaluation of
2008) because interest rates are already
at the lowest level compatible
with the stability of British banks. That,
incidentally, is another
reason to worry about Brexit. For if a fall in
house prices and loss of
jobs causes a recession after Brexit, as is likely,
there will be very
little that monetary policy can do to stimulate the
economy and
counteract the consequent loss of demand.
Second, the UK
now has a very large current account deficit – much
larger, relatively, than
in 1992 or 2008. In fact Britain is more
dependent than at any time in
history on inflows of foreign capital. As
the governor of the Bank of
England Mark Carney said, Britain "depends
on the kindness of strangers".
The devaluations of 1992 and 2008
encouraged greater capital inflows,
especially into residential and
commercial property, but also into
manufacturing investments. But after
Brexit, the capital flows would almost
certainly move the other way,
especially during the two-year period of
uncertainty while Britain
negotiates its terms of divorce with a region that
has always been – and
presumably will remain – its biggest trading and
investment partner.
Third, a post-Brexit devaluation is unlikely to
produce the improvement
in manufacturing exports seen after 1992, because
trading conditions
would be too uncertain for British businesses to
undertake new
investments, hire more workers or otherwise add to export
capacity.
For all these reasons I believe the devaluation this time would
be more
like the one in 1967, when Harold Wilson famously declared that "the
pound in your pocket has not been devalued", but the British people
disagreed with him, quickly noticing that the cost of imports and
foreign holidays were rising sharply and that their true living
standards were going down. Meanwhile financial speculators, back then
called the Gnomes of Zurich, were making large profits at Britain’s
expense.
Today, there are speculative forces in the markets much bigger
and more
powerful. And they will be eager to exploit any miscalculations by
the
British government or British voters. A vote for Brexit would make some
people very rich – but most voters considerably poorer.
I want people
to know what the consequences of leaving the EU would be
before they cast
their votes, rather than after. A vote to leave could
see the week end with
a Black Friday, and serious consequences for
ordinary people.
(3)
Brexit would be a disaster - Jacob Rothschild
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/all-the-evidence-shows-that-brexit-would-be-a-disaster-7vg3zks35
All
the evidence shows that Brexit would be a disaster
Jacob
Rothschild
We shouldn’t accept a diminished role on the world
stage
Success stories in any field are built on one great idea. This was
certainly the case with my forebear Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who at the
end of the 18th century sent his five sons to the five financial
capitals of Europe to set up the first truly international banking
system, a "common market". Operating from London, Paris, Vienna, Naples
and Frankfurt, the brothers, working together to exchange information
and ideas, built an extraordinary business that operated across
boundaries and cultures.
A hundred and fifty years later, the
foundation of the EEC operated on
similar principles, namely that we are
stronger and better off together.
With a referendum on our membership little
more than a week away, I
believe that leaving the EU could have serious
negative consequences,
economically and politically, for the future
prospects of this country …
Lord Rothschild is chairman of RIT Capital
Partners plc
(4) Juncker warns of an acrimonious Divorce
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36599300
Juncker
in 'out is out' warning to UK
4 hours ago From the section EU
Referendum
The UK will not be able to return to the negotiating table if
it votes
to leave the European Union, one of the EU's top officials has
said.
Speaking on the eve of the referendum, European Commission
President
Jean-Claude Juncker said the outcome would be final and "out is
out".
And the UK would not get a better deal than the one already
negotiated
by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Leave supporter Boris
Johnson called Mr Juncker an "unelected tin-pot
figure".
The former
mayor of London said the remarks showed Mr Cameron's belief
that the UK
could achieve further reform to immigration rules from
within the EU were a
"sham, snare and a delusion".
In less than 24 hours, UK voters will head
to the polls to decide
whether the country remains in the EU or leaves - a
decision that the
leaders of the EU's 27 other states have said will have
profound
consequences not only for the UK but for the future direction of
the
EU.\ 'Maximum deal'
Asked about the consequences of a Brexit
vote, Mr Juncker made it clear
there would be no scope for further
negotiations over better terms to
try to keep the UK on board.
"I
have to add that the British policymakers and the British voters have
to
know there will be no kind of any renegotiation," he told reporters
after
talks with new Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern.
"We have concluded a
deal with the prime minister, he got the maximum he
could receive, we gave
the maximum we could give.
"So there will be no kind of renegotiation,
nor on the agreement we
found in February, nor as far as any kind of treaty
negotiations are
concerned. Out is out.
His words were echoed by the
French President, Francois Hollande, who
said a decision by Britain to leave
would be "irreversible". 'Wrong choice'
Mr Cameron has insisted the UK
would be leaving the EU for good and
future generations will not be able to
"undo" the result.
Speaking on Wednesday, he said: "You can't jump out
the aeroplane and
then clamber back through the cockpit hatch."
It is
understood Mr Juncker was not referring to the prospect of future
reforms in
the event of the UK voting to remain in the EU, something Mr
Cameron has
insisted will continue, including in the key area of
immigration and free
movement. Image copyright AFP Image caption
European leaders are urging the
UK to vote to stay in the EU
But those campaigning for the UK to leave
the EU seized on the remarks,
with Mr Johnson saying they had "given the
game away".
"If we stay in, there is no prospect of any further change,"
Mr Johnson
said. "This is it, folks. We have been told from the horse's
mouth that
any hope of further change is absolute illusion."
He
added: "It is time for us to show our courage and our commitment to
democracy by standing up to these unelected tin-pot figures."
And
UKIP's Nigel Farage said it was the "last chance saloon" for the UK.
The
BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Juncker's comments
would be
"used by both sides", adding that they "underline PM's 'out
means out'
message, but undermine suggestions that if we stay in we can
keep pushing
reform". 'Mistake'
European leaders have implored British voters to think
carefully before
separating themselves from the EU,
German Chancellor
Angela Merkel said she wanted the UK to remain, while
Italian prime minister
Matteo Renzi said Brexit would be a mistake of
historic proportions and out
of keeping with the British character.
"Seen from Italy, a vote to leave
Europe would not be a disaster, a
tragedy or the end of the world for you in
the UK," he wrote in the
Guardian. "It would be worse, because it would be
the wrong choice.
"It would be a mistake for which you the voters
primarily would pay the
price."
And the secretary general of Nato
told the same newspaper that a
"fragmented Europe" risked greater
instability on the continent.
While maintaining the decision was one for
the British public, Jens
Stoltenberg said "a strong UK in a strong Europe is
good for the UK".
He added: "It's good for Nato, because we are faced
with unprecedented
security challenges, with terrorism, with instability and
an
unpredictable security environment, and a fragmented Europe will add to
instability and unpredictability."
Leave campaigners have said the EU
has the ambition of creating a
pan-European army and duplicating Nato
military structures, claims
rejected by the UK government.
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