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>>83692

tyb

Calm Before The Storm? VVIX/VIX Ratio Hits Level Not Seen Since Before Last Market Crash

At the midpoint of August, the S&P500 appears to be on track for one of the quietest months on record. Despite weak Chinese data, Delta concerns, and the chaos in Afghanistan, stocks are levitated at all-time highs, but under the surface, anxiety is increasing.

Bloomberg points out that the implied volatility in VIX options continues to advance for five out of seven weeks even though VIX has sunk. This has put the ratio VVIX/VIX at a mind-numbing level of 7.5 on Monday, a reading that has preceded market crashes in the last several years. Going back to 2017, when VVIX/VIX broke above 8, or near today's current level, it didn't end well for stocks.

A report compiled by Chris Murphy, co-head of derivatives strategy at Susquehanna International Group, wrote that since 2006 when the ratio trends higher - about ten days later - the VIX on average would surge by around 16%.

Some of the anxiety building behind the scenes is due to the Jackson Hole meeting of global central bankers next week. There's the possibility the Federal Reserve will announce or at least tell market participants about an upcoming tapering of its monthly $120 billion bond-buying program since the pandemic began. Susquehanna's Murphy wrote in a note, "this ratio being stretched can be a sign that a subdued VIX does not tell the whole story (volatility expectations for the VIX are actually creeping higher)." He added, "historically, the VVIX/VIX ratio does not remain this elevated for too long, and when the ratio reverts, the VIX spikes."

Nervousness could also be building as Goldman Sachs Scott Rubner told clients last month that August is the worst seasonal period for markets. Another Goldman strategist, Christian Mueller-Glissmann, warned it'd been nearly 200 days since major equity indexes have had a 5% drawdown session. Perhaps the VVIX/VIX ratio is signaling that a correction in S&P500 looms. All that needs to happen is a catalyst, and that could happen at Jackson Hole.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/calm-storm-vvixvix-ratio-hits-level-not-seen-last-market-crash

What Is the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX)?

The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) is a real-time index that represents the market's expectations for the relative strength of near-term price changes of the S&P 500 index (SPX). Because it is derived from the prices of SPX index options with near-term expiration dates, it generates a 30-day forward projection of volatility. Volatility, or how fast prices change, is often seen as a way to gauge market sentiment, and in particular the degree of fear among market participants.

The index is more commonly known by its ticker symbol and is often referred to simply as "the VIX." It was created by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and is maintained by Cboe Global Markets. It is an important index in the world of trading and investment because it provides a quantifiable measure of market risk and investors' sentiments.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vix.asp

>>83692

tybb

>>83692

tyb

Palantir Buys $51 Million in Gold Bars, Accepts Payment in Gold

Palantir Technologies Inc. said it’s preparing for another “black swan event” by stockpiling gold bars and inviting customers to pay for its data analysis software in gold.

The company spent $50.7 million this month on gold, part of an unusual investment strategy that also includes startups, blank-check companies and possibly Bitcoin. Palantir had previously said it would accept Bitcoin as a form of payment before adding precious metals more recently. A spokeswoman for Palantir said no one has yet paid in either Bitcoin or gold. Accepting nontraditional currencies “reflects more of a worldview,” Shyam Sankar, the chief operating officer, said in an interview. “You have to be prepared for a future with more black swan events.” The gold purchase was buried in a securities filing last week for its quarterly financial results and reported earlier this week by Barron’s. The acceptance of gold as a form of payment hasn’t been previously reported.

Palantir’s 100-ounce gold bars will be kept in a secure location in the northeastern U.S., according to the filing. “The company is able to take physical possession of the gold bars stored at the facility at any time with reasonable notice,” Palantir wrote (BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-sure!!!). Palantir, co-founded by the technology billionaire Peter Thiel and Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp, makes software used by governments and businesses. It fashions itself as a company of free thinkers. Palantir relocated to Denver last year and mocked its peers in Silicon Valley on the way out. Governments have strongly embraced Palantir software to help them make sense of the coronavirus pandemic, the current so-called black swan, a random and unpredictable event.

The company has some $2.3 billion in cash and is exploring creative uses for that money. Palantir said in an earlier financial report in May that it was considering investing in Bitcoin.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/palantir-buys-51-million-in-gold-bars-accepts-payment-in-gold-1.1641197

PYTHN52 USAF RC-135 Rivet Joint out and heading back to Al Udeid AB, Doha

CTM1435 C-130 Hercules heading into Pakiland from Al Dhafra AB

Belgian AF BAF80 Falcon 7X departed Brussels Int'l earlier se heading for da Gulf

Morgan Stanley will require employees to prove vaccination status

Morgan Stanley said on Tuesday it had asked its U.S.-based employees to offer proof for COVID-19 vaccination, as the big bank doubles down on rules for staff entering its offices. Nearly 90% of its U.S.-based employees have attested to being vaccinated against COVID-19, the bank said, and they would be required to furnish proof by Oct. 1.

Earlier, Morgan Stanley had mandated employees, clients and visitors to attest to being fully vaccinated for access to its offices in New York and Westchester. Big Wall Street institutions have been grappling with questions around employee safety and how to bring back workers, in the wake of the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus. While some firms have pushed back their return-to-office plans, others have chosen to stay the course. Last week, Citigroup Inc said it would require U.S. employees returning to its New York headquarters and offices in some other cities to be vaccinated.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-morgan-stanley/morgan-stanley-will-require-employees-to-prove-vaccination-status-idUSL4N2PO3KS

Biden Is Bringing Financial Crisis Guys from the New York Fed’s Markets Group to His Administration: Should We Worry?

Joe Biden is tapping insiders from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for key financial posts in his administration. These insiders played key roles during the financial crash of 2008 or the repo loan crisis in the fall of 2019 or the pandemic-related financial crisis of 2020. One of them was around for all three. We’ll get to the specific names in a moment, but first some necessary background.

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors is an independent federal agency whose Board members are appointed by the President of the United States. But the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks that are part of the Federal Reserve System are owned, outright, by commercial banks, thus making these Fed banks private entities. The New York Fed stands out because it is owned by some of the largest and most dangerous mega banks on Wall Street, which also happen to be some of the largest federally-insured banks in America. This makes the New York Fed the epicenter in America of the concept, “too big to fail.” In terms of the New York Fed’s power, consider this: according to the most recent financial data from the Federal Reserve, the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks had a total of 647,525,381 shares of capital stock outstanding as of December 31, 2020. Of that amount, 217,599,537 of those shares were controlled by the banks that own the New York Fed. That’s more shares than controlled by the Atlanta Fed, Boston Fed, Chicago Fed, Dallas Fed, Philadelphia Fed, Kansas City Fed, Minneapolis Fed, and St. Louis Fed combined.

The largest shareowners of the New York Fed are the following five Wall Street banks: JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of New York Mellon. The five mega banks that are the major shareowners of the New York Fed are also supervised by the New York Fed, despite participating in the election of two-thirds of its Board of Directors.

These same Wall Street banks also participate in a litany of advisory groups at the New York Fed, which determine “best practices” for their industry. Those “best practices” were clearly not demonstrative enough to stop JPMorgan Chase from becoming a 5-count felon; Citigroup, a financial basket-case in the 2008 Wall Street collapse; and they didn’t prevent all of the mega banks from creating and selling toxic subprime investments and derivatives that blew up Wall Street in 2008 and launched the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, costing millions of innocent Americans their jobs and their homes. During the 2008 financial crisis, the New York Fed was given unprecedented powers by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. to create over $29 trillion in electronically-engineered money to bail out Wall Street banks and their foreign derivative counterparties. A significant portion of the cumulative $29 trillion (See enclosed pdf) went to loans that were collateralized by stocks and junk bonds – an unprecedented action for the Federal Reserve. In some cases, the Fed threw out its “lender” of last resort mandate, and actually bought toxic assets outright through Special Purpose Vehicles it created.

The gargantuan loans made by the New York Fed from December 2007 through July of 2010 were unprecedented in its history, which dates back to its creation in 1913. The New York Fed rolled out most of those exact same emergency loan programs again last year, giving out the same no-bid contracts as it did in 2008 to various Wall Street actors. Having an entity that is owned by the mega Wall Street banks, that also supervises the same banks, that is also empowered to create electronic money out of thin air to bail out the banks with no spending limits, sounds like something out of an Orwellian novel. It is not a banking model for a sustainable financial future for a large developed nation – a reality that is aptly captured by the fact that the Fed’s balance sheet has grown from $924 billion in December 2007 to $8.3 trillion today – with American taxpayers, not the Wall Street banks, on the hook for 98 percent of that if things go amiss. Against that backdrop, we find it more than a little unnerving that someone is whispering in President Biden’s ear to tap folks from the New York Fed for key slots in his administration.

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>>83706

2 of 2

The New York Fed has apparently not yet recognized that Daleep Singh, its Executive Vice President and head of its Markets Group that operates its own trading floor at the New York Fed, has moved on to become President Biden’s Deputy National Security Advisor. As of this morning, the New York Fed still had Singh listed as employed at the New York Fed.

“…he oversees the group’s full portfolio, including implementing monetary policy, monitoring and analyzing global financial market developments, executing lender of last resort operations, providing financial services for foreign and international monetary authorities, providing capital market-related services to the U.S. Treasury as their fiscal agent, and administering and producing several reference rates for the U.S. money markets. He plays a key role in developing and implementing the Bank’s strategic direction and priorities, and is a member of the Bank’s Executive Committee.” Bloomberg News reported that Singh had been tapped by the Biden administration in February of this year. Singh was interviewed in his new job at the G-7 Summit in June.

Last Tuesday, the White House announced that Joshua Frost had been selected by Biden to become Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Financial Markets. Frost has worked at the New York Fed for more than two decades. He also comes out of the Markets Group. Frost had apparently already moved to an unannounced role at the U.S. Treasury earlier this year: his name showed up in Treasury meeting notes in May. According to a March 1, 2014 press release from the New York Fed, Frost was promoted to Senior Vice President in the “market operations monitoring and analysis function of the Markets Group.” According to a 2011 fawning New York Times report, Frost played a major role in the Fed’s quantitative easing (QE) programs during and after the financial crash of 2008. QE, which has been revived again, allows the Fed to effectively create artificial (“administered”) interest rates by creating artificial demand for U.S. Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities by buying up tens of billions of dollars each month of the instruments. While the Fed reports all of these securities on its own balance sheet, JPMorgan Chase is actually the custodian for the Fed of more than $2.38 trillion in agency mortgage-backed securities purchased under QE programs – despite its five felony counts. (Apparently, stock ownership in the New York Fed has its privileges.)

Frost has the distinction of having worked under three separate heads of the Markets Group at the New York Fed: Daleep Singh, Simon Potter and Brian Sack. Both Potter and Sack have moved on to hedge funds. According to Potter’s LinkedIn profile, he is currently Vice Chair of the hedge fund, Millennium. Sack’s LinkedIn profile indicates that he is the Director of Global Economics for the hedge fund, D.E. Shaw Group, and “a member of the firm’s Discretionary Macro trading unit.” Rounding out the crisis era veterans from the New York Fed is Calvin Mitchell, who is now Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Treasury. Mitchell’s appointment was announced on Biden’s first day in office, January 20, 2021. Mitchell served as the Head of Communications at the New York Fed during the financial crisis of 2008 when Tim Geithner was President of the New York Fed. Geithner and the Markets Group oversaw the sluicing of that secret $29 trillion bailout of Wall Street- (see enclosed pdf)

When we say “secret $29 trillion bailout,” we really mean “secret.” The Fed battled in court for years in an effort to prevent that information from being released to the American people. Even after losing its case at the Federal District Court, the Fed appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. When that appeal was also ruled against it, it asked for a rehearing. When that was rejected, a Wall Street consortium of banks, that were the recipients of the trillions of dollars in secret loans, appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. That appeal failed as well and the Fed was, finally, forced to release its bailout data in 2011 – after Congress had already approved, and President Obama had signed, the toothless Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation that enshrined even more power at the Fed to supervise the mega banks on Wall Street.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/08/biden-is-bringing-financial-crisis-guys-from-the-new-york-feds-markets-group-to-his-administration-should-we-worry/

>>83706

$29,000,000,000,000: A Detailed Look at the Fed’s Bailout by Funding Facility and Recipient

James Felkerson

University of Missouri–Kansas City

https://t.me/MidnightRiderChannel/33397

[ Video ]

Listen to the end - Biden removed the contractors so the Afghan army couldn’t refuel and fight even if they wanted too. Sounds like the debacle was orchestrated to me.

[Grabbed the last 2 minutes]

>>83692

tyb

woulda checked em but left

lookin good

>>83711

>would be easy

as simple as a few keystrokes...or lack of them at the 'proper' time.

>>83716

dats why they want crypto and are being coy (in public-they habs it all ready to go imo) about it for nao.

"we need regulations...it's confusing etc."

Here we go with the steal, what about the ones left behind?

Biden White House Issues Emergency Memorandum of $500 Million Refuge Migration Assistance for Afghans

https://thedcpatriot.com/biden-white-house-issues-emergency-memorandum-of-500-million-refuge-migration-assistance-for-afghans/

>>83712

ima around but doing ketchup on two threads

- elections

- covid

hard to stay current, there's a lot habbening

so - in n out

ps - was thinking to put q-resear.ch notice in globals.....shall we do it? not quite up yet but soon i imagine

Jake Sullivan Presides Over Yet Another Foreign Policy Disaster

https://freebeacon.com/politics/jake-sullivan-disaster/

>>83709

Bidan blamed

"as a fool"

No Fool

Just like W . on 9/11 ,,,, It was put down to mistakes and incompetence.

NEITHER

Same playbook over and over and over and over and over

'He's been wrong for four decades"

Thanks Fox

One you put him in there and keep him there

Two You're now covering for Bidan

"He's always been this way."

"That's just Bidan"

No it's not.

He's paid for.

D'uh

and it was deliberate.

He's part of a Circus. The sideshow. The Clown.

>>83706

>>83732

Funny. But this is published some while ago?

Just met someone who confirmed the "vomiting upon examining Clinton laptop"

Wonder is those "suicides" of the young police officers/ detectives was part of that?

Figures

Still Waiting.

Peeps are saying police won't enforce deBLAHsio's order for VAX passports to enter a restaurant.. Barnes & Nobles has already started with it

Their selection of books are shit anyway.

Should be turne to mulch (all the books)

How can they possibly put so many crap books in one large space?

>>83723

not a "disaster" for them, when you realize it's exactly what they want to do

>>83741

"Funny", yeah.

>>83743

Thanks for the reminder.

Can't find the link I wanted to respond to

About Clinesmith

>>83750

311 NYC now has an option for ratting out people who lack "Compliance"

>>83750

Good news here is that Chief of the Marines publicly stated a few days ago (last week?) that Marines will be experimental Biological Therapy injection free.

And not only that but that those who are ordering it are an Illegitimate Admin.

>>83752

Vax bribes are back-firing especially among the Black Americans (anecdotal first hand info)

Sumptin anon saved. (see attached)

BOXER43 USAF C-40C departed JBA and 99-6143 USAFSOC C-32B from Bragg ground stop

Both heading across the pond

99-6143 started early with a depart from Majors Airport (L-3 located here) and had a ground stop at Eglin prior to arrival at Bragg

>>83616 pb

JAG33 and 44 US Army Beech MC-12W Liberty(s) had a ground stop/refuel at Buffalo/Niagara Int'l Airport and continue sw after dat

GTM0844 US Navy Beech Huron on descent for Barbados from G-Bay depart earlier

>>83758

re: Barbados and GTMO844

>>82380 pb

SAM975 was here on 0813 and the second stop (the other at Trinidad/Tobago) dropping off vaccines

Donald J. Trump

I will be interviewed by @SeanHannityOfficial tonight at 9:00PM EDT on Fox News.

Enjoy!

>>83722

will do

i'm about 2/3 thru looking for 'missed' material for the threads but a good review, i'm using the QRB notables thread - VERY HANDY

TY to all who have maintained it. Some anon started it at the beginning, i maintained it while baking for a few months, and then others picked it up. Real cooperative effort.

When i look at the amount of news - even just the VOLUME - that we did for the last month - it's a LOT.

Congrats to everyone on this board, it's an accomplishment.

(also a royal pain to comb thru, but worth it, ha-ha)

https://t.me/SidneyPowell/1493

Dank "Vaccine" to the tune of "Maxine"

posted late at night a coupla weeks ago, repost for fun

>>83780

RA does pick up links that are in notables directly, you know that if you search on qresear.ch very much. So anons do have access to that information thru a search.

You know all the threads on QRB are archived, as well, right? Wish the links were live (like the ones on the catalog) but at least the links are accessible here on 8.

Posting where to find the archive in case anybody doesn't know.

>>83758

JAG33 US Army MC-12W Liberty on ground at Tinker AFB with 44 on descent for same

RUFF07 and HAMAL99 US Navy E-6B Mercury(s) departed west from Tinker

Looks like Not AF1 Joe is going "back to the WH"

8:40pm EST Not AF1 Joe arrives in Washington, DC

https://factba.se/biden/calendar

>>83692

also, a new Olga.

(new to me at least)

tyb haha

>>83758

RCH525 USAFSOC C-32B on descent for NB Rota from Ft. Bragg depart earlier

Short sack-up speech clip - Legit.

Stole from qresearch to us, cuz sometimes itz so gud to hear others feeeelin' like you do.

>>83796

Third E-6B up from Tinker

IRON99 US Navy E-6B Mercury up from Tinker

>>83796, >>83806

Got a fourth E-6B up and off-shore out of Pax River-currently heading west

BAYER97 US Navy E-6B Mercury off-shore from Pax River heading west

usually 2 up at most times

All four of these up in a relatively short time frame

It is still training tuesday so keep that in mind.

>>83808

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>>83820

>>83822

nobody is on QResearch right now discussing the Trump interview?

kek

They Fell like Kabal?

>>83823

>>83825

MAFFS9 USAF C-130 herc west for reload after Caldor fire drop 2 on ground at McClellan and HAMAL99 US Navy E-6B Mercury up the central Valley

Fueled by winds, largest wildfire moves near California city

Pacific Gas & Electric says it has begun shutting off power to about 51,000 customers in 18 Northern California counties to prevent wildfires.

The utility announced Tuesday evening that it has begun enacting the shutoffs as a precaution to prevent gusting winds from damaging power lines and sparking blazes in a tinder-dry region that already is struggling with a series of wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes.

In the Sierra Nevada, the Caldor Fire has exploded to nearly 50 square miles (129 square kilometers), injured two people and devastated the town of Grizzly Flats. The nearby Dixie Fire has burned more than 600 homes.

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/business/article253539039.html

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/

>>83826

>>83828

>>83829

>>83830

>>83832

"They were so happy to see a rigged election"

kek

I heard Trump say "I would love to see people get vaccinated."

keke

just dis fagadore retreeber

>>83836

dis a faggadore retreeber

>>83838

Do you think Geitner could be a Roth?

>>83840

doesn't inbreeding affect the intelligence of the progeny

Think of moron Zuk

>>83838

so dis one too

>>83843

oh yeah faggadore fo sho

RCH802 USAF C-17 Globemaster out of Pakiland-Kabul to Al UIdeid AB-and just got a tank full of gas over UAE from MOJO86 USAF DC-10 extender just gave them a refuel and descended to 10 k-

58-0011 USAF KC-135 tanker landed at Doha earlier and also outta Pakiland

>>83844

gotta call a lid on the day. past 4 was have been a dang roller coaster.

>>83844

imma habs to tell frby you started dis.

>>83848

FO wakes

<3

>>83849

kek.

on the morrow bro

>>83803 pb

>Jolene

when yer right, yer right

>>83836

>>83838

testing da waters?

>>83843

>>83844

>>83846

hey, content policy says no personal attacks

u guize outta line and you's know it

wuz ober at qr today, saw comms karen oodle

(no text just oodle) - oh da trauma.....

>>83847 pb

saw dat w posts da rainbow oodle and then departs ta leave b4 i returns - figures.....

>>83848 pb

>u's BOTH guilty,

wait a few weeks for new oodle pics

and then let loose

>>83851

"on the morrow"

bet yer still LURQIN wakes

gonna be in the am

all professional and all

like u went to sleep and woke up a grownup

>>83852

hey freebs

>>83852

lubs you too frby

nite

>>83852

BOXER43 USAF C-40C on final approach for Verona Int'l from JBA depart

>>83852

hey frbs

sorry bout dat

>>83856

G scorin points yo

RCH555-chek't-USAF C-5 Galaxy departed Charleston Int'l after an overnight-inbound from Dover AFB yesterday

>>83857

>>83858

nite