7/02/09, "The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression," Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi
p. 7, "Instead of credit derivatives or oil futures or mortgage-backed CDOs,
the new game in town, the next bubble, is in carbon credits — a booming
trillion dollar market that barely even exists yet, but will if the
Democratic Party that it (Goldman Sachs) gave $4,452,585 to in the last election manages
to push into existence a groundbreaking new commodities bubble, disguised as an "environmental plan" called cap-and-trade."...
The new carbon credit market is a virtual repeat of the
commodities-market casino that's been kind to Goldman, except it has one
delicious new wrinkle: If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise
in prices will be government-mandated. Goldman won't even have to rig
the game. It will be rigged in advance.
Here's how it works: If the bill passes, there will be limits for
coal plants, utilities, natural-gas distributors and numerous other
industries on the amount of carbon emissions (a.k.a. greenhouse gases)
they can produce per year. If the companies go over their allotment,
they will be able to buy "allocations" or credits from other companies
that have managed to produce fewer emissions. President Obama
conservatively estimates that about $646 billion worth of carbon credits
will be auctioned in the first seven years; one of his top economic
aides speculates that the real number might be twice or even three times
that amount.
The feature of this plan that has special appeal to speculators is that
the "cap" on carbon will be continually lowered by the government, which
means that carbon credits will become more and more scarce with each
passing year. Which means that this is a brand new commodities market
where the main commodity to be traded is guaranteed to rise in price
over time. The volume of this new market will be upwards of a trillion
dollars annually; for comparison's sake, the annual combined revenues of
all electricity suppliers in the U.S. total $320 billion."...
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12/4/09, "Carbon Capitalists warming to climate market using derivatives," Bloomberg
"Wall Street sees profits at every stage of the carbon-
trading process. Banks would make money by helping clients
manage their carbon risk, by trading carbon for their own
accounts and by making loans to companies that invest to cut
greenhouse gas emissions."...(subhead, 'Price Collar')
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George Soros gave Ivanka's husband's business a $250 million credit line in 2015 per WSJ. Soros is also an investor in Jared's business.
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