When the Solution to the Financial Crisis becomes the Cause

F. William Engdahl - March 30, 2009

US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has unveiled his long-awaited plan to put the US banking system back in order. In doing so, he has refused to tell the ‘dirty little secret’ of the present financial crisis. By refusing to do so, he is trying to save de facto bankrupt US banks that threaten to bring the entire global system down in a new more devastating phase of wealth destruction.

The Geithner Plan, his so-called Public-Private Partnership Investment Program or PPPIP, as we have noted previously is designed not to restore a healthy lending system which would funnel credit to business and consumers. Rather it is yet another intricate scheme to pour even more hundreds of billions directly to the leading banks and Wall Street firms responsible for the current mess in world credit markets without demanding they change their business model. Yet, one might say, won’t this eventually help the problem by getting the banks back to health?

Not the way the Obama Administration is proceeding. In defending his plan on US TV recently, Geithner, a protégé of Henry Kissinger who previously was CEO of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, argued that his intent was ‘not to sustain weak banks at the expense of strong.’ Yet this is precisely what the PPPIP does. The weak banks are the five largest banks in the system.

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Geithner (CFR, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg) had a little talk with his elite buddies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

He was specifically asked about China’s central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, and his proposal.

Listen to the adjectives Geithner uses to describe the communist money-man from China: “Remarkable … thoughtful, very careful, distinguished central banker. … I have tremendous respect for him…”

Is it a surprise then - given Geithner’s own subservience to the group - that Xiaochuan is listed as a member of the Trilateral Commission (2003 and 2004)?