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    Default Bankers Love War 
- Because it makes them rich.

    Bankers Love War Because It Creates Massive Profits
    Posted on April 19, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog
    War Makes Banks Rich

    Bankers are often the driving force behind war.

    After all, the banking system is founded upon the counter-intuitive but indisputable fact that banks create loans first, and then create deposits later.

    In other words, virtually all money is actually created as debt. For example, in a hearing held on September 30, 1941 in the House Committee on Banking and Currency, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Mariner S. Eccles) said:

    That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money.

    And Robert H. Hemphill, Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said:

    If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.

    Debt (from the borrower’s perspective) owed to banks is profit and income from the bank’s perspective. In other words, banks are in the business of creating more debt … i.e. finding more people who want to borrow larger sums.

    Debt is so central to our banking system. Indeed, Federal Reserve chairman Greenspan was so worried that the U.S. would pay off it’s debt, that he suggested tax cuts for the wealthy to increase the debt.

    What does this have to do with war?

    War is the most efficient debt-creation machine. For starters, wars are very expensive.

    For example, Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimated in 2008 that the Iraq war could cost America up to $5 trillion dollars. A study by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies says the Iraq war costs could exceed $6 trillion, when interest payments to the banks are taken into account.

    This is nothing new … but has been going on for thousands of years. As a Cambridge University Press treatise on ancient Athens notes:

    Financing wars is expensive business, and the scope for initiative was regularly extended by borrowing.

    So wars have been a huge – and regular – way for banks to create debt for kings and presidents who want to try to expand their empires.

    Major General Smedley Butler – the most decorated Marine in American history – was right when he said:

    Let us not forget the bankers who financed the great war. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers.

    War is also good for banks because a lot of material, equipment, buildings and infrastructure get destroyed in war. So countries go into massive debt to finance war, and then borrow a ton more to rebuild.

    The advent of central banks hasn’t changed this formula. Specifically, the big banks (“primary dealers”) loan money to the Fed, and charge interest for the loan.

    So when a nation like the U.S. gets into a war, the Fed pumps out money for the war effort based upon loans from the primary dealers, who make a killing in interest payments from the Fed.
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    Very true also neo cons love war not necessarily for profit.

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    Not always,

    1. The bankers do not want war inside the country near to their banks. They want wars in other countries, far away from the central bank.
    2. Bankers bet on sides in war, like gambling. If a bank chooses the losing side then it doesn't make as much money (but it still does profit).
    3. Yes banks do profit off of making wars and funding warlords, similar to how Fascists in WWII were funded by different banks.

    Bankers generally do want to start wars though, but according to the outline above.

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