This video's gone viral in the past day, but if you haven't seen it, it's an investment banker being candid about how he loves recessions, as it gives him the opportunity to make ridiculous amounts of money. It's a shocking video, but I'm not alone in thinking that this is in fact an elaborate spoof/satire of bankers that somehow slipping through the BBC researcher's net. The Yes Men have been mentioned as possible perpertrators, although the BBC stick by their source.

Well, he's not wrong, Goldman Sachs does run the world.....

I like him for his honesty.

BBC financial expert Alessio Rastani: 'I'm an attention seeker not a trader'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economi...t-a-trader.html

 

He's become the face of the global debt crisis and an internet sensation. The self-styled City trader who stripped away the jargon and bluster of the financial world and summed up our woes in just three minutes. "I go to bed every night dreaming of another recession," Alessio Rastani explained in a BBC interview. "It's an opportunity."

 

The soundbites won Mr Rastani instant fame. He became a viral hit and was trending on Twitter. BBC business editor Robert Peston was among the fans. "A must watch if you want to understand the euro crisis and how markets work," he told his army of 82,000 followers on Twitter on Tuesday.

 

The interview contained such gems as "Governments don't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world [and] Goldman Sachs does not care about the rescue package."

 

But on Tuesday night the BBC was left facing questions about just how qualified Mr Rastani is to speak about the markets.

 

In the interview Mr Rastani described himself as an independent trader. Elsewhere he claims he's an "investment speaker". Instead of operating from a plush office in Canary Wharf Mr Rastani works and lives with his partner Anita Eader in a £200,000 semi in Bexleyheath, south London. The house, complete with a mortgage from Royal Bank of Scotland, belongs to her not him.

 

 

The £200,000 semi in Bexleyheath, south London (far left), where Alessio Rastani lives.

 

He is a business owner, a 99pc shareholder in public speaking venture Santoro Projects. Its most recent accounts show cash in the bank of £985. After four years trading net assets are £10,048 - in the red.

 

How a man who has never been authorised by the Financial Services Authority and has no discernible history working for a City institution ended up being interviewed by the BBC remains a mystery.

 

Stock trader Alessio Rastani: "I'm an attention seeker".

 

The incongruity led to some commentators speculating Mr Rastani was a professional hoaxer. The BBC denied the allegation: "We've carried out detailed investigations and can't find any evidence to suggest that the interview with Alessio Rastani was a hoax."

 

However, the BBC declined to comment on what checks, if any, it had done prior to the interview.

 

Mr Rastani was a little more forthcoming.

 

"They approached me," he told The Telegraph. "I'm an attention seeker. That is the main reason I speak. That is the reason I agreed to go on the BBC. Trading is a like a hobby. It is not a business. I am a talker. I talk a lot. I love the whole idea of public speaking."

So he's more of a talker than a trader. A man who doesn't own the house he lives in, but can sum up the financial crisis in just three minutes – a knack that escapes many financial commentators.

 

"I agreed to go on because I'm attention seeker," he said on Tuesday. "But I meant every word I said."

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So, he "dabbles" as opposed to actually working for an investment bank or hedge fund.... *Sigh*, well, it's a shame, but his shamelessness is probably still more like what the real traders are like than any of the investment firms or financial services would care to admit... It's strange how they appear to have gone out of their way to expose him rather than try to assure us "oh, real traders aren't actually like this at all...". Well, in a way they're right, they're actually WORSE than Mr Rastani because none of them will admit that anything they're doing is wrong or show quite as much candour or honesty and try to make out that it's all "far too complicated" for any of us to understand (nah, I'm pretty sure I understand fraud, dishonesty and looting as concepts).. The likes of J P Morgan and Goldman Sachs certainly have a cavalier attitude, but dont want us to know that... The real crooks dont really want us to know the extent to which they are screwing us, so they can continue to keep screwing us...

 

It's a shame actually, because as a self-confessed "attention seeker", he's already part qualified to be a Wall St Speculator or City Trader anyway......

 

Check this out... Even if Mr Rastani was for real, he'd still be a pussy-cat compared to some of the serious operators out there....

 

 

And, incredibly, they still escape prison somehow.... Unbelievable.. You actually wonder what the hell it is bankers actually have to do in order to get jail time.... Sacrificing Virgins to the God 'Mammon' on the Stock Exchange floor and f***ing their corpses...??

As long as they make money they wouldn't be turned in, just lose £100 from their bonus.

 

 

Now if they lost money while desecrating the corpse, that's a whole different manner. Slap on the wrist ahoy!

As long as they make money they wouldn't be turned in, just lose £100 from their bonus.

Now if they lost money while desecrating the corpse, that's a whole different manner. Slap on the wrist ahoy!

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Seriously though, I honestly dont know how on earth kids on housing estates can be expected to "behave" when these buggers are quite literally getting away with murder.... Laundering money for drugs cartels kind of makes you an accessory to murder in my book, and there should be RICO warrants going out, and possibly even Homeland Security being involved as well as the FBI and ATF.... And since 2006 over 22,000 people have been killed in Mexico's Drug War... Basically, that's about September 11th x 7.... Oh, but of course, it's not AMERICANS being killed, it's Mexicans, so the US authorities dont give a shite, and these scumbags end up doing a deal instead of being rendered to Guantanamo which is what WOULD happen if they were caught laundering money for Al Qaeda.... -_-

 

Kinda puts the London riots in perspective if you ask me.....