He, who controls the money, controls the flow, and who controls the flow dictates where and who get access. What I mean by this is that most of us don’t realize that the US Banks really don’t control the US Flow of Money for Businesses. It is controlled by the European and Asian Banking Networks. The US doesn't interface with the European banking system. Since knowledge is power and power is freedom, I am going to give an inside look at the Basics of the Banking Trade Flow.
Example:
To understand this process you first have to submit to the fact that the US is not the main producer of products, services and goods in the World Market Place and drop the concept of the US is #1.
1. You have a US Company that provides services and finished products. Let’s say that the US Company sells Golf Balls and has contracts for orders from all over the world. These Golf Balls are made out of plastic that is rare and has to be shipped to the manufacturer here in the US from Africa. The Plastic Supplier needs to work through his bank to ensure that he is guaranteed to be paid for the plastic. If the Plastic Supplier is going to work with the US Company then the Plastic Supplier’s bank has to have a relationship with the US Company’s bank. Because in 99 cases out of 100 they don’t the US Company is forced to find another option.
2. Mean while the foreign buyer of golf balls has to guarantee that they are going to buy the golf balls. This now means that the US Company’s Bank has to have a relationship with the Foreign Buyer’s Bank to ensure that the US Company is going to get paid for the finished golf balls after they are Made in the US. Again, because 99 out of 100 times the US Banks won’t work with the Foreign Buyer’s Bank either.
3. Please follow the bouncing ball. You have a US Company who has a Buyer that will backup their Buy Contract with a Bankable Instrument to guarantee payment; you have a manufacturing facility willing to take the plastic and make the golf balls the way the Buyer wants it; you have a Supplier who can ship the plastic to the manufacturer in the US; but you don’t have a US Bank to facilitate the contracts and take the bank instrument from the buyer and issue one to the seller. If the US Banks can’t do it then the US Company is stuck. The US Company is then forced to do business with the European or Asian Banks.
4. Now in order to do business offshore the US Company must be established in a foreign country to have a foreign account. In order to get established it is very simple; you can move to another country and setup residence and after several years you can apply for citizenship or residency in that country, open a business and open an account; or you can fast track the process and take on a Foreign Partner and give them ½ of your company to get access to the banking.
5. When you take on the Foreign Partner the first thing they are going to do is set everything up so that they are in control. They will then start dictating where you can manufacture your golf balls. They will control the contracts because everything you put together is now owned by the foreign company including the banking. Now the foreign partner controls the buyer contract, the manufacturing, the supply line and the money. This should make any US Company comfortable.
6. By the time the foreign banks, partners and manufacturers are done with you, you will have nothing and you won’t be a US Company. You will be a foreign owned employee with all of your money, contracts and production offshore. Don’t worry, your partner is going to take ½ and the Banks are going to get ½ of the ½ that is offshore, and then the US Government is going to get ½ of that in taxes when you bring it in to the US Banks. That means you will have 1/16th of the money actually here in the US because the US Banks wouldn't help you and forced you to use overseas banks.
Solution:
How to prevent this is completely impossible. The US refuses to work with foreign banks on the SWIFT system so that US Businesses can make it. I have personally spent the last 2 years trying to resolve and solve this problem. The reality is that if you are a US Passport holder or you are US Business they don’t want you in business and they don’t want your investors or buyer’s money in this country.
You can have all the great ideas in the world but if you don’t have customers or cash you have nothing. Even if you have both you will windup with nothing when they get done with you. As a US Business if you do not reach outside of the US for customers and investors you don’t stand a chance. If you do reach outside the US they will starve you into a corner or eat you alive.
The US Banks don’t care because the very same people that are keeping your buying contracts and investors from bringing money into the US Banks are the same ones keeping you from doing business internationally and independently. The US Banks have board members and legacies of bankers that have held these positions that have been passed down from generation to generation. These Legacy Bankers are the blood lines of many back door and handshake deals to keep their European and Asian Parent Banks in control.
Because everyone knows that the US Banks don’t have money, are not supposed to have money, and are Service Providers it is easy for them to be manipulated. That means that if the Trade Desk at a specific bank wants your contracts they can starve you into submission until you give them what they want. If a foreign bank wants your supplier contracts to shift the manufacturing to a China owned company who has a supply shortage they will do it.
Real Deal!
You are probably asking yourself how I know all of this. Well the answer is simple. I own the Compliance Company Safeguard Consulting and I am a Bullion Consultant. I buy raw metal from a Blue Chip Supply Channel Partner from Africa who is with the African Mining Council, bring it to the US to an London Bullion Makers Association approved Refinery to have it refined, and sell it to the second largest buyer in the World from India.
I don’t need money because the face value of my contract is for over $600 M for the year and it has gone up from $460 M since I started and it is backed up by a bank instrument. To add insult to injury, I am the only 100% woman company in the world with a contract of this magnitude in this industry. Getting the contracts from an African Company and Indian Company were not easy considering that both cultures are male dominated and so is the Refinery and Bullion World. Just to be clear, I am not some rich kid who got a favor from someone and I didn’t have to do anything to get the contracts but be honest and hard working. Which clearly isn't helping me here in the US!
The reason we haven’t moved one gram of gold is because I refused to be held hostage by the European and Asian Banks and demanded we use US Banks to get this done. I wanted the US Banks to have that firepower to help generate more investment and generate jobs. I know whichever bank is willing to work with me will benefit for generations to come.
Just Fix It Now, Please!
I never thought I would say this, but I need protection from the Banks and need the US Banks to help me. My problem isn’t just my problem. This problem seems to be inherent across the board for all US Companies. I have spoke to several businesses that do business internationally asking them to “partner with me” so that I could get the channels moving. Each one of them said yes until they got to their foreign partners and the partners wanted to take over and knew that they couldn't.
Without the support of the US Banks opening the door for access to the World’s Banking Network we will continue to starve our businesses out of the US and isolate foreign investors and buyers. We can have all the Business Support Services we want but without the flow of money moving on and off the US shores nothing moves. Without Lines of Credit and Standby Letters of Credit behind buy contracts and Bank Guarantees we will get nothing done.
If we don’t use the European and Asian Banking methods for factoring and servicing contracts we will be dead in the water. We have to make these things availed for small businesses too. It can’t just be handshake and backdoor deals for the favored ones. It has to be open clean across the board.
Never Surrender
The good news for me is that I am going to take on a partner to get this contract done even if it means taking it overseas. I just haven’t found one that can get it done and that I can trust. As soon as I get that done I have to focus on the next project which is being funded by this one. It will generate 7100 jobs for Americans and even more for Africa and India.
You shouldn’t worry because India will get the gold because the US doesn’t need it. I spoke to Ex Im Bank and they assured me that they couldn’t help me and were very clear in saying they don’t help companies with importing, they only help with Exporting and that it was very “un-American” of me to do business that required importing. “Just because our name says Import in it… doesn't mean we do it.”
I am just wondering how many companies like steal mills have sister companies offshore so that they can buy raw materials and ship them to themselves in the US since the US doesn't encourage imports for production and manufacturing. That’s right; we buy most of our finished products, goods and services from overseas. But how are we getting food processed in China on the shelves of US grocery stores? China is one of the largest trade bank networks in the world. I forgot, they don’t need US Banks to move stuff in and out of the US, they just need to clear it through US Customs, they own the half of the banks that Europe doesn't already have!
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