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Original Message (Long, but backstory important.)

I am the beneficiary of a small fund (fraction of a fraction) that I have no control over. The investment managers are morons. The last one did not know what the CPI was and she wasn't fired after admitting that in a conference call. Their track record is terrible. Big declines when adjusted for inflation.

In 2008, I was a daytrader and on GLP all the time looking for news that might affect the markets. Because of GLP, instincts and financial astrology, I successfully prognosticated the monthly highs and lows of a dozen blue chip stocks and the to trade within a fifteen minutes in the trading day covering a six month period, ending n October 2008. I told the bank six months out to the day of the NYSE/NASDAQ lows, including September 15, 2008, the day Lehman filed for bankruptcy. When we threatened legal action because the investment manager refused to do the trades, all of which would have been profitable and would have tripled the value of the investment in six months with no risk because they were blue chips (Apple had $100 swings) that are astronomical today, the legal department had a conference call. Me and the big boys at a bank, plus the CPI ignoramus. One of the trustees died, so without 2 votes of the 3 trustees, the bank refused to budge.

I crushed them thanks to GLP. I had tons of statistics, news bits, and irrefutable evidence. The recipients all wanted to invest in physical gold, but the investment manager refused to open a commodities account. One broker suggested I buy a silo of corn, since it was no better than gold.

The call took place 8 a.m. September 12, 2008. I told the big boys Lehman was going down Monday and I wanted to find a way to short it before trading hours on the 12th. They laughed at me. I had no internet connection that day and a major power outage, so I didn't trade, but I had been charting it for a month and made some money from short sales as it declined. They laughed at me. Silo guy made another facetious comment. We know what happened Monday.

I am sharing this backstory because the dollar value of the investment is at 2008 levels. It sucks. We are not talking huge sums of money, so going to court isn't an option for the members. The lawsuit costs exceed the value of the account. The bank knows this, but aside from filing complaints with the securities commission, there isn't anything we can do. Everything the bank is doing is in violation of their contract and the law, but the courts are already more than a year backlogged.

I think the only thing we can do is inundate the investment managers and their supervisors/managers with economic doom stats and news stories. They refused to invest in mining stocks, calling it too risky, even though everyone wants it and no one would hold the bank liable if the investment went south. Suspicious, yes.

Because my diluted share provides about a thousand dollars of income on a good year, I can afford a fuck you relationship with the bank. I don't care, I just don't want them to win. The manager and his department head were on the phone, berating me when I asked them to prove that economic recovery is possible given the worthless nature of the US dollar, supply chain breakdowns, and employee shortages.

I need more ammunition like that. I included the truck chassis info from the truckers, explaining why they cannot unload the ports in LA, Evergrande, China's doom, US Producer Price Index, CPI, etc.

There are probably a few others here with shared investment accounts or family trusts going through similar fights with their banks. I know they don't want the little people dumping the stocks, which is why the banks create these crazy investment guidelines. They never tell their clients to take the profits and sell when it tops. This was our fight last year.

Making the trades requires a capital gains tax, which I think is 20%. The value of the account goes down until the mining stocks bounce, but at least the investments that cannot survive a crash will be gone. The banks commission decreases for that year, maybe a thousand dollars less in fees for the bank that makes more in fees than profits for the recipients. We have had a few issues with the health of one trustee; without a majority and his help, it is tedious to try to fight the banks. Managing this fund away from the bank is not wortht the stress on his health. I am trying to help, but I have no authority. I am the squeaky wheel who wants to continuously remind them that they are morons because I can. I enjoy it to a point, but they are so stupid. I honestly cannot tell if they are vaxxed with memory issues because they have always been ridiculously stupid. "Only old ladies with too many cats invest in physical bullion." Yes, that is an actual quote said to me when I was in my 30s and gold was trading at $280. They ignored the report with the bullion holdings of Gates, Buffet, Soros, Russia, and China.

Pleas help me find some good statistics, news stories and zingers to share withe ban. I already told one lady that if she knew how to make money, she would be home trading crypto instead of working as a cog for a shitty bank.

My email is going to the legal department, so we want legal to know that we called the upcoming market collapse and if they refuse to honor the trades and the market collapses, we have a valid claim against the bank.

Thank you for any help you can give me so I can say a proper fuck you to the lawyers and analysts, while destroying their arguments with GLP econ doom porn.
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