This is the Jew who would be Prime Minister! Made his fortune by working hand-in-glove with a fellow Jew who was mounting brutal attacks on the NZ$. Can't stop a Jew being a Jew I guess.



John Key
A special profile on the man who would be PM
By GILLIAN TETT and RUTH LAUGESEN - Sunday Star Times | Friday, 08 February 2008

BRENDON O'HAGAN/Sunday Star-Times

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FIRST LIFE: As a money trader in London it's speculated John Key was earning $5 million a year - that's $96,000 a week.


He used to work hand in glove with the foreign bankers who led raids on the New Zealand dollar. Now John Key a man who has spent most of his career out of the public gaze wants to run the economy. In a special report, London's Financial Times and the Sunday Star-Times shed new light on Key's former life as a London currency trader.

John Key wants to be running New Zealand by the end of the year because, like all other politicians, "I believe the future of our country can be really great."

But 20 years ago, he worked closely with a famed currency trader who mounted a brutal speculative attack on the Kiwi dollar [the Jew 'Andy Kreigar'] The attack, which has entered forex (foreign exchange) trading legend for its scale, audacity and profitability, prompted Reserve Bank alarm that the currency would collapse.

It was a world in which Key moved easily, swimming with the financial sharks.

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[Key] formed what was to be a lucrative relationship with 32-year-old currency trader Andy Krieger, based at Bankers Trust in New York, who began putting hundreds of millions of dollars of business through Key's dealing room.

Krieger was the man who a few months earlier had entered forex legend with a massive speculative raid on the kiwi. As Krieger later explained in his book The Money Bazaar, he believed the kiwi was overvalued, and began betting on a fall, selling the New Zealand dollar heavily. Once the currency had found what he believed to be a floor, he bought again at a much lower price, making a profit on the transaction.

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[Key claims] "I can't remember whether Andy Krieger was buying or selling, it might have been selling with me, but at the time it would have reflected the economic fundamentals at play in New Zealand.

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Gneisenau
02-07-2009, 12:11 AM
From a UK TimesOnLine article, which, while helpfully disclosing the Jewish ethnicity of Krieger's parents, neglects to point out the broader Jewish connection between Salomon Brothers, George Soros and his Sanskrit scholar protogé :Krieger is the chief executive of North Bridge Capital, a currency trading firm. But the money markets are no longer his passion. His heart and mind are in India. He was ten years old when he began to nurture a love of the subcontinent, its people, culture and religions.

“I picked up a book on yoga and Western philosophy and was fascinated. I was way too iconoclastic for things like the Beatles.” His parents, a conventional Jewish couple from Wilmington, Delaware, thought he was a bit “whacked out”.

Krieger left university with a degree in Western philosophy and a PhD in Sanskrit, but chose not to continue as a translator of ancient Hindu texts. His professor suggested that he study for an MBA. “It’s like a credit card for people who don’t know what to do,” Krieger says.

After taking the advice of a friend, who told him to shave, Krieger was hired as a foreign exchange trader by Salomon Brothers in the summer of 1984. In 1986 he became global head of currency options trading at Bankers Trust, where he increased profits from $56 million to $512 million in a year.

However, he had a disagreement with the firm over his bonus and left. He joined George Soros and was being groomed to be the great man’s successor, but instead, in 1988, he set up his own firm.

Krieger had an unorthodox approach to trading currency options. “When I was trading, most of my insights came to me in dreams,” he says. “There is a way of training the mind to visualise that is based in ancient yogic teaching.” Trader brings life after the flood, by James Doran (Feb. 16, 2005) (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article514795.ece)