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On Mar 18 04:16 PM Bodysurf wrote:

> The Fed is doing everything in its power to re-inflate bubbles that
> the free market is determined to pop.
>
> It's hard to see just how buying $300 bn worth of Treasuries will
> help "free up" logjammed credit markets. Treasuries are the most
> liquid securities on earth; banks are holding them on their balance
> sheets not because they can't unload them, but rather it's more logical
> to park their cash there instead of lending it out. Now the Fed
> has just made, in one stroke, Treasuries much more valuable, so why
> should banks sell them?
>
> The Fed has been outstanding in telegraphing, in advance, where the
> problems in the economy are. There must be great concern that the
> Treasury market will be the next to fall. Given the fact that Treasury
> buyers from China, Saudi, and Japan won't be having any trade dollars
> to recycle back into buying US assets, the Fed itself is having to
> step up.
>
> Keep selling.]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:31:49 -0400

On Mar 18 04:16 PM Bodysurf wrote:

> The Fed is doing everything in its power to re-inflate bubbles that
> the free market is determined to pop.
>
> It's hard to see just how buying $300 bn worth of Treasuries will
> help "free up" logjammed credit markets. Treasuries are the most
> liquid securities on earth; banks are holding them on their balance
> sheets not because they can't unload them, but rather it's more logical
> to park their cash there instead of lending it out. Now the Fed
> has just made, in one stroke, Treasuries much more valuable, so why
> should banks sell them?
>
> The Fed has been outstanding in telegraphing, in advance, where the
> problems in the economy are. There must be great concern that the
> Treasury market will be the next to fall. Given the fact that Treasury
> buyers from China, Saudi, and Japan won't be having any trade dollars
> to recycle back into buying US assets, the Fed itself is having to
> step up.
>
> Keep selling.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/113356-cramer-s-stop-trading-goldman-is-roaring-1-5-09?source=feed#comment-348514 348514 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:22:12 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/113131-where-s-the-spac-attack?source=feed#comment-346103 346103 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:21:12 -0500