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To: russwinter who wrote (77921)	1/20/2007 12:13:18 PM
From: westpacific	Read Replies (2) of 110194

This from Doug Noland is numbing...... ---- Financial Times (Gillian Tett): “Last week I received an e-mail that made chilling reading. The author claimed to be a senior banker with strong feelings about a column I wrote last week, suggesting that the explosion in structured finance could be exacerbating the current exuberance of the credit markets, by creating additional leverage. ‘Hi Gillian,’ the message went. ‘I have been working in the leveraged credit and distressed debt sector for 20 years . . . and I have never seen anything quite like what is currently going on. Market participants have lost all memory of what risk is and are behaving as if the so-called wall of liquidity will last indefinitely and that volatility is a thing of the past. ‘I don't think there has ever been a time in history when such a large proportion of the riskiest credit assets have been owned by such financially weak institutions . . . with very limited capacity to withstand adverse credit events and market downturns. ‘I am not sure what is worse, talking to market players who generally believe that ‘this time it’s different’, or to more seasoned players who . . . privately acknowledge that there is a bubble waiting to burst but . . . hope problems will not arise until after the next bonus round.’ He then relates the case of a typical hedge fund, two times levered. That looks modest until you realise it is partly backed by fund of funds' money (which is three times levered) and investing in deeply subordinated tranches of collateralised debt obligations, which are nine times levered. ‘Thus every €1m of CDO bonds [acquired] is effectively supported by less than €20,000 of end investors' capital - a 2% price decline in the CDO paper wipes out the capital supporting it.’” Scary - and it all gets back to everyone thinking as long as the CBs keep on printing more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more fiat paper we go are all ok.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Time to dig the bomb shelter. Doug Nolands weekly is just the best....I love this! ----- January 18 – Bloomberg (Otis Bilodeau and David Scheer): “Madeleine Albright, the former U.S. secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, raised $329 million from a Dutch pension fund that her money-management firm will invest in emerging markets. Albright Capital Management LLC, an alternative-investment firm chaired by Albright in Washington, said it will make a ‘long-term, multiclass investment…’” West

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