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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna

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To: dybdahl who wrote (82329)10/22/2008 11:57:19 AM
From: Real Man  Read Replies (3) of 94695
 
No, not the economy, but the derivative chain reaction happens
just like that. The Fed is at the end of the chain, holding
the mess together. The economy was a credit bubble economy held
by always appreciating assets and borrowing against these
assets. Derivatives contributed to transfer of risk to
the system - in the end, the Fed. How this process is starting to
reverse, kind of. The chain reaction started in subprime credit
derivatives, spread to CDS, spread to currencies, stock market
derivatives, and swaps. Fed needs to inject more and more credit.
Granted, if they print trillions, they might succeed.
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