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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Post-Crash Index-Moderated

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To: tejek who wrote (26786)6/24/2011 1:12:22 AM
From: The Reaper4 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 119360
 
If they wanted to punish the speculators they could have simply gone in there and short the crap out of the market (or threaten to). The Fed's moving around the other markets. Would have been a lot simpler than to move around 30MM barrels of oil. This action has another purpose.

This gives a pretty good review of all the possible reasons.

zerohedge.com
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