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To: NOW who wrote (22401)	11/24/2004 4:40:23 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 110194

<<taking door #1: they print and buy up all our own paper? could someone walk me through that one?>> ... Government debt are gotten rid of the same way, time after time, each and every time ... http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=14861804 November 22nd, 2000 However the FED twists, this time is no different ... http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=14869036 November 22nd, 2000 ... But in doing so, destroys the people it rules over, in a monetary sense (yes, unwise foreigners will suffer badly, but the locals will suffer still more) http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=15061631 December 20th, 2000 ... The Japanese style Zero Interest Rate Policy ("ZIRP") solution may not work as well for the equity-poor US as it did for savings-rich Japan http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=16037941 July 6th, 2001 <<No use for emergency cuts. Regular cuts will do as well; because the market has already discounted a zero percent policy in the planet's largest creditor country, and thus implicitly the market has already discounted at least another 250 basis points of cuts in the largest debtor country. The market has not yet discounted the collapse of the principal embedded in the few mega shares (GE, FNM, C), the debt market and the dollar.>> ... and so we pray http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=16040170 July 6th, 2001 <<Our Maestro in FED, hollowed be thy name, thy kingdom dumb, thy cut will be done in New York as it is in Tokyo. Give us today our daily cut. Forgive us our mounting debts, as we also have forgiven our bettors. And lead us not into temptation again, but deliver us from the evil FED. May the margined faithful gently go below the waves, weighed down in soggy scripts, in silence, without disturbing the rest, in peace, and in pieces. Chugs ... and then Professor BurnAndKaput and Maestro Greensputin gave the US version of ZIRP a scary image, that of 'helicoptering' http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=19053442 June 23rd, 2003 ... However frightening, ZIRP does have its benefits in Japan, for those who dare http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=20797325 November 24th, 2004 <<... term ‘speed of light’ financial physics: absurdly low interest rate, obscenely high rental yield, in combination with ridiculously easy bank limitations >> Perhaps Hawaiian real estate will be available one day on the same basis for those who dare and are still able. Chugs, Jay