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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stan_hughes who wrote (394)	7/17/2007 10:13:57 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 71445

It can't be - the Fed and the treasury know the risk, and are standing by with liquidity injections and other measures should systemic risk develop. They keep talking about it, at least. -g- All risk is being off-loaded on the system through use of derivatives. This will continue until the system can't hold all the risk anymore. The bets that it will hold are extremely leveraged. Feb.,27 was a mini-BK new style. It goes limit-down in 1 minute through delta-hedging. Lack of liquidity is all it takes. 500 Billion of leveraged LTCM style bets on the system and timely liquidity. What happens when those go bad? I guess da bulls are right, and this will continue forever. -g- Yes, I continue to believe that IF we go down at all, it's gonna be meltdown style.